UK politics

UK politics

After an extensive two-and-a-half-year investigation, the CMA published its findings in July 2025. The report was explicit: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft together account for roughly 80% of the UK's cloud services market, a duopoly so deeply entrenched that the watchdog recommended both companies be designated with strategic market status.

Unite members are coming to the end of the line as far Labour is concerned. Workers are scratching their heads asking whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn't workers. Workers and communities are paying the price. Labour needs to wake up and smell the coffee. The cut in affiliation fee shows the anger of Unite members.

The key driver for introducing a new banknote series is always to increase counterfeit resilience. But it also provides an opportunity to celebrate different aspects of the UK. Nature is a great choice from a banknote authentication perspective and means we can showcase the UK's rich and varied wildlife.

I am pleased to put this chapter behind me. This welcome decision of the DPP supports my position throughout that the evidence to support such claims of criminal wrongdoing never existed.

We'll brief you further in person from 6 January onwards, including at higher tiers. An email does not formally confirm Mandelson's developed vetting clearance until 30 January 2025, his formal offer of employment. Mandelson was asked then to apply for an even higher level of vetting Strap clearance which was not initiated until 4 February.

We will keep the situation under review in light of what's happening in Iran. Fuel duty is frozen until September. The best approach involves working with others to de-escalate the situation in the region, rather than making immediate policy decisions based on current volatility.

At this stage of development, it is not possible to definitively estimate the cost to government from developing and running the digital ID system, adding that yet-to-be-taken policy decisions will materially impact the costs involved.

Many said travelling to the US at this moment would hand Donald Trump an unwelcome diplomatic win and risk appearing to legitimise policies and rhetoric they strongly oppose. Some argued the King's presence could be interpreted as an endorsement of the current administration, particularly given criticism of its approach to foreign policy, immigration and international alliances.

Between January and August 2024, Barton published 48 posts relating to Aluko on his X account, adding that he had 'carried out a deliberately targeted public campaign of vilification'. He said one post included an image of Aluko's head superimposed onto serial killer Rosemary West's body. 'The campaign amounted to an attack on multiple aspects of her life and personality.'

Forensic examination of a hard drive connected to a laptop revealed 15 images and 15 videos of extreme pornography with creation dates between February and May 2022. Officers also found 18 still images and six videos featuring child sexual exploitation, some of them of the most serious kind and featuring both boys and girls aged between four and 10.

With her trademark brutal honesty, she laid bare the chaos in ramshackle care services on the verge of collapse, as near-bankrupted councils fail to cope with the seismic challenge of soaring dementia cases. With all the wars and crises around the world, it was practically overlooked. It shouldn't be.

If there was a medal to be awarded for the best contributor of the week, the Deputy would be most deserving of it because he is a lone voice among many voices whose only inclination and focus is on spending more money, calling on the Government to keep on spending more money and spend as much as we can.