Elliott-backed Avant tables rival takeover bid for Crest Nicholson
A housebuilder owned by the investment firm Elliott Advisors has tabled a secret takeover offer for Crest Nicholson, its London-listed rival.
A housebuilder owned by the investment firm Elliott Advisors has tabled a secret takeover offer for Crest Nicholson, its London-listed rival.
Many commentators have been using adjectives like devastating and seismic to describe the significance of the election result.
The move to Downing Street is a symbolic moment for any incoming prime minister, the most obvious proof of your drastically changed situation. You do not merely run the shop, as Mrs Thatcher said, you live above it. Downing Street is one of the most prestigious political residences on Earth, perhaps second only to the White House. For five years, barring calamity, it is yours, for you to decorate with all the golden Lulu Lytle wallpaper you like.
Nicola Sturgeon is facing an SNP backlash for “pontificating” on her party’s election disaster during a lucrative TV appearance.
Toni Kroos said he believes Germany’s influx of migrants was “too uncontrolled” and that the country has changed considerably in the 10 years since he left.
An Iranian warship capsized while undergoing port repairs, killing two officers and injuring several others.
John Swinney must show voters he can be trusted as First Minister after a “very clear message” was sent to the SNP in the General Election results, a former Westminster party leader has said
Yvette Cooper said the new body, set to include MI5, would tackle the root cause of the small boats crisis ‘going after these dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice’
When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman comments on the Tories' "really bad result" in the election and warns of "big problems" being caused by Keir Starmer on the horizon, including scrapping of the Rwanda scheme. Ms Braverman refused to comment on suggestions that she would run for leader.
The Reform UK leader who is also the new MP for Clacton, watched East Thurrock Community Football Club in Corringham on Saturday.
Germany has become a “battleground” in Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war on Nato due to decades of lax security and pro-Russian sympathisers in the east, a senior intelligence chief has warned.
A state of emergency was declared in parts of Russia’s Voronezh region on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike on a large ammunition storage facility.
DEPUTY First Minister Kate Forbes has congratulated LibDems’ Angus MacDonald on becoming a Highlands MP as she shared a kind tribute to her outgoing colleague for leaving a “legacy” behind ...
Arranging the colourful display of fresh fruit and veg at the front of his shop on July 5, Kristopher Dunlop admitted he was “buzzing” about the election results.
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
Project 2025 is a plan for the first 180 days of the next Republican president. It's so extreme that even Donald Trump has distanced himself from it.
France will not have a far-right government, but that answer, that single fact, does not cover another crucial point. What's clear is that the French parliament will be split between three factions. The biggest, but well short of an absolute majority, will be a left-wing coalition, called the New Popular Front.
Pezeshkian is a reformist and his election is a surprise. Iran has successfully but brutally crushed a popular uprising and many had expected his hardline rival to prevail. The presidency has control of foreign policy and some domestic matters so many expect a shift in Iran's diplomatic outlook now - perhaps a more conciliatory tone towards the West.
Voters firmly rejected the Conservatives on Thursday. But they far from flocked to Labour instead.
Suella Braverman has issued a scathing verdict as to why the Conservatives lost the election, blaming Rishi Sunak for pursuing an "idiotic strategy" that treated voters like "mugs". In an intervention that will be seen as her teeing up a potential leadership bid, the former home secretary said her party "failed in office and deserved this result". The former home secretary - who retained her seat of Fareham and Waterlooville but with a much-reduced majority - blamed "high taxes" and "high immigration" as well as "insane political correctness" she believed the party had embraced for the scale of the defeat.