Scotland is on a collision course with the UK government after the Lord Advocate gave the green light for a trial of safe drug consumption rooms. Dorothy Bain KC, Scotland’s top law officer said it would not be in the public interest to prosecute users of such facilities in possession of illegal drugs. Drug consumption […]
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Rishi Sunak has told the Chinese premier he has “serious concerns” about Beijing’s interference in Britain’s democracy after police arrested a suspected Westminster spy working for China. Sunak challenged Li Qiang, China’s premier at the end of the G20 summit in Delhi, following a report by the Sunday Times of the arrest of a parliamentary […]
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Labour’s Emily Thornberry has coined the PM’s mini reshuffle as nothing but “moving deckchairs on a “sinking ship”. Rishi Sunak has made Grant Shapps Defence Minister while giving Claire Coutinho the energy portfolio. She replaces Shapps as Energy Minister as MP MP David Johnston is taking her post at the Department for Education. Ahead of […]
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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out any form of wealth tax to pay for public services under a future Labour government. Rather than taxing society’s richest and targeting expensive properties, raising the top rate of income tax or increasing capital gains tax to fund health, education and other services, a Labour government will pay […]
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MPs who lose their seats in the next general election are set to receive a bumper payout of almost £20,000 – double the current rate for exiting members of parliament. The more than 70 MPs standing down at the next election will also receive the £19,756 payment – equivalent to four months pay compared to […]
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The UK owes £20 trillion in reparations for its involvement in the slave trade, a United Nations judge has said. “Once a state has committed a wrongful act, it’s obliged to pay reparations,” judge Patrick Robinson told the BBC before his keynote speech at Unesco’s Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition at […]
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The government is looking to change the law and compel offenders to attend sentencing hearings after former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was given a whole-life term for murdering seven babies. Letby – the most prolific child killer in modern British history – refused to attend court to hear relatives of the murdered newborn babies read […]
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The Labour party has taken a 28 point lead over the Conservatives among women voters according to a YouGov poll of more than 5,000 people, which gives Sir Keir Starmer a 21 point lead among men. Money worries is the driving factor for women, especially those aged under-50, according to analysis by thinktank Labour Together, […]
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Conservative MPs are furious with the Home Office over the Bibby Stockholm fiasco after legionella bacteria was detected on board the controversial barge being used to house asylum seekers. All 39 asylum seekers have been evacuated from the barge, just five days after being moved on to the vessel that is docked at Portland, South […]
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The cost of the junior doctors’ strike to NHS England will be more than awarding them the 35% pay rise they are demanding. The revelation comes as junior doctors begin their latest round of industrial with a four day walkout from 7am on Friday to 7am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, official figures released by the government […]
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