33 h. ago Farage fails to guarantee pensions triple lock but vows to axe benefits cap

Nigel Farage says Reform UK will scrap the two-child benefit cap and reverse fuel cuts but refuses to commit to maintaining the pension triple lock.

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55 h. ago President Emmanuel Macron's reaction after slap from wife shows it was no joke

In a shocking video, French President Emmanuel Macron seemed to be slapped in the face by his wife as they touched down in Vietnam for an official visit - and a body language expert has revealed what really happened

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56 h. ago The giveaway sign that Macron was 'furious' with wife Brigitte for viral push in face... as he tries to brush it off as 'joking around'

Emmanuel Macron appeared 'angry and tense' after being shoved in the face by wife Brigitte in front of the world's media, a body language expert has revealed.

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57 h. ago The giveaway sign that Macron was 'furious' with wife Brigitte for viral push in face... as he tries to brush it off as a 'joking around'

Emmanuel Macron appeared 'angry and tense' after being shoved in the face by wife Brigitte in front of the world's media, a body language expert has revealed.

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5 d. ago Body language expert reveals the meaning behind Meghan Markle's uncomfortable 14 second encounter with audience at 'awkward' conference

Body language expert Judi James analyses Meghan Markle's gestures and movements, noting clear signs of discomfort during the 2016 Create and Cultivate blogger conference in Atlanta.

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6 d. ago Labour 'determined to follow in footsteps of Blair and Brown' on child poverty, Liz Kendall says

The Work and Pensions Secretary refused to be drawn on the future of the two-child benefit limit - but said reducing child povety was a 'top priority' in an interview with The Mirror

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6 d. ago UK officer who oversaw rejections of Afghan asylum claims could be linked to war crimes inquiry, High Court hears

Senior civil servant became concerned about how Afghan claims for UK resettlement were being rejected

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6 d. ago BBC's Escape to the Country nearly cut short as buyers consider halting search

Escape to the Country presenter Briony May Williams met civil partners Emma and Anja on the BBC show on Thursday while they searched for a new home in Scotland.

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7 d. ago Why white South Africans are fleeing surging violence and 'racist' laws for new lives in America, reveals SUE REID

Erik Uys has family roots in South Africa going back years. Now he lives on a cattle ranch in the American state of Arkansas thousands of miles from his home country.

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9 d. ago Starmer and his allies spent so long attacking Labour’s left, they forgot how to govern | Owen Jones

Rehashing 20-year-old Blairite ideas that were stale then will inspire nobody. Britain is crying out for bold, transformative policy-makingJust why has Keir Starmer’s government proved such a catastrophe? This is a question that must be posed to his cheerleaders, or at least those who were at one time cheerleaders: the road from the last general election is lined with silently discarded pompoms. The idea here is not to rub their faces in a political project that is now both electorally toxic and morally bankrupt, but to determine what happens next.First off, the failure should be considered absolute. It is projected that a Labour government will drive more than a million Britons into – or more deeply into – poverty through an assault on disability benefits. The same government imposed hardship on many pensioners by stripping away the winter fuel payment, and it refuses to reverse the Tories’ two-child benefit cap, the UK’s biggest single generator of child poverty. Not content with ...

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1 week ago Iranian 'spies who were targeting journalists in Britain' were given leave to remain in UK after claiming asylum when they arrived here by small boats and lorry, court hears

The trio are alleged to have been helping the Middle Eastern country's intelligence service between August 14 2024 and February 16 2025.

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1 week ago Body language expert reveals how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle REALLY felt on their wedding day

As soon as Prince Harry entered St George's Chapel on May 19, 2018, body language expert Judi James could tell he was riddled with nerves. And who could blame him?

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1 week ago Starmer reveals plans to send refused asylum seekers to overseas ‘return hubs’

PM proposes use of third countries during visit to Albania, which rules out role in any UK schemePlans to send refused asylum seekers to “return hubs” in third countries have been announced by Keir Starmer on a trip to Albania during which the Balkan country ruled out participating in the scheme.The prime minister flew to Tirana to confirm the UK was seeking to send people whose asylum claims had been turned down to foreign detention centres once they had exhausted all avenues of appeal. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Home Office blows over £60,000 on TVs with satellite channels, Nintendos, PlayStations and other entertainment at Manston migrant processing centre

The Manston facility in Kent typically only holds migrants for up to 48 hours, before they are moved into more suitable accommodation while any asylum claims.

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1 week ago Spain holiday warning with £170 fine for tourist phone zombies

Spain has launched a fresh crackdown on a specific group of pedestrians known as 'phone zombies' as it looks to cut down on road accidents in the country

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2 w. ago Radical asylum change could send small boat crossings plummeting, report claims

A former advisor to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called on the UK and French governments to copy measures Joe Biden brought in to tackle dangerous migration

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2 w. ago Leaked recording reveals top Tory admitting flaws in Boris Johnson's Brexit boasts

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said ministers realised that they 'can't any longer rely on sending people back to the place where they first claimed asylum' after Brexit

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2 w. ago Most spoken second languages in Europe revealed with some surprising results

There are over 200 languages spoken across the continent of Europe, with almost 750 million people spread over 19.53 million square kilometres

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2 w. ago Iraqi asylum seeker wins right to stay in UK after claiming he couldn't go back to home country because his tattoos 'deviated from principles of Islam'

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber heard that the Kurdish Man, granted anonymity, fled Iraq after his father and uncle even tried to burn the tattoos off his skin.

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2 w. ago Councillors raise concern over potential rural Stirling asylum seeker relocation

Stirling Council will write to the Home Secretary to highlight the "specific risks" of relocating asylum seekers into rural communities - and claim such a move would be "harsh" for them.

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