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A UK ban on selling arms to Israel would only strengthen Hamas, the foreign secretary has told the BBC. Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales. He said the UK supplies just 1% of Israel’s weapons and warned ...

Keir Starmer’s success was sketched across the map of England at the local elections last week. The Labour leadership is bouncing from nabbing another of the Tories’ MPs, Natalie Elphicke – and polling since the council results puts him further ahead than ever. What could possibly go wrong for him? A lot, actually. The general election is still months away ...

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to scrap the government’s Rwanda scheme “straight away” if his party wins the election. The Labour leader said he would use money saved to hire specialist investigators to tackle small boats crossing the Channel. He also wants to use counter-terror powers to “smash” people smuggling gangs. Rishi Sunak said ditching his Rwanda plan would “open ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that it will “take time” for people to “really feel better” as figures revealed the UK had emerged from recession. The economy grew by 0.6% between January and March after shrinking in the second half of last year. Mr Sunak told that the UK economy has “real momentum” but admitted there was “more work ...

Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories “have become a byword for incompetence and division”. In a statement released just as PMQs was starting, the MP for Dover said the key factors for her decision were housing and border security. She accused Rishi Sunak of “broken promises” and abandoning key pledges. It is the ...

Rishi Sunak has dismissed calls to change course after poor local election results, arguing he can make “progress” with voters before a general election. Speaking for the first time since the full scale of Tory losses was revealed, the prime minister called losing 470 councillors “bitterly disappointing”. Tory critics have called on Mr Sunak to shift the party to the right. ...

Suella Braverman has called on Rishi Sunak to “own” the poor results for the Tories in England’s local elections. “The plan is not working,” the former home secretary said, urging the PM to “change course” and swing to the right. Ms Braverman, an MP and previous Tory leadership candidate, said there was not enough time to change leader before a ...

Britain’s governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday, further cementing expectations that the Labour Party will return to power after 14 years in a U.K. general election that will take place in the coming months. Labour won control of councils in England that the party hasn’t held for decades, and was successful in a special election ...

UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has said it is up to Ukraine to decide how to use British weapons and insisted it has the right to strike targets on Russian territory. During a visit to Kyiv, he said the UK would provide £3bn ($3.75bn) per year for as long as necessary. “Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can ...

One of the UK’s leading organisations helping victims of torture and trafficking is preparing legal action over the government’s Rwanda plan. Asylum Aid said it has urgently asked the Home Office to rethink, saying the scheme will not protect abuse victims. The Home Office has begun detaining migrants in preparation for trying to send a flight in the summer. Individual ...