Articles
-
3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Aubrey Allegretti |Chris Smyth |Oliver Wright
It was a brief moment of respite. At 3am on Friday the prime minister was woken by a call from an aide informing him that, against the odds, Labour had won the Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse Holyrood by-election. There may have been just 602 votes in it, but for Sir Keir Starmer at this stage of his premiership a win is a win. It was, he said, a “fantastic” victory. For one local resident it mattered more than most.
-
3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford |Max Kendix |Aubrey Allegretti
Few figures in Reform UK were more evangelical about the prospects of Nigel Farage as a future prime minister than Zia Yusuf. “Not only will Nigel become prime minister, he will become prime minister with hundreds of MPs who are under no uncertain terms as to why they’re being elected,” the chairman of Reform UK said last year. That unswerving faith in Farage came to an abrupt end last night after Yusuf found himself embroiled in the latest in a series of brutal internal party rows.
-
3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Chris Smyth |Steven Swinford
Next week Rachel Reeves will unveil one of the government’s biggest U-turns so far — reinstating winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners. Scrapping them is widely seen as one of the chancellor’s biggest mistakes, and the government hopes the change of tack will help stem the pubic backlash over it.
-
3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Oliver Wright |Steven Swinford |Geraldine Scott
What you need to know Sir Keir Starmer has secured improved commitments from France on tackling small boats but this has yet to translate into action on the ground Labour believes a new bill going through the Lords would make a significant difference in its pledge to “smash the gangs” Despite rejecting the Rwanda plan as a “gimmick”, the prime minister’s plan for return hubs has a similar aim, but is still at an early stage Ministers are looking at tightening the rules around Article 8 of the...
-
3 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | Steven Swinford
Britain is privately urging France to ensure that its beaches are properly policed next week amid concerns that thousands more migrants will attempt to make crossings. On Saturday a record 1,195 migrants crossed the English Channel in a single day in scenes that were described by Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, as “disgraceful”. There was footage of a handful of gendarmes looking on from the beach as dozens of migrants ran into the water and scrambled aboard small boats.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 114K
- Tweets
- 22K
- DMs Open
- Yes
Sir Keir Starmer is arguing that Labour can afford to reinstate winter fuel payments because the economic outlook has improved Economists don't agree - they say that the economic conditions are worse now than when Starmer and Reeves stripped 10million pensioners of the winter
The Tories left us with a £22 billion black hole. My government has fixed the foundations of our economy. We now have the highest growth in the G7, four interest rate cuts, and we have signed three trade deals to protect jobs and put more money in your pockets. The economy is
Breaking: Rachel Reeves announces that the government will restore winter fuel payments to 9million pensioners her biggest u-turn since taking office All those with an income of less that £35,000 will have the payments of between £200 and £300 restored this winter Around
Kemi Badenoch says that things may get 'worse before they get better' for the Conservatives But she says that ultimately the public will see that the Conservatives have changed 'We need to start getting serious and stop treating politics like showbusiness'
