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Police forces across the UK have made at least 100 arrests as violent clashes and unrest involving anti-immigration far-right groups continued to spread over the weekend, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer offering his full support to officers to take firm action against the “extremists”. Bricks being hurled, fireworks thrown, windows of a hotel housing asylum seekers smashed, shops attacked and ...

  Rioters who attacked police and property following the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport have been accused of promoting an “extreme agenda”. Northumbria’s police and crime commissioner described violence in Sunderland, which left four police officers hospitalised, as sickening. A clean-up operation is under way in the city after a night of violence saw missiles thrown at riot ...

The Conservatives can win the next general election but need to “confront some hard truths”, Robert Jenrick has said as he launched his campaign to replace Rishi Sunak as the party’s leader. Addressing supporters in his Newark constituency, he said the party should reject “defeatism” but also needed to be “grounded in realism”. He argued that the principle reason the ...

A Treasury minister is being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property. Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, north London, is under investigation for the late registration of interests, according to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner’s website. A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Tulip will ...

Anjem Choudary, the leader of the banned group al-Muhajiroun, has been jailed for life and may never leave prison alive. The extremist preacher was found guilty of directing the group, which is banned under UK terror laws, and encouraging support for it through online meetings. The sentence means he cannot seek to leave jail on licence until he is more ...

The three girls who were killed in a “ferocious” knife attack at a children’s dance workshop have been named by police. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, died after the attack at a Taylor Swift-themed event on Hart Street, Southport, on Monday. Five children and two adults who were also injured remain in a ...

Tuesday is expected to be the UK’s hottest day of the year as a heatwave affects large parts of the UK. Parts of south-east England are forecast to reach temperatures of 32C (90F). The Met Office said some places in England and Wales are very likely to meet heatwave criteria later. But it might be short-lived – with a yellow ...

A senior judge has issued an arrest warrant for far-right campaigner Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – better known by his alias Tommy Robinson – after learning he has left the country on the eve of a major legal case against him. Yaxley-Lennon left the UK by a Eurotunnel train on Sunday night, despite having been arrested by Kent Police under counter-terrorism powers. ...

The British government has dropped plans to oppose the International Criminal Court’s application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza, according to UK news agency PA Media.. “This was a proposal by the previous government which was not submitted before the election, and which I can confirm the Government will not ...

Dame Priti Patel has said she can unite the Tories and turn them “back into a winning machine” as she launched her bid for the party’s leadership. The former home secretary said her political experience meant she would be able to “reinvigorate” the party following its recent election defeat. “I have done this throughout my 30 plus years of service ...