Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black hole” next year. The Conservative Party leader used Prime Minister’s Questions to press Sir Keir Starmer about the Government’s funding plans for councils in England, including whether a cap on council tax would be increased or not.
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to meet a Second World War veteran who had £60,000 wiped off her state pension.
The Watergate figure said the president could "take the wind" out of Trump's plans for revenge and retribution with a stroke of his pen.
The shadow chancellor blamed Labour for scrapping the policy after the election.
It follows reports that a cabinet minister claims £350 of taxpayer cash per month for her second home's energy bills.
President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for a second term there will be “HELL TO PAY." “Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity," Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social site. It was not immediately clear whether Trump was threatening to directly involve the U.S. military in Israel’s ongoing campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
Rachel Reeves has appeared to drop her pledge to not “come back for more tax” from businesses after refusing four times to repeat the vow.
The former Fox News host and one-time Trump pal pointed out a double standard.
Louise Haigh will receive thousands of pounds in severance pay after her resignation as transport secretary, No 10 has confirmed.
His approval ratings have dropped by 51 points since Labour was elected in July.
China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced the move after the Washington expanded its list of Chinese companies subject to export controls on computer chip-making equipment, software and high-bandwidth memory chips.
A UK intelligence official said the order to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter "would have gone to President Putin."
The former chief executive of Barclays has blamed what he called Britain’s “get the f—--s” attitude for damaging the economy in the wake of the financial crisis.
“I have this impression that (the Russians) have unlimited people,” said Oleksandr, a Ukrainian unit commander. “The next Russians, it seems, do not know what happened to the previous Russians. They go there, into the unknown. No one tells them anything about it, and no one comes back.”
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen appears to be betting her future on ousting President Emmanuel Macron before his term ends in 2027, lawmakers and analysts say. To do so, she has helped trigger France's second political crisis in six months. Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Monday chose to ram through parliament a key component of the 2025 budget bill after Le Pen and her National Rally (RN) party rejected a last-minute concession aimed at securing their support.
"If it continues like this, we will lose."
Russian forces are attacking “behind established Ukrainian defences”, the UK Ministry of Defence has said.
"No amount of money is going to make Nigel Farage popular with the people who he currently repels."
The former MSNBC host put the right on blast for their silence over two questionable moves by the president-elect.
Donald Trump threatened a 100% tariff on nine nations that make up BRICS, including Brazil, China, and India. It'd affect many goods the US imports.
The House of Commons backed using proportional representation (PR) at general elections in a surprise symbolic vote on Tuesday.
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