Author: James Harden

Around 140 migrants in a single dinghy have been rescued in the English Channel. The people on the inflatable vessel, which launched from the Normandy coast overnight, requested help in UK waters and were picked up by two RNLI boats, the French coastguard said. They will now be taken to shore in the UK. It comes days after Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron met to discuss how to “scale up” efforts to reduce small boat crossings. In August a single small boat carrying a record 230 people successfully crossed the Channel.The dinghy launched in Bay of…

Opponents have criticised Swinney’s remarks and urged him to be clearer on how the plans would work.Scottish Labour’s acting leader Jackie Baillie said “It’s hard to tell whether John Swinney is being evasive or simply has no idea what he is going to do, but either way it’s not good enough.”People’s jobs are on the line and our public services could be plunged into chaos – Scotland deserves to know what lies ahead.”The SNP must come clean about what it is planning, how many jobs are at risk and what it will mean for our public services.”Scottish Conservative finance and…

The first government repayment was completed on 1 September with the settlement of an £8m loan, with a further £492m of loans expected to be repaid by the end of March 2027.The government is effectively paying itself, as the money owed was from its own Public Works Loans Board, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Woking Borough Council leader Ann-Marie Barker said the financial support would help lessen the costs associated with servicing and reducing the council’s debt. She said: “While this marks important progress, we recognise that Woking’s debt is an ongoing concern for residents across Surrey.”There is…

The deputy leader of the Green Party, Mothin Ali, is linked to two buy-to-let properties, despite his party’s opposition to private landlords.Ali is the sole director of a company, which he set up and controls, that owns two rental properties in Leeds, bought in June 2022 and March 2025 – although he does not appear to profit from either of them.The property purchases happened before the Greens adopted a policy committing to phasing out ownership of rental properties by private landlords in October 2025.The Green Party told the BBC that, at the time Ali had set up the company, and…

A woman crosses as motorists drive past an anti-U.S. billboard at Enghelab Square in Tehran on Sept. 2, 2026.Atta Kenare | Afp | Getty ImagesIran’s “proportionate responses” to U.S. attacks are over, the country’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday, while acknowledging the economic impact of the war.”If they haven’t understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that from now on, any violation of Iran’s interests and security will receive a ‘faster, heavier, and more painful’ response,” Ghalibaf said in a post on Telegram.But…

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Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, says that for the first time in his career his family he doesn’t have his family’s support, Source link

Satellite view of Kharg Island, located in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran.Gallo Images | Gallo Images | Getty ImagesU.S. forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers Saturday after U.S. Central Command said the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles toward two Navy warships in the region.CENTCOM said it permanently disabled one crude oil carrier off the coast of Kharg Island and one near Jask. Another oil tanker was attacked in the Gulf of Oman.The strikes come after CENTCOM said the Revolutionary Guard launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships patrolling the region. According to CENTCOM,…

There’s no question the allegations in the Channel 4 film have been embarrassing for Reform, and disrupted what they hoped would be a conference about their plans for office if they win the next General Election.Everywhere around the huge, draughty exhibition hall in Birmingham are giant posters and placards saying, “Reform – the first 100 days”. They wanted to herald their deal with a serious contender to be the next French President, Jordan Bardella, to deal with small boats. They were keen to highlight the promise to cut income tax if they win the election, scheduled to be in 2029.…

The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 specifically outlaws knowingly taking steps to disguise or conceal that a donation has come from an impermissible source.As part of this, it can be a crime for someone to conceal money spent on expenses incurred directly or indirectly by the party – and to mislead a party on the source of a donation. The maximum sentence is 12 months in prison.It is in this context that Labour is demanding the police investigate the polling and whether there is evidence of concealing who actually paid for it.But investigating this and the other claims…