5 h. ago Labour must ‘shut down legacy state’ in drive for digital ID, says minister

Darren Jones told Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday that digital ID would make people’s experience of a new state ‘fundamentally much better’.

Politics

5 h. ago Man, 32, charged with rape of woman in her 20s and racial aggravated assault after cops released CCTV

A SUSPECT has been charged with rape and racially aggravated assault after a woman was allegedly attacked in Walsall, authorities say. John Ashby, 32, was arrested after cops released footage of the accused man walking away from the scene of the alleged crime. The reported attack is said to have taken place in Park Hall...

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32 h. ago Labour minister accuses John Swinney of 'deliberate misinformation' over Petrofac administration

Petrofac includes around 2,000 employees from its UK base in Aberdeen

Politics

33 h. ago Starmer ‘angry’ over asylum accommodation ‘mess left from last government’

It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

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48 h. ago Minister behind Labour's mansion tax spends £900 of YOUR cash on a desk

Torsten Bell also charged taxpayers £600 for three chairs for his office and claimed more than £200 on his Parliamentary expenses for professional help to assemble the furniture.

Economics

50 h. ago Labour ministers round on Reform UK over MP’s ‘racist’ remarks

Sarah Pochin’s comments on race in advertising elicit concerted response by politicians in effort to dent populist party’s appeal

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3 d. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Panicky Labour is now losing more votes to Zack Polanski's loony Left Greens than it is to naughty Nigel Farage

QUENTIN LETTS: Hallowe'en arrived early for Sir Keir Starmer last week when an opinion poll found the Greens to be level with Labour. Eek! No wonder the Prime Minister is looking so knackered.

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3 d. ago Fresh Labour chaos as new deputy leader Lucy Powell challenges Starmer and says he has let 'Farage 'run away with it'

Lucy Powell - who was sacked from the Cabinet by the PM just last month - saw off Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in the contest.

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3 d. ago DAN HODGES: Lucy Powell's Deputy Leadership victory sounds the death knell for Starmer. I know her well, and this is what she has planned for Labour and the country

Now it is only a matter of when, not if, he is removed as Prime Minister. And that's good news for Labour, and good news for Britain.

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3 d. ago Blow for Starmer as sacked Cabinet minister Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leader contest

Lucy Powell - who was sacked from the Cabinet by the PM just last month - saw off Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in the contest.

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3 d. ago Inside race to replace Angela Rayner as new deputy Labour leader announced today

Members' polls point to sacked Cabinet minister Lucy Powell being crowned Labour's deputy leader - but Bridget Phillipson's team believe there is still a path to victory

Politics

4 d. ago Number of prisoners released in error more than doubled in a year, data shows

A report by His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service said 262 prisoners were released in error from April 2024 to March 2025.

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4 d. ago Prime Minister's spokesperson responds to Labour's Caerphilly by

Labour came third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in a historic by-election loss in Caerphilly

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4 d. ago Labour minister says they won't be 'rushed' into launching shambolic grooming gangs inquiry after it emerges finding someone to run it could take MONTHS

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said finding the right chairperson for the investigation is a 'crucial appointment to get right' after leading candidates backed out.

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4 d. ago MPs deliver 'grim' verdict on Labour's oil and gas strategy amid 'heaving job losses' warning

Labour ministers have been warned the “scale-up of clean energy is progressing more slowly than the decline of the oil and gas sector” with jobs being lost as a result.

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5 d. ago Let the SNP act on Prince Andrew if ministers will not do so, Flynn urges PM

The SNP Westminster leader said ‘swift’ action should be taken to strip the prince of his titles.

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5 d. ago Search underway for piano teacher to Hollywood kids who slipped out of country after child sex abuse conviction

John Kaleel is accused of fleeing the country on October 8, the same day he was found guilty

Society

5 d. ago The Guardian view on Conservative immigration policy: the threat of mass expulsions is abhorrent | Editorial

Tory plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain in pursuit of greater ‘cultural coherence’ resemble the most extreme ambitions of far-right fringe partiesIt is too early to declare Sir Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” migration deal with France a failure, but nor can the government claim that it is working as intended. This week, the Guardian revealed that one of the first people deported under the treaty had found his way back to the UK via a small boat. On the same day, Home Office data revealed that the number of people who had made the journey so far this year – 36,886 – had surpassed the total for 2024. The usual partisan recriminations followed. Opposition parties accuse Labour of failing to grip the problem; ministers say they are burdened by a long legacy of Conservative mismanagement. Both things can be true.For all its deficiencies, Sir Keir’s deal with France recognises two facts that his Tory and Reform UK opponents cannot accept. First, engagement with EU states is...

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5 d. ago Former Labour justice minister Shahid Malik, 57, helped set up 'fraudulent Covid testing firm that made £6.6m in three weeks', court told

Malik, 57, is accused of establishing the 'cash cow' firm alongside a pharmacist, a registered scientist and his own former office manager.

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5 d. ago FIFTH victim quits grooming gang inquiry panel as PM insists Jess Phillips WON'T be sacked over chaos

The woman, who goes under the pen name Gaia Cooper, complained she has been offered 'no support' and the process is being used as a 'political battering ram'.

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