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Tories to ban criminals from blowing benefits on booze and cigarettes

The Conservatives have announced plans to ban criminals on licence from spending benefits on alcohol and cigarettes in a new welfare crackdown.

Sturgeon: I’m Serving a Sentence for a Crime I Didn’t Commit

Streeting suggests NI cut and North Sea drilling

The former health secretary has been distancing himself from policies pursued by Sir Keir Starmer's government.

Sturgeon 'will not apologise for the crimes' of former husband

Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, Sturgeon said: "I am not responsible for the crimes that my former husband committed and I'm not going to apologise for somebody else's crimes".

RAF may have to wait until 2040s for £12bn Typhoon replacement fleet

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of kicking Britain's defence into the long grass

‘Labour have lost their way’: voters in Makerfield say it’s time for a change

Andy Burnham and the Reform candidate lead the polls, but issues such as flooding and the state of the high street are main concerns locally The roads that connect the collection of towns and villages that make up this constituency in England are studded with turquoise banners declaring: “Makerfield needs Reform.” Once at the heart of Wigan’s coal-mining industry, and represented by a Labour MP continuously since the 1900s, Farage’s party has gained a foothold here, and with any other Labour can

Nicola Sturgeon just tried every trick in the book - but now she’s down to her last card

Nicola Sturgeon is a tricky one. Maybe a little too tricky for her own good.

Starmer's EU reset could force Brits to ditch 'steak' for bureaucratic Brussels labels

British businesses could be forced to abandon familiar food names in favour of bureaucratic labels such as 'cell-cultivated protein'.

Watch: Key moments from Nicola Sturgeon's interview with Laura Kuenssberg

Former First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the BBC in her first interview since her estranged husband Peter Murrell pled guilty to embezzling £400,000 from the SNP

Nicola Sturgeon: I feel as if I’m serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit

Former Scottish first minister says she will not apologise for actions of her ex- husband found guilty of embezzlement Nicola Sturgeon has said feels like she is “serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit” after her former husband and former Scottish National party chief executive, Peter Murrell, admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the party. Murrell pleaded guilty this week to embezzling the sum from the SNP between 2010 and 2022 to fund a lavish personal lifestyle. Continue read

This is what young need if we're going to tackle UK's growing unemployment crisis

OPINION - TOM DOWER: With more than a million NEETs, ministers simply can't pretend it's someone else's problem

BBC in 'woke row' over claims Nigel Farage will NEVER be invited on Desert Island Discs

Reform UK's leader is seen as unacceptable by many BBC staff, a source claims