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Reopening the Strait of Hormuz is essential to bringing down the cost of living in the UK, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has said as he met his US counterpart Marco Rubio. The Labour minister is in Washington for his first official one-on-one meeting with Rubio. The pair were expected to discuss the war in Ukraine…
By: Isac Hammouch In the history of states and authoritarian regimes, there exist men crafted to be living tombs for secrets. They are carefully selected, trained in the virtue of silence, and summoned to be nothing more than shadows moving in the corridors of power, executing orders without leaving a trace. Ahmed Boukhari was one…
Andy Burnham is “looking into” the possibility of holding a public inquiry into the UK activities of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to victims minister Alex Davies-Jones. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Davies-Jones said that the prime minister had agreed to meet Epstein’s victims. She said the government is also reviewing whether the alleged…
Karen Newman, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, criticised the move, saying “it beggars belief”. She said: “We have contacted the Conservative Party to set out our concerns and call on them to rescind his selection and review their vetting processes.” Liberal Democrat MP Adam Dance, whose Yeovil constituency includes Crewkerne,…
In a separate statement, Lissie Harper, PC Harper’s widow, said it was “disgusting” that his killers could be eligible for early release. She said she was “beyond appalled and bristling with anger to hear that Andrew’s killers are soon to be free to roam the streets”. Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Jason Hogg said the…
More than 2,000 migrants have arrived in the UK on small boats since Andy Burnham became prime minister two weeks ago, and 326 people crossed the English Channel on Saturday. Home Office figures show crossings so far this year are down around 43% compared to the same period in 2025. The number of small boats…
Andy Burnham has pledged his government will be “relentless” in curbing the number of people arriving in the UK on small boats. The prime minister said progress had been made and the government was “changing the whole approach”, with enforcement officers tackling people-smuggling gangs doubled on both sides of the Channel. “People want to see…
Davidson said his teams are having to make changes to the way they usually carry out elections. The ballots are “going to be sometimes longer than the table so we’re having to do double tables and we’re going to have to sort them in batches before we can verify them or even count them.” Paul…
Following Farage’s difficulties, Labour is also now losing fewer of its 2024 voters to Reform. But the same is true of the Conservatives, whose loss of support to Reform in the polls during this Parliament has always been much greater than that suffered by Labour. Far from suffering from a Burnham bounce, Kemi Badenoch’s party…
After three to four months of indirect clashes, Washington and Tehran have initialed a text that opens a sixty-day negotiation phase. The United States made the document public on June 17, specifying that a formal signing is scheduled for Friday, June 19, in Switzerland, with the expected presence of Vice President JD Vance. Behind the…
