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Ministers are planning a major overhaul to how knives are bought online after Southport triple killer Axel Rudakubana purchased weapons off Amazon before carrying out a sickening rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. Rudakubana, who on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, bought the kitchen knife used in the attack from Amazon when he was 17 despite having a conviction for violence. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told the House of Commons yesterday that it was a 'disgrace' that Rudakubana was able to buy knives on...

Benjamin Netanyahu is piling pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to restore all arms licences for Israel. The Israeli PM ‘raised the issue’ of Britain having suspended around 30 licences in a phone call yesterday just hours after Donald Trump became US president. A readout from the Jewish State’s government press office stated that Sir Keir ‘said that an evaluation of the issue is being carried out’.

Axel Rudakubana did not appear out of the blue. By the time he carried out the brutal murders of three young girls, the teenager was well known to police, anti-extremism authorities and a number of other public agencies. But despite repeated concerns about Rudakubana's taste for violence, there was only ever limited intervention. The government now says several opportunities were missed to stop him turning his dark obsessions into a reality. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the state had failed. This is what we know about his journey to becoming a killer - and whether it could have been...

Warning: This story contains strong and offensive language. Far-right activists groomed people by "piggybacking on legitimate concerns" about asylum seekers, a prominent Welsh politician has said. Former government minister Lee Waters said vulnerable constituents in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, were targeted to push a "race agenda" during protests in the town in 2023. UK government plans to temporarily house asylum seekers in the four-star Stradey Park Hotel prompted 100 days of protests. The Llanelli MS' comments come as pressure grows on police to investigate a far-right group exposed in an undercover BBC investigation. "What the far right do time and again is...

A UK teen unexpectedly pleaded guilty Monday to killing three girls and wounding 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class last summer — while also admitting to having an al-Qaida training manual. Axel Rudakubana, now 18, pleaded guilty to the horrific murders of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, along with 10 counts of attempted murder for stabbing eight other children as well as two adults who tried to help them at the kids’ event. ... He also pleaded guilty to keeping the al-Qaida manual, “Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants,”...

Donald Trump appeared to troll Keir Starmer last night by hinting he will snub Britain again when he makes his first trip abroad as president. US leaders normally make London their first port of call after being inaugurated, to show the depth of the 'special relationship'. However Trump and his senior team, including Elon Musk, have clashed with Sir Keir and Labour in recent months. The president broke with precedent in his first term, visiting Saudi Arabia in his first overseas trip rather than dropping in on Tory PM Theresa May - though they met later. And in a chaotic...

While redecorating the Oval Office for an incoming President to reflect their tastes and needs -- changing curtains, for instance, and the large oval rug over the decorative timber floor -- has become a normal part of the inauguration day handover, the presence of the bust of Churchill has become a political matter. Having sat in the Oval Office after being made a gift in 2001 for seven years, the bust was removed by President Barack Obama upon his inauguration in 2009 and replaced with one of Martin Luther King Jr.This was met with controversy and allegations President Obama had...

'I was accused by mainstream media publications and senior politicians of stoking and encouraging the riots, when actually the riots were happening because of the vacuum of information and crazy conspiracy theories gaining traction online.' He added: 'I think that the Government are responsible for the most astonishing cover-up. I think that we need an apology from the Home Secretary and an explanation as to why we have been denied the basic truth.' Asked if he would be raising this in the Commons, Mr Farage replied: 'We will, as a party, table an urgent question on this. Absolutely.' Tory party...

Government said Rudekabana was a Welsh choir boy, said that he was not known to police, had no terror ties, just a "nutter with a knife," and it was all lies. Transcript linked to video.

British police forces have been accused of being afraid of getting called racist as the recording of criminal ethnicity fell to the lowest rate in at least 15 years. According to Ministry of Justice data unearthed in Freedom of Information requests by former Tory minister Neil O’Brien, the percentage of instances in which British police failed to log the ethnicity of child sex offenders stood at 28.7 per cent last year, up from 11.6 per cent in 2010. For sex crimes as a whole, police failed to record the ethnicity of 29 per cent of perpetrators, up from 15 per...

Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads to allied countries and beyond - as long as the Trump administration presses ahead with it. The app will be banned in America from Sunday after US lawmakers ruled it was a national security risk because of owner ByteDance's ties to the Chinese government - ties it denies. Incoming President Trump has indicated though that he is opposed to the ban and will find a way to reverse it. If the US ban goes ahead, experts point to the previous ousting of Chinese and...

