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Man, 47, pleads not guilty to stalking and harassing Jess Phillips

Lee Owens is accused of sending threatening and obsessive emails to minister responsible for tackling violence against women A man has appeared in court accused of stalking and harassing Jess Phillips, the minister in charge of tackling violence against women and girls. Lee Owens, 47, pleaded not guilty to an offence of stalking the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, at Cheltenham magistrates court on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Starmer the Incurious asks no questions and sees no Mandy-shaped red flags

Appointing an amoral narcissist was the PM’s biggest crime, but he was keen to breeze past it in the Commons Things could be worse. The prime minister can still catch a break. Some had called Monday’s Commons statement Keir Starmer’s judgment day. But that was a category error. Many Labour MPs had long since made up their minds. Keir wasn’t the right person to be running the country. Just that now, with a war in the Middle East and the local elections early next month, was not the right time to

Home Office could face hundreds of claims over asylum families in single rooms

Judge in case of two families housed for years in single hotel rooms says they should have been moved within three months The Home Office could face legal action from hundreds of asylum-seeking families stuck in single rooms in hotels after a judge criticised the “extraordinarily stressful” conditions in which they are expected to live. In a ruling, the deputy high court judge Alan Bates questioned why two families had been forced to live in single rooms for more than three years. He said they s

Eat that, Brussels! EU states show UK immigration police is nonsense – Reform UK swoops

Reform UK are rolling out their deportation plan.

UK police must get a grip – we need zero-tolerance after 730% surge in crimes

OPINION - DUNCAN BARKES: How is this happening given the powers the police already have on the books?

Cost of crime soars under Labour as 'no backbone' Keir Starmer slammed

Gangsters, career offenders, sex fiends, opportunistic thieves and violent robbers are costing taxpayers £90 million every day.

Sadiq Khan told 'it's unacceptable' as shocking London crime stat revealed

The Labour mayor of London has been told to ramp up efforts to plug a £260m gap in police funding.

Retired high court judge to review Peter Mandelson’s vetting process

Exclusive: Adrian Fulford will also examine wider national security vetting system after Foreign Office controversy UK politics live – latest updates A retired high court judge is expected to review Peter Mandelson’s vetting process and the wider national security vetting system. The review, commissioned by Downing Street, comes after a Guardian investigation revealing that security officials decided Mandelson should not receive developed vetting clearance, but were overruled by the Foreign Of

A question for those desperate to cut benefits to fund defence: who exactly are you willing to impoverish? | Polly Toynbee

George Robertson has joined Reform and the Tories in making the case. Look welfare recipients in the face and say that The benefits budget is now a magic money tree. Whenever Conservatives or Faragists make wild promises – tax cuts, more police, more punishment, more bonuses for marriage – and are asked how they would pay, the answer is always “welfare”. The sums are enormous. “Only the Conservatives will cut welfare spending by £23bn and get Britain working again,” the party insists. More unex

Nigel Farage threatens to jail lawyers as huge migrant scandal exposed

Reform UK says it wants to make facilitating a false asylum claim a 'strict liability' criminal offence.

Horror as police do NOT arrest paedophiles caught viewing child abuse online

Officers in some forces are asking perverts to agree to voluntary interviews to "manage" their workloads.

Awful blunders in Epping sex attack migrant's prison release revealed in scathing review