Yahoo News Daily politics briefing: March 10
All the latest political developments in the UK, as the UK’s economy returned to growth in January, easing fears of an impending recession ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget.
All the latest political developments in the UK, as the UK’s economy returned to growth in January, easing fears of an impending recession ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget.
Former president is reportedly on the brink of being indicted
Russia claims US jets were intercepted on Monday
The Government is preparing to shelve a planned rise in the state pension age, as a decline in life expectancy leaves ministers struggling to justify the change.
BORIS Johnson's partygate defence dossier makes some interesting arguments …
Far-right rhetoric and tactics are being imported wholesale from the UK into Ireland. The effects on Irish politics are yet to be seen, says Colin Gannon
A SENIOR SNP MP has described Kate Forbes as a sex-obsessed religious fundamentalist.
The MSP is one of three candidates standing to replace Nicola Sturgeon as first minister.
Three former Tory leaders will vote against Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal as they join Eurosceptics who have warned it is not the right solution for Northern Ireland.
In the video circulating online, the Russian president's security detail can be seen desperately looking around to see where the shout came from.
Fewer and fewer steps left before a potential ‘nuclear collision’ between Russia and the West, says Moscow
Ex-spy’s dossier on Donald Trump alleged Russia may have held compromising material on ex-president
Ukraine's defence ministry said on Monday that an explosion in Dzhankoi in the north of the Crimean peninsula destroyed Russian cruise missiles intended for use by the Kremlin's Black Sea fleet.
Russian leader reacts to comments by UK defence minister that Britain will supply armour-piercing rounds to Kyiv
Vladimir Putin has accused Britain of escalating the war in Ukraine after it emerged that the UK will send Kyiv depleted uranium shells.
Speaking in London on Monday, Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie said some of the ammunition for the Challenger 2 battle tanks that Britain is sending to Ukraine includes armour piercing rounds which contain depleted uranium. "If all this happens, Russian will have to respond accordingly, given that the West collectively is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component," Putin said in remarks after a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Thousands of Russian convicts who have fought for the Wagner mercenary group will be pardoned and released in the coming weeks, according to British intelligence. The Kremlin-controlled paramilitary Wagner Group has become increasingly powerful and spearheaded assaults on key towns such as Soledar, Popasna and Lysychansk during the Ukraine war. The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the military outfit has massively increased in size in the past year due to the recruitment of convicts from Russia’s jails.
Police Scotland is under pressure to act after Nicola Sturgeon disclosed she and her husband had not yet been spoken to as part of an investigation into alleged missing SNP funds.
Our chief political commentator reads between the lines of the former prime minister’s submission to the Committee of Privileges
Just when there are more important things to be debated, it appears the Commons will again be distracted by party feuds, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
In the letter published by his press service, Prigozhin said the "large-scale attack" was planned for late March or the start of April. "I ask you to take all necessary measures to prevent the Wagner private military company being cut off from the main forces of the Russian army, which will lead to negative consequences for the special military operation," he said, employing the term that Moscow uses for its war in Ukraine.