Will Durrant
Politics
Conservatives cannot be trusted on citizenship – Reform UK
A Reform UK spokesman said the Tories cannot be trusted amid the ongoing row over Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s citizenship.
By Will Durrant
29 Dec 2025
Politics
'Resources will be found' to police Maccabi Tel Aviv game says Nandy
The Culture Secretary said the Government was working with West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council to ‘consider all the options available’
By Will Durrant
20 Oct 2025
Politics
Protesting not ‘un-British’, says Stonewall founder in plea against crackdown
‘The right to protest is an essential freedom,’ Michael Cashman said.
By Will Durrant
16 Oct 2025
Politics
UK ‘isn’t a democracy any more’, warns Tugendhat in call for leadership
Tom Tugendhat suggested that if ‘the bureaucrats are in charge of everything’, then the UK ‘isn’t a democracy any more’.
By Will Durrant
16 Oct 2025
Politics
Airline prices to change by ‘less than cost of coffee’ with green fuel guarantee
Keir Mather promised that ticket prices will be “kept under continual review”, once the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill clears both Houses.
By Will Durrant
16 Oct 2025
Politics
‘Levelling Up’ was ‘hollow slogan’, says minister in new Pride in Place pitch
Miatta Fahnbulleh and David Simmonds traded blows as they discussed the Government’s up-to-£5 billion 10-year Pride in Place programme.
By Will Durrant
15 Oct 2025
Politics
Baroness faces ban after raising 20mph speeding tickets with Met chief
Lady D’Souza used House of Lords headed paper to query her offences with the Metropolitan Police chief
By Will Durrant
15 Oct 2025
Politics
Argument for rolling out ‘creepy’ digital ID ‘too optimistic to be convincing’
Viscount Camrose warned that the Government’s argument for rolling out a digital ID system was ‘too optimistic to be convincing’.
By Will Durrant
14 Oct 2025
Politics
Blunkett: Better Whitehall the only way to see off ‘far-right’ threat
Lord Blunkett served in former prime minister Sir Tony Blair’s New Labour cabinets between 1997 and 2004, and again in 2005.
By Will Durrant
14 Oct 2025
Politics
For God’s sake give blind and partially-sighted people a chance, says Blunkett
A tactile bronze bust of David Blunkett is on display in the House of Lords’ Royal Gallery.
By Will Durrant
14 Oct 2025
Politics
MP whose family escaped Gaza left asking: ‘What on Earth was it all for?’
Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran revealed on X last year that her family fled the conflict in Gaza.
By Will Durrant
14 Oct 2025
Politics
Conservative bid to prevent student visa ‘abuse’ on hold after Lords debate
Baroness Lawlor suggested foreign students who go to university and then ‘abuse’ their visa to seek asylum should have their claim struck down.
By Will Durrant
14 Oct 2025
Politics
Cracking down on repeat protest means ‘giving succour to haters’ – MP
Shabana Mahmood was not proposing the ‘removal of the right to protest’, she told the Commons.
By Will Durrant
13 Oct 2025
Politics
Jeffrey Epstein met Tony Blair in Downing Street
A spokesperson for Sir Tony Blair said he recalled that the pair’s meeting lasted ‘less than 30 minutes’.
By Will Durrant
11 Oct 2025
Business News
AI firm recruits ex-civil service boss Case after Sunak joins Microsoft
Lord Case sought advice from the appointments watchdog on becoming an adviser to the AI firm Invisible Technologies.
By Will Durrant
11 Oct 2025
Politics
Starmer ‘ready to progress’ plans to spend frozen Russian assets on Ukraine loan
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer spoke with his counterparts from Ukraine, Germany and France on Friday.
By Will Durrant
10 Oct 2025
Politics
Johnson urged to explain dealings with Mohammed bin Salman since leaving No 10
Boris Johnson declined to react fully to media reports, which he said contained details from ‘material illegally hacked by a hostile state actor’.
By Will Durrant
10 Oct 2025
Politics
Cooper defends UK contribution to Gaza peace process
European countries including the UK ‘will all be strongly playing’ their part in the Gaza peace process, Yvette Cooper said.
By Will Durrant
10 Oct 2025
Politics
Starmer’s team had access to ‘multiple’ papers showing China threat – Philp
The shadow home secretary claimed the Government could have handed the papers over to prosecutors, but they ‘chose not to’.
By Will Durrant
9 Oct 2025
Politics
19 migrants sent to France as part of deportations deal
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said deportation flights into mainland Europe were ‘under way and ramping up’.
By Will Durrant
9 Oct 2025
Tech
Microsoft recruits Rishi Sunak as senior adviser
Mr Sunak has joined the American tech giant as a paid part-time senior adviser.
By Will Durrant
9 Oct 2025