London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has said he is “disgusted and appalled” by footage of some Metropolitan Police officers at Charing Cross police station after it was exposed in a BBC Panorama documentary. Serving Met Officers called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims in...
new video loaded: Republicans and Democrats in Deadlock Over Federal Funding transcript Back transcript Republicans and Democrats in Deadlock Over Federal Funding Dueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in the Senate on Wednesday. There was no end in sight to the deadlock as neither party showed signs of bowing to the other’s government...
Damian Grammaticaspolitical correspondent and Kate Whannelpolitical reporter Reuters Refugees will have to wait longer than the current five years before they can apply to settle permanently in the UK, under changes the government has said it is planning to the asylum system. It has also confirmed that the route enabling refugees to automatically bring close...
Henry Zeffman on the challenge facing Keir Starmer
new video loaded: Why Pete Hegseth Summoned Top Military Leaders Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faced a room of hundreds of generals and admirals whom he had summoned from across the globe, and made his case for shaking up a force that he said had gone soft and “woke.” Greg Jaffe, the Pentagon reporter for...
PA Media Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s publicly-funded security detail has been cut by 75%, the party’s head of policy has claimed. Zia Yusuf said the decision had been taken two weeks ago by parliamentary officials for “inexplicable reasons”, with party donors stepping in to “ensure that his security is shored up”. The Commons authorities...
Rival deputy leadership candidates Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell went head-to-head in a hustings at the very end of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Education Secretary Phillipson and former Commons Leader Powell both wore dark blue dresses as they sat to one side of the giant stage, with a large podium standing empty in...
The Labour government is planning to pass a new law that would ban fracking for shale gas permanently in England, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced. At Labour’s conference, Miliband said he wanted to legislate at the earliest opportunity and launch a national campaign against fracking in the meantime. Fracking is currently only limited by...
The audience at Labour conference applaud the health secretary after he praises his former cabinet colleague.
Sir Keir Starmer said Britain was at a “fork in the road” in his speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday. The prime minister took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, asking: “Do they love our country?” The wide-ranging speech also touched on education, immigration, and US President Donald Trump’s new Gaza...