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Britain could be beset by levels of economic chaos last seen under Liz Truss if a Reform UK government were to fulfil its promise to strip renewable energy projects of subsidy contracts, according to the industry’s chief lobbyist. The anti-renewables policy put forward by Nigel Farage’s populist party would severely undermine investor confidence in the energy industry and across the ...

AI platforms are more likely to reference Nigel Farage than any other UK leader when prompted about British politics, according to an AI search analytics firm. “We are confident in saying that Reform are showing up significantly more than you would expect,” said Malte Landwehr, an expert at Peec AI, the firm that did the research. “So they’re doing something ...

Cabinet ministers have told mutinous Labour MPs that any attempt to oust Keir Starmer after a potentially disastrous set of election results this week would unleash chaos for the party that would not be easily overcome. Several, however, told that even with the prime minister’s determination to stay in Downing Street after Thursday’s vote, the mood on the backbenches was ...

Britain is set to enter talks to join the European Union’s 78 billion pound loan ($106 billion) to Ukraine, the government said on Sunday, in a further sign of deepening European defence ties under rising US pressure. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected on Monday to tell a summit in Armenia’s capital Yerevan of the European Political Community – a ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that banning some pro-Palestinian marches could be justified, especially when they call for the intifada to spread. Labour leader Starmer is under pressure to act after a spate of antisemitic incidents, including this week, when two men were stabbed in the north London suburb of Golders Green, which ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for King Charles to “return” the prized Koh-i-Noor diamond, which the British Empire took from the Indian subcontinent in the 1800s, on the third day of the monarch’s state visit on Wednesday. Before greeting Charles and Queen Camilla at a 9/11 memorial event, Mamdani was asked what he would discuss with the king ...

Nigel Farage received £5m from Reform UK mega donor Christopher Harborne before he became an MP, it has emerged. In an interview with The Telegraph, the Reform UK leader said he had been given the money to pay for personal protection “so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life”. He also told the newspaper ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : The Tower of London Visit and Tour Reporting Project, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, was successfully completed in a joyful atmosphere, initiated by the UK Bangla Reporters Unity. On Monday (April 27) at 12 noon, gathering at the Shaheed Minar premises in Altab Ali Park, East London, and heading to the Tower of London ...

Britain’s King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer over the Iran war, and despite a shooting two days earlier at a dinner attended by his host, President Donald Trump. The four-day trip by Charles and Queen Camilla is intended to honor historic ties between the two countries as the United ...

Support for rejoining the EU rather than simply rejoining the single market is growing among British voters, with more than 80% of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party supporters favouring this option, according to research mapping voter attitudes 10 years after the Brexit referendum. Labour’s “muted” approach to the issue means it risks losing support among progressive voters and in ...