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The combustible cladding installed during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was like “petrol”, experts have said. Speaking at the public inquiry into the fire, in which 72 people lost their lives, Stephanie Barwise QC said the scale of the disaster suggested failures “at every level of design and construction” of the building. Prior to its refurbishment Grenfell Tower was virtually incombustible. But the building was then coated in polyethylene cladding 'now openly described by some within the industry as petrol'...

MPs will have just 12 hours to debate 15 crucial amendments to the Brexit bill, including the customs union, the date and time of the exit and Northern Ireland. The latest amendments from the House of Lords will circle back to the Commons on 12 June, but with a working majority of just 13 Prime Minister Theresa May has given politicians just half a day to debate the changes and send the bill back to the house. Tory chief whip Julian Smith...

The number of Brits saying the vote to leave the EU was the wrong decision has reached a new high, according to the latest data. In the same week that prominent Leave campaigner Nigel Farage claimed he never “promised that Brexit would be a huge success” confidence from the British public also seems to be diminishing. Shocking analysis recently pooled the mounting evidence that suggests Brexit will make us poorer. Some 97 per cent of academics, the IMF, World Bank, HM...

Officers will be patrolling airports in a bid to prevent any of the estimated 1,900 hooligans subject to bans from attending the Russia World Cup.

The UK parliamentary constituencies most at risk from Donald Trump’s steel tariffs have been revealed in new analysis. Trump protectionist administration has slapped a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminium, citing national security interests. Britain's steel industry directly contributes £2 billion to the economy every year, official figures show. In total, more than a billion pounds are paid in wages to steelworkers across the country each year. That adds up to more than...

The Executive Committee of the Conservative Muslim Forum has just added its voice to calls last night from over 350 mosques and Muslim organisations all over the Muslim community for an independent investigation into Islamophobia in the Tory party. It will be increasingly hard for Theresa May to ignore the mounting pressure for an independent inquiry after some sickening high profile racist incidents within the party. - Especially in her current weakened position, facing conspiracies and hostile briefings from within...

Airlines are facing a call for an international criminal inquiry into toxic exposure of crew and passengers. Campaigners are calling on anybody who may have suffered ill health linked to chemicals on board passenger jets to be part of an international inquiry into toxins in cabin air. John Hoyte, chairman of the Aerotoxic Association told The London Economic that he wants the International Criminal Court at the Hague to look at “decades of evidence” and whether passenger airlines are knowingly...

Safaa Boular, 18, planned to use a pistol and grenade at the British Museum after her passport was seized to stop her joining her 32-year-old IS fighter husband

These video clips left many Washington commentators scratching their heads, as the President seemingly unwittingly embarrassed himself yet again over his on-off relationship with Kim Jong Un. This time it was over a letter from the North Korean leader, hand delivered by diplomatic official Kim Yong Chol. It was a rather large letter, and many took to social media to speculate if North Korean wags had made it puroposely large to show up Donald Trump's infamously small hands - a topic...