3 d. ago GB News interrupts live broadcast with 'bleak' Air India crash update

GB News presenters Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce were forced to issue a 'bleak' breaking news update as harrowing new information was released live on air

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4 d. ago Reeves says use of hotels for asylum seekers to end ‘in this parliament’ – UK politics live

Chancellor delivers spending review, claiming asylum move will save £1bn and says health spending represents a record cash investmentSpending review: key points at a glanceGreen party MPs and activists joined a protest outside parliament today saying the government should use the spending review to announce a wealth tax. In a post on social media, Adrian Ramsay, the party’s co-leader, said:We expect the chancellor to take another axe to public spending today: decline by design from a govt that refuses to tax wealth to properly fund our overstretched public services & support the most vulnerable. We need to invest in a secure & fairer future. #TaxExtremeWealth Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Reeves sets out spending review as Labour government ‘moves to new phase’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out how she will allocate funds across Whitehall over the coming years.

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4 d. ago Consecration review – creepy nuns deliver the classic moves of holy terror very effectively

Purest hokum, of course, but what hokum! Real pride has gone into crafting this set of shocks, and it’s very well acted in beautiful locationsThis is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a wimple. In this well-crafted horror movie, a young woman called Grace (Jena Malone) finds herself up against a bunch of nuns who may or may not be trying to do something extremely dodgy with an unknown relic, and as with last year’s Omen prequel, there’s a nice line in casting here from the Ladybird Book of Horror Nuns. There’s dotty young nun who pops up going “peekaboo” (Eilidh Fisher), an arrogant mother superior (Janet Suzman), a hardliner weapon-of-Christ sort (Jolade Obasola), and the rather rarer spooky nun with one eye hidden behind an ominous white bandage (Alexandra Lewis). Their acting is uniformly excellent, as is that from Danny Huston, who plays a priest who introduces himself thusly: “I’m Father Romero, I’m here from the Vatican,” which announces him as probably up to no good...

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6 d. ago Revealed: The new Reform chairman who used to be a TV presenter. ANDREW PIERCE lifts the lid

A television presenter who made his name fronting a popular show about ghosts and the paranormal is to be unveiled tomorrow as Reform's new boss, the Mail can reveal.

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6 d. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Celebrate Mrs T! Just what would grumpy Ted say?

What a nice surprise to learn that the Sir Edward Heath Charitable Foundation, set up to promote his memory, is to honour the Iron Lady.

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7 d. ago Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for the little boy, who grew up to be a distinguished journalist.

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9 d. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Reform's precocious political ingenue will be back, but there is deep trouble at the heart of Farage's party

Nigel Farage hired the precocious political ingenue, a former Tory, after Zia Yusuf made a £200,000 donation to Reform.

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1 week ago Watch live: Starmer launches plan to ready UK for war as he warns of Russia threat

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer launches the landmark Strategic Defence Review in Glasgow, unveiling new measures as the country moves to “warfighting readiness”.

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1 week ago ANDREW PIERCE: Oh Kemi, you're getting too blue for the Commons

Keep an ear out for Kemi Badenoch's fruity language at this week's PMQs. I hear Commons clerks are worried that the Tory leader is pushing the limits of acceptable parliamentary language...

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1 week ago Keir Starmer to announce huge nuclear submarine expansion as UK told to be ready for war

Keir Starmer will make the announcement as he unveils the Government's new Strategic Defence Review, which is expected to recommend the Armed Forces move to warfighting readiness

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on sentencing reform: a landmark chance for change | Editorial

David Gauke’s review gives penal policy in England and Wales a once-in-a-generation opportunity to move in more constructive directionThe independent sentencing review for England and Wales under David Gauke is a landmark response to both an immediate crisis in the prisons and to an endemic criminal justice policy failure going back decades. It creates the platform for penal policy to take a much-needed new direction. As Mr Gauke says, this will take bravery from government. Encouragingly, the lord chancellor, Shabana Mahmood, has accepted most recommendations in principle, though with some exceptions. The need now, though, is for sustained action, investment and results.When the review was established in 2024, prisons for men had been at 99% of capacity for 18 months and a surge of further prison sentences was developing after the summer riots. Managed early-release measures eased some pressures, but demand for places is still projected to exceed supply by 9,500 in 2028. The inesca...

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3 w. ago Chemical castration for paedophiles and other sex offenders will be piloted in 20 prisons and could be made mandatory, Justice Secretary announces

Shabana Mahmood announced the move in the Commons after a sentencing review found the measure was 'worthwhile' as a way to reduce reoffending.

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3 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Is a Tory grandee toying with a jump to Reform?

At the swish Westminster launch last week of Red Prince, the unauthorised biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft, there was a strong Reform turnout. So is he ready to jump ship?

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4 w. ago The interview that will change your mind about our 'robotic' politicians: ED DAVEY opens up on becoming an orphan at 15, caring for his profoundly disabled son

The handwritten letter from a dying father to his four-year-old son could not have been more heartfelt.

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