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Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first and only woman speaker of the House of Commons, has died aged 93. The Dewsbury-born politician was the Labour MP for West Bromwich for 27 years and served as speaker of the House from 1992 till 2000. Current speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to the straight-talking trailblazer, saying she was not only “an inspiring ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Friday tell G7 allies they must increase aid to Kyiv faster to give Ukraine a “decisive” battlefield advantage, a statement issued by his office said. “For Ukraine to win this war — and to accelerate that day — they must gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield Instead of an incremental approach, we ...

A British woman whose UK citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to have her citizenship restored. Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 when she and two other girls from London joined the extremist group in February 2015. Authorities withdrew her British citizenship ...

A woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria will on Wednesday find out if she has won her legal battle to reverse the decision. Shamima Begum, now 23, was aged 15 in 2015 when she left her home in east London with two school friends to travel to Syria. While there ...

British embassy security guard who fed secrets to Russian agents and put the safety of his colleagues in peril has been jailed for more than 13 years for espionage. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, was driven by a hatred of the UK when he became a traitor, collecting secret and sensitive papers and images over the course of four years. The ...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not be allowed to stand for Labour at the next election. Sir Keir Starmer said the MP, who was already kicked out of the party, will not stand under his party’s banner. It comes as Sir Keir tries to draw a line under the party’s past, when it became embroiled in a series of ...

A man has been jailed for 20 years for accidentally shooting his friend with a submachine gun and dumping his body by a road in West London. Chiragh Chiragh, 39, shot Mohamed Muhyidin, 28, in the early hours of Halloween in 2021 as he sat in the front seat of a car parked outside a flat in High Street, Harlington. ...

A man who was arrested following protests outside the Tate Britain over a drag queen story-telling event for children is due to appear in court. Lance O’Connor, 53, of Plaistow, east London, is accused of assault on an emergency worker, obstruction of a police officer and two homophobic aggravated public order offences. The Tate, in Millbank, central London, had been ...

Viewers have vowed to cancel their television licences as they slammed last night’s ‘sickening’ 90-minute Shamima Begum documentary on the BBC. The programme aired on the back of the corporation’s 10-part podcast that ‘retraces’ the journey she took eight years ago from her home in east London to Syria, where she joined the terrorist group Islamic State. Begum, now 23, ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will make his first visit to the UK since Russia’s invasion of his country today, Downing Street has said. The surprise visit will see the war leader meet King Charles III, Rishi Sunak and address MPs in parliament on Wednesday. The prime minister also announced plans to train Ukrainian fighter jet pilots as part of a ...