3 h. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Is this the REAL reason Rachel Reeves has not been sacked for breaking the law?

She made a crucial change in information she gave the Prime Minister about the letting of her house in the London Borough of Southwark from September 2024.

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4 h. ago Fight back against flood of fake news and AI 'slop' on tech platforms, media leaders urge PM

In a letter to the Prime Minister, leading figures from newspapers and broadcasting urge him to take steps to address the misinformation flourishing online.

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6 h. ago DAVID LAMMY: Hillsborough Law honours victims of too many tragedies

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, writing for The Mirror, says Monday is the 'first step' to making the British state accountable after failing families for too long

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6 h. ago Hillsborough Law must not be watered down, David Lammy warns MPs ahead of vote

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has said the Hillsborough Law 'must remain in its current, strong form' and ensure injustice 'has nowhere to hide' ahead of a crunch vote in the Commons

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12 h. ago Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry to defend human rights

Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

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15 h. ago Head of UK’s largest union says she doesn’t know if Starmer will remain Labour leader after May

Prime minister facing disastrous elections in Scotland, Wales and England next year as his party trails Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the polls

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38 h. ago Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney APOLOGISES to Donald Trump over TV ad row after infuriated President hiked tariffs and ended trade talks

The ad uses a 'voiceover' from fellow Republican Reagan - US President between 1981 and 1989 - saying tariffs caused trade wars and economic disaster.

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47 h. ago ‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score

At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?• ‘From (finally) being given the Booker prize to the day her partner died’: an exclusive extract from Margaret Atwood’s memoirMargaret Atwood is doing her grocery shopping in her local supermarket in Toronto, and it is taking longer than usual. This is not because The Handmaid’s Tale author turns 86 this month, but because she is checking the provenance of every item before it goes in her trolley: California satsumas out; Canada spuds in. Atwood is a passionate environmentalist, but at the moment she is more worried about boycotting anything that comes from over the border in the US than air miles. “Elbows up!” she declares, taking a furious stance in the fruit and veg aisle.Back in her kitchen she shows me a YouTube skit of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and comedian Mike Myers in the national hockey kit to explain the significance of “E...

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56 h. ago Man jailed after sending more than 100 ‘menacing’ messages to Labour MP

Lee White sent a series of abusive emails to Dr Rosena Allin-Khan before later threatening to kill the prime ministerA man who threatened to kill the prime minister and sent a flurry of “menacing” messages to a Labour MP has been jailed for 23 months.Cambridgeshire police said Lee White sent 109 messages to Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, the MP for Tooting in south London, over a four-day period between 29 August and 1 September 2024. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago French parliament strikes down wealth tax demanded by Socialists

Move spells more political chaos ahead for embattled Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

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61 h. ago Keir Starmer keeps Trumps’ silver necklace gift – for a price

Prime minister paid cabinet office to retain jewellery, but chose not to fork out for cufflinks and golf clubKeir Starmer has paid to keep a personalised silver necklace gifted to him by Donald and Melania Trump, transparency records show.The necklace was the only gift Starmer chose to keep after he hosted the US president for a historic second state visit in September. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Gaza sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

Majed al-Ansari calls for international force to be urgently set up to pave way for Israeli withdrawalGaza is sliding towards a deadly limbo where a ceasefire is nominally in place but killing continues, a top Qatari diplomat has warned, calling for rapid progress in setting up the international security force and administration to pave the way for full Israeli withdrawal.“We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace,” said Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar’s prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Gaza risks sliding into deadly limbo of ‘no war, no peace’, top Qatari diplomat warns

Majed al-Ansari calls for international force to be set up urgently to pave way for Israeli withdrawalGaza risks sliding towards a deadly limbo where a ceasefire is nominally in place but killing continues, a top Qatari diplomat has warned, calling for rapid progress in setting up the international security force and administration to pave the way for full Israeli withdrawal.“We don’t want to reach a situation of no war, no peace,” said Majed al-Ansari, adviser to Qatar’s prime minister and spokesperson for the foreign ministry. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago Orbán to press Trump for Hungary's exemption from new US sanctions on Russian oil

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt Hungary from new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil when he visits Washington next week

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68 h. ago Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit

Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free tradeThe Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has warned that the era of free trade and investment that formed the foundations of the postwar global economy has ended.In a stark message to Asia-Pacific leaders at the Apec summit in South Korea on Friday, Carney said rules-based open trade no longer worked in a global economy that was undergoing one of its most profound periods of change since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Starmer clears Reeves over ‘inadvertent’ failure to obtain rental licence

The Prime Minister said he was taking no action against the Chancellor after her estate agent took the blame.

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3 d. ago Starmer feels the effects of setting high standards for his party in opposition

Despite pledges to run a squeaky clean administration the prime minister and some in his cabinet have been caught outThere is a theory in British politics, often attributed to Tony Blair, that you need to be careful about throwing a boomerang in opposition, because when you make it to power it could come back and hit you in the face.As opposition leader, Keir Starmer became adept at landing blows on the Conservatives. Over the Partygate scandal in particular, he called for Boris Johnson to quit over his rule-breaking. “You cannot be a lawmaker and a lawbreaker and it’s time to pack his bags,” he said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Keir Starmer paid to keep personalised necklace given by Donald Trump

Sir Keir and Lady Starmer hosted Mr Trump and his wife, Melania, at Chequers in September.

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3 d. ago Starmer has received ‘new information’ about Reeves’ rental arrangements – No 10

Emails sent and received by the Chancellor’s husband have been passed to the Prime Minister.

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3 d. ago Rachel Reeves's husband emails to be published today amid rental house licence row

Downing Street insisted that the Prime Minister still retains confidence in his Chancellor and guaranteed Ms Reeves will deliver the Budget on November 26

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