Getty Images Carwyn Jones is to be made a life peer after serving as first minister from 2009 to 2018 Former first minister Carwyn Jones is to be made a life peer by Downing Street. Also set for elevation to the House of Lords is ex-Cardiff West MP Kevin Brennan. Mr Jones was first minister…
Nigel Farage is elated after his party Reform UK snatches another seat from Labour’s grasp. Reform UK gained the Milton Regis Ward seat from Labour last night with 33.9% of the vote. Kieran Mishchuk, who is just 18, has now become the party’s youngest Councillor, elected with 272 votes. Mr Farage posted on the social…
Days after he called for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “to resign,” NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will put forward a “clear motion of non-confidence” in the next sitting of the House of Commons that could bring down the Liberal government. “The Liberals don’t deserve another chance. That’s why the NDP will vote to…
Labour Minister Heidi Alexander said the pay rise given to train drivers this year has plunged Christmas travel into chaos. Due to a large sum of money paid into the worker’s bank accounts over the past few months, Ms Alexander said they “don’t feel the need to be working on the Sunday” which is causing…
PA Media The government has appointed 30 new Labour peers including a string of ex-MPs and Sir Keir Starmer loyalists. The prime minister’s former chief of staff Sue Gray has also been handed a seat in the House of Lords, confirming reports earlier in the week. It comes only two months after she left her…
The co-manager for Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign has called Lord Mandelson an “absolute moron” – as the peer was officially announced as the next UK ambassador to the US. The Labour grandee, who served in Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s cabinets, will become the UK’s top diplomat in Washington as president-elect Trump returns…
Legislation to expand Social Security benefits to millions of Americans cleared two procedural hurdles in the U.S. Senate this week, and is now headed toward possible passage on Friday, with the clock ticking and only days left in the current session of Congress. Senators on Wednesday voted 73-27 to approve a motion to move forward…
Getty Images “I am a fighter.. not a quitter,” Peter Mandelson roared at the Hartlepool election count in 2001. The then Labour MP had just been returned to parliament five months after resigning from Tony Blair’s government, accused of helping an Indian billionaire secure a British passport. An official inquiry later cleared him of involvement…
Wes Streeting is facing a backlash from “outraged” pharmacists after announcing proposals for next year’s GP contract. The Health Secretary vowed to “bring back the family doctor”, reduce targets and cut red tape so GPs can spend more time with patients. But he was criticised by the National Pharmacy Association for failing to start negotiations…
Reuters Unionist parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly will pull the Stormont Brake for the first time in an attempt to stop new EU rules on packaging and labelling of chemicals from applying in Northern Ireland. The brake is part of Northern Ireland’s Brexit deal and gives the Stormont assembly the power to object to…
