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No10 blocked veterans IDs at polling stations over fears it would ‘open floodgates’ to students, minister claims There is no original title provided. Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailRishi Sunak blocked veterans using their IDs at polling stations over fears it could “open the floodgates” to more students voting, a cabinet minister has revealed.Veterans minister Johnny Mercer complained he had tried “for months without success” to convince Downing Street to let veterans use their IDs to vote. But he said the prime minister’s special advisers…

Approximately 810,000 of the more than a million people seeking refuge in Rafah have fled since the Israeli operation began on May 6.

Blinken expressed his commitment to addressing what he called a “profoundly wrong-headed decision” during a congressional hearing.

DWP under investigation over disability benefit assessments after claimant deaths There is no bias in the title provided. Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailMinisters could face an unlimited fine if they are found to have broken the law in their treatment of disabled people after a watchdog launched the first investigation of its kind into a government department. The probe, by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, follows the deaths of a number of vulnerable benefits claimants. Baroness Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the EHRC,…

The investigation aims to determine how Perry obtained the anaesthetic ketamine found in his system.

Raisi died along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and six others in a helicopter crash on Sunday near the Azerbaijan border.

Today’s biggest trending topic in the UK is the announcement of Gareth Southgate’s EURO 2024 squad. The provisional team included some shocks that got the whole internet talking. 

UK inflation falls less than expected to 2.3% in April There is no bias in the title provided. For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsUK inflation has fallen by lower than expected, despite falling gas and electricity prices, dashing hopes that the Bank of England will lower interest rates at its next meeting in June.The figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday morning showed that the consumer price index was 2.3 per cent in April, down from…

One of today’s biggest trending stories is a report on the British man who died on board a Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence. He has been named as Geoff Kitchen. 

Geoffrey Kitchen: ‘Popular and kind’ musical theatre director died on Singapore Airlines flight on ‘last big holiday’ with wife A much-loved musical theatre director died on a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence while his family said he was on his “last big holiday” with his wife. Father-of-two Geoffrey Kitchen has been named as the 73-year-old Briton who died on board the Boeing 777-300ER plane, which was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok en route to Singapore from London on Tuesday. A spokesman for Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport said a British man suffered a suspected heart attack on…