The UK government is trawling social media to monitor potential critics and compile “secret files” that are used to cancel them from presenting at public events, a law firm has discovered. According to the Observer, 15 government departments are engaged in monitoring experts’ opinions with a view to actively “cancelling” critics from speaking at government […]
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Jeremy Hunt is set to announce cutting inheritance tax, lowering business levies and reforming the state pension triple lock in next week’s Autumn Statement, according to widespread media reports. Speculation about the tax cut has been fuelled by forecasts that the chancellor will have more tax revenue to spend combined with falling borrowing costs and […]
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Sir Keir Starmer has warned his shadow cabinet that they will be sacked if they vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Twelve shadow ministers are ready to rebel against Starmer and back an SNP amendment to the King’ Speech that calls on the UK government to “join with the international community in urgently pressing […]
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Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman and made former prime minister David Cameron foreign secretary with a reshuffle that sent shockwaves through Westminster. One was regarded as inevitable, the other was greeted with open mouths and audible stupor to seasoned pundits, reporters and politicians. David Cameron’s arrival to Downing Street this morning (November 13) left […]
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The defence secretary, Grant Shapps, has blasted the Labour Party over suggestions that Suella Braverman’s comments inadvertently led to scuffles between police and far-right protestors. While pressure mounts on the PM to sack the home secretary, the government, at least for now, appears to stand by Braverman. But, speaking on GB News, Shapps refused to […]
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Counter-terrorism police are investigating a deepfake of Sadiq Khan dismissing the importance of Armistice Day that has been shared by far-right groups on social media. In the fake clip shared on TikTok the mayor of London is portrayed as proposing to postpone Remembrance weekend so that the pro-Palestinian protest can go ahead in the capital. […]
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Suella Braverman is facing the sack for her “irresponsible” and “divisive” comments after defying Downing Street to write an article for the Times [paywall] that accused police of favouring pro-Palestinian protestors over right-wing demonstrators. In the piece, the home secretary criticised the Metropolitan police for taking a biased approach toward protestors, saying its officers “largely […]
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Pro-Palestinian rallies have been held across the UK with tens of thousands calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. Protests were held in the four capitals of the home nations – London, Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh – and in many other towns and cities including Liverpool, Glasgow and Leeds. Thousands more gathered in Manchester […]
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The Liberal Democrats are demanding transparency over government Covid contracts and multi-million pound “bungs” to friendly media following Dominic Cummings’s explosive testimony to the Coivd Inquiry [pdf]. Cummings told the inquiry that state funding had been “funnelled” to the Evening Standard, owned by Lord Evgeny Lebedev – the son of a KGB spy who was […]
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The UK has a 50-50 chance of being in recession with interest rates still high when the general election is called next year, the Bank of England has said. Governor Andrew Bailey announced the Bank’s key base rate will be unchanged at 5.25% for the second consecutive month but added: “It’s much too early to […]
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