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‘Simply not true’ UK is being dragged into Iraq-style conflict, says foreign secretary

Yvette Cooper says plans under consideration to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from Middle East amid Iran war US-Israel war on Iran – live updates It is “simply not true” that the UK is being dragged into another Iraq-style conflict in the Middle East, Yvette Cooper has said, after an RAF base in Cyprus was struck by an Iranian drone. The attack was part of a barrage of strikes by Tehran around the Middle East following a US-Israeli attack on Saturday that killed the country’s supreme leader,

More than 100,000 Brits sign up to flee war-torn middle east

The Foreign Secretary said more than 100,000 Britons had now registered their presence in the Middle East.

Rich’s Monday Morning View

GB News halted for breaking announcement - and it's bad news for Keir Starmer

GB News' regular broadcast ground to a halt this morning for a major breaking news alert.

Politics LIVE: Reform to expose 'shocking scandal' about Rachel Reeves

Nigel Farage will host a press conference, with his party vowing to expose the Chancellor

Regime change in Iran. Which UK political leaders are on the “right side of history”?

Those appeasers of the Ayatollahs who are self-styled "progressives" should be treated with derision. The post Regime change in Iran. Which UK political leaders are on the “right side of history”? appeared first on Conservative Home.

Rachel Reeves 'in denial' as she fights to save her job with landmark speech

The Chancellor will deliver a landmark speech on Tuesday as the Labour leadership battles to reassure MPs the scandal-rocked party is not heading for disaster

Labour is waging war on rural Britain while pretending to understand the countryside

OPINION - AARON NEWBURY: Labour is running roughshod over rural Britain with farm taxes and hunting bans while city politicians pose in Barbour jackets.

Migration bombshell as Government to announce new 30-month rule for asylum seekers

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will unveil the sweeping plans today, despite serious objections from many within her own party.

David Gauke: Welcome to the new world of multi party politics – whose entrance was via Gorton

This was a by-election that showed political support is fragmenting.  Neither of the two traditional parties finished in the top two. The Greens got over 40 per cent of the vote but we're now in a world where MPs will win with a vote share of just a third or even lower.  The post David Gauke: Welcome to the new world of multi party politics – whose entrance was via Gorton appeared first on Conservative Home.

Sir John Curtice: Which issues will decide the elections in Scotland and Wales?

A poll carried out for the BBC examines the issues which will influence how people plan to vote on 7 May.

Laura Trott: Labour love to think of themselves as ‘fair’ but they are failing our young people

The real injustice today is not that the old consensus around higher education and future employment is being questioned. It is that a generation is living with its consequences long after the whole system stopped working for them. The post Laura Trott: Labour love to think of themselves as ‘fair’ but they are failing our young people appeared first on Conservative Home.