4 d. ago Mahmood’s tough talk on immigration won’t win over Labour members – but it could stop Farage’s charge to power

Shabana Mahmood has made it clear she is willing to lose friends in the Labour Party in order to see off the threat from Nigel Farage, writes Millie Cooke

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4 d. ago Labour sets out new rules for migrants to learn English and work

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool about the plans on Monday (September 29)

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4 d. ago Labour to announce tough new rules for migrants including higher English standard

It is among the changes being proposed by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood today as she addresses the Labour party conference in her first major speech in the role

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4 d. ago Immigrants face 'good citizen' test to win the right to stay in Britain permanently as Labour tries to look tough

Anyone seeking 'indefinite leave to remain' (ILR) in Britain should have a 'spotless' criminal record, Shabana Mahmood will say.

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9 d. ago Once Upon A Time In The West star Claudia Cardinale dead at 87: Italian screen siren of 1960s passes away

In English, her best-loved roles include the reformed prostitute Jill in the 1968 spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West and an exiled princess in the 1963 film The Pink Panther.

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1 week ago Nigel Farage says UK shouldn't be 'world's food bank' as he unveils migration plan

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage vowed to toughen up the rules by demanding migrants earn higher salaries and meet a higher standard of English

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2 w. ago Just when Keir Starmer thought he’d got Jeffrey Epstein off his plate – look who’s coming to dinner | Marina Hyde

After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach itQuick update on Keir Starmer’s government of “national renewal”: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime minister has also lost his US ambassador over his known close association with a known paedophile sex trafficker. Hang on – he’s now also lost his director of political strategy for relating some dirty jokes about Diane Abbott.Meanwhile, an increasing number of people think the solution to all this is Andy Burnham taking over, suggesting the current Greater Manchester mayor could run in a parliamentary seat that has only notionally become free because the previous Labour MP was suspended from the party after being found to have sent messages hoping a couple of constituents would soon be dead/“mown down”, and is now apparently “off sick”. On top of which, we’re having the Americans round. US president D...

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve seen at first hand that stopping the boats is an impossible task – no matter how much money we throw at it’

After a week in which four people, including two children, died while attempting the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats, May Bulman watches the seemingly futile attempts being made to stop them from leaving French shores

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve seen firsthand that stopping the boats is an impossible task – no matter how much money we throw at it’

After a week in which four people, including two children, died while attempting the perilous journey across the English Channel in small boats, May Bulman watches the seemingly futile attempts being made to stop them from leaving French shores

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3 w. ago Three people, including two children, die in English Channel

Two children are believed to be among those who died in the latest Channel crossing tragedy, according to reports.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer addresses MPs for first time since Angela Rayner resigned

Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressed MPs at a Parliamentary Labour Party meeting after a tough last week saw Angela Rayner quit as deputy PM and deputy Labour leader

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