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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has confirmed he wants to stand in the by-election brought about by Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation as an MP. Polanski, who is currently a London Assembly member but not a member of Parliament, said he was “so excited by the prospect” of being the first Green MP of Holborn and St Pancras. The Greens are targeting the seat, until now a Labour stronghold, after coming second to Labour in the area in local elections earlier this year.Sir Keir announced on Tuesday that he was quitting as MP for the London constituency, two months after he…

Gold bars lie in a safe on a table at the precious metal dealer Pro Aurum. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesThe Dutch central bank (DNB) has transferred approximately 86 tons of gold out of the U.S. and Canada to the U.K., seeking to shore up its contingency planning in view of “increasing geopolitical unrest.”Just over one-quarter of the central bank’s gold reserves held in New York and Ottawa had been shifted to London between March and August, DNB said Wednesday.The transferred gold is now stored with the Bank of England because gold stored there must meet international…

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) speaks during a meeting with U.S. travel executives in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch | Getty ImagesKuwait’s army on Thursday said it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran, a day after President Donald Trump said that renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran would not last “too long.” Kuwait advised residents to follow security and safety instructions, adding that that any explosions heard in the country were due to air defense systems intercepting hostile targets. The strikes were targeted at U.S.…

Reform UK begin their annual conference in Birmingham a bigger party than they were a year ago, their numbers swelled at Westminster, at Holyrood, in the Senedd and in local authorities.But they also gather amid significant political headwinds, much of which revolve around money.There was that whopping £5m gift to Nigel Farage from Christopher Harborne, the Thailand based British billionaire, and the long running row about whether the money should have been declared by Farage once he became an MP.Then there is, among other things, the Metropolitan Police investigation into donations to the party during the last general election campaign.Reform…

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping tour Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, China, May 15, 2026.China Pool | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is slated to host Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the White House, and the stakes are sky high — but some China watchers are once again keeping their expectations low.That’s even as the Iran war could loom larger than ever over the leaders’ talks, in light of a new U.S. plan to aggressively sanction Iran’s business partners — potentially including China, by far Tehran’s biggest trading partner.But while the war threatens to rattle…

Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice faced questions in a series of BBC local radio interviews, ahead of his party’s autumn conference.He told BBC Radio Cornwall’s Julie Skentelbery that more affordable housing was “absolutely vital in areas like Cornwall” with a focus on providing for “young, British-born people”.Tice said his party would introduce a right to buy scheme to help get people on to the housing ladder. Source link

An Arkansas federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by an energy company to temporarily block the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from publishing additional details from confidential documents that the newspaper obtained about the company’s involvement in building a facility that will supply power to a $4 billion Google data center in that state, a court filing showed.The company, Entergy Arkansas, also had asked Judge Lee Rudofsky to order that the Democrat-Gazette remove from its website information in an article published on Monday about the documents. “I think you have a strong case here,” Rudofsky told a lawyer for Entergy at a…

Andy Burnham had his first session of Prime Minister’s Questions in the role on Wednesday. Source link

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer (C) arrives at the U.S. Capitol building on Sept. 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesU.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer huddled with House Republicans on Wednesday as lawmakers reel from President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and plans to import beef. “It was a good discussion, a lively discussion,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said after exiting the meeting, saying lawmakers were “expressing their concerns about the tariffs, about Canada.””It’s not good, but I think they’ll come to a conclusion on it. I think it’ll be a meaningful result on this, and…

Richard Tice says it was “a private party and it was a good party”. Source link