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Forced adoptions 'a stain on our history' says Starmer as he gives formal apology
The practice saw thousands of babies taken from their mothers between 1949 and 1976.
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Teachers will be trained to spot 'killer' children in Southport massacre review
The Home Secretary, in a statement to Parliament, confirmed the Government has accepted all 67 recommendations from a damning probe.
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Home Secretary admits failures led to Southport attack
Shabana Mahmood says the government accepts the "fundamental failures" identified by an inquiry.
The Guardian Politics2 Jul 2026
Convicted people smuggler reportedly living in UK should be deported, Tories say
Man once called ‘godfather’ of Calais migrant camps lives in Leicestershire and is said to be trying to claim asylum A convicted people smuggler who has reportedly been found living in Britain should be arrested and deported, the Conservatives have said. The man, once labelled “the godfather” of the Calais migrant camps, was tracked down by the BBC to Leicestershire, where he reportedly changed his name from Twana Jamal and was working illegally while attempting to claim asylum. Continue readin
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Express Politics2 Jul 2026
Thomas Tuchel slapped down after he says children should skip school to watch England play
An Education Minister dismissed the suggestion by the England manager and urged parents to send children to school
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No 10 accepts all recommendations in Southport attack inquiry, Mahmood says
First phase of inquiry identified multiple failings to prevent murders of three girls, which government will ‘urgently’ address Downing Street has accepted all recommendations for changes made by an inquiry which found the Southport killings could have been prevented and identified “fundamental failings”, the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said. Mahmood said the government would do “whatever is needed to protect the public” as she accepted the recommendations from the first phase of the So
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I visited Manchester's Downing Street - it's as elusive as Andy Burnham's policies
The idea of a northern Number 10 sounds like hope made concrete, but it proved as elusive as slippery Andy Burnham's policies.
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The Guardian Politics2 Jul 2026
Keir Starmer issues formal state apology over forced adoption scandal
After decades of campaigning by those affected, PM says state ‘did not do enough to protect’ mothers and children Keir Starmer has formally apologised for the British state’s role in historic forced adoptions after decades of campaigning by mothers and children affected. The government said the “state did not do enough to protect mothers, children and families”, that it “failed to prevent harm from continuing” and that it bore responsibility for funding and legitimising the system that allowed t
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Shabana Mahmood Accepts All Recommendations of Southport Inquiry
Shabana Mahmood said: “The Southport Inquiry identified fundamental failings, across many of our public services, in the years leading up to July 2024. These devastating failures led to the senseless killing of three young girls and violent attacks on others. My thoughts today are first and foremost with the families and friends of Bebe, Elsie…
Guido Fawkes2 Jul 2026
WATCH: Starmer Apologises for Historic Adoptions Scandal
Starmer is in the Commons to formally apologise for the forced adoption scandal, in which an estimated 185,000 unmarried mothers who, between the 1950s and 1970s, were pressured or coerced into surrendering their babies. A 2022 parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry called for an apology. Now Starmer – in legacy mode – is…
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Labour council forced into U-turn after ordering riverside pubs to remove benches
Celebratory pubgoers described the council's decision as a 'victory for freedom and common sense'.
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Release of Rochdale grooming gang leader ‘really scary’, says whistleblower
Exclusive: Health worker Sara Rowbotham fears for women and girls because of ‘weak’ probation service The impending release of the Rochdale grooming gang leader is “really scary” for local women and girls because of failings in a “weak” probation service and his lack of remorse, a former health worker who exposed the paedophile ring has said. Sara Rowbotham, whose team gathered evidence that led to the imprisonment of Shabir Ahmed and eight other men in Rochdale, said she is “terrified” by the p
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