The mysterious Daily Telegraph headline predicting a Tory wipeout. What’s the truth? After weeks of focus on the Middle East, most newspapers this morning took…
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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Tories face 1997-style wipeout Many of Monday’s front pages lead on domestic matters after days of coverage on the…
Britain is sending 20,000 sailors, soldiers and aviators close to Russia’s borders in Nato’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War.
Most of Sunday’s front pages continue their coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as they note the grim 100-day milestone.
I am hugely concerned about what precedent this is setting for British democracy, and the wider destabilisation in the Middle East.
In Review: Inside the Post Office Scandal The Post Office scandal has dominated the British news over the past few weeks since the release of…
Since the release of the ITV drama – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – there have been widespread discussions over the infamous Post Office…
Is PMQs on today? PM faces Starmer as Post Office scandal dominates Prime Minister’s Questions is back today, marking the first PMQs in 2024. The…
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.
‘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.’
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’.
Irish premier Leo Varadkar is trying to drag the UK before the European Court of Human Rights.
Campaigner Dame Esther, 83, who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in January and did not expect to see Christmas, has signed up to Dignitas and says she wants the right to die how she chooses.
She’s not mincing her words
His seat will now be contested in the new year.
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…
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.
Sunday papers – ‘Alex Batty returns home’ & ‘David Cameron calls for Gaza ceasefire’ There are several stories across the front pages of the Sunday…
Rishi Sunak has invoked the spirit of Margaret Thatcher, vowing to stop illegal migration that threatens to “overwhelm” Europe.
Rishi Sunak plans to spend his Christmas delving into the latest Jilly Cooper bonkbuster novel ‘Tackle’, which he received as a signed copy from the author.