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Labour is “getting it wrong” in “so many areas” and the Greens will “hold the new government to account”, the party’s co-leader Adrian Ramsay has told its conference in Manchester. In his first such speech since the Greens’ major advance in July’s general election, when it went from a single MP to four MPs, he said the party would challenge ...

The prison population in England and Wales has reached a record high, just days before the government’s temporary early release scheme comes into force. According to figures released by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on Friday, the number of inmates has risen by 1,159 since 2 August, the week when the UK riots began, and now stands at 88,521. This ...

Germany could make use of facilities funded by the UK to process some asylum seekers in Rwanda, the country’s migration agreements commissioner has suggested. Joachim Stamp, from the Free Democratic Party, which is a junior partner in the governing coalition, suggested accommodation originally intended for people deported from the UK could be utilised by Germany. However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ...

A Royal Navy serviceman has died in a training exercise in the English Channel. A Merlin Mk4 helicopter ditched during night-flying exercises with the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier near Dorset, the Navy said. A spokesperson for the Royal Navy said that there were no other fatalities or serious injuries. Defence Secretary John Healey says the investigation into the accident ...

Conservative leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has said human rights laws are preventing the deportation of “murderers and rapists” and should be reformed. The former security minister said he was willing to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if it prevented the government from deporting foreign criminals and he was unable to reform it. Mr Tugendhat made the promise ...

Jas Athwal, the recently elected MP for Ilford South, rents out 15 flats and has described himself as a “renter’s champion”. But tenants in a block of seven flats in Ilford, east London, owned by the MP claimed they have to put up with black mould, ants and threats of eviction if they complain. “The ants are everywhere,” one resident ...

Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded “repugnant” for using a poem about the Holocaust to criticise the government’s proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking. The MP for Tatton shared a section of Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem, “First They Came”, on social media, adding: “Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews called on ...

A government scheme to use vacant military land for new homes was quietly shelved two years ago without a single house being built. The plan was meant to deliver up to 10,000 new homes, but came to an end after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) withdrew most of the chosen sites from the programme. Earlier this year the MoD identified ...

The United Kingdom (UK) on Tuesday expressed their keen interest to help Bangladesh reform its banking and revenue sectors alongside the capital market. The interest surfaced as the UK High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke called on Finance Adviser to the interim government Dr Salehuddin Ahmed at his Economic Relations Division (ERD) office in the city, report BSS. After the ...

Sir Keir Starmer is set to warn that “things will get worse” in the UK before they get better. In a speech on Tuesday, the prime minister is likely to say there are no quick fixes to remedy what he will call the “rubble and ruin” left by the Conservatives. He will also continue to argue that the last government ...