30 h. ago 'Rayner's shoring up support across the party': As Team Ange plot her leadership bid, how a botched hit job left Starmer exposed to an assassin's blade

When ministers heard Angela Rayner was planning a dramatic Commons intervention on her beloved - and economically ruinous - workers' rights Bill, they swung into action.

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3 d. ago ‘Delusional and crazy’: Nancy Mace’s Republican rival denies he’s behind a ‘political hit job’ over her expletive

“I did not make [Congresswoman Nancy Mace] cuss out the men and women of the TSA security checkpoint. I did not make her tweet about this 100 times in the days that followed,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said

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5 d. ago Starmer in the endgame? Labour group that powered PM to No10 'looks for successor' as Rayner circles

Amid rising doubts about Keir Starmer's prospects of survival, the Labour Together think-tank has been quietly asking local parties for views on a successor.

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6 d. ago Republicans in Congress mocked Trump privately, Marjorie Taylor Greene says

Georgia lawmaker says colleagues who made fun of president before 2024 win now support him out of fearRepublicans in Congress privately made fun of Donald Trump only to come around to support him when he won their party’s 2024 White House nomination, outgoing GOP House member Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Sunday.“I watched many of my colleagues go from making fun of him, making fun of how he talks, making fun of me constantly for supporting him, to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started – excuse my language, Lesley – kissing his ass,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, said in a clip of an interview that is set to air on Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes program. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Diogo Dalot fires 'anger' message to Man Utd dressing room after latest setback

Diogo Dalot was left frustrated after Man United's 1-1 draw with West Ham earlier in the week and wants his team-mates to use their anger

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8 d. ago 'Vladimir Putin killed my girlfriend Dawn Sturgess in botched spy assassination bid'

Charlie Rowley spoke to the Mirror after retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hughes of Ombersley ruled Vladimir Putin is “morally responsible” for death of mum-of-three Dawn Sturgess in July 2018

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9 d. ago World Cup ‘94 chief Alan Rothenberg on growth of US soccer, the 2026 finals and dynamic pricing

A foundational figure in the business of soccer and sports in the US is adamant that fans will find a way to attend big events, regardless of political issuesWhenever the modern era of American soccer began (the 1994 World Cup? Or the 1990 appearance by the US men? Or the 1991 World Cup win by the US women?), Alan Rothenberg was a key player.Rothenberg came up as a lawyer under Jack Kent Cooke, owner of Washington’s NFL team, the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the LA Kings of the NHL, and – crucially, the Los Angeles Wolves of the North American Soccer League (NASL), a team that started life fielding mostly players from Wolverhampton Wanderers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago QUENTIN LETTS: Kemi's confidence has grown... she looks much happier than the grey spud opposite her

There was a salty moment as Sir Keir Starmer left PMQs. 'Never again!' he was told by Sir Lindsay Hoyle. 'I'm not having it, forget it,' continued the enraged Speaker.

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's shape shifting has left Britain with a government we didn't vote for. A reckoning is coming

To break one manifesto promise may be regarded as unfortunate. To break two in one week is not so much careless - as Oscar Wilde would have it - as par for the course.

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2 w. ago Starmer facing fury of left again as he is accused of breaching another Labour manifesto promise by ditching Rayner's day one rights for workers

Sir Keir Starmer is once more at war with the left after ditching a key part of Angela Rayner 's workers' rights bonanza.

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2 w. ago Shares in UK gambling companies extend declines after Budget hit

Operators warn that tax increases will hit profits and lead to potential large-scale job losses

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2 w. ago Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

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2 w. ago Oceans Eleven and Commando actor Michael DeLano dies aged 84 after suffering heart attack

Michael DeLano also appeared in shows such as The A-Team, Wonder Woman, Starsky & Hutch and Charlie’s Angels, and was a regular performer at Las Vegas jazz bar the Dispensary Lounge

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2 w. ago Seven out of 10 Tories believe Conservative party will prop up a Farage government

With polling suggesting the Tories are facing a wipeout, a survey of Conservative Party members by ConHome reveals that they support the idea of a deal with Reform UK

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2 w. ago Virgil van Dijk admits Liverpool are in a mess and hits out at teammates

Captain visibly angry after defeat to Nottingham ForestAccuses champions’ squad of letting down Arne SlotVirgil van Dijk has delivered a scathing assessment of Liverpool’s woeful title defence, the club captain admitting the champions are in a mess and letting down Arne Slot while questioning whether every player is shouldering responsibility for the team’s slump.Van Dijk could not contain his anger after Saturday’s 3-0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest that left Liverpool in the bottom half of the table with a negative goal difference. Tom Werner, the club’s American chair, was at Anfield to witness Liverpool’s sixth defeat in seven Premier League games, their eighth loss in 11 matches in all competitions, and a performance that unravelled against a Forest side that started the day in the relegation zone. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer's response to Donald Trump's vile 'piggy' insult to female reporter

Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to reporters on the plane as he left for London for the G20 summit in South Africa where he will meet with world leaders

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3 w. ago 'Spineless' Nigel Farage savaged by Keir Starmer over racism

Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to reporters on the plane as he left for London for the G20 summit in South Africa where he will meet with world leaders

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3 w. ago Andy Burnham refuses to rule out challenging Keir Starmer as PM amid leadership coup speculation

Asked whether he could rule out challenging the prime minister, Andy Burnham repeatedly dodged the question

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3 w. ago British Jews turn to Greens and Reform UK as support for main parties drops

Study finds new party divide as backing for Labour and Conservatives plunges from 84% in 2020 to 58% in 2025A new party divide is emerging among British Jews, research has found, with support rising fast for the Greens – buoyed up by younger and “anti-Zionist” Jews – while older Orthodox men turn to Reform UK as trust in the two main parties “collapses”.Support for Labour and the Conservatives among British Jews had fallen to 58% by July 2025 from nearly 84% in 2020, according to a report from the Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR), which said it was “the lowest level we’ve ever recorded by some distance”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UK asylum reforms spark backlash within Labour Party, support from rivals

The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, sparking resistance within its own party

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