Noah Keate

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Live News Reporter at POLITICO Europe

Writer. Journalist. Live News Reporter for @POLITICOEurope. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: [email protected]

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Zia Yusuf quits as chairman of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

LONDON — Zia Yusuf dramatically resigned as chairman of the resurgent Reform UK party on Thursday in a bitter blow to leader Nigel Farage. Yusuf, who took the key job days after the 2024 general election, announced his resignation in a post on the social media website X, hours after wading into a dispute about the party’s policy towards the burqa. “I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office,” he said.
PMQs: Badenoch makes Starmer squirm on welfare

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through. What they sparred about: Winter fuel payments and the two-child benefit cap. In the first joust since recess, Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch took Prime Minister Keir Starmer to task over the government’s flip-flopping on money for pensioners and significant ambiguity about funding for struggling parents.
Rape investigation into former Tory MP Crispin Blunt dropped

4 weeks ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

LONDON — Surrey Police have dropped allegations of rape against former Conservative MP Crispin Blunt 19 months after he was arrested, the force confirmed Thursday. In a statement first issued to the Spectator, Surrey Police said there was ” insufficient evidence to proceed” and “no further action would be taken” on the report of rape. However, it said Blunt would remain under investigation “on suspicion of possession of controlled substances” and that enquires were ongoing.
Britain’s defeated Tory MPs struggle to adjust to civilian life

1 month ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

LONDON — Nearly a year after Britain’s seismic general election, former MPs booted out by the electorate are feeling abandoned. The pain is particularly acute for the waves of defeated Conservative parliamentarians now adjusting to life beyond the Westminster bubble after the party’s humiliating election rout. “It’s been months since I’ve heard anything from anyone in the party,” said a former Tory MP, defeated last year and granted anonymity to speak candidly.
PMQs: Starmer finishes on top as he brands Tories ‘dead party walking’

1 month ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through. What they sparred about: The economy, mostly. Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch picked Keir Starmer’s brains on the U.K.’s grim economic outlook — and got an unwelcome reminder of the Liz Truss era in reply.
PMQs: Starmer finishes on top as he brands Tories ‘dead party walking’

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Noah Keate

6 hours agoCanadian prime minister Mark Carney criticises King Charles over Trump UK state visitCanadian prime minister Mark Carney has criticised King Charles’ decision to offer Donald Trump a second state visit to the UK. The newly elected Liberal leader said Canadians “were not impressed”, by the decision, during an interview with Sky News on Wednesday (14 May).
Canada’s Mark Carney criticizes UK state visit for Trump

1 month ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

LONDON — Mark Carney made clear his fellow Canadians “weren’t impressed” when Britain offered Donald Trump a historic second state visit. The Canadian prime minister, whose Liberal Party won the country’s federal election last month after a race shaped by anger at the U.S. president, told Sky News the offer from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer was grating. “To be frank, they [Canadians] weren’t impressed by that gesture … given the circumstance,” Carney told Sky News.
Tory MP charged over alleged sexual assaults at elite London club

1 month ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate

LONDON — Conservative MP Patrick Spencer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault which are alleged to have taken place at London’s elite Groucho Club. Spencer, who has represented Central Suffolk and North Ipswich for the Conservatives since July’s general election, was charged by the Metropolitan Police Service in connection with two sexual assaults at the private members’ venue in central London. They are alleged to have occurred in Aug.
Police probe suspicious fire at Keir Starmer’s London home

1 month ago | politico.eu | Noah Keate |Nathalie Weatherald

LONDON — Police are investigating after a small fire broke out at Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s north London home in the early hours of Monday morning. The London Fire Brigade was called at 1:11 a.m. and quickly brought the fire under control. Nobody was hurt, though the front door was damaged, a cordon remains in place on the street and police are at the scene. A resident of the street said he heard a loud, one-off bang, that sounded like a “firebomb,” and possibly shattered glass.
Wielka Brytania nakłada nowe sankcje na flotę cieni Putina. Starmer: zrobimy wszystko, co w naszej mocy, aby ją zniszczyć

1 month ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Noah Keate

Rząd brytyjski poinformował, że tankowce przewiozły od początku 2024 r. ropę rosyjską o wartości ponad 18 mld funtów [89 mld 965 mln 440 tys. zł], łamiąc ograniczenia nałożone na Moskwę po tym, jak dokonała inwazji na Ukrainę w 2022 r. W środku nocy na Bałtyku pojawił się tajemniczy statek. Renegat jeszcze gorszy niż statki z floty cieni Rosja próbowała obejść te obostrzenia gospodarcze, tworząc tzw.