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‘Let’s get down to business’: Badenoch vows to renew Britain after winning Tory leadership race

Kemi Badenoch said it was time to “get down to business” and restore public trust in the Conservative Party after she was elected as its leader on Saturday morning…

Rise of Kemi Badenoch – from childhood in Nigeria to leader of the Conservative Party




Kemi Badenoch’s victory in the Conservative Party leadership contest marks a number of milestones in British political history…

Badenoch has the strength to fight both Labour and Reform




Being leader of the opposition is known as the worst job in politics, and Kemi Badenoch might find that is putting it mildly as she contemplates the scale of the task she now faces…

Migrants still being housed in hotels despite Labour manifesto promise




The Government is continuing to house asylum seekers in hotels despite Labour’s manifesto pledge not to, it has emerged…

King fears building bridges with Prince Harry in case he is dragged into Home Office court row




The King fears building bridges with Prince Harry in case he is dragged into his son’s court case against the Home Office, it has been claimed…

BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, says former director of television in report on anti-Semitic bias




The BBC newsroom is “out of control”, its former director of television has said, as the corporation faces fresh accusations of bias over its reporting of the Middle East conflict…

Watch: Pro-Palestinian activists steal busts of Israel’s first president on Balfour Declaration anniversary




Pro-Palestinian protesters have stolen two busts of Israel’s first president from a glass cabinet at the University of Manchester…

LIVE Election 2024 latest: Pro-Palestine ‘Squad’ member refuses to endorse Harris

A pro-Palestine member of the congressional ‘Squad’ has refused to support Kamala Harris just days before the November 5 election

Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative for Michigan who is Palestinian-American, was encouraging automotive industry workers at a rally in Detroit to vote when she declined to endorse the Democratic nominee, The Detroit News reported.

She is the only member of the Squad – a group of progressive lawmakers in the House which holds considerable clout in the Democratic party – to refuse to support Ms Harris’s presidential campaign and has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration’s support for Israel.

The war in Gaza is a top issue in Michigan, a key battleground state, which has the largest Arab-American population in the US and where 100,000 voters cast their ballots for “uncommitted” in the state primary earlier this year.

Earlier on Friday, Ms Tlaib blamed the closeness on the election on the Biden administration’s “unconditional support for genocide”, referring to Gaza.

Spain deploys 10,000 soldiers and police in stepped-up floods rescue effort




Spain’s government has ordered the deployment of 10,000 soldiers and police officers to the Valencia flash flood disaster zone amid a row over control of the rescue effort…

‘Crocodile tears and genocide’: How the Gaza war is threatening Kamala Harris’s White House chances




As Kamala Harris was walking on stage to rapturous applause at the Democratic National Convention in August, outside, protesters in keffiyehs chanted “free Palestine…

Trump has threatened me with death, says Liz Cheney




Liz Cheney has accused Donald Trump of threatening her with “death” amid a row over the former president’s description of guns being pointed at her…

Trump accuses Washington Post of endorsing Kamala Harris by stealth




Donald Trump has accused the Washington Post of endorsing Kamala Harris by stealth in a formal complaint to the country’s top election watchdog…

Harris has big lead over Trump among early voters, polls show




Kamala Harris has a big lead over Donald Trump among American voters who say they have already cast their ballots, polls show…

Gallery ordered to take down naked cowgirl painting displays 50 nudes in protest




A gallery ordered by police to take down a painting of a naked cowgirl has opened an exhibition of dozens of nudes in protest against “provincial prudery…

Starmer attempts to calm markets after Budget spooks traders




Sir Keir Starmer has personally sought to calm the markets after Labour’s tax-and-spend Budget unnerved traders…

Musk tells Starmer: Your tax raid on farmers is wrong




Elon Musk has attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s inheritance tax raid on farmers, piling pressure on the Treasury to backtrack…

Watch: Police arrest Sara Sharif’s family after plane lands at Gatwick




Bodycam footage showing the moment Sara Sharif’s alleged murderers were arrested on a plane at Gatwick Airport has been played in court…

Daniel Khalife ‘inspired to become double agent after watching Homeland’




A former soldier accused of spying for Iran claimed he was inspired to try to become a double agent after watching the American television show Homeland…

How the Environment Secretary’s £420 wellies are fuelling a farmers’ revolt




They say you can tell a lot about a man by his shoes…

US embassy worker jailed for five years in Russia




Russia has jailed a former US embassy worker for five years, accusing him of illegally and covertly co-operating with the American government to harm national security…

Britain prepared to sanction Iran over nuclear deal breaches




Britain is prepared to trigger “snapback” sanctions against Iran over nuclear deal breaches, the Sunday Telegraph has learned…

LIVE Election 2024 latest: Pro-Palestine ‘Squad’ member refuses to endorse Harris

A pro-Palestine member of the congressional ‘Squad’ has refused to support Kamala Harris just days before the November 5 election

Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic representative for Michigan who is Palestinian-American, was encouraging automotive industry workers at a rally in Detroit to vote when she declined to endorse the Democratic nominee, The Detroit News reported.

She is the only member of the Squad – a group of progressive lawmakers in the House which holds considerable clout in the Democratic party – to refuse to support Ms Harris’s presidential campaign and has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration’s support for Israel.

The war in Gaza is a top issue in Michigan, a key battleground state, which has the largest Arab-American population in the US and where 100,000 voters cast their ballots for “uncommitted” in the state primary earlier this year.

Earlier on Friday, Ms Tlaib blamed the closeness on the election on the Biden administration’s “unconditional support for genocide”, referring to Gaza.

BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, says former director of television in report on anti-Semitic bias




The BBC newsroom is “out of control”, its former director of television has said, as the corporation faces fresh accusations of bias over its reporting of the Middle East conflict…

‘Let’s get down to business’: Badenoch vows to renew Britain after winning Tory leadership race

Kemi Badenoch said it was time to “get down to business” and restore public trust in the Conservative Party after she was elected as its leader on Saturday morning…

British tourists flock to see Cape Town’s endangered penguins… but they had better get there soon




Cape Town’s famed penguins which attract huge numbers of tourists could be extinct in little over a decade, conservationists have warned…

BBC newsroom is ‘out of control’, says former director of television in report on anti-Semitic bias




The BBC newsroom is “out of control”, its former director of television has said, as the corporation faces fresh accusations of bias over its reporting of the Middle East conflict…