Election 2024: Campaign staff will ‘make mistakes’, Tory HQ boss admits after email slip May 27, 2024 Conservative campaign staff are “going to make mistakes”, the Tory party chairman has admitted in the wake of a leaked CCHQ email blaming MPs for the poor start to the race.
Met to deploy 80 detectives over Post Office scandal May 27, 2024 The Metropolitan Police is set to deploy 80 detectives to investigate the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, despite expectations that any criminal prosecutions on the incident could take years to come in.
“Disgusting” revelation on sewage should see Thames Water “ripped up” May 27, 2024 Thames Water should be “ripped up” and no longer allowed to be for profit, after it emerged some 14bn litres of sewage were released in 2023, the Liberal Democrats have said.
Hamas rocket attack from Gaza sets off air raid sirens in Tel Aviv May 26, 2024 Hamas has fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza that set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months in a show of resilience more than seven months into Israel’s massive air, sea and ground offensive.
Reeves: No income tax or national insurance rises if Labour win General Election May 26, 2024 Rachel Reeves has ruled out increases to income tax or national insurance under a Labour government.
Mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if Tories win, Sunak vows May 26, 2024 Eighteen year olds would be forced to carry out a form of national service if the Tories are voted back in at the July 4 General Election, Rishi Sunak has announced.
China accuses UK of false accusations against Chinese citizens May 25, 2024 China accused Britain on Saturday of false accusation, “wanton stigmatisation” and arbitrary arrests after the unexplained death of a man charged with illegally assisting Hong Kong’s foreign intelligence service. China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong said in a statement on its website that it strongly condemned Britain for what it said were false accusations [...]
Labour and Tories fight over economy as Hunt and Reeves drop tax cut hints May 25, 2024 The Tories and Labour will fight over the economy as Keir Starmer centres Saturday’s campaign on the cost-of-living crisis while the Conservatives hint at tax cuts for high earners. The Chancellor signalled the party would seek to end the impact of tapering of personal allowances on larger incomes, while his opposite number vowed to deliver [...]
‘Not unnatural’ for veteran Tories like Gove to be quitting, City minister insists May 25, 2024 The exodus of prominent Tory MPs like Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom is “not unnatural”, the City minister has insisted, amid speculation that Conservatives are quitting Parliament in fear of imminent electoral defeat.
City minister denies Sunak ‘taking the day off’ May 25, 2024 A minister denied Rishi Sunak is “taking the day off” from campaigning for the July 4 General Election as the Prime Minister stayed close to his Yorkshire constituency on Saturday morning. Sunak completed a whistlestop two-day tour of the four nations on Friday and is understood to be attending an event in the north of [...]