The Conservative deputy chairman has said the Government would end Britain’s reputation for being soft-touch on Channel small boat arrivals. And he told the Daily Express the Opposition has no alternative policies. Click here to join our Whatsapp community to be the first to receive the latest politics news READ MORE: Lee Anderson walks out in protest at BBC boss […]

Laurence Fox removes Palestine flag from London monument Actor-turned-politician Laurence Fox scaled a monument near the Houses of Parliament to remove a Palestinian flag placed there during Saturday’s rally in central London. The visibly angry Reclaim Party leader, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of London in 2020, then bellowed: “Get your s*** off my statues” in a clip he later shared […]

Ireland’s Tánaiste has fired a warning at the UK after a senior Brexiteer said a future referendum on a united Ireland would require a “super-majority”. Micheál Martin has warned that UK Government ministers “need to be careful” when discussing future votes on the status of Ireland following comments from Steve Baker, a minister for the Northern Ireland Office. Mr Baker […]

BBC director-general Tim Davie is to take direct responsiblity for overseeing its complaints unit with the corporation under pressure over its refusal to label Hamas as terrorists. The shake-up comes as the Government prepares to publish its mid-term review of the BBC’s 10-year Royal Charter. The BBC has received hundreds of complaints in relation to its coverage of the conflict […]

Speaking at the Royal Society in London, Mr Sunak said: “Now, doing the right thing, not the easy thing, means being honest with people about the risks from these technologies. So, I won’t hide them from you. “That’s why today, for the first time, we’ve taken the highly unusual step of publishing our analysis on the risks of AI, including […]

Liam Fox MP says BBC report is ‘one-sided attack’ Liam Fox has accused the BBC of a “one-sided attack” on disgraced MP Peter Bone following the publication of a story with his alleged victim. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is seeking advice amid contempt of Parliament concerns over a BBC interview with the alleged complainant of Mr Bone, the Commons heard […]

Rishi Sunak mocked Sir Keir Starmer over his “prepared lines” during a rowdy Prime Minister’s Questions. The PM accused the Labour leader of reading from a “script” and claimed the lines “really aren’t working for him anymore”. It came as the pair traded blows over housebuilding and mortgages. Mr Sunak said: “These prepared lines really aren’t working for him anymore. […]

Lisa Nandy grilled on Keir Starmer’s position on Israel Sir Keir Starmer’s recent visit to an Islamic centre in Wales has backfired after the group said publicly that the Labour leader had misrepresented the nature of the visit. Three days ago, Sir Keir posted photos from the South Wales Islamic Centre (SWIC), writing he had been “grateful to hear” from […]

Nigel Farage reveals internal messages at NatWest about his debanking Nigel Farage revealed NatWest staff suggested he was a Russian spy in bombshell internal messages. The former Ukip and Brexit Party leader has been at the centre of a debanking scandal after his account with Coutts, which is owned by NatWest Group, was closed earlier this year over his political […]

The UK is now Europe’s top destination in start-up venture capital, new research has indicated – with Kemi Badenoch hailing the news as a “massive vote of confidence” in Brexit Britain. The International Trade Secretary, widely tipped as a possible future Conservative Party leader, was commenting on HSBC Innovation Banking’s latest report, covering the third quarter of 2023. Not only […]