UK politics

UK politics

He needs to explain the comments, or alleged comments that were made, and he needs to do that as soon as possible. He hasn't got a good track record in relation to this because Sarah Pochin, his MP, made some clearly racist comments and Nigel Farage has done absolutely nothing about it. He added: The man is spineless. If that had been someone in my party, I'd have dealt with it straight away.

In September, the government announced plans to issue all legal residents a digital identity by August 2029, which in the first instance is set to be used to prove eligibility to work. Prime minister Keir Starmer said digital IDs were "an enormous opportunity for the UK." As well as making it tougher to work illegally, they would also "offer ordinary citizens countless benefits, like being able to prove your identity to access key services swiftly," he said.

Gambling companies don't lose very often but nor are they usually playing a game of poker against the chancellor of the exchequer. At next week's budget, Rachel Reeves is widely expected to announce an increase in the duties that bookies and casinos pay to the Treasury, ending months of speculation and frenzied lobbying designed to sway the government. The tax rise could cost the industry

All of the users of the tunnel pay for access. When business rates go up, that's split amongst the different users, said John Keefe, director of public and corporate affairs. At this stage, the numbers aren't one hundred percent known, because we're hoping we can talk a bit more with the government about this But there is a mechanism whereby everybody contributes.

A bill passed by the House of Commons after years of public debate is being blocked by a small group of peers under the pretence of scrutiny. Their purpose is to kill the bill by filibuster and impose their religious or moral views on the free will of others. They want to deny Britons a freedom now common in many liberal nations across the western world.

Deprived towns and cities in the Midlands and the north of England are the big winners in a shake-up of local authority funding that will redirect cash from affluent rural areas to urban councils hit hardest by austerity. Ministers said the changes put in place a fairer system that recognised the extra needs and weaker council tax-raising powers of councils in so-called left behind areas. It guarantees them real-terms funding increases for the next three years.

Support for Labour and the Conservatives among British Jews had fallen to 58% by July 2025 from nearly 84% in 2020, according to a report from the Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR), which said it was the lowest level we've ever recorded by some distance. Labour is typically favoured by more secular Jews while the Conservative party is traditionally preferred by more observant Jews.

The Prime Minister knows that last week nine four-star generals made plain the bill is doing harm to the British Army already. "Most acute damage is being felt by the Special Air Service. "As a result, lawyers for the SAS Regimental Association have sent a letter before action to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. "I know of no precedent for this in the entire history of the British Army, and ... it reflects how important it is.

Confidence is at its most fragile, businesses are holding back, investors are cautious, and families are tightening their belts. I've spent the past two decades building businesses from the ground up. No silver spoon, no safety net - just resilience, risk and relentless hard work. That's the story of thousands of entrepreneurs across this country. We're not asking for handouts, just a fair playing field and a government that trusts us to build.

When The Daily Telegraph published a leaked internal dossier alleging systemic left-wing bias at the BBC, few could have predicted the scale of the crisis about to engulf the UK's flagship public broadcaster. In the two weeks since the memo appeared, director-general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness have resigned, and none other than Donald Trump has homed in on the British broadcaster as the latest target in his personal war on the press.

I've taken this step because I feel that I need to protect free speech.

Some of the report's strongest criticism was directed at the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the toxic and chaotic culture of his government during its response to the pandemic. Giving evidence, the former head of the civil service Simon Case said good people were just being smashed to pieces, while others claimed there was a sexist culture where junior women being talked over or ignored.

Some London's buses have become painstakingly slow. A recent study by the found that the city's slowest bus, the number 14, averaged just 5.7mph in 2025, and the average speed of buses in the City of London between was a mere 6.2mph. Some days, you're often much better off walking. But for three lucky boroughs, things could soon start speeding up again.

The UK and Ireland are entering a dark time, according to the singer Joy Crookes, who said the influence of far-right ideology on mainstream politics was comparable to the 1970s when the National Front was at its peak. Crookes, who has just played two sold-out shows at the O2 Academy in Brixton, said the recent wave of nationalism and the far-right march through central London in September made her feel unsafe in the UK.

Dominic Cummings poisoned the atmosphere of Boris Johnson's Downing Street during the Covid crisis, the official inquiry into the pandemic has found, saying he helped create a toxic and macho culture with the full connivance of the then prime minister. Johnson's chief aide strayed far from the proper role of a special adviser, the report found, making key decisions in 10 Downing Street which were for the prime minister to make.

Corporation officer Andrew Impey told a Hampstead Heath Consultative Committee meeting this week that the consultation has received thousands of responses with many more expected before it closes. He said as a result he anticipates it will take three or four weeks to analyse the feedback with a series of focus groups also planned. Mr Impey said he does not expect a final report on the future use of the ponds to go to the necessary Corporation committees until January.

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) has again put off its adoption of an NHS data platform prescribed by the UK government and run by Palantir until there is more evidence that it will be in the "best interests" of the city's population. The national Federated Data Platform (FDP) was created by the US spy-tech firm under a much-criticized £330 million ($445 million) seven-year contract awarded in November 2023. NHS England, the health quango set to be merged into the central government health department, signed the deal with the controversial US vendor after a series of non-competitive deals totaled £60 million ($81 million).