Author: Fatimah Idera

Sir Keir Starmer and his Cabinet could face electoral wipeout as new polling suggests a Left-wing challenge led by Jeremy Corbyn and the Greens threatens dozens of Labour seats. Labour secured 411 seats at last year’s general election, but fresh analysis by More in Common indicates this would collapse to just 126 if a vote were held this autumn. Up to 52 Labour constituencies are at risk from Green Party candidates and independents aligned with Mr Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party, many of them within a five-point margin. Support for a Corbyn-Green alliance stands at 31% of the electorate,…

An anti-asylum demonstration in The Hague spiralled into chaos as masked rioters clashed with Dutch police, leaving streets littered with debris and a police vehicle set ablaze.

A British couple held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for nearly eight months have arrived back in the UK following their release, ending a long ordeal marked by family appeals and international negotiations. Peter Reynolds, 80, and his wife Barbie, 76, landed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday after travelling from Doha, where they were reunited with their daughter, Sarah Entwistle. The couple, who married in Kabul in 1970 and have Afghan citizenship, spent the past 18 years running charitable training programmes in Kabul and Bamiyan. Their work, which included education projects for women and children, had previously been approved by…

Justice Secretary David Lammy has voiced deep concerns that legalising assisted dying could pressure vulnerable elderly people into ending their lives prematurely. The Labour minister, became responsible for overseeing the proposed Terminally ill Adults (End of Life) Bill after his recent move to the Ministry of Justice. The legislation, already approved by the Commons, would allow terminally ill people in England and Wales with less than six months to live to apply for an assisted death. Lammy has previously spoken of his late mother, who died of cancer, warning she might have felt compelled to choose assisted dying had the…

Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of handing Hamas a reward for terrorism by pressing ahead with plans to formally recognise a Palestinian state. Writing to the media on her foreign policy agenda, the Conservative leader condemned Labour’s move as reckless and dangerous, warning it would undermine Britain’s global standing and weaken leverage over both Israel and Hamas. “Most of us want to see a two-state solution,” she said. “But recognition of a Palestinian state without the release of hostages is a reward for terrorism. Yet Keir Starmer plans to do just that as President Trump leaves.” Her intervention…

Wiltshire Police confirmed that a man in his 30s from West Wiltshire was first arrested in June 2024 on suspicion of six counts of gross negligence manslaughter and four counts of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker.

Scottish government minister Jamie Hepburn has resigned following allegations that he physically assaulted Conservative MSP Douglas Ross during a heated exchange at Holyrood. Ross claimed Hepburn grabbed his shoulder and swore at him aggressively after First Minister’s Questions, following a row over the scheduling of a summit on seagulls. The confrontation came after the pair had clashed in the chamber over parliamentary business. In his resignation letter, Hepburn admitted his behaviour fell short of his personal standards. “Irrespective of whether or not the Ministerial Code has been breached, I believe I have not acted in accordance with my own code…

Attorney General Lord Hermer is facing mounting political criticism after it emerged he previously provided free legal advice to a charity that helps migrants resist deportation from the UK. In 2019, Lord Hermer worked pro bono for Bail for Immigration Detainees (BiD), a legal advocacy organisation that is now actively advising migrants on how to challenge deportations under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s new UK-France returns agreement. The “one in, one out” deal aims to speed up the removal of migrants who enter the UK illegally via small boats across the Channel. The controversy comes after the Home Office managed…

A second migrant has been deported from the UK to France under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s new one in, one out  returns agreement, following a failed legal attempt to halt the process. The Eritrean man, who crossed the English Channel in a small boat in August, was removed from the country early Friday morning after a High Court judge dismissed his claim that he may have been a victim of human trafficking. The deportation took place on a 6:15am Air France flight from Heathrow to Paris. The individual was accompanied by three Home Office security escorts and was seen…

Sex offenders in the North West and North East of England in UK will be included in a government pilot using chemical suppressants to reduce reoffending, Justice Secretary David Lammy has announced.