Author: Miles Donavan

Critics point out that Palestinian statehood ‘is not a bargaining chip’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer emerged from yesterday’s emergency cabinet meeting to announce that the UK government will recognise Palestine as a state. However, Starmer introduced some caveats. He said Palestinian statehood will be recognised in September at the ​​United Nations General Assembly unless the Israeli government “takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza”, agrees to a ceasefire and revives the prospect of a two-state solution. In a speech delivered yesterday, Starmer said: I’ve always said we will recognise a Palestinian state as a contribution to a…

‘How do you know the victims are all white British women?’ Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin was fact-checked live on LBC after citing new crime figures Reform claims to have uncovered. The Runcorn and Helsby MP claimed that migrants commit more sexual offences than white British men, and that white British women are the target of these crimes.  However, she failed to provide any data to back up her claim. Asked by LBC presenter Nick Ferrari: “How do you know they’re all white British women, the victims?”, Pochin was forced to admit “Well, we don’t.” Ferrari replied: “You just said…

It is understood that the prime minister will discuss the matter of recognising a Palestinian state Prime minister Keir Starmer has called a rare recess cabinet meeting this afternoon to discuss the crisis in Gaza and the possibility of formally recognising a Palestinian state. This comes after President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that France would recognise a Palestinian state from September. There is mounting pressure on Starmer to do the same, as the situation in Gaza continues to worsen, and the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued an alert saying “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently…

“A progressive wealth tax is a critical step forward, and one that we urge the UK government to take.” A group of leading global economists have urged the UK government to implement a wealth tax to tackle extreme levels of inequality in the country, a move they say would position Britain as a global leader in progressive tax policy. The economists warn that with wealth concentration in the UK reaching alarming levels, a wealth tax would not only raise ‘billions of pounds’ but also cover a multibillion-pound shortfall in the public finances. Among the economists to have shared a letter…

He was released from prison early back in May Far-right agitator Tommy Robinson allegedly knocked someone unconscious while leafleting for his national ‘free speech’ demo on 13 September. A video shared by Politics UK on X shows a man lying face down and seemingly unconscious at St Pancras station yesterday. An onlooker calls out to security staff: ‘Can we get someone here, quick’. Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, can be seen in the background pacing around and arguing with the onlooker. According to London and UK Street News, the account that originally posted the footage, the incident…

‘If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators.’ Nigel Farage has declared that Reform UK would repeal legislation designed to regulate online content that is “illegal” or “deemed harmful to children”. Farage’s comments about the Online Safety Act did not go down well with the Science Secretary, Peter Kyle, who has strongly criticised the Reform leader’s stance. In a Sky News interview, Kyle said that Farage was effectively siding with pornographers and pedophiles like Jimmy Savile by vowing to scrap the law. The Science Secretary said: “I see that Nigel Farage is…

“He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer.” Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has hit back at Donald Trump’s comments calling him a ‘nasty person’, reminding the President that a ‘record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his presidency’. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the Mayor of London, has reignited his feud with Khan during his private trip to Scotland. The President was asked at news conference with Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland whether he would visit London during his state visit in September, Trump replied: “I will, I’m not a fan…

It comes at a time when the Tories continue to trail Reform in the polls, with figures released earlier this month showing that the Tory party had lost 8,000 members since Badenoch became leader. At least when the cameras are off, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is able to admit the truth: That the Tories have hit rock bottom! A leaked recording obtained by the London Economic, of Badenoch speaking at a Westminster Gala Dinner to party donors, activists, and senior members, hears her tell those gathered that returning to parliament after last year’s election defeat felt worse than New Labour’s…

‘I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder.’ Manuela Perteghella is the Liberal Democrat MP for Stratford-on-Avon There is something rotten at the heart of modern politics The influence of money over our democratic system is no longer a creeping threat, rather a crisis. It rarely leads the news, but it corrodes everything. I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder. I came here to serve, to represent people, not power. In fact, I came into politics to speak truth to power. Russian oligarchs. Tech tycoons.…

“She’s obviously a fan of North Korea and China.” Having failed the NHS for 15 years, the Tories are now proposing legislation to ban NHS doctors from going on strike, in what’s been slammed as a ‘desperate intervention’. Badenoch has said that should the Tories return to power, they would introduce legislation for minimum service levels and block doctors taking widespread industrial action. It comes after resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, began five days of strike action on Friday, with BMA members manning picket lines across the country. They have been given a 5.4% pay rise for this…