Rachel Reeves is looking to fill a £40bn black hole in the country’s finances, Sky News understands. According to people close to the budget, the gap in funding identified by the chancellor is more than twice what was previously thought. Politics latest: Stark warning issued over national insurance rise Ms Reeves has previously said the…
Sir Keir Starmer met Taylor Swift at one of her London concerts after Labour politicians intervened over her police escort. It is understood the Prime Minister and his family spoke with the American pop star and her mother for about 10 minutes after he was invited to attend the Wembley gig on August 20. The…
Getty Images Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber Over hundreds of years, the House of Lords has had its fair share of scrapes with extinction events. It was abolished in 1649, following the execution of King Charles I, by a law that declared it…
We’ve been here before. Since the 1960s, Labour governments have attempted to legislate for the end of the peer show. Yet still their lordships survive. The latest move to reform parliament’s Upper House came as MPs debated the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill, aimed at kicking out the 92 peers who inherited their seat….
Donald Trump ‘s latest town hall in Pennsylvania turned into a spontaneous playlist concert Monday after two medical emergencies in the crowd interrupted the evening’s event. The 78-year-old Republican presidential nominee was about half an hour into the event in the Philadelphia suburbs when a medical emergency brought a question-and-answer session to a halt. Noticing…
A diplomatic row between Canada and India is back in the spotlight amid mounting foreign interference concerns and continued investigations of the 2023 killing of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia. In tit-for-tat moves, both countries expelled each others’ diplomats on Monday. Ottawa said it was expelling six Indian diplomats and consular officials “in relation…
Canada has listed Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group behind a rally where people chanted “death to Canada” and burned the Canadian flag in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement on Tuesday and noted that the listing was made alongside the U.S. Treasury Department’s own decision to…
Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to support a new law to ban smartphones in schools to stop children “doom-scrolling” – after Number 10 refused to back the plan. New Labour MP Josh MacAlister is calling for the government to make legal changes to make social media and smartphones less addictive for children and to…
In a nondescript office a few floors above the cafeteria and a Dunkin’ in the Longworth U.S. House Office Building, Democratic staffers on a low-profile U.S. House committee have been gaming out what they say are some political nightmare scenarios. They’re discussing the perils of Jan. 6. But not Jan. 6, 2021. Democrats on the…
Reject the left-wing doing-down of our great British history and teach our children to take pride in it – that’s the majority view of the UK’s ethnic minorities from Caribbeans to Indians to Chinese. Research by think tank Policy Exchange found roughly two-thirds of each minority group said children should be educated about all the…
