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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced an extra £75m to tackle people-smuggling gangs. The cash boost takes funding for the UK’s new Border Security Command (BSC) to a total of £150m for new tech hubs, as well as extra enforcement, intelligence and prosecution staff. In a speech to the Interpol general assembly in Glasgow, Sir Keir called on global ...

New Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has started making the first appointments to her top team, ahead of her new shadow cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Badenoch has given former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott the job of shadow education secretary, with Neil O’Brien appointed shadow education minister, the BBC understands. Both will appear in their new roles in the ...

Kemi Badenoch has won the race to become the new leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, pledging to return it to its founding principles and win back voters after its disastrous election defeat in July. Badenoch, 44, came out on top in the two-horse race with former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, winning 57 percent of the votes of party members. She ...

A cross-party group of seven MPs who have worked in the NHS have urged their colleagues to support a bill which would legalise assisted dying. Backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has proposed legislation which would give terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to choose to end their lives. In a letter the group of medics, led by ...

  The Bangla Mirror Group, the publishers of the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication, held the official  launch and press conference on the 30th October at the Seminar Room, Business Development Centre in East London to announce the much anticipated publication. British Bangladeshi  Who’s Who 2024 publication and award gala dinner will be held in the prestigious Meridian Grand on ...

This was a huge, change-making budget. Don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t much difference between the main parties at Westminster. This was a Budget with Labour’s instincts and worldview stamped throughout it. There are the tax rises visible from near-earth orbit, the self imposed borrowing rules shredded and re-written – to allow more borrowing – and big wads of ...

Commonwealth leaders have agreed the “time has come” for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK’s desire to keep the subject off the agenda at a two-day summit in Samoa. A document signed by 56 heads of government, including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, acknowledges calls for “discussions on reparatory justice” for the “abhorrent” transatlantic ...

Sir Keir Starmer has attempted to define who “working people” are, amid renewed scrutiny of his tax plans ahead of next week’s Budget. Labour promised at the general election not to increase taxes on working people – but the party did not define who it had in mind. The government is looking at increasing tax on asset sales, such as ...

Commonwealth heads of government are preparing to defy the United Kingdom and agree plans to examine reparatory justice for the transatlantic slave trade, the BBC has learned. Downing Street insists the issue is not on the agenda for the summit of 56 Commonwealth countries, which begins in the Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday. But diplomatic sources said officials ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has played down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the US presidential election. The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation into alleged “blatant foreign interference”. Sir Keir, who met Trump last month, said party staff going to the US to ...