Shabana Mahmood is the latest home secretary to try to reform Britain’s complex immigration policy. Her latest proposals on so-called ‘indefinite leave to remain’ are designed to assess migrants based on the extent of their contribution to the country — by taking account of their skills, salary and what kind of job they are able […]
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya defends Angela Merkel’s record on Russia and says Europe indulged Alexander Lukashenko as “our son of the bitch."
The informal meeting of the European Council comes a day after the Irish capital hosted the European Political Community summit.
The informal meeting of the European Council comes a day after the Irish capital hosted the European Political Community summit.
The report by a parliamentary committee warns the Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plan to sign up to EU rules on food and farming will lead to an avalanche of new Brussels regulations in the UK.
The Housing Secretary gave the green light to plans to house up to 1,256 single male migrants at MoD Bicester in Oxfordshire.
Energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh refused to guarantee the Government would fulfil her predecessor's pledge after being repeatedly pressed on it.
It would be foolish to use the 0.7 per cent economic growth recorded between July and September as a bellwether of positive things to come
Trump spoke to Stephen A Smith on Thursday and sounded off on his conversations with Huang since the scandal broke.
Censorship is becoming a lazy Government habit
The funding will help more than 100,000 children and young people across the country get the chance to experience live theatre.
The Bank of England has forecast that food inflation will rise to around 5% next year.
Eight crewed warships are due to be retired by 2031 - including three mine-hunting Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs).
Did you enjoy Back Care Awareness week? Were you all limbered up for World Menopause Day on October 18?
Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the son of former president Joko Widodo, has faced months of questions about his eligibility for office It has been a turbulent few weeks in Indonesia, with claims the president’s phone was tapped, an uneasy political alliance seemingly in tatters, and now the vice-president resigning after a court ruled he never finished high school. On the face of it, the drama centres on the educational achievements of vice-president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, but there is more to it t...
In California, one of the most Left-wing states in the Union, voters roundly rejected a wealth tax on billionaires.
Those who insist the climate is in 'crisis' also complain ever more loudly that 31 meetings have had zero effect on slowing the relentless rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A body has been set up to consider the case for Welsh independence as well as more devolved powers.
Burnham hopes the deals will help spark life into the UK's anaemic economy
The Home Office's application to house up to 1,256 men at the site near Bicester was fast-tracked.
Home Office sign-off also needed for site that would house 1,200 asylum seekers near Oxfordshire village that voted to leave UK The communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has approved full planning permission for an asylum centre at a Ministry of Defence site near the village of Piddington in Oxfordshire. The decision approves plans to go ahead with the refurbishment and redevelopment of the former barracks. The Home Office insists that final approval is still to be determined. Continue readin...
Andy Burnham's speech to the Cop climate conference in Turkey was so vital to the survival of the human race that it took five minutes and 52 seconds. Not so much a speech as an egg-timer.
Reform UK leader, who had slated Labour for ‘cosying up to’ comedian, regrets appearance on show, party says
No 10 earlier failed to rule out that reforms would affect existing claimants.
Trump's attorney general is the latest Cabinet official to be moved to a military base for protection.
The accommodation is set to house over 1,200 asylum seekers
Prime minister says reset could be a deal ‘like the Brexit people thought they were voting for in 2016’ Andy Burnham has said he believes a “win-win” deal could be done with the EU that could be “more like the Brexit that people thought they were voting for in 2016”. The prime minister was meeting fellow leaders at the European Political Community summit in Dublin, ahead of a keenly anticipated EU-UK summit next week, where he hopes to bring Britain closer to Europe. Continue reading...
Argentina and the UK are in a legal battle over an offshore oil-drilling project.
Burnham is set for talks with EU leaders in Brussels next week
The Prime Minister promised Volodymyr Zelensky his ‘complete support’ in helping end the war in Ukraine.
The Prime Minister promised Volodymyr Zelensky his ‘complete support’ in helping end the war in Ukraine.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the EU is ‘potentially in a process’ on negotiations in finding a peace agreement in Ukraine.
Stephen Nott has 30 previous convictions for 69 offences but is eligible for £3,000-a-month in Universal Credit and £750-a-month in controversial Personal Independence Payments [PIP].
Thursday, 12 November 2026: Your evening catch-up on the Northern Ireland news making the headlines
The Lewisham Islamic Centre accused the charity watchdog of imposing disproportionate expectations on Muslim charities.
Higher returns for backers do not guarantee national prosperity. Public investment should develop domestic capabilities and meet urgent social needs Britain keeps selling its most valuable companies. The Financial Times calculates that 300 went to foreign buyers, mostly American, over the past decade. What if innovation were scaled up to serve social needs here rather than US investors’ profits? That is the provocation issued by the thinktank Common Wealth in a paper titled We Aren’t the Cham...
It’s not been a good week for Farage. Aside from that interview and disrespect from the BBC, he’s lost another senior Reform official It’s a day late, but please observe a two-minute silence for Nigel Farage. Lest we forget. Sad to say, but Nige just hasn’t been quite the same since Sunday’s Remembrance service at the Cenotaph. Like me, you might have thought that he had been in Whitehall to honour those who had died in two world wars and subsequent armed conflicts. Only it turns out he was r...
