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The former Conservative business and Scotland Office Minister, Lord Malcolm Offord, has defected to Reform UK.He was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a rally at the the Macdonald Inchyra hotel in Falkirk on Saturday.Lord Offord…
Trans women will not be able to take part in the main session at Labour's Women's Conference next year.It follows a legal review into how the event should operate after the Supreme Court ruled in…
Helen Catt,BBC political correspondentandJenny Sneesby,Political reporterDogs TrustPip and Squeak, who are now called Elsa and Sky, after being rehomed by the Dogs TrusA law to tackle the smuggling of puppies and kittens into Britain has…
BBCIan Cooper is alleged to have made racist comments onlineThe Reform UK leader of Staffordshire County Council has been removed from the party after being accused of making racist comments on social media.The posts at…
Paul SeddonPolitical reporterEPA/ShutterstockSir Keir Starmer has repeated that he is not planning to rejoin the EU's customs union, after the deputy prime minister said countries in such unions see a boost to their economies.Speaking on…
Gareth Gordon,political correspondentandBrendan Hughes,political reporter, BBC News NINiall Carson/PAFirst Minister Michelle O'Neill, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at Stormont last yearThe UK prime minister has been told by the…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will not face an investigation by the prime minister's ethics adviser over whether she broke the ministerial code with her pre-Budget interventions.Reform UK leader Nigel Farage had asked Sir Laurie Magnus to…
A senior UK government minister has defended its record in Wales after strong criticism from Labour Senedd members.Several backbench Labour MSs wrote to Keir Starmer accusing him of rolling back devolution by bypassing ministers in…
BBCProtesters described the reopening of the immigration centre as a "terrible step backwards"The Home Office has confirmed the official reopening of an immigration detention facility.The first detainees arrived at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, near Kidlington…
BBCMike Martin, Tunbridge Wells MP, has called for residents to stop abusing South East Water staff "Covid-style" compensation should be made available for businesses affected by water supply issues which led to taps running dry…
