Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he fully expects Angela Rayner to make a return to cabinet, praising his former deputy as hugely talented despite her resignation in September over an underpayment of stamp duty on a property purchase. In an interview with the Observer, Starmer described Rayner who left school at 16 with no qualifications as the best social mobility story this country has ever seen. He added that her…

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Trans women will not be permitted to take part in the main sessions of Labour’s Women’s Conference next year, following a legal review prompted by the Supreme Court’s April ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equality law. Under the new rules, trans women will be excluded from formal proceedings, including speeches in the main hall and policy debates. However, they may attend fringe events, which will…

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Downing Street on Monday for an in-person meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor-designate Friedrich Merz, in a renewed display of European backing for Ukraine. The leaders will discuss ongoing negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials over a draft peace deal centred on Ukraine’s long-term security guarantees. The meeting follows a virtual session of the “coalition…

The Nigerian woman who claimed asylum in November 2021 had her application refused by the Home Office in November 2023. She argued that because she coordinated and attended a demonstration aimed at shutting down the Nigerian government’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) , a federal police unit accused of widespread rights abuses, she would be at risk if returned home. She maintained that her life would be in danger in her…

A Christian NHS nurse who was suspended after addressing a transgender paedophile inmate as “Mr” says she has been left “punished instead of protected” as the Government delays publishing long-awaited equalities guidance following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on biological sex. Jennifer Melle, 40, was working at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, in May last year when the incident occurred during a discussion about catheterisation with a male-born prisoner…

Labour has announced a sweeping child poverty strategy aimed at lifting more than half a million children out of hardship, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling it the most significant anti-poverty initiative introduced by any UK government. The centrepiece of the plan is the scrapping of the two-child benefits cap, a policy brought in by the Conservatives in 2017 that had pushed more than 1.7 million children below the poverty…

A doctor has been charged with a series of serious sexual offences involving 38 patients under his care, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed. Nathaniel Spencer, 38, from Quinton, Birmingham, is alleged to have carried out the offences over a four-year period while working at hospitals in Stoke-on-Trent and Dudley. According to the CPS, Mr Spencer faces 15 counts of sexual assault, 17 counts of assault by penetration, and…

The government says 60 food-delivery riders found working illegally in the UK are now facing deportation following a nationwide Home Office operation. The riders were among 171 people arrested during a seven-day enforcement blitz across towns, cities and villages in November, part of Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s focus on unlawful employment in the gig-economy sector. Border Security Minister Alex Norris said the action should serve as a clear warning that…

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Children born in Britain to parents without valid residence permits are set to face deportation under the new rules, a minister has confirmed. Alex Norris, the Border Security and Asylum Minister, said that “anyone who does not have the right to be in the UK will be removed,” emphasising that the Government is preparing to intensify the removal of families whose asylum claims have been rejected. In an interview with…