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Civil case against Gerry Adams over IRA bombings withdrawn

A lawyer for the claimants said on Friday that proceedings would be "discontinued".

Mauritius Deputy Prime Minister Resigns Triggering Political Crisis over Chagos

As threatened and as Guido had noted earlier, Mauritius’s Deputy Prime Minister Paul Berenger has resigned overnight. His action follows a phone call with Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam yesterday… The Mauritius government – which is a fractured coalition – may now collapse. Another nail in the coffin for Starmer’s Chagos deal, it’s beginning to become…

‘We need to think much bigger’: trade minister calls for greater ambition in UK-EU reset

Exclusive: Chris Bryant says policy agreements are being done in bits and pieces but a greater vision is needed by both sides It was all smiles and warm handshakes when the two men in charge of renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU met in Brussels this week. Maroš Šefčovič and the UK minister for EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, sharing a stage on the third floor of the vast European parliament building, were at pains to show the cross-Channel relationship was in a good place after y

Joey Gwinn: Rejoining the EU would cost over £31bn a year – it will bankrupt us, not save us

Such tax or spend changes would be economically apocalyptic; there is no realistic avenue in which to fund a return to the EU. The post Joey Gwinn: Rejoining the EU would cost over £31bn a year – it will bankrupt us, not save us appeared first on Conservative Home.

Iran warns UK letting US use bases is 'participation in aggression'

Iran's foreign minister urges his UK counterpart Yvette Cooper to end cooperation with the US.

Reform UK suspends Scottish candidate less than a day after announcing him

Stuart Niven suspended after it emerged he had been struck off as a company director over financial allegations Reform UK has suspended one of its Scottish candidates after it emerged he had been struck off as a company director, and faces growing attacks for fielding candidates making Islamophobic remarks. Reform confirmed on Friday morning it had suspended Stuart Niven, its candidate for Dundee West, after the Herald revealed he had been struck off after diverting tens of thousands of pounds o

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Ministers look at blueprint for economic overhaul amid fears cost of living could hand election to far right

Many MPs say they are frustrated with communications strategy that brands both Reform and Greens as extremists Cabinet ministers have been studying a blueprint for Labour to radically overhaul its economic offer and messaging, including devolving tax powers, abolishing national insurance and major property tax reforms. Passed around dozens of MPs, the paper argues that without a major rethink, the failure to tackle the discontent on the cost of living will hand the next election to a hard-right

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UK households face £300 increase in energy bills because of Donald Trump's Iran war

The conflict is set to have a devastating effect on Britain's economy and living standards.

The greatest challenge Farage has ever faced – convincing the world he was never besties with Donald Trump | Marina Hyde

The Reform UK leader has belatedly clocked that most British people really don’t like the US president on whose coat-tails he has spent the past decade riding At last, the culture has thrown up a split more nauseatingly up itself than Gwyneth Paltrow’s from Chris Martin. It is Nigel Farage’s attempt to consciously uncouple from Donald Trump, a man up whose backside he’s spent the past decade most firmly lodged. Nigel’s made such a massive, self-satisfied show of his real estate in the presidenti

House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP

Kim Leadbeater joins protest against delaying of bill to allow assisted dying in the UK and says people are ‘extremely angry’ The House of Lords “signed its own death warrant” over its stalling of the UK assisted dying bill, the MP Kim Leadbeater said as she joined more than a dozen terminally ill and bereaved people in protest outside parliament. Marking the second anniversary of the death at Dignitas of the prominent assisted dying campaigner Paola Marra, Leadbeater, whose private member’s bil