33 h. ago Furious Speaker hits out at ministers over China spying scandal and warns parliament is not getting protection

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle accused the Government of failing to protect MPs after Parliament was 'spied on' by China.

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36 h. ago 'This Parliament has been spied on': Furious Speaker Lindsay Hoyle berates ministers over collapse of China spying court case amid questions for Labour

Sir Lindsay Hoyle warned that Parliament was not getting the 'protection it needs' amid a furore over the decision to drop charges against Chris Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33.

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55 h. ago Kemi Badenoch calls on Keir Starmer to answer MPs' questions on failed China spies case

The Tory leader has written to the Prime Minister to demand he or a senior minister address the Commons 'as a matter of urgency' instead of jetting off to the Middle East.

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3 d. ago Gordon Brown's chilling warning about what Farage as PM would mean for children

The former Prime Minister hit out at the cruel cuts pledged by Reform UK and explained this would be the equivalent of shutting down the NHS while closing schools

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4 d. ago The 'China spy' in my office, by top Tory... who fears she was secretly filmed or bugged in hotel room by Beijing

Chris Cash received high-level briefings from former MI6 spies, ambassadors and ministers, gaining extraordinary intelligence on China-related policies before he was dramatically arrested.

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4 d. ago Yvette Cooper claims she wanted China spies prosecuted but could not intervene

Yvette Cooper, who was in charge of MI5 at the time, said she wanted the case prosecuted and was ‘deeply frustrated’ when it collapsed

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6 d. ago Legal experts question reasoning behind CPS dropping China ‘spies’ case

Ex-DPP Ken Macdonald says prosecutors may have been ‘over-fussy’ in seeking further assurances from governmentLegal experts have questioned the explanation given by the Crown Prosecution Service for its sudden decision to drop charges against two Britons accused of spying for China amid a political row over who was responsible.The expert lawyers expressed surprise that the CPS thought it needed further assurance from the government that China was an enemy insofar as it posed “a current threat to national security” before the trial of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry could go ahead. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Frontrunner to be Starmer's Labour deputy admits 'things aren't going well' under his leadership and says the party cannot 'sugarcoat' failure

Lucy Powell, who was sacked as a minister by Sir Keir last month, hit out as voting opened in the race to become the party's deputy leader, saying his record should not be 'sugar-coated'.

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9 d. ago Trump unloads on Netanyahu during phone call for being 'so f

President Donald Trump dropped the 'f-bomb' as he hit out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call discussing a potential ceasefire deal with Hamas.

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1 week ago Person killed in drone attack as Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting passenger trains

Two trains were hit in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, killing one and injuring about 30 others, officials sayTwo Russian drones struck trains at a station in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine’s foreign minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains.“A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,” wrote the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Keir Starmer condemns footage of racism and misogyny inside Charing Cross police station

Prime Minister Sir Keir has hit out and said Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley 'needs to be very robust in his response' to the latest scandal to rock Britain's biggest police force.

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2 w. ago 'King Charles in despair over Sarah Ferguson scandal, but there's more to come' warns Jennie Bond

The Duchess of York’s alleged relationship with billionaire paedophile has been revealed in a damning resurfaced email, which according to royal expert Jennie Bond, could be “too much” for the King to handle

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2 w. ago Funeral director scandal hits 70 victims as cops warn more families could be affected

"To hear there are so many victims isn’t a surprise but it does make me sad because with stuff like this there may not be any closure for some people."

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2 w. ago Russia feared to have hit Spanish Air Force plane with GPS attack after flight to Lithuania carrying defence minister suffers electronic 'disturbance'

Russia is feared to have hit a Spanish Air Force plane with a GPS attack, after a flight carrying Spain's defence minister suffered an electronic 'disturbance'.

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2 w. ago Labour Minister Hits Back At Donald Trump's Claim London Has Sharia Law

Labour Minister Hits Back At Donald Trump's Claim London Has Sharia Law  Yahoo News UK

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2 w. ago Cabinet ministers hit back at Donald Trump's attack on Sadiq Khan and London sharia law claims

Cabinet minister Wes Streeting defends London Mayor Sadiq Khan while Pat McFadden suggests the US President Donald Trump has misread 'our great capital city'

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3 w. ago Starmer condemns populists who ‘exploit’ flag and ‘whip up hatred’

The Prime Minister hit out at Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk for ‘encouraging violence’ at last week’s protest.

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3 w. ago History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power | Judith Levine

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begunOn the night of 27 February 1933, six days before national elections, the German Reichstag was set on fire. Firefighters and police discovered a Dutch communist named Marinus van der Lubbe at the scene, who confessed to being the arsonist. The Nazi Reichstag president, Hermann Göring, soon arrived, followed by the future propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler, who had been dining together.Two competing, still unresolved, conspiracy theories would circulate about the real culprit: the Nazis, with van der Lubbe as front; or a communist cabal. But the three men had no doubts. Göring pronounced the crime a communist plot. Hitler called it “a God-given signal”, adding: “If this fire, as I believe, is the work of the communists, then we must crush out this murderous pest with an iron fist.”Judith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and...

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3 w. ago West Lothian householders hit by RAAC scandal fear 'snub' by Housing Minister

Local vice- chair of the national protest group Kerry Macintosh said in a third letter to Mairi McAllan “We are still living in unsafe homes, abandoned by our council, and now neglected by the Scottish Government too.”

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4 w. ago MAFS' JJ Slater issues stern warning to new contestants after 'frowned upon' scandal

EXCLUSIVE: MAFS star JJ Slater has warned new contestants to be prepared for the ride of their lives, after his own explosive journey from show scandal to finding love with Katie Price

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