Chris Curtis, the co-chair of the Labour Growth Group, hailed Steve Reed’s appointment as housing secretary as “fantastic news”. Citing the former environment secretary’s “brilliant” record straightening out the running of Lambeth council before entering parliament, Curtis thought Reed more than capable of building on Rayner’s work. As a council leader, Reed “saw front and…
LONDON — British Foreign Secretary David Lammy went fishing with U.S. Vice President JD Vance earlier this month and the closest thing he came to catching was a whopping fine. Lammy was given a written warning for fishing without a license, an Environment Agency spokesperson said Friday. As far as breaking the law goes, it was pretty…
Britain and Israel traded sharp criticisms this weekend after Israel blocked two British lawmakers from entering the country and sent them back to London. The members of Parliament, Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang, both of whom belong to the governing center-left Labour Party, said in a joint statement on Sunday that they had been “astounded”…