33 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer issues statement after Gaza peace plan agreement

'This is a moment of profound relief that will be felt all around the world'

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35 h. ago Pubs could stay open longer under Starmer plan to revive British night out

PM’s initiative, which could lead to ‘bonfire’ of old licensing rules, aims to ‘bring the buzz back’ to high streets

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36 h. ago Pubs and restaurants to stay open until the early hours in bid to save hospitality industry and boost 'the British night out'

Labour ministers are pushing plans to allow alcohol-selling businesses to increase their opening hours - after lockdown, spiralling costs and crippling tax raids took their toll on night life.

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36 h. ago Pubs to stay open until 'early hours' in Keir Starmer's plan to save 'British night out'

Britain's boozers have been in steep decline with 209 premises shutting their doors for good in the first of this year alone thanks to soaring costs and the never-ending cost-of-living crisis

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41 h. ago Starmer expresses ‘profound relief’ as first phase of Gaza peace plan agreed

The warring parties have agreed to the ‘first phase’ of Donald Trump’s peace plan, the US president has said.

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2 d. ago Providing more visas ‘not part of the plan’, says Starmer ahead of India visit

The Prime Minister has been joined by more than 100 business chiefs and university leaders on a trade visit to Mumbai.

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3 d. ago Nordic Noir review – one severed horse’s head is just not nearly enough noir

British Museum, London While some prints are suitably nasty, these mostly so-so drawings feel more like something you’d see in Ikea. Who thought they were worthy of purchase for the nation?Nordic noir. Wasn’t that a genre that had people abuzz back in the 00s? Its revival by the British Museum’s prints and drawings department as a title for an exhibition of modern and contemporary Scandinavian graphic art seems desperate. Forget our oldies like Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci – we’re all about new stuff by hot young Scandi artists! Maybe it’s understandable; after all the National Gallery is also moving in on modern art. But Nordic Noir shows just how far overeager neophilia can go wrong. A museum that specialises in history has gone fishing in contemporary waters and, like a lonely angler on an Arctic lake, has come up with absolutely nothing.The big surprise is that most of the works here are not on loan. The British Museum owns them. It has “acquired” 400 exampl...

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4 d. ago Inside the public toilet that's been converted into a huge hotel suite

YouTuber Molly Thompson posted a video documenting her stay at The Netty, a converted public toilet-turned-hotel in Oxford.

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4 d. ago ‘I paid £130 to stay in converted public toilet and was floored when I stepped inside'

Molly Thompson has shared her trip to a converted public restroom which now acts as an Airbnb, with the unique location profiled by the travel vlogger on a recent trip

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4 d. ago John Swinney’s reaction to dull digital cards is wilfully idiotic and hypocritical

THE response to Sir Keir Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards has been hysterical — though not in the funny sense. It may well be true that Labour’s policy is part of their panicked attempts to win back voters from Reform. But if you step back and look at what the plan actually is, the...

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6 d. ago Starmer calls for ‘agreement without delay’ on peace plan in Gaza

Hamas accepted elements of the plan to end the nearly two-year war put forward by US President Donald Trump.

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8 d. ago Pubs in England set to stay open well into the early hours to screen late

Thanks to the time difference and searing daytime temperatures in host countries the US, Mexico and Canada, games are expected to start at 5pm, 8pm, 11pm and 2am BST.

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9 d. ago Starmer vows to work with Middle East powers to implement Trump plan for Gaza

Sir Keir spoke to the Crown Prince of Kuwait and the President of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday.

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1 week ago Starmer backs Trump plan for Gaza during Labour conference speech

Sir Keir Starmer has backed Donald Trump’s “intiative to bring peace to the Middle East” during a Labour party conference speech.

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1 week ago Starmer sets out plan to take on Reform UK in ‘fight for soul of our country’

Sir Keir Starmer set out his plans for national renewal as he addressed Labour’s conference in Liverpool.

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1 week ago Left's fury as Starmer backs Tony Blair to help run Gaza in extraordinary Trump 'peace plan'

Donald Trump named Tony Blair as a member of a new board that would run the territory if a ceasefire can be achieved between Israel and Hamas.

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1 week ago Starmer welcomes Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza and calls on Hamas to agree

US President Donald Trump unveiled his plan on Monday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly committed to it.

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1 week ago The digital ID card is fuelling a rise in dumbphones: Brits vow to revert to retro Nokia devices to avoid Starmer's 'dystopian' plan

'Dumbphones' are having a resurgence - fuelled by Prime Minister Keir Starmer 's plans to introduce mandatory digital ID cards for every UK citizen.

Technology

1 week ago Reeves defends PM in row over Reform ‘racist’ immigration policy claim

Sir Keir Starmer had attacked Reform’s plan to remove indefinite leave to remain for non-EU migrants already living in the UK.

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1 week ago If you worry about migration Labour will call you racist, says Reform after Starmer's attack on plan to strip migrants of 'settled status'

Kicking off Labour 's conference in Liverpool, Keir Starmer risked inflaming public anger by using the term 'racist' to dismiss the policy of abolishing 'settled status'.

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