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King Charles has invited Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit in September, scheduling the trip for three days when parliament is not sitting and removing the possibility of the US president addressing parliament. Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that Trump would come to the UK from 17-19 September, soon after the House of Commons rises for its traditional break for the annual party conferences. The king will host Trump and his wife, Melania, at Windsor Castle, though the palace has not yet set out any other details of the trip. The visit is a coup for the White...

Nigel Farage is on course to become Prime Minister with a landslide victory for his party Reform UK according to a new mammoth opinion poll. Reform would win 377 seats if an election was held today, giving them a majority of 50. Labour would win 118 seats, fewer than half as many as Reform, as anger over tax rises and soaring prices turns voters against Sir Keir Starmer's party. It would mean Sir Keir was kicked out of Downing Street. He could continue as leader of the opposition, or Labour could elect a new leader. Liberal Democrats would gain 69...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday he would accept an investigation into grooming gangs who sexually abused thousands of girls. Starmer had previously resisted a national inquiry into the scandal, Sky News reported, which revealed that mostly Pakistani men had groomed, trafficked and raped young white girls over a decade ago. His change of mind on the matter comes after a government-requested audit found that a nationwide investigation was needed. Starmer told reporters traveling with him to the G7 summit in Canada that he had read the report and would accept the recommendation for a national inquiry. He said...

Reform UK’s newest MP called for the burqa to be banned in Britain during Prime Minister's Questions. Sarah Pochin, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, used her first question at the weekly Commons session to ask Sir Keir Starmer if he would follow other European countries that have made it illegal for people to cover their faces in public places. She said: “Given the Prime Minister’s desire to strengthen strategic alignment with our European neighbours, will he, in the interests of public safety, follow the lead of France, Denmark, Belgium and others and ban the burqa?” Her question prompted an...

Sadiq Khan received his knighthood at Buckingham Palace today despite a backlash at 'reward for failure' The London Mayor was given the honour by the King at Buckingham Palace, saying the monarch was 'chuffed' to bestow it. However, the Tories have condemned the award claiming that Sir Sadiq has not managed to get a grip on violent crime in the capital. Sir Sadiq has been Mayor since 2016, becoming the first person to win a third term in the role. Before that he was Labour MP for Tooting, serving as a junior minister under Gordon Brown's premiership. The knighthood for...

They are not referring to the hundreds of thousands of migrants--legal and illegal--who have poured out into the streets to protest in support of Hamas. Nope. The UK government has labeled British citizens as supporters of extremist terrorist ideologies if they believe that Western Culture is under threat from the flood of migrants who spend countless hours flooding into the streets waving Hamas flags and screaming about Sharia law. The British state has now declared civic nationalism an extremist ideology. pic.twitter.com/s9OwETEhz0— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 8, 2025Seriously. CAPTURED PREVENT IS UNFIT FOR PURPOSE“Concern over mass migration is terrorist ideology,” says...

Sadiq Khan dropped a major hint about his future political ambitions this morning, refusing to deny he has his eye on No. 10 Downing Street. Speaking to American news outlet CNBC, the London Mayor suggested he could do a better job as PM than his mayoral predecessor Boris Johnson. Asked whether he wants a fourth term in City Hall, “I'm enjoying being the mayor of London. I think I've got the greatest job in the world. Is only about a year ago where I won that historic record breaking mandate, so let’s wait and see.” Asked whether he could “see...

The British government’s plans to hand control of the strategically significant Chagos Islands to Mauritius are set to be signed off on Thursday, after an 11th-hour legal injunction failed to stop an effort that has been intensely controversial in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Prime Minister Keir Starmer intends to return the islands to the African country, while maintaining control of the US-UK Diego Garcia military base, and the deal is expected be finalized on Thursday. It comes after a High Court judge briefly blocked the move in a ruling made at 2 a.m. local time (9...