An exclusive six-month investigation by Byline Times has mapped the workings of pile-ons and cancellations of public figures on social media
Government considers further curbs on non-disclosure agreements after Guardian investigation of TV personality Ministers are looking at ways to change the law quickly to expand protections that stop non-disclosure agreements being used to cover up harassment or discrimination in the wake of the allegations about David Walliams . This could involve extending measures that mean an NDA cannot be used this way to silence an employee so that it also applies to others, such as freelancers or volunt...
Any revolt among MPs is likely to be smaller than the one that badly damaged Keir Starmer's government.
Labour MPs are divided on how to tackle barriers keeping young people from work while ensuring that cutting benefits for those in need is a last resort
The former Labour shadow chancellor said he questioned Mr Miliband's decision to sit down with the now-disgraced comedian as he tried to become prime minister.
'Britain is almost certain of inclusion' in new EU trade laws
Andy Burnham, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney among visiting leaders at Dublin’s Convention Centre
Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’s article suggesting that parliament should relocate out of London Simon Jenkins is right to characterise parliament as “outdated and immune to reform” ( Notre-Dame was restored in five years and under budget. But the Palace of Westminster? No chance, 6 November ). However, it is not only cost, practicality and design that are compelling reasons to empty the building and move to purpose-built premises. The building and the institution in their present form are...
Exclusive: The analysis comes as the Lib Dems call for each under-25 year old to be guaranteed 100 hours of work experience
Andy Burnham’s newly appointed climate adviser used report to warn of national security risk from collapsing ecosystems The UK government still has no plans to publish an explosive report showing the national security risk from the collapse of ecosystems around the world – even after handing the key official behind the report a new advisory role. Andy Burnham addressed the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey on Thursday and said the UK was determined to reach net zero by 2050 and work with its par...
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This sex scandal should be a warning to Britain: we are just as vulnerable to spies and seduction
Katrina Godfrey, the permanent secretary in Daera, told MLAs: ‘If you are looking to know who is responsible, it’s me.’
The senior official at Stormont’s Department of Agriculture has taken full responsibility for the cull of 51 cows in Co Tyrone.
There are signs the government will go quiet on rejoining once the ink is dry on the Brexit reset deal because there is no point talking until after the French elections
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The top civil servant in Stormont’s agriculture department says she is proud of her staff and that supporting them and “accepting organisational accountability are not competing objectives”.
The Prime Minister was attending the European Political Community summit in Dublin.
The proposals would change how crimes committed by children are disclosed to bosses in England and Wales.
Admins of local Facebook groups had an ‘immense influence’ on information shared about community issues, a report has found
De Bruxelles à Dublin, des municipalités ont rejoint la campagne No (Plastic) Filter, qui mise sur deux lois européennes en cours de révision pour interdire les filtres, ou au moins le plastique qu’ils contiennent.
Exclusive: Former health secretary says he wants to ‘tear up the old approach’, with under-25s to lose personal independence payments UK politics live – latest updates Some young people with disabilities will lose their personal independence payments and will have to apply instead to a local fund for short-term expenses and equipment, Alan Milburn’s review will recommend. While those with the most severe needs’ entitlement will be protected, others will be asked to apply for money for specifi...
South Derbyshire MP Samantha Niblett is campaigning for lifelong sex education.
Watch the full interview with James Cleverly on The Guido Fawkes Show by clicking the video above. Topics include: Why he thinks a Conservative can win again in London. Whether he thinks Sadiq Khan will stand again. Why he backs the Met Police and Mark Rowley. How to tackle crime in the capital. How he…
The UK has a shopping list of sectoral agreements it wants to come away with from next week's key and long-delayed EU-UK summit, part of the 'small steps' in a path that could eventually lead to membership.
Julia Hartley-Brewer is stepping down from her morning show on Talk, to be replaced by Alex Phillips. Her last show will be on 19th November… Hartley-Brewer said this afternoon: “Broadcasting on Talk over the past decade has been a privilege and a pleasure. I am incredibly proud of what we have created together over ten…
‘Rules of origin’ on vehicle batteries due to come into force on 1 January if deal on new delay is not reached Business live – latest updates The UK car industry is preparing to push for a two-year delay to Brexit tariffs on electric cars traded with the EU, after an initial European proposal suggested a shorter delay. Tariffs are due to kick in on 1 January for the majority of electric cars traded between the EU and UK unless the two sides can come to an agreement to delay for a second time...
This week, Kemi Badenoch roasted the prime minister at PMQs with gag after gag. But while the leader of the opposition looks feisty, are some Labour MPs also beginning to wonder if Andy Burnham has the substance to back his policy agenda? Plus, with the social media ban looking likely to include companies such as Vinted, deputy political editor Jessica Elgot explains the government’s thinking Read Kiran’s article on jitters about Burnham’s 10-year plan here Read Jessica’s article on the socia...
Michael Crick: We need radical thinking otherwise protests or even violence will follow
Allchurch, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, was convicted on ten out of 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred.
We have, it seems, reached a potentially decisive moment in the battle between the Conservatives and Reform to become the dominant party of the right in Britain. Since the middle of last month, eight polling companies have conducted at least one poll in which they have asked people which party they would vote if a general election were held now. On average, the most recent readings from these companies put the Conservatives on 22%, a point ahead of Reform on 21%. Four of the companies put the...
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