Manchester: Keir Starmer faces a big test on Thursday when voters in Manchester cast their ballots for a new lawmaker in an election polls say is too close to call between the British leader’s Labour Party, populist Reform UK and the left-leaning Greens. The vote in Gorton and Denton, in northwestern England’s Greater Manchester, is…
Reform UK is poised to go to court to try to force the Government to stop dozens of councils postponing elections this May, GB News can disclose. Reports say that more than 20 Labour councils covering four million people are expected to have elections cancelled this year after telling ministers that they do not have…
NIGEL Farage will embark on a “double or quits” £5 million spending spree to win over voters in the build-up to May’s local elections. The Reform UK leader has so far sent out five million leaflets to outer London and every home in Scotland and Wales in a major push for support. Sign up for…
Labour has announced new measures to support 16-24-year-olds across Britain. By expanding its Youth Guarantee scheme with £820 million of new funding, the Government is tackling the problem and giving a brighter future to young people. (Image: WSH]) Kirsteen Sullivan MP has backed the Labour Government’s new investment to provide training and work to young…
A group of Labour Party MPs have urged the British government to ensure changes to permanent residency requirements do not undermine support for Hongkongers on the bespoke visa pathway or others admitted on humanitarian grounds. They have asked the Home Office to consider exempting the BN(O) routes from the government’s proposed overhaul of the wider…
Jagtar Singh Johal has been arbitrarily held in prison in India for the last eight years and has recently been moved to the notorious Tihar facility near Delhi. Jagtar Singh Johal on his wedding day to Gurpreet Kaur in 2017(Image: Repreive) A group of MPs have called on the UK Government to take more decisive…
A lower turn-out was seen just seven months after the May local elections Owen Ferron (centre, blue jacket) is the new Reform UK councillor for the Long Eaton North division(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) Reform UK have narrowly retained a seat on Derbyshire County Council following a snap by-election caused by the sudden resignation of…
Wealthier regions of England are to lose funding as part of radical changes to local councils. Areas with the highest levels of deprivation, and those unable to collect high levels of council tax, will receive more money from central government. Many are likely to be in the North and Midlands, with losers most likely to…
Tuesday 18 November 2025 1:01 pm Share Facebook Share on Facebook X Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn WhatsApp Share on WhatsApp Email Share on Email Dubai has been a popular destination for brain drain quitters of UK Fears that the UK is in the grips of a ‘brain drain’ escalated on Tuesday after…
LONDON (AP) — The British government plans to tighten its asylum system in a series of sweeping changes modeled after Denmark that aims to reduce immigration and quell the political storm over migrants making dangerous English Channel crossings to enter the country without authorization. The policy changes to be announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood…