Jack Elsom

1 week ago | thesun.co.uk | Jack Elsom |Harry Cole

REFORM is giving Labour "one hell of a run for their money", Nigel Farage has declared ahead of next month's local elections. The party leader said his right-wing insurgents were "parking their tanks on the lawns of the Red Wall". An exclusive Sun poll today revealed Reform is making deep inroads into Labour's traditional heartlands in the North and Midlands.

1 week ago | thesun.co.uk | Jack Elsom

LABOUR was accused of fresh Brexit backsliding last night over plans to drag Britain back under the rule of EU judges. Ministers are believed to have accepted “dynamic alignment” with Brussels’ standards on food and agricultural imports. It would mean handing the European Court of Justice oversight over our trade despite us not being a member, according to Bloomberg. Sir Keir Starmer’s EU pointman Nick Thomas-Symonds has been negotiating with Brussels in the hope of securing a “reset” in relations.

1 week ago | thesun.co.uk | Jack Elsom

DOWNING Street is resisting pressure to block China from our essential industries despite the British Steel fiasco. And the PM’s spokesman even refused to rule out another Chinese owner from taking over the Scunthorpe furnaces. It comes as the raw materials needed to keep the vital Lincolnshire plant running have been secured by the Government and are due to be transported to the site.

1 week ago | thesun.co.uk | Jonathan Rose |Jack Elsom

BreakingMs Siddiq resigned from her post in the Treasury earlier this yearANTI-corruption authorities in Bangladesh have issued a warrant for the arrest of a Labour MP, it has been reported. Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission allegedly sought an arrest warrant for former City minister Tulip Siddiq. It was reportedly issued over allegations she illegally received a 7,200 square feet plot of land in the country's capital, Dhaka.

1 week ago | thescottishsun.co.uk | Jonathan Rose |Jack Elsom

MPs have approved emergency plans to save British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces. Both the Commons and the Lords broke from Easter recess for a highly unusual Saturday sitting to debate the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill. The legislation is aimed at blocking the company's Chinese owners, Jingye, from closing blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant. The plans will see taxpayer money used to provide materials to the steelworks and open the door to a transfer of ownership.