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British Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday called for a ceasefire “now” between Israel and the Islamist Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Appearing before a Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on Sunday, Sir Keir Starmer once again tried to thread the needle on the Israel issue, calling for a ceasefire to the conflict, while not going so far as the far-left and Muslim factions within his base would likely wish. Sir Keir said according to the BBC that there needs to be an end to the fighting “not just for now, not just for a pause, but...
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The British Conservative Party is facing an “extinction event” with a comprehensive poll predicting a defeat on the scale of the loss to Tony Blair’s Labour in 1997 on the backs of growing anger over failures to control migration and the rise of the Nigel Farage-founded Reform UK. A YouGov survey of 14,000 people released in The Telegraph newspaper on Sunday found that the Conservatives will win just 169 seats in the House of Commons, a decline of 196 from the last general election in 2019. This would outpace the seismic defeat of the party in 1997 when Sir John...
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Jacinda Ardern was a progressive favorite on the world stage who led New Zealand for about five years. She resigned earlier this year saying she didn’t have the energy to face the voters another time. Her decision to step down left her Labour party in the hands of Chris Hipkins. But New Zealand has been dealing with high inflation and today voters demanded a change.After an election campaign of fits and starts, in which neither major party appeared to offer much solace to a weary nation, voters in New Zealand on Saturday ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern...
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Ken Livingstone, the former London Mayor and one-time figurehead of the Labour [Democrat] left , is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, his family has announced. He is being "well cared for by his family and friends" as he lives a "private life" in retirement, they said in a statement issued to the PA news agency. While having largely retreated from public life in recent years, the 78-year-old was a prominent figure in London politics for more than four decades from the 1970s. In his heyday, "Red Ken" was a thorn in the side both of Margaret Thatcher's Tories and New Labour...
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The left-wing Labour Party has vowed to lower the voting age to 16 years old in a blueprint for the party’s next general election manifesto. In a move being described as a craven attempt to “rig the electorate”, the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum’s final report released late last week states: “Labour will introduce votes for 16- and 17-year-olds, in line with Scotland and Wales, so that young people feel empowered and can fully engage in our democratic processes. “Those who contribute to our society should have a say in how it is governed.”
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Rishi Sunak has said he believes that 100 per cent of women do not have penises. The prime minister has put himself at odds with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer by declaring that 100 per cent of women do not have male genitals. By contrast, Sir Keir earlier this month suggested that as many as one in every thousand women has a penis. Asked whether it is true that 100 per cent of women do not have a penis, in an interview with Tory-supporting website Conservative Home, Mr Sunak said: “Yes, of course.” He added: “We should always have compassion...
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Keir Starmer jettisoned another Labour pledge today admitting that he cannot stand by the offer of free bus travel for under-25s. Sir Keir said the 2019 manifesto should be treated as 'gone' as he was grilled over ditching a swathe of commitments. The Opposition leader also insisted that Britain would be better off if hard-Left predecessor Jeremy Corbyn had become PM - rather than guiding the party to an historic trouncing.
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Amir Farsoud is going to be murdered. The 54-year-old Canadian, whose story went viral online this week, is in the last stages of approval for “medical assistance in dying” (MAID), the neat bureaucratic euphemism for our northern neighbor’s rapidly advancing euthanasia program. In 2016, the country authorized physicians to kill their patients in cases of terminal illness or “reasonably foreseeable” death; Farsoud is being euthanized for back pain. At least, that is the medical justification being given. In reality, he is struggling financially and about to lose his home. As Farsoud sees it, he has run out of options. He...
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, as she fights to hang on as prime minister after her budget crashed the markets. Truss will give a press conference later Friday, amid reports of another imminent U-turn on significant parts of her plan to cut taxes. Downing Street announced Jeremy Hunt, who has previously served as health secretary and foreign secretary, would replace Kwarteng as chancellor. Despite several attempts to calm the markets, including reversing a plan to cut tax for the highest earners and bringing forward a more detailed budget statement, Truss has...
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MP Rupa Huq has been suspended from the Labour Party after she was heard describing the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, as "superficially" black. Criticism came flooding in from senior Labour politicians such as Angela Rayner and David Lammy. The comments were revealed via audio which was published online. In the audio, Ms Huq can be heard discussing Mr Kwarteng's educational background at an elite school, where she mentions that "you wouldn't know he is black" when listening to him on the radio. The comments were believed to have been made at a fringe event at the Labour conference in Liverpool on...
