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Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist firebrand who dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade, has bowed out with an emotional valedictory speech. Addressing the Scottish parliament for the final time, the former first minister said it was a wrench to leave Holyrood, but the time was right to move on. She was elected to the newly…
Angela Rayner’s return to frontline politics began in earnest this week as the former deputy leader set out the challenge in the upcoming May elections. “We are running out of time,” she told MPs at a party event. “The very survival of the Labour Party is at stake.” The intention is clear: Rayner wants to…
Rwanda has demanded the UK pay more than Β£100m over the failed migrant deportation deal which Sir Keir Starmer scrapped in 2024 when Labour came to power. During a hearing at The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, the East African country claimed Britain owed the money under the agreement which was struck by Rishi Sunak’s…
Sir John Major has attacked Donald Trump over the Iran war and accused Sir Keir Starmer of a “demeaning” policy of “tiptoeing” around the president. The former prime minister said President Trump should have sought United Nations backing for the war and claimed it would not end hostilities in the Middle East. In a hard-hitting…
Sir Keir Starmer has called for a senior Conservative who said Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square was “an act of domination” to be sacked. The prime minister described Nick Timothy’s comments as “utterly appalling” and told Tory leader Kemi Badenoch that she should denounce his words and “sack him” as shadow justice secretary. Speaking at…
Donald Trump has said he’s “disappointed with Keir [Starmer]” over the prime minister’s initial refusal to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East. Repeating his jibe from a few days into the Iran war, the US president said: “Unfortunately Keir is no Winston Churchill.” Mr Trump was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office alongside…
We’re used to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the war leader in his combat fatigues. They were the ones that memorably earned him a dressing down from Donald Trump in the Oval Office last year. But in his third speech to the UK parliament since the Russian invasion four years ago, we saw him suited…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπ Global insecurity and transatlantic tensions dominate the agenda for Sir Keir Starmer – but is the UK about to edge closer to the EU? Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a speech on plans to deepen the ties with the European Union, as Donald Trump…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and “deeper” ties with Europe are the best ways to get the economy growing, the chancellor will say on Tuesday. Rachel Reeves will argue that the UK cannot afford to “bury our heads in the sand”, and allow other countries to lead the development of AI, in the annual Mais lecture. While…
Sir Keir Starmer has denied misleading the House of Commons over Peter Mandelson’s vetting process to become US ambassador. The prime minister told MPs in September last year – twice in one day – that “full due process was followed”, when it was revealed Lord Mandelson continued his friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he…