The head of the Electoral Commission has criticised ministers for postponing local elections, warning that “capacity constraint” is not a sufficient reason to delay votes and raising concerns about conflicts of interest and seven-year council terms.
Keir Starmer has demanded Sir Jim Ratcliffe apologise after the Manchester United co-owner said Britain has been “colonised by immigrants”, igniting a fierce row over migration, leadership and Labour’s handling of record population growth.
Summary: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to scrap non-crime hate incidents in their current form, arguing police time has been diverted away from frontline crime and towards monitoring
Summary: Nigel Farage has led the backlash against Labour’s decision to strip legal protections from Troubles-era veterans, warning the move punishes those who served the British state and reopens decades-old
Summary: Nigel Farage has branded Labour’s proposed Chagos settlement “the worst deal by a British government in history”, after Donald Trump publicly slammed the plan on Truth Social as “an
Summary: The proposed Chinese “super embassy” in London has become one of the most controversial planning and national security rows in modern British politics. The push began under the Conservatives