Month: January 2025

Tulip Siddiq resigns as minister amid Bangladesh corruption probe in huge blow to Starmer

Tulip Siddiq smiles for photographers as she leaves her north London home (Image: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP) Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from her role “to avoid distraction for the Government” following a corruption probe in Bangladesh. The Labour MP’s aunt is…

Keir Starmer must not be allowed to make this one horrifying change to Britain

Keir Starmer has one horrifying change planned for Britain (Image: PA) The ancient right to a jury trial, dating back nearly a thousand years, looks set to be abolished for a range of offences by this Labour government. Not because such…

Labour champions China visit while failing to meet a single member of Trump’s top team

Labour has snubbed Trump’s transition team (Image: Getty) Not a single minister or civil servant has met with Donald Trump’s transition team ahead of his inauguration next week, it has been revealed. In news that raises eyebrows about this Labour Government’s foreign…

Nigel Farage brands ‘dictators’ postponing elections an ‘utter disgrace’

Nigel Farage has complained of a ‘denial of democracy’ (Image: Reform UK) Nigel Farage has accused local authorities of acting like “dictators” as he branded the move to postpone forthcoming local elections as “political cowardice.” Eleven councils have so far asked…

Keir Starmer plots deal with Iraq in bid to deport thousands of illegal migrants

Migrants picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France, disembark from Border (Image: AFP via Getty Images) Thousands of Iraqi migrants who arrived in the UK on small boats face being deported under a new returns agreement….

Angela Rayner pushes for huge change to migrant housing amid fury over hotel bills

Ministers fear migrants could still be housed in hotels by the next General Election (Image: Getty) Ministers have insisted the number of migrant hotels will fall despite fears asylum seekers could be housed in taxpayer funded rooms for another four years. Deputy Prime…

Labour’s rail strike plan has backfired spectacularly – and cost taxpayers big time

Is this the age of the train? (Image: Getty) Labour were cock-a-hoop after handing train drivers an inflation-busting pay rise last year. Louise Haigh, the Transport Secretary at the time, boasted: “When I took this job, I said I wanted to move fast…

Labour split exposed as Lisa Nandy slaps down calls for grooming gang inquiry

Labour’s civil war over whether there should be an inquiry into child sexual grooming gangs was further exposed this morning, after Lisa Nandy slapped down calls by senior party colleagues. The Culture Secretary rejected Andy Burnham’s intervention yesterday, after the Manchester…

Keir Starmer blasted for ‘massive hypocrisy’ over grooming gangs defence of Jess Phillips

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (Image: Getty) Sir Keir Starmer has been slammed for “staggering hypocrisy” after complaining that Tories had failed to support his Labour colleague Jess Phillips – despite his own party accusing Rishi Sunak of being soft on child abuse. The Prime Minister…

Out of touch’ Starmer slammed for ‘smearing’ MPs demanding probe into grooming

Keir Starmer visited Epsom Hospital in Surrey today (Image: Getty) MPs have slammed “out of touch” Sir Keir Starmer for “smearing” people demanding a national inquiry into rape gangs which abused thousands of girls. Politicians from the Conservative and Reform parties…