Rishi Sunak arrives in India for 2023 G20 summit Rishi Sunak has called the Chinese premier out in person during a tense showdown at the G20, after it emerged a spy had been placed at the heart of Westminster. The Sunday Times revealed a Commons researcher with links to some of the most high-profile Tories has been arrested on suspicion […]

Sunak demands Starmer gets his facts straight over RAAC row As Rishi Sunak jets off to a G20 world leader summit in India, the Prime Minister has been hit by more bad news in the polls. According to the weekly Techne UK tracker poll, Labour has maintained its huge 21 point lead over the Conservatives after a week where ministers […]

The Prime Minister has insisted he will not “sacrifice quality for speed” in his quest to secure a bumper trade deal with India. Rishi Sunak called it “vital” that the UK strengthens its relationship with the country but stopped short of setting a timeline for an agreement. He said: “Without question, India is going to be one of the most […]

Ministers must stop bowing to human rights rulings made by “politically correct” judges that benefit bogus asylum seekers, terrorists and strikers, a blistering report has warned. A startling analysis by a top lawyer has found that the woke rulings are protecting a “motley” crew of special interest groups instead of the law-abiding majority. It means the liberal judges – not […]

The Home Office is paying £2 million a year on private boats sent to sea to pick up empty migrant dinghies, a leaked document has revealed. The money from taxpaters allows the vessels to head out on the English Channel and collect abandoned small boats after migrants have been safely moved onto a Border Force or RNLI vessel. MCS Taku and […]

BBC licence fee payers should be given shares in the corporation and be allowed to appoint its bosses, a Tory MP has said. Sir John Redwood made the call for the licence fee shake-up in a pamphlet promoting an “ownership revolution” for the Centre for Policy Studies centre-right think tank. The Thatcherite Conservative MP said ownership is a “core philosophical […]

The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee will vote in two weeks on whether to change the base rate, which is currently at 5.25 %. Economists are torn on whether there will be another rise. And Mr Bailey said he couldn’t say now how the MPC would vote. But he told MPs it was no longer “clear” that interest rates needed to […]

The creaking computer system has already caused thousands of state pensioners to miss out on payments and is hindering the delivery of frontline services, the National Audit Office has warned. The Treasury’s 2021 Spending Review made a commitment to invest £8bn in digital, data and technology transformation by 2025. But billions more – alongside significant computer expertise – may be […]

Joe Biden accused of showing ‘lack of respect’ by leaving of Medal of Honor ceremony early President Joe Biden has found himself in the eye of a storm after hastily exiting a Medal of Honour ceremony held at the White House, leaving an esteemed war hero standing awkwardly alone on the stage. The US leader, 80, wasted no time in […]

Gillian Keegan apologises after being caught swearing Gillian Keegan is today being slammed as the woman who helped shut down Britain, after her decision to close schools has sparked a precedent which may shut many other public buildings containing bubbly concrete. Ms Keegan took decisions about which school buildings needed to close “unilaterally”, according to Sky News. Neither did she […]