5 d. ago Baby wombat grabber Sam Jones leaves Australia after intense backlash including from PM and immigration minister

Montana-based hunting influencer flies out of Australia on Friday after home affairs minister said he couldn’t ‘wait to see the back of this individual’A US hunting influencer who caused outrage in Australia after grabbing a baby wombat from its mother has left the country after the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said immigration authorities were checking if she had breached the conditions of her visa.A government source told the Guardian that Montana-based Sam Jones left the country on Friday morning. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Jails could run out of space within months as Labour ministers wait for the 'uncertain' results of sentencing review, MPs warn

Jails could run out of space within months as ministers wait for the 'uncertain' results of a sentencing review, MPs have warned.

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5 d. ago Prison fights and violence surge as warning issued over 'pressure cooker' jails

MPs have warned the prison service is operating 'hand to mouth' as it scrambles from one crisis to another - with jails set to run out of space again next year

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7 d. ago What is probate? Government cuts wait times by half in six months

The process has been shortened to less than a week for many, thanks to digital applications and additional staffing

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2 w. ago Ungovernable by Simon Hart review: A tale of brothels, backbiting, and Conservative politics

The revelations are out from Simon Hart’s book: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip. There’s the one about being woken at 4am by an MP who was being held in a Bayswater brothel by blackmailers, not to be confused with another MP, Mark Menzies, who found it difficult to extricate himself from “bad people” and allegedly paid for his release from local party funds (which he denied); then there was Rishi Sunak’s observation about the female minister promoted to the Cabinet who was “f***ing useless but we can’t get rid of her” — which may or may not have been Kemi Badenoch. There was Boris Johnson’s attempt to kill off a disobliging report by the Privileges Committee on his lockdown activities which did not, by that time, shock Hart.

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2 w. ago Street racers who hide car reg from cameras have been ‘rumbled’, says MP

Sarah Coombes urged MPs to back potential new £1,000 fines and six-point penalties.

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3 w. ago Andrew Gwynne under investigation by Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

Mr Gwynne was sacked as a minister and suspended from the Labour Party earlier this month

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