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his team have discussed whether he will promise to resign in the event of being fined by Durham police for breaking Covid rules. The opposition leader is expected to make a statement at 16:00 BST. Sir Keir has been under pressure after police announced they would be investigating an event at which he drank beer at an MP's office in 2021. Labour has said Sir Keir was working, and insist no rules were broken. But, Conservatives have accused Sir Keir of "rank double standards" as the opposition leader had previously called for Prime Minister...
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It is 7.30pm on a Wednesday evening and Donna, a 47-year-old care assistant, is sitting in her Wakefield home, wrapped in a shawl.Like many across the country, she has become acutely conscious of the rising cost of living. Increasing food, energy and diesel prices are already having a significant impact on her day-to-day life.Energy tariffs that offer cheaper “off peak” rates allow Donna and many others to shift their use of household appliances to the evening, or night time. Other adjustments, though, are more dramatic, like eating significantly less hot food.“I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have...
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Justin Trudeau has faced criticism after he was photographed on Monday wearing a mask for Labour’s leader Keir Starmer and other political dignitaries but opted not to wear one while meeting 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, 50, decided to wear a mask when meeting the head of Britain’s socialist Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, 59, despite both gentlemen not being classified as an at-risk group in regards to developing severe coronavirus symptoms upon contracting the virus.
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Freedom Convoy’ supporters verbally abuse Labour leader Keir Starmer. Shouts of “Pedo protector” and references to Jimmy Savile can be heard 1/2 Clip ...
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Labour shadow minister Jack Dromey has died at the age of 73, his family have announced. Husband of fellow Labour MP Harriet Harman, with whom he had three children, Mr Dromey was a former deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union and had been Labour Party treasurer. He was elected to parliament in May 2010, representing Birmingham Erdington, and contributed to a Westminster Hall debate on Thursday. He was also shadow minister for immigration. His family said in a statement: "Jack Dromey MP died suddenly this morning aged 73 in his flat in Erdington. He was a...
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Attends indoor event surrounded by thousands of maskless people.. An MP who claimed she felt “unsafe” around people who don’t wear masks proudly posted maskless photos of herself to Twitter enjoying a party surrounded by people not wearing masks. Whoops. “I feel incredibly unsafe in the chamber,” when Tories don’t wear masks Labour MP Zarah Sultana stated during a recent BBC News interview. ... Those fears were apparently absent when Sultana visited the MOBO awards in Coventry, during which she was photographed in close proximity to others at an indoor event attended by thousands. “The @MOBOAwards came to Coventry last...
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@ClarkeMicah Dignified and strong from Labour MP Mike Kane.'Catholics believe that extreme unction helps guide the soul to God after death' . Suggests an Amess amendment ensuring that Catholics should be able to receive the sacrament, whether at a crime scene or in a care home. Clip...
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During a debate on housing and transport, the chairman of the session noted the people putting their hands up to contribute did “not reflect the diversity” of those in the hall. Mark Ferguson, a member of Labour’s National Executive Committee, told delegates in Brighton: “I am afraid, and I am not speaking from a position of particular strength here, there are too many white men putting their hands up.” To laughter, he added: “I am not anti-white men, some of my favourite people are – my dad’s a white man. “But I do not want white men to exclusively dominate...
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A charity named after Winston Churchill has provoked fury by rebranding itself amid concerns over his views on race. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has removed pictures of the wartime leader from its website and is changing its name to the Churchill Fellowship. Volunteers at the trust said it was 'rewriting history'. One told The Sun: 'He was voted, by the people, as the Greatest Briton in a BBC poll in 2002 but is now erased from his own charity by the woke brigade. ... ...Controversies surrounding his rule include whether he could have acted more decisively to prevent the...
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As the situation of the migrants on hunger strike in Brussels worsens, French-speaking socialist party PS and green party Ecolo have threatened to quit the federal government if any one of the activists dies, which would result in the current government falling. Both parties have informed Prime Minister Alexander De Croo that the ministers and secretaries of state will resign, which would see the government De Croo I losing its majority as part of the Vivaldi coalition. During the core cabinet meeting on Monday morning, federal Economy and Labour minister Pierre-Yves Dermagne warned that the PS ministers and secretaries of...
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