Rishi Sunak has been challenged over the betting scandal and refused to comment on whether he spoke about the election date to Craig Williams, who is alleged to have placed a bet on it. The prime minister said those involved will face the full force of the law, as the Met Police announced they are also investigating the issue.
At least five Conservatives are being investigated by the Gambling Commission.
Concerns mount for the UK’s non-EU migrants, as even those who have lived in Britain for decades will have to provide proof of residency
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was met by laughter from veterans during an Armed Forces Day visit on Saturday (29 June). The Conservative leader, who was recently criticised for leaving a D-Day event early, listened to stories from the veterans on a campaign visit in his North Yorkshire constituency.
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
East Preston feels an unlikely stronghold of benefits dependency. The genteel village on the West Sussex coast might be the closest thing that Britain has to a moneyed pensioner utopia.
Grandfather Robert Blackstock, a retired engineer from Nottinghamshire, became the “Brenda from Bristol” of this election campaign when he asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during Wednesday night’s TV debate: “Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?”
Nigel Farage was initially unaware that the Russian president was on the poster, with the words ‘I heart Nigel’ written below
It was finally Nigel Farage’s time to appear before a BBC Question Time audience this evening, more than a week after Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer had theirs. The Reform UK leader took the podium in the same hour as a Green Party representative, Adrian Ramsay. Yet only one of these men has excited reaction from our writers.
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
"What happens if the sun isn’t shining while you’re up in the air?” the former president asked at a rally in Virginia.
ISW's conflict experts warned that the West must "challenge Putin's belief that he can gradually subsume Ukraine."
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
Now might be a good time for Dr Jill Biden, the First Lady, to have a rummage around in the back of the wardrobe for one particular item of clothing. When Joe Biden opted against running for president in 2004, his decision was underlined by his wife’s decision to wear a halter top with the word “NO” scrawled on her stomach.
All of a sudden, the US Air Force is considering cancelling a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new stealth fighter. Citing the high cost of the so-called “Next-Generation Air Dominance” programme and the competing demands of other projects, USAF leaders have warned they may have no choice but to cancel NGAD – and find other ways of winning control of the air in future wars.
On Friday afternoon, in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, private murmurs and public calls for an “intervention” ricocheted through Democratic circles. But then a hold-up emerged.Some 17 hours after Biden botched his big debate moment, his former boss came to the rescue.For many high-ranking Democrats, a single tweet from former President Barack Obama appeared to nix any chance of the 44th president meeting with the 46th and urging him to drop out.Rea
In France, politics is happening at a ferocious pace.
In an age when dictators and authoritarian regimes are all the rage, it becomes all the more imperative for peace-loving democrats to consider ways of getting rid of them. Yet on some happy – albeit rare – occasions, the more repellent members of the dictatorial species, by dint of incompetence or arrogance, manage to do the job themselves.
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
The Conservative leader defended his party’s record in government against what he described as a ‘declinist narrative’.
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the cause is largely frustration with the consequences of being in the EU. In Britain, it is largely a backlash against being out of it.
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