56 h. ago ‘Panto season’ hits Executive amid row between ministers over budget

The Executive is expected to meet on Tuesday following budget tension between Education Minister Paul Givan and Finance Minister John O’Dowd.

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9 d. ago Budget 'lies' storm: Starmer grilled on whether Reeves misled public and Cabinet over nation's finances

The row threatens to overshadow the Prime Minister’s attempts to get people to focus on the ‘substance’ of the Government’s spending and reform plans

Economics

9 d. ago Angela Rayner 'tried to dodge council tax surcharge on grace and favour flat'

Questions are mounting for the former deputy prime minister who previously resigned after a row over stamp duty on her Hove home

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1 week ago John Swinney not 'fully candid' over Cameron Barracks asylum seeker plan

Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander pointed the finger at the First Minister over the row.

Events

2 w. ago Starmer and Trump did not discuss BBC Panorama fallout in call

The prime minister had been under pressure to intervene over the row between the White House and the BBC

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2 w. ago I'm a Celeb chaos as stars evacuated from camp and rushed to safety in 'extreme' emergency

The I'm a Celebrity camp had to be evacuated and filming delayed after a horror storm hit the Australian jungle, forcing show bosses to execute an emergency plan

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2 w. ago I'm a Celebrity camp evacuated with stars rushed to safety amid 'extreme' emergency

The I'm a Celebrity camp had to be evacuated after a horror storm hit this afternoon forcing show bosses to execute an emergency plan

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2 w. ago Japanese concerts and films cancelled across China as political tensions escalate

Beijing and Tokyo are locked in a diplomatic row over Japanese prime minister’s remarks on Taiwan

Politics

3 w. ago Nigel Farage is 'today's incarnation of Enoch Powell's politics' according to Labour minister who said Reform leader was 'on the side of Jimmy Savile'

The Cabinet minister, who sparked a furious row when he claimed the Reform leader was 'on the side of Jimmy Savile', also compared Reform to the fascist British National Party.

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3 w. ago China voices ‘extreme disappointment’ with Dutch minister at centre of car chip row

Vincent Karremans called semiconductor supply chain crisis a ‘wake-up call for western leaders’The Chinese government has expressed “extreme disappointment” with the Dutch minister at the heart of a row over chip supply to the car industry.A spokesperson for the ministry of commerce was responding to an interview by Vincent Karremans on Thursday in which he described the standoff between China and the European Union as a “wake-up call” for western leaders. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Footage captures moment hitman fires shots at mobster Marc Webley in gangland execution

Grant Hunter admitted to shooting Marc Webley, 38, outside a pub in Granton, Edinburgh.

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer believes nobody in Downing Street tried to 'kneecap' Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister spoke to his top team on Thursday over the row, which began when his allies accused Wes Streeting of planning a coup against him for after the Budget

Politics

3 w. ago ‘I’d do it all again,’ says Dutch minister at heart of car chip standoff with China

Exclusive: Vincent Karremans says row with Beijing that threatened global car production is ‘wake-up call’ to westA bitter battle over the future of a Chinese-owned chipmaker in the Netherlands that threatened to cripple the global car industry is a “wake-up call to Europe and the west”, the minister at the heart of the row has warned.The six-week standoff between the EU and Beijing over Nexperia and its vital supplies of automotive semiconductors has served up a sobering lesson to world leaders over their dependency on China, says Vincent Karremans. Continue reading...

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