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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has put law and order at the centre of the King’s Speech as he sets out his priorities ahead of the next general election. Tougher sentences for the most serious criminals and measures to force offenders to appear in the dock are among those to feature in the government’s plans for the year. Labour said the ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described allegations that a Conservative MP committed multiple rapes as “very serious”. He urged anyone with evidence of criminal acts to go to the police. It comes after reports that former Tory Party chairman Sir Jake Berry wrote to police to make them aware of the claims after leaving the post last year. Labour and ...

Bob Stewart has surrendered the Conservative whip while he considers appealing against his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence, the BBC understands. The MP for Beckenham, south-east London, was fined £600 after telling an activist to “go back to Bahrain”. Magistrates heard he got into a row with Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei in Westminster last December. Labour and the ...

David Berglas, one of the most influential magicians and mentalists of the 20th Century, has died aged 97. The Magic Circle, touted as the most famous magic society in the world, confirmed Berglas died in London on Friday night. Also known as the International Man of Mystery, he was the first magician to have his own programme on British TV, ...

Police have made their first arrests at a pro-Palestinian rally in central London on Saturday with one held under the Terrorism Act over a placard that could incite hatred. Scotland Yard said it had made three arrests at Piccadilly Circus, where a sit-in protest was staged following previous demonstrations in Oxford Circus and outside Broadcasting House. One was held after ...

More than 80 flood warnings are in place across the UK as Storm Ciaran moves northwards after battering southern England. In an update on Thursday afternoon, the Environment Agency has declared 82 areas of the country are at risk of flooding, up from 54 earlier in the day. In Dorset, a holiday park had to be evacuated after static homes ...

King Charles III begins a state visit to Kenya on Tuesday, where he will be confronted by widespread calls for an apology over Britain’s bloody colonial past. Although the four-day trip by Charles and Queen Camilla has been billed as an opportunity to look to the future and build on the strong ties between London and Nairobi, the legacy of ...

Boris Johnson’s former aide turned on disappearing messages on his own phone during the pandemic, the Covid Inquiry was told. Martin Reynolds turned on the function on WhatsApp on April 15 2021, just weeks before Mr Johnson announced the Covid Inquiry. Hugo Keith said Mr Reynolds was “plainly discussing Covid related matters” between the moment he turned on the disappearing ...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced he is joining GB News. Mr Johnson, who stepped down as an MP earlier this year, will work for the news channel as a presenter, programme maker and commentator. He will “play a key role” in coverage of the UK and US elections next year and will host a series “showcasing the power ...

LONDON: A woman who left Britain to marry a fighter of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group when she was a teenager began her appeal against the revocation of her citizenship in a UK court on Tuesday. A lawyer for Shamima Begum, 24, told the Court of Appeal in London that the Home Office had failed to consider its legal ...