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Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has told the House of Commons that it took 1,088 days after she was raped for her case to reach court. During a debate on the Courts and Tribunals Bill, she said that she was raped at an event she attended as an MP. While she has previously spoken about the…

The government has announced a new definition of anti-Muslim hate that includes violence, harassment and prejudicial stereotyping – as it insisted the move will not curtail free speech. Ministers say it is a working definition and a “tool for government and organisations to better understand, measure, prevent and address anti-Muslim hostility”. Crucially, the definition is non-statutory…

MPs have voted against a proposal to ban under-16s from using social media. The Conservatives had pushed for the move via an amendment to the government’s flagship education legislation currently going through parliament: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. It had been backed by the House of Lords, but was defeated in the Commons on…

X has been questioned by MPs over “the most appalling and offensive” AI posts about the Hillsborough disaster.  Over the weekend, Grok, X’s AI tool, was found to be falsely blaming Liverpool fans for the 1989 disaster, which led to the deaths of 97 fans, and using derogatory language about the city. A Sky News…

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 As Iran names its new supreme leader oil prices skyrocket, sending shockwaves across the global economy – but how will the UK government deal with the issue? US President Donald Trump claims the surge is a “small price to pay” for peace – but…

“We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” The latest late-night broadside from Donald Trump has torn another strip off the tattered remains of the special relationship Sir Keir Starmer has spent the past year trying to cultivate. Politics Live: ‘PM learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’…

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called on Sir Keir Starmer to cancel the King’s US state visit over the war in Iran. The King is due to visit the US next month. Politics Live: PM ‘learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’ Sir Ed said: “Keir Starmer should advise the King that…

Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Thursday afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly. The British defence secretary, visiting the base at the time, was taken into “a windowless room” just before he was due to dial into…

In recent years, during moments of international conflict, we’ve become used to the main British political parties calling something of a truce – largely holding off on the partisan attacks for a moment of unity in the name of the national interest. That’s not been the case this time. The week has seen political hand…

The leader of the Conservative Party is facing calls to apologise after she suggested the UK military are “just hanging around” rather than taking the necessary action in the Middle East. Kemi Badenoch said there was a need to reduce the capability of Iran to attack British bases, adding that the UK is currently just…