A record number of millionaires have left Britain since Sir Keir Starmer came to power and there is growing concern that Labour’s tax plans are exiling international investors and damaging the economy. The Treasury is facing calls to reverse its crackdown on non-domiciled residents as the scale of the exodus becomes clear. Tax advisers also report that growing numbers of British entrepreneurs are prepared to leave the country after the tax rises announced in the autumn budget. In total Britain lost a net 10,800 millionaires to migration last year, a 157 per cent increase on 2023, meaning it lost more...

The reality of working beside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has been revealed in a new bombshell article - with some claiming the Duchess was so difficult people needed 'therapy'. The couple have famously worked on many different projects over the years, from Harry's tell-all memoir Spare to Meghan's podcast Archetypes and the pair's controversial Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan. And while some have claimed the couple are full of good ideas that had to be 'abandoned' for practical reasons, others say they struggled to think up anything worthwhile, US society bible Vanity Fair reported. When brainstorming podcast ideas for...

A record number of millionaires left the UK last year, with the exodus said to have accelerated after Labour came to power in July. A total of 78 centi-millionaires (people with $100 million or more) and 12 billionaires departed the UK last year, according to New World Wealth, a research firm. The news, coming on the back of recent turmoil in bond markets and warnings from businesses, has raised further concerns about Labour's tax plans. Millionaires are mostly moving to other European countries such as Switzerland and Italy, or to the UAE. The flows of millionaires out of the country...

They are the long-lost secret diaries that will give new and extraordinary insights into Adolf Hitler's private life. In a world publishing coup, decades after being lost, the discovery of the intimate and horrifying leather-bound journal by the Mail is set to cause a global sensation. The handwritten diaries will give never-before-seen insights into Hitler's life as the most evil man in history launched the Second World War. Later today MailOnline will begin to showcase these diaries for the first time after more than 80 years, offering a treasure trove to historians.

Sexual molestation happens all over. But we see Muslim migrants involved in this kind of story is seen on a not infrequent basis. Why? One reason may be because such treatment of infidel women is sanctioned in the Qur’an. In France, a Muslim quoted Qur’an while raping his victim. A survivor of a Muslim rape gang in the UK has said that her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam. Thus it came as no surprise when Muslim migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking...

Long-lost secret diaries of 'Hitler's English girlfriend' are today unveiled by the Mail. In a world publishing coup, aristocrat Unity Mitford's leather-bound journal reveals fresh insights into the dictator widely reviled as the most evil man in history - whom she worshipped. One of the famous Mitford sisters, Unity gushed about the Nazi monster in her flowing handwriting. Decades after her diaries were lost to historians, their discovery by the Mail is set to cause a global sensation. The young upper-class beauty scandalised British society by fawning over Hitler and becoming closer to him than any other Briton. She confided...

KYIV — Barely six months after his landslide victory in July, Keir Starmer has been hammered in the polls, beaten up by the financial markets and faced demands from the world’s richest man to be jailed. Swapping the political battles of Westminster for an actual warzone this week, the British prime minister found inspiration in the resolve of the Ukrainian people, and his stoical host, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, Starmer scotched speculation about an early election, stating clearly that the next one won’t come before mid-2029. And he declared that he intends to win it and...

If you were to ask Elon Musk or President-elect Donald Trump for their thoughts on Luton, you’d imagine both would likely stare at you with blank faces. Actually, it might register slightly more with Musk. His private jet once touched down at Luton Airport. In the past few days, though, the name of Luton’s most infamous export – who once won an apprenticeship to that very airport, in fact – has been on the lips of some of the incoming president’s closest advisers and supporters. In the 20 years since Tommy Robinson’s first prison stint (for assaulting an off-duty police...

“We’re not a government that governs by social media”, insists spokesman for UK’s left-wing government as new announcements on tackling child rape grooming gangs comes after weeks of intense scrutiny and anger on social media. Widespread anger and scrutiny of Britain’s now decades-long scandal of “Pakistani-heritage” organised child rape gangs in regional towns and cities organically emerged on social media over Christmas and the New Year, and was latterly boosted by X-owner Elon Musk. On Thursday this week, the UK’s left-wing government went further than it ever has before in announcing new action on the scourge, but quickly moved to...