Summoned Israeli ambassador to Two-tier's Presence, demand that Israel surrender. Lots of sanctimonious platitudes. Halted trade talks. More threats. Israel: GFYS Transcript linked below video.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed he is launching a new political party, promising to "build a democratic movement that can take on the rich and powerful". It doesn't have a name yet but the MP for Islington North says the plan is for the group to fight May's local elections ahead of the next general election, which is likely to take place in four years' time. The new venture has the potential to shake-up the political landscape, with Labour and the Greens appearing to be the most at risk of losing votes. Polling of around 2,000 Britons by...

Jeremy Corbyn says people are signing up for the new party at the rate of 500 every minute.

Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of Britain's Labour Party, said on Friday he would stand as an independent candidate at the upcoming national election on July 4, Reuters reported. "I want our political parties to be democratic, but members of Islington North Labour have been denied the right to choose a candidate," Corbyn said in a video announcing his plan. "So we have to stand up. We have to stand up and say, we're not taking this anymore. We will assert our rights. That's why I'm standing to be an independent candidate for the people of Islington North," he added....

A sentence I never imagined I’d write: I now think Jeremy Corbyn did Jews in Britain a favour. His time as Labour leader, between 2015 and 2020, was an extremely weird one for British Jews, but eye-opening all the same: I now think it prepared many of us for the Left’s reaction to October 7, whereas American Jews seemed far more surprised. The gaslighting (the attack didn’t happen), the defences (if it did, Jews deserved it), the hectoring moral superiority (how can you care about that when this is so much more important?): all that we saw after October 7,...

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.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Norwich to protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. Waving St George's flags, placards, and banners, with some signs reading 'stop the invasion', several hundred people gathered at The Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe. They were heard chanting slogans including "We want our country back" and "Whose streets? Our streets". Numbers at the seemingly peaceful rally grew throughout the afternoon. It is unknown at this time if there have been any arrests. Dozens of police officers were present, and some members of the force stood in the road. It is the latest...

President Donald Trump praised British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for curbing boats of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel, telling the United Kingdom's leader he's doing a "fantastic thing." Trump stopped for questions with Starmer and his wife, Victoria Starmer, ahead of their meeting at Trump Turnberry golf club in Scotland on Monday. "Immigration is a big, a big factor. And I think, frankly, if they're coming from other countries, and you don't know who they are, and, are they coming from prisons? We have them where they came in from prisons who are moving them all out," Trump began....

Earlier this morning President Donald Trump welcomed British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to Turnberry, Scotland where the two leaders will hold bilateral discussions on trade and foreign affairs.The video is prompted to 16:20. The bagpipes stop eventually in the video at 19:30. President Trump and Prime Minister Starmer take questions from the assembled press pool. President Trump calls out the British government for rampant illegal immigration, as Starmer tries to say his govt is deporting illegal migrants back to their home country.Questions centered heavily around the Israeli conflict with Hamas in Gaza. The plight of the Palestinians is a key...

Sir Keir Starmer fears a repeat of last summer’s riots as he demands urgent action from ministers to repair “fraying” Britain. The Prime Minister told his Cabinet it was vital Britain’s “social fabric” was healed amid a series of protests outside taxpayer-funded hotels housing asylum seekers. He also said cultural integration in communities that have experienced high levels of migration must be improved. Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, warned that immigration was having a “profound impact on society”. She said the government must acknowledge “real concerns” from voters about the impact rapid demographic change is having on issues such...

Sir Keir Starmer's claim that there is "lots of housing" available for asylum seekers in Britain has been slammed as "madness" by critics. The Prime Minister was asked for his response to local councils struggling to allocate housing to homeless people while competing with the Home Office's search for asylum seeker accommodation. Replying to the concerns raised by the Liaison Committee, made up of senior MPs who chair various Commons select committees, Sir Keir said: "I know, which is why I am so furious at the last Government for leaving tens of thousands of asylum seekers unprocessed, with nowhere to...

Sadiq Khan today hit out at Keir Starmer's plan to cut the number of foreign students coming to Britain in his latest clash with the Labour leadership. The London mayor used a visit to Ghana to say UK universities should remain 'open' to overseas students, after a new immigration clampdown was announced in May. It will see the amount of time post-graduate students can spend in the UK after completing their course cut from two years to 18 months. A new levy on income that universities generate from international students could also be introduced. It follows changes introduced by the...