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Kemi let Keir off the hook on Chagos

6 February 2025 12:32 am

This is Keir Starmer’s worst week in politics since last week. With the Chagos deal eliciting criticism in cabinet, the…

Watch: Starmer ducks PMQ on Covid rule-breaking

5 February 2025 11:49 pm

To Westminster, where Prime Minister’s Questions is in full swing. Sir Keir Starmer has delivered yet another tutorial in how…

Why should the NHS employ any diversity officers?

5 February 2025 11:25 pm

Wes Streeting is offended by NHS staff promoting ‘anti-whiteness’ – as should any taxpayer who has not succumbed to the…

Labour MPs form anti-Reform pressure group

5 February 2025 10:29 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s party may have only been in power for seven months but in that time the Prime Minister…

Wes Streeting’s war on NHS diversity doesn’t go far enough

5 February 2025 10:28 pm

When America sneezes, Britain catches a cold. Luckily for us, we have Wes Streeting on hand with the tissues. Within…

Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach

5 February 2025 9:56 pm

The recent fires in California have had many tragic effects. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livelihoods, and it…

Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?

5 February 2025 9:50 pm

Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also…

Watch: Kay Burley retires from Sky on air

5 February 2025 9:30 pm

So. Farewell then Kay Burley. After 36 years, the Sky star has announced she is retiring from the channel. In…

Record Channel crossings expose Starmer’s failure to ‘smash the gangs’

5 February 2025 9:28 pm

More migrants have illegally crossed the English Channel since 1 January than in any previous year for this period. So…

Can our justice system handle cases like Lucy Letby’s?

5 February 2025 9:25 pm

Could Lucy Letby, the UK’s most notorious child-murderer, be innocent? The question has rumbled on ever since her convictions for…

The real problem with CCHQ 

5 February 2025 5:58 pm

When Kemi Badenoch’s leadership got off to a less-than-inspiring start, her defenders made a reasonable case that she needed more…

The audacity of Trump’s Gaza plan

5 February 2025 5:30 pm

Some moments in history demand recognition, not just for their weight in the present but for the seismic shifts they…

Gabbard and RFK Jr. head closer to confirmation

5 February 2025 8:47 am

For the past month, the tone among Washington insiders was dour as it related to the confirmation prospects of Donald…

Why Trump hates USAID so much

5 February 2025 4:32 am

The Trump administration’s takedown of federal spending has begun in earnest with the dismantling of the US Agency for International…

Trump’s popularity amongst Brits is rising

5 February 2025 4:23 am

Back in July 2019, Donald Trump called Boris Johnson ‘Britain Trump’, before adding ‘that’s probably a good thing, they like…

Eleven lowlights from the assisted dying evidence session

5 February 2025 2:59 am

To Westminster, where last week Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill began the evidence session of committee stage. But rather than…

Starmer set to close Chagos deal in ‘coming weeks’

5 February 2025 2:48 am

Is Sir Keir Starmer determined to make himself more unpopular with the British public? The news of his latest Chagos…

Revealed: ONS blames Ring doorbells for dodgy jobs data

5 February 2025 2:26 am

What caused the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to lose faith in its own jobs figures? After the pandemic, the…

Burnham’s night czar eviscerates Reeves

5 February 2025 1:07 am

Oh dear. It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – so that means more bad news for Rachel Reeves. Today, the…

What Trump’s tariff ‘opening salvo’ will teach him

5 February 2025 12:29 am

Mexico and Canada have been given a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s tariffs. China has offered only the most half-hearted…

Trump’s tariff war with China is just getting started

5 February 2025 12:04 am

Over the weekend, Donald Trump described his sweeping 10 per cent tariffs against Chinese goods as an ‘opening salvo’. Within…

Will Starmer choose Brussels or Trump?

4 February 2025 11:44 pm

Europe or America – the eternal British dilemma. Keir Starmer made clear he rejects such a binary approach in his…

What does Donald Trump want from a trade war with China?

4 February 2025 11:27 pm

What are the real intentions of Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth…

Starmer may come to regret his EU defence pact

4 February 2025 10:03 pm

Sir Keir Starmer has been on another overseas visit. On his 18th trip in seven months as prime minister, he…

Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council

4 February 2025 9:12 pm

Today’s Telegraph splash could have been designed in a laboratory to trigger Tory tempers. After months of deliberation, the paper…