Politics
UK faced economic crash and run on the pound if winter fuel payment was not axed, Powell says
The Commons Leader says Rachel Reeves’s decision to cut the payment was a ‘difficult decision’ with ‘no alternative’.
Reform UK rows back on its ‘contract with the people’ – reports
The party's new chairman says the contact should be viewed “more as the philosophy of what the party wants to achieve rather than policy details.”
Farage has amassed a £3 million property empire since Brexit
A Mirror investigation raises questions about the interests he registered with the parliamentary authorities last month.
Smokers ‘heroes of the nation’, says Farage as he lights up cigarette near pub
‘If the Government say that I can’t have a drink and a smoke outside, I won’t come back,’ the Reform UK leader said at the Westminster Arms, London.
Home Office budgeted £320 million for asylum operations that cost £7.9 billion
A reminder that four of the six candidates up for Conservative Party leadership worked at the Home Office.
Esther McVey compares smoking ban to the Holocaust
She posted a poem, written by Martin Niemoller in 1946, which was devised to challenge the German public to accept responsibility for their part in genocide.
Starmer kicks off Downing Street refurb by tearing down portrait of Margaret Thatcher
Outraged Tories have accused him of “petty” behaviour.
Painter who threatened to slit Ed Miliband’s throat jailed for three years
Michael Donaldson, 56, said he had drunk about one litre of vodka before making the threats.
Three in 10 Londoners turned away for not having correct ID did not return to vote in General Election
Len Duvall said the figures show "just how burdensome the new requirements are".