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Wanting a cheaper holiday is not a valid excuse to take children out of school, Labour warned yesterday.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set an election date (sort of) ruling out an election in the first half of the year – that’s his “working assumption” anyway. 

The phrase “working assumption” does give Sunak wriggle room should circumstances change, and he has not ruled out a spring election.

But experts suggest a Mid-November election is most likely and with the Tories still trailing behind Labour by around 20 points in the polls, the longer Sunak can drag the year out, the better chance it’ll be for him. 

Polling suggests that despite the Tory noise around immigration, it’s the economy and the NHS that are the two top concerns for the British public.

Breaking: Emmanuel Macron picks Attal, 34, as France’s youngest PM France’s next prime minister is set to be Gabriel Attal, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks…

‘Everyone has been shocked by watching what they have done over the past few days and beyond and it is an appalling miscarriage of justice.’

Ex-President Donald Trump on the eve of January 6 Capitol riot third anniversary mocked President Joe Biden, who called him a ‘loser’.

Tory MP Chris Skidmore, the former Energy Minister, is quitting Parliament.

Sir Keir Starmer was dealt a humiliating blow yesterday after a senior Labour MP questioned his readiness for power.

Optimistic Rishi Sunak will launch a nationwide charm-offensive this week as he tries to woo voters ahead of him calling a general election this year.

In the email he called the MP an ‘ugly menopausal pig’.

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed on Sunday that 2024 will be a year of French pride and hope, marked by the Paris Olympic Games and the re-opening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, in his traditional New Year’s Eve address from the Élysée Palace in the French capital.

Former First Lady Melania Trump reportedly ‘rarely exists Mar-a-Lago’.

2024 will be world’s biggest election year ever -Who’s heading to the polls?   Next year is going to be a busy year for politics,…

Poland’s pro-EU government on Wednesday launched a reform of state media and sacked their management as right-wing lawmakers staged a sit-in to protest the changes and public broadcasts were interrupted.

Irish premier Leo Varadkar is trying to drag the UK before the European Court of Human Rights.

Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off ballot, citing ‘insurrection’ Colorado’s Supreme Court has ruled that former president Donald Trump will be barred from entering the…

His seat will now be contested in the new year.

Ex-President Donald Trump denied he has read Adolf Hitler’s manifest Mein Kampf.

The UK is waging a “three-pronged attack” on people smugglers to break their business models – blocking their profits, boat supply and addressing directly would-be asylum seekers.

Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says The chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Tory MP Alicia Kearns, has…

US Senator Ben Cardin ‘angry’ over Senate sex tape linked to aide US Senator Ben Cardin expressed his outrage after learning that a former aide…

< The Baroness, appearing alongside husband Doug Barrowman, admitted lying to the press about links to a PPE firm awarded £200million in Government contracts during the pandemic. Her car crash TV interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg faced a ­furious backlash. Former Tory MP Anna Soubry accused the lingerie tycoon of appearing on camera for

She was accused of lobbying Westminster during the pandemic resulting in the company receiving £200 million in taxpayer-funded contracts.

Last month, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps ruled to keep the two helicopters, reportedly at the request of Mr Sunak.

President Aleksandar Vucic declared victory in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday, after pollsters projected his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was on track to easily win.

Rishi Sunak has invoked the spirit of Margaret Thatcher, vowing to stop illegal migration that threatens to “overwhelm” Europe.