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The Conservative Party has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating recorded by one of Britain’s most reputable pollsters. A YouGov poll carried out on May 18 and 19 found the Tories are now in fourth place and polling at just 16 per cent, which the company said was a historic low. It comes after the Conservatives lost every single council they were defending at this month’s local elections and as Reform UK continues to surge. The Tories are in fourth position for the first time since June 2019, which was at the height of the Brexit deadlock and shortly...

A STEYN I-TOLD-YOU-SO MOMENT: As I have written often, the consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters. Of the two principal popular revolts of almost a decade ago - the Trump election and the Brexit vote - the jury is still out on Trump 47 (America's last chance), but Brexit is dead. A theme of my book The Prisoner of Windsor is that there is no Brexit. It never happened - or, perhaps more precisely, it was never permitted to happen. And so, as the...

Another bunch of third world "refugees" in France waiting to hop on a boat and make their way to the UK because they will "get everything for free". On the backs of British tax payers of course, who will pay for free hotels, free health care etc etc for these grifters. Worth watching. Starmer must pay for this outrage in the next elections.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday announced a major immigration overhaul that doubles the residency requirement for citizenship and imposes stricter English language requirements, declaring settlement in Britain “a privilege, not a right.” The new policy increases the residency requirement from five to ten years before migrants can apply for citizenship, with exceptions for those making a “high contribution” to the island nation. The overhaul is being spearheaded by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, promising English language requirements across every visa route, extending to adult dependents for the first time. “We will create a migration system that is controlled, selective,...

The 'king' of Britain's migrant hotels is raking in £4.8million per day and may become a billionaire from the money earned through housing immigrants in the UK. Graham King, a former caravan park and disco tycoon, was catapulted onto the Rich List this year after cashing in on accommodating and transporting arrivals due to the UK's migrant crisis. The 57-year-old - who has an estimated net worth of £750million - owns an Essex business which was paid £1.74billion last year and claimed this was due to the increase in refugees.

A teenage motorist who followed and rammed an e-bike rider to 'teach him a lesson' after he pulled a wheelie has been jailed for life for murder. Abdirahman Ibrahim, who was 19 at the time, chased after Liam Jones before twice driving into the back of his off-road electric bike, the second time catapulting him into a concrete bollard. Mr Jones, 22, suffered catastrophic chest and abdominal injuries and was left to die in the road after Ibrahim fled the scene.

The United Kingdom does not have a blasphemy law, but that didn’t stop the Criminal Prosecution Service trying their best, leading to something of a volte-face (about-face) after backlash. 50-year-old Hamit Coskun was charged with acting with intent to cause “harassment, alarm or distress” against the “religious institution of Islam” by the UK’s Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) this week after allegedly burning a copy of the Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate in London. Yet after a short campaign by free speech activists, including the Free Speech Union, which is supporting Coksun, and Conservative leadership candidate Robert Jenrick, the charge has...

The MoS found first-hand testimonies of atrocities inflicted on the Baka, an indigenous people once known as pygmies, to stop them entering forests where they have foraged, fished, hunted and found medicines for millennia. One woman told of being raped by an armed guard while clinging to her newborn baby. And a teenage boy claimed he was groomed for paid sex by another guard.

Rishi Sunak insisted India's attacks on 'terrorist infrastructure' in Pakistan are 'justified' today. The former PM waded in amid fears the confrontation between the nuclear-armed powers could escalate dramatically. Pakistan has described Delhi's missile attacks as an 'act of war' and responded with shelling on the Indian side of the line of control. However, Keir Starmer has been appealing for calm insisting the rising tensions were a 'serious concern'. In a post on X, Mr Sunak said: 'No nation should have to accept terrorist attacks being launched against it from land controlled by another country. 'India is justified in striking...

Speaking to reporters and the American people from the Oval Office Thursday morning, President Donald Trump detailed a new trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States just one month after Liberation Day. "I think it's a great deal for both parties," Trump said. "It opens up a tremendous market for for us." "I think it's going to be something very special for the UK and for the United States," he continued. 🚨President Trump announces the "historic" details of his trade deal with the U.K."The deal includes a plan that will bring the United Kingdom into the economic...

