Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has agreed to hold regular meetings with his Muslim MPs following an angry rebellion over his stance on the Middle East crisis. It follows a summit last week he attended alongside his deputy Angela Rayner. Sir Keir was criticised for his refusal to call for a full ceasefire and his apparent support for blocking power […]

The United States has launched retaliatory air strikes targeting weapons and ammunition storage facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups in eastern Syria. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that this was in response to a number of drone and rocket attacks carried out by pro-Iranian militias against U.S. military bases in Iraq […]

A squadron of U.S. F-16 fighter jets has arrived in the Middle East to help protect U.S. troops. The Pentagon announced that a squadron of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft has arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Tuesday to work alongside an array of capabilities the Defense Department has sent to the region in recent days to further […]

Rachel Reeves: ‘You can never trust the Tories with our economy ever again.’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been left red-faced this morning after it emerged parts of her new book on women and economics were plagiarised. Analysis by the Financial Times revealed entire sentences and paragraphs had been stolen from other sources without credit. Such sources include Wikipedia, The […]

The pressure is ratcheting up on Sir Keir Starmer over Labour’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war raging in Gaza, with more than 150 furious Muslim Labