Canada’s Indigenous Services minister refused to say Monday if non-Indigenous companies that won contracts by claiming to be Indigenous should pay back the value of contracts that were meant for First Nations, Inuit or Métis businesses. Under questioning by Conservative MPs during a parliamentary committee meeting, Patty Hajdu repeatedly stressed the value of the Indigenous…
Migrants staying on the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge are being moved to new accommodation in the Midlands, it has emerged. The Home Office is moving around 400 people to a hotel in Wolverhampton and council accommodation in Worksop. Officials are considering opening more asylum hotels amid fears they will soon run out of places as…
The NHS will face ”real problems this winter” despite receiving billions of pounds in the Budget, the Health Secretary has warned. Planned investment for the NHS will include £1.5 billion for surgical hubs and scanners and £70 million for radiotherapy machines. But during a visit to St George’s Hospital in London on Monday, Chancellor Rachel…
Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch has said she will tone down her approach – after some of her colleagues suggested she can be rude. Badenoch is widely seen as the favourite to replace Rishi Sunak as Tory leader when the results of the party membership vote are revealed on Saturday. Earlier this month she was…
There is one fight Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves want to have after Wednesday’s budget – one they hope if it lands right this week they could run pretty much all the way to the next election. And there is another they are keen to avoid at all costs that could drag down their government…
Hurricane Helene, North Carolina’s deadliest storm in modern times, ravaged communities in the westernmost corners of the state, but it has not deterred resilient residents from early voting. In fact, turnout is shattering records in a battleground state that could determine the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. “What most of the affected counties are…
Canadian seniors are set to receive a scheduled top-up in benefits as the Liberal government faces pressure to increase payments for those under the age of 75 years. October payments of the old age security (OAS) pension will roll out on Tuesday to eligible Canadians aged 65 years or older. OAS amounts are reviewed each…
Kemi Badenoch has suggested she will offer all six candidates in the Tory leadership race a job in her shadow cabinet if she is elected leader. The Tory leadership hopeful, who is competing against Robert Jenrick to become the next head of the Tory party, said she “did not know” if they would like the…
Keir Starmer’s Government was forced into another “humiliating U-turn” after confirming it will not announce any new freeports in the Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce funding for “next steps” for some of the existing sites, which will receive official clearance to have customs facilities within their boundaries, it is understood. Downing Street, through a…
Three Just Stop Oil activists have been banned from protesting in London ahead of their trial for allegedly throwing soup at two Vincent Van Gogh paintings at the National Gallery. Mary Somerville, 77, Stephen Simpson, 71, and Phillipa Green, 24, are each charged with two counts of damaging the frames of Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers…