NOW: President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: "Big News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office, concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF MANY!!!"

Overnight, India claims to have struck nine targets inside Pakistan, as a response to the terror attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir, last month. According to India, its aircraft and drones hit camps belonging to the terrorist groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Many times over the past 70 years, India and Pakistan have exchanged fire, taken casualties, lost aircraft and ships. And yet those wars, those brief outbreaks of violence, never spiralled. Each one was, from a diplomatic point of view, a tragedy. Some were very big wars, totally forgotten in the West. ... The same may not be true inside Britain. Britain...

LONDON (AP) — Britain and India announced Tuesday that they have agreed on a long-stalled free trade agreement that will slash tariffs on Scotch whisky and scores of other products. The deal comes more than three years after negotiations started — and stalled — under a previous British government. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X that the deal was “ambitious and mutually beneficial.” The British government called it a “landmark.” It said the deal will reduce Indian import taxes on whisky, cosmetics, medical goods, car and airplane parts and other goods from the U.K. Whisky and gin tariffs...

Home Office translators are running a lucrative scam to spring illegal immigrants from detention, an undercover Mail investigation has discovered. Interpreters charge £3,000 to act as witnesses to lie to a judge and secure bail for Albanians caught coming into the UK with fake passports or on small boats and lorries. The bogus guarantors vouch for the immigrants who they promise the court will stay at their home if released. But in reality they have no connection with the detainees they testify on behalf of and are happy for them to live anywhere – including beyond the control of the...

UK police have arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on suspicion of “terrorism offences”, police have said. The arrests were carried out in London, Swindon and the Greater Manchester area and were related to “a suspected plot to target a specific premises”, London’s Metropolitan police said in a statement. The men, aged between 29 and 46, were arrested on suspicion of “preparation of a terrorist act” and remain in custody, the police said. The nationality of one of the men was still being established, they said. Counter-terrorism police had been in contact with the site allegedly targeted to make...

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein has dropped Brunswick and FGS, two communications firms that were supporting its push for a London initial public offering (IPO), a source familiar with the matter confirmed on Friday, in the latest sign the flotation is not going to plan. Steep tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, along with the removal of a duty exemption on low-value ecommerce packages, are challenging Shein's business model, which relies on shipping clothes from factories in China directly to customers around the world. Brunswick was assisting with media relations while FGS was tasked with government relations,...

Reform UK has won the first by-election of the new parliament in Runcorn and Helsby, beating Labour by just six votes. The vote was triggered in Labour’s 49th safest seat after Mike Amesbury, the former Labour MP, received a suspended prison sentence for punching a constituent. After a recount was called in the early hours of Friday, it was announced that Reform’s Sarah Pochin had won 12,645 votes, while Labour’s Karen Shore won 12,639. The Tories won just 2,341 votes. It comes as votes are being tallied in council areas across England. Reform are looking to gain the mayoralties of...

I am not a sociologist or demographer, but after reading several reports and watching the slow decline of the Anglican Church in England—and its moribund sister, The Episcopal Church in the United States—I am not surprised. Even within the breakaway Anglican Church in North America, of which I am a part, the same questions are surfacing. The Roman Catholic “takeover,” as some headlines put it, is not a fluke. It’s the fruit of something deeper. And I believe there are lessons here for us in the American Church—Catholic and Protestant alike. Roman Catholicism is a branch¹ of Christianity—deep-rooted, global, and...

A study of whether the inhabitants of different countries are “flourishing” has put the UK close to the bottom of the world rankings. The research surveyed more than 200,000 people on six continents. They were asked questions designed to gauge not just happiness and physical health, but their sense of purpose, the quality of their relationships and their financial stability. Brendan Case, a co-author of the study, said the loss of industrial jobs might also help explain the UK’s low rank. “It seems reasonable to think that one core determinant of flourishing … is being able to provide in a...

NHS staff have been told that converting to Islam would be the "best decision you'll ever make" in a guide made by the organisation's Muslim Network. *snip* It was written by and handed out to staff, according to GB News, and addresses the reader as "convert".