Politics
People can’t get over the Labour Party Conference brochure aesthetic
"This looks like the album Emma Thompson cries over in Love Actually", one person said.
By-election date confirmed for Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire seats
The seats held by Chris Pincher and Nadine Dorries will be contested in what is likely to be another crunch moment for Rishi Sunak.
Mick Lynch slams ‘sham’ ticket office consultation
“The whole thing is designed so that they can force this through in a way that they want.”
May distances herself from Braverman’s ‘invasion’ rhetoric on migrants
The former prime minister also said her Brexit deal would have been better than Boris Johnson’s exit agreement.
Climate protesters interrupt Tory MP Michelle Donelan’s AI speech
Climate protesters disrupted a speech by a Government minister at an artificial intelligence festival in London.
Tony Blair’s Labour warning: ‘Don’t resort to old ways of taxing and spending’
The former premier said criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s policy offering as too bland was ‘nonsense’.
UK’s aid reputation in tatters after cuts and merger, watchdog warns
The Government added to external pressures on the development programme with political turbulence, budget reductions and Brexit, a report said.
UK recession fears grow as economy contracts
Gross domestic product contracted by 0.5% in July, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Next general election to be beset by ‘serious disruption’ as voter ID is introduced nationally
Some 14,000 people were unable to vote at the recent local elections after being unable to show an accepted form of ID.