UK politics

UK politics

Blaming panic buyers tends to obscure what's really going on. During the lockdowns, bulk buying was framed as irrational, antisocial and immoral. Individual shoppers were blamed for creating disorder and chaos through panicked, frenetic behaviour.

The theft of McSweeney's work phone means his WhatsApp messages and texts to Mandelson cannot be examined, raising concerns about the sensitivity of the information.

A huge amount of scepticism had been expressed about the effectiveness of a public inquiry or usefulness of investigating trafficking, during a virtual meeting on Tuesday.

This idea that I became obsessed [with gender recognition reform] to the exclusion of everything else is just a nonsense thing that some of my opponents say.

Reeves emphasized that the government would not repeat the across-the-board subsidies introduced by Liz Truss, which cost the Treasury about 40bn and contributed to high national debt.

Criterion Capital has issued 87 section 21 notices across its property portfolio, amounting to fewer than 5% of its total tenants, and insists this is routine management.

These ambitious spending targets will help ensure more government contracts go to SMEs, keeping more money, jobs and opportunities within local communities.

As it stands today, as a result of the strategic reserves being released and the sulphur content restrictions being eased, there is in fact more petrol in the economy today than there was five weeks ago or four weeks ago.

Environmental campaign group Foxglove stated that the NSIP designation allows the project to sidestep local planning and democracy, raising concerns about its potential carbon emissions.

Luxon's approval ratings have dipped, with a recent RNZ-Reid Research poll showing him at 17.3%, marking his lowest result since becoming leader in 2023.

In my view, the biggest mistake we've made is abolishing the Rwanda plan. Despite the legal challenges, it represented our best hope for reducing illegal crossings.