Pro-Palestinian rallies have been held across the UK with tens of thousands calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. Protests were held in the four capitals of the home nations – London, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh – and in many other towns and cities including Liverpool, Glasgow and Leeds. Thousands more gathered in Manchester […]
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The Liberal Democrats are demanding transparency over government Covid contracts and multi-million pound “bungs” to friendly media following Dominic Cummings’s explosive testimony to the Coivd Inquiry [pdf]. Cummings told the inquiry that state funding had been “funnelled” to the Evening Standard, owned by Lord Evgeny Lebedev – the son of a KGB spy who was […]
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The UK has a 50-50 chance of being in recession with interest rates still high when the general election is called next year, the Bank of England has said. Governor Andrew Bailey announced the Bank’s key base rate will be unchanged at 5.25% for the second consecutive month but added: “It’s much too early to […]
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Rishi Sunak has hailed the signing of the Bletchley Declaration by the US, China, EU and UK that warns of the potential of AI to cause “catastrophic harm” to the planet. All 28 countries attending the prime minister’s AI Safety Summit signed the agreement to work together to combat the existential risks posed by the […]
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Two of Boris Johnson’s closest advisers and strongest allies have eviscerated the disgraced former prime minister in testimony to the Covid Inquiry. Dominic Cummings was a staunch cheerleader for Johnson and architect of the 2019 general election “to get Brexit done” campaign that secured a 80 seat majority for the Tories. Lee Cain was Johnson’s […]
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Labour Party divisions are growing following Keir Starmer’s appearance on LBC, during which he appeared to concede that Israel was acting within its rights when cutting off fuel, medicine, and water supplies in Gaza. The Labour leader has been warned that internal divisions do not lead to electoral victory. Andy Durham and Sadiq Khan, alongside […]
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Hallowe’en is upon us and trickster prime minister Rishi Sunak is treating the country by ditching his ‘InAction Man’ costume and donning Dr Death to battle the existential threat posed by AI. Hard to believe, but it could be worse. The PM might have changed into an outfit based on the increasingly prophetic anagram of […]
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Senior Tory MP Crispin Blunt has been suspended from the Conservative party after being arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of controlled substances. Blunt – MP for Reigate since 1997 – said he first raised the incident with police three weeks ago because he was concerned about extortion. He called the arrest “unnecessary” and […]
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Police will treat shoplifting like organised crime as part of a crackdown on retail theft after a surge in incidents with 1,000 offences recorded a day. The crackdown will see a new team of specialist analysts and police officers working together to collect intelligence on criminal gangs that are believed to behind so much of […]
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A former colonel turned senior HS2 whistleblower has called the high speed rail project a “fraud against the British people.” Senior HS2 managers instructed staff to keep politicians in the dark over the true costs of the project, so that MPs would continue funding the private company running the project, according to decorated former army […]
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