Tag: UK Politics

Home Secretary Suella Braverman today vows to stamp out the grooming gangs behind organised child sex abuse – and raises the prospect of jail sentences for people who fail to alert the authorities.She highlights the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, which led to the conviction a decade ago of ...

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Despite the bluff and bonhomie of his public persona, Boris Johnson has always been short of close friends at Westminster. And since he became PM many of his most trusted allies have fallen by the wayside. Munira Mirza was one of the last remaining 'true believers', having been by his side ...

At a glance: What does the landmark review recommend? Social media: Firms 'far too often' fail to take 'decisive action' to tackle racist content. Failure to act should lead to 'substantial penalties' and 'public naming and shaming'.Body cameras: There should be a 'strong presumption' that all police body-worn video ...

Donald Trump has been accused of trying to hamstring Joe Biden before he leaves office by 'lighting so many foreign policy fires the Democrat won't be able to put them out.'The president has ordered thousands of troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, attacked Chinese tech companies and brokered a ...

Boris Johnson's top advisor Dominic Cummings sensationally quit Downing Street with immediate effect tonight - strolling out the front door of Number 10 with a box in his hands. He chose to walk out into the full glare of the Downing Street cameras tonight after a brutal reckoning that saw his closest ally ...

Tories predicted Dominic Cummings could be next out of the Downing Street door today after an extraordinary civil war erupted in public - threatening to derail Boris Johnson's desperate struggle to control coronavirus. The heart of government is in chaos after longstanding Johnson aide Lee Cain, a Vote Leave veteran ...

People on low incomes asked to self-isolate because they or a contact have tested positive for coronavirus will be paid to stay at home, under plans announced by the government. The new means-tested benefit, which will only be paid to people in designated outbreak areas, is worth up to ...

Britain is helping to train the militaries of over a dozen countries involved in serious breaches of human rights abuses, it has been revealed. Seventeen countries on the Foreign Office's own human rights watch list, defined as states where the UK is “particularly concerned about human rights issues” received ...

The government has been accused of ignoring councils and failing to share data with local public health teams, hindering the effort to control Covid-19. Local government leaders told MPs on Wednesday that there had been "no coordination" by central government, that orders were handed down by diktat from Whitehall, ...