Published on May 03, 2025 02:27 PM IST British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited a defence contractor in Bedfordshire on May 2. Starmer met the staff of the firm and emphasized national security in an address. Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and other emerging global threats, Starmer also underscored the importance of strengthening the defense…
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is “in business” as an electoral force. That’s the view of polling guru Sir John Curtice after Farage’s party took control of councils from the Tories and Labour and gained an MP in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election. The professor told the BBC that before the elections, it would have been…
Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party made early gains Friday as results trickled in from local elections that were expected to deliver a bruising for the country’s two establishment parties. Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, picked up dozens of council seats from both Labour and the Conservatives as Britain’s political landscape shows signs of…
A handful of Kneecap festival performances have been cancelled as counter-terrorism police investigate footage which allegedly shows the band calling for the deaths of MPs and shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah”. Politicians are pushing for the group to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up while artists including Pulp, Paul Weller, DJ Annie Mac, Massive…
Voters across England will go to the polls today to elect councillors, mayors and, in one constituency, a new MP. It is the first major test of the public mood since the general election last July, when Keir Starmer became prime minister on the back of Labour’s landslide victory. A total of 1,641 council seats…
1 p.m.: Durham is proper Labour heartland territory. Until 2021, the party had controlled the county for a century. After mopping up every seat here in the general election, this was seen as Labour’s best chance of regaining control of a council. But Farage has been campaigning hard here personally and hopes to make real inroads….
The Mirror looks at the key battlegrounds with over 1,000 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities in the first major electoral test since the General Election A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities while four regional mayors and two local mayors will also be…
On the face of it, the forecast did not appear to be too bad for Labour. Lord Hayward, the Tory peer and polling expert, said his party are on course to lose 500 seats in next Thursday’s local elections. Labour, meanwhile, could end up with roughly the same number of councillors they have now, and…
More than 13 million people are eligible to vote in next month’s English local elections – and their verdict could help shape British politics for years to come. Nigel Farage is the leader aiming highest, insisting that his ultimate aim is for Reform UK to supplant the Conservatives as the leading force on the right…
Chinese bosses reportedly tried to enter key areas of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant only hours before a crunch debate that could bring the furnace under government control. Police were called to the scene and forced bosses of British Steel owners Jingye to leave after they were prevented from accessing core areas of the plant, according…