PA Media An agreement with Mauritius over control of the Chagos Islands is opposed by some people with Chagossian heritage in the UK Britain’s decision to relinquish control of the Chagos Islands does not signal a change in the government’s position on other overseas territories, Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said. He told the Commons…
Maye Musk, the mother of billionaire X owner Elon Musk, was hit with a fact check on her son’s social media platform after she appeared to urge Donald Trump supporters to commit voter fraud by using fake names to vote multiple times. “The Democrats have given us another option. You don’t have to register to…
Vice President Kamala Harris declared Sen. JD Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies” to be “mean and mean spirited,” and said recent comments by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders about Harris not having biological children reveal that Sanders doesn’t understand “a whole lot of women out here.” Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, addressed the Vance-prompted…
Someone had to take the fall for the Labour government’s turbulent first 100 days in power and it was never going to be the boss. So the departure of his top aide, Sue Gray, was inevitable. It is not quite clear if she jumped or was pushed but at that level it amounts to the…
Nigel Farage has backtracked on his claim parliament’s security team advised him not to hold constituency surgeries over fears he could be stabbed. The Reform UK leader said last month he had been advised not to hold the “old-style” physical meetings between MPs and constituents in his Clacton seat when asked if he was holding…
As fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East grow, Israel could strike back at Iran “in the next few days” in response to Tehran’s ballistic missile attack last week, a retired Israeli general said. Israel, which is marking one year since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Iran-backed Hamas group, has…
Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said it was “a day of deep reflection and pain”, as he commemorated the victims of Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel. Lammy described the attack last year, which killed about 1,200 people, as “the worst attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust”. Speaking at South Tottenham Synagogue, he…
British sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is not up for negotiation, the prime minister’s spokesman has said. Questions over the government’s commitment to maintaining the British overseas territories as part of the UK have been raised after the government announced on Thursday it was handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius. Sir Keir…
David Lammy has said the government is “young” after Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray resigned and a new poll found most people think the government is “sleazy”. The foreign secretary said Ms Gray was a “superb public servant” after she quit on Sunday following weeks of briefings against her, including her salary…
Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada on Monday to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The Oct. 7, 2023 attack killed more than 1,200 Israelis, while another 250 were abducted and held as hostages, triggering an Israeli counter-offensive in Gaza that the…
