Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick says he regrets ordering children’s murals to be painted over at an asylum centre, following a backlash last year. The former immigration minister instructed workers to cover up cartoons of Mickey and Minnie Mouse on the walls at an accommodation centre for unaccompanied child migrants in Kent. The incident has…
Rachel Reeves has been warned that a huge hike in capital gains tax would cost the Treasury billions of pounds. The Chancellor is considering increasing the levy on the profit when an asset is sold at the Budget on October 30. HMRC estimates that a one percentage point increase in the higher rate of CGT…
Boris Johnson has boldly claimed David Cameron said he would “f*** him up” if he supported the 2016 Brexit campaign in a revealing Diary of a CEO episode. Source link
Conservative peer Ruth Davidson has said she thinks there is a “good chance” there will be another Tory leadership election in two years – despite the fact one is currently under way. Baroness Davidson told Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that the recent Conservative Party conference showed that both Kemi Badenoch and Robert…
Family handout Dawn Sturgess, 44, did not know the perfume she was spraying herself with was a lethal nerve agent Former Prime Minister Theresa May says justice is “highly unlikely to happen” for the people affected by the Salisbury Novichok attack. Rather she hopes the family of Wiltshire woman Dawn Sturgess, who died after coming…
PA Media Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said jails “are on the point of collapse” Scrapping short prison terms is among a number of ideas set to be considered by an upcoming government review of sentencing. Ministers are interested in proposals to toughen up community orders as an alternative to jail, to reduce the number…
A federal appeals court on Thursday weighed the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, the Obama-era program that currently allows more than half a million undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the country without fear of deportation. Enacted in 2012 to protect a…
Las Vegas — Vice President Kamala Harris fielded questions about immigration, the economy and healthcare at a town hall with Univision on Thursday. Polls suggest these issues are critical to the Latino voting bloc, and many of these questions were posed by people who had very personal, emotional stories to tell. Supports “Dreamers,” pins blame on…
Demonstrators, including Humanists UK’s members and supporters, during a protest outside the Houses (Image: PA) The majority of people in England and Wales want assisted dying to be legalised for terminally ill adults, a survey reveals. Some 63 per cent of more than 2,000 adults questioned supported changing the law, while just 20 per cent opposed…
Plaid Cymru’s leader has insisted a Welsh government led by his party after the next Senedd election is “realistic”. The next election to choose members to the Welsh parliament will take place in May 2026. Ahead of the party’s two-day conference at Cardiff‘s Principality Stadium on Friday, Rhun ap Iorwerth told Sky News that a…
