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Professionals who work with children will face criminal sanctions if they fail to report claims of sexual abuse, the home secretary has announced.Β Yvette Cooper promised to implement the key recommendation from Professor Alexis Jay’s child sexual abuse inquiry after Sir Keir Starmer faced down calls from Elon Musk, the Tories and Reform UK for…
πListen to Politics At Jack And Sam’s on your podcast appπ Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are back for 2025 with their guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. As the prime minister attacked those spreading misinformation online about child grooming gangs, how will the…
A man has been charged following reports of threats towards Labour safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, Sky News understands. Jack Bennett, 39, has been charged with three counts of malicious communications, Devon and Cornwall Police said. The messages were sent between April 2024 and January 2025 involving three victims, including the Birmingham Yardley MP. It is…
For days, the attacks had been raining down from Elon Musk and his supporters on Keir Starmer, safeguarding minister Jess Philips and the wider government, over handling of the historical sex abuse cases.Β The consensus in Number 10, as voiced by another leader subject to Mr Musk’s ire – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz – was…
π Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app π As winter sickness hits the NHS, Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled the government’s plans to support the service with a new partnership with the private sector. Labour want to get waiting times for non-urgent care back down to the target of 18 weeks over…
Millions of extra appointments, high street state of the art diagnostic centres, non-stop surgical hubs and an effective NHS app giving patients a “shopper’s experience”. This is Sir Keir Starmer’s elective reform plan. It reads more like a revolution. And that’s why questions are being asked about how achievable the government’s NHS plans actually are,…
Anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the prime minister’s ethics watchdog over alleged links to a Russian deal with her aunt, the former Bangladesh prime minister, and properties linked to her political party. Sir Keir Starmer said the economic secretary to the Treasury – who holds responsibility for financial crime and illicit finance…
The prime minister has rarely seemed so passionate as when he answered a question from Sky’s Beth Rigby on Elon Musk’sΒ vitriolic comments aboutΒ safeguarding minister Jess Phillips, who Musk described as a “witch” who should go to prison. Sir Keir Starmer was speaking at a press conference following a big new year speech on the government’s…
Sir Keir Starmer has accused people of “spreading lies” about grooming gangs and said they are not interested in victims after Elon Musk accused him of being “complicit” in the scandal. “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and wide as possible, they’re not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves,” Sir Keir…
Sir Keir Starmer will launch his plan to deliver millions more appointments across the NHS in a bid to reduce waiting times to 18 weeks over the next five years. The prime minister will lay out how greater access to community diagnostic centres (CDCs) will help deliver up to half a million more appointments, alongside…
