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.
Subject to funding for the extension being agreed, TfL expects to issue the formal construction tender in June 2026, with construction to start in 2028. If construction starts in 2028, then the expected opening date would be 2033. Once the extension opens, TfL currently expects to be able to run trains: Every 8-10 minutes to/from Thamesmead (and Beckton Riverside) Every 8-10 minutes to/from Beckton Together, these services would provide a train every 4-5 minutes between Canning Town and Gallions Reach.
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).
Council tax is one of the biggest outgoings for many households so reports of a shake-up that could add thousands to some annual bills are causing concern. After abandoning a plan to increase income tax in the budget, Rachel Reeves is expected to rely on several smaller tax-raising measures to repair the public finances. Of the ideas still on the table, one is some form of mansion tax that gets the owners of expensive homes in England to pay more.
Cast your mind forward to a year from now. It's more than likely that prime minister's questions will look very different. A change of cast. If not a change of fortune. Keir Starmer may not even make it much further than the end of May. The budget chaos and No 10's curious briefings against itself have left many Labour MPs in despair.
I feel I should probably start with an apology. A few days after the 2024 general election, I wrote that it felt as if the grownups were back in charge. It wasn't as if I was carried away by the vision of Keir Starmer or the charisma of Rachel Reeves. More that I felt we had regained a basic level of competence. That politics would become business as usual rather than the breathless psychodrama of the past 10 years. You could go to bed at night relatively confident that the country would be more or less recognisable when you woke up.
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Speaking in the House of Commons, Mahmood said: "If we fail to deal with this crisis, we will draw more people down a path that starts with anger and ends in hatred." The reforms will make refugee status temporary, extend the wait for permanent settlement from five years to 20, and allow the removal of families with children who have no right to remain.
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Simon Whelband is a Conservative councillor and also works for the Conservative MP Neil O'Brien, who was sanctioned by China in 2021. Simon went into his LinkedIn messages and there it was. A message from an account in the name of Shirly Shen sent some weeks earlier. He hadn't responded to the unsolicited message and reported it to Parliament's security services. He was then advised to block the account.
Having built a company worth around 70 million pounds ($92m) that he plans to sell soon, John wants to avoid a hefty capital gains tax bill. As his children are in university, upping sticks is possible. He hopes to take advantage of the Republic of Ireland's non-domiciled, or non-dom, tax regime, which would exempt him from Irish taxes as well.
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PNT is the bedrock for virtually all modern-day activities from finance to transport that depend on access to reliable and accurate information. Examples cited include satellite navigation services that help people get from A to B, but also timing signals - without which mobile phones and even stock markets could not function properly. Indeed, the UK government cited a study showing that just a 24-hour outage of satellite navigation services could cost the UK economy £1.4bn.
In the context of a prisoner who has a history of trauma and where there was a failure to obtain an assessment of his needs even though he was known to have mental health issues, and a failure to provide him with any therapeutic treatment to address his trauma, a contravention of article 3 is made out, notwithstanding the importance of the aim behind the segregation regime.
In a fresh setback for the government, the Lords voted to support a string of Conservative-backed amendments to the employment rights bill late on Monday for the third time running. In a protracted showdown with the upper chamber, the Lords vote curtails a manifesto promise to give workers the right to a guaranteed hours contract, and day-one protections against unfair dismissal.
