A woman who threw a McDonald’s milkshake at Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the general election campaign must pay compensation and carry out unpaid community work. On 4 June, when Farage was leaving a pub in Clacton-on-Sea after announcing his candidacy for the Essex constituency, a drink was thrown in his face. Victoria Thomas…
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the British government has had “diplomatic contact” with the Syrian rebel group that overthrew the Assad regime. Lammy said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains a banned terrorist organisation, but the UK “can make diplomatic contacts and so we have diplomatic contacts, as you would expect”. their American counterparts…
Yvette Cooper says slogans won’t solve small boat crossing problem Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC that levels of “alarming” illegal Channel crossings are “very high”, but she refused to set out any timetable for reducing the numbers. More than 20,000 people have arrived on Britain’s shores illegally since the Labor Party came…
The man leading the government’s review of the backlog of criminal cases has said court delays experienced by victims and defendants are unacceptable. Sir Brian Leveson, a retired High Court judge, said on BBC Radio 4’s Today program that “radical” steps would need to be taken to deal with the “crisis”, which could lead to…
britain parliament Baroness Owen became the youngest member of the House of Lords last year Ministers have been urged to speed up plans to criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake images. Conservative peer Baroness Owen has proposed a law to make it a crime to make or solicit intimate photographs of people without their…
BBC Cheshire East Council to seek more than £50 million over next two years Cheshire East Council will ask for extraordinary financial support from the Government for the second year in a row. The authority, which signed off on multimillion-pound cost-cutting plans in the summer, is set to ask the government for support of up…
BBC Kemi Badenoch strongly defended her dislike of the sandwich, telling the BBC that she was “happy with my unique taste”. in an interview With The Spectator, The Conservative leader said: “I’m not a sandwich person. I don’t think a sandwich is a real food, it’s just what you eat for breakfast.” His comments sparked…
House of Commons The new chair of the Commons standards committee has said MPs should not be expected to be “saints”, as he called for penalties to be made less severe for breaking minor rules. In an interview with The House magazineConservative Alberto Costa suggested that where a “minor failure” at work does not involve…
Environment Secretary Ed Miliband has said he has no regrets about voting to block Britain’s military action against then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013. David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, wanted to attack Syria after reports that Assad had used deadly chemical weapons on its own civilians in Damascus. However, Miliband, who…
getty images Police chiefs have warned the Home Secretary that without extra funding for neighborhood policing officers – a government priority – Can be cut. Almost a quarter of police forces in England and Wales have called on Yvette Cooper to push for a pay rise and defray the cost of higher employer taxes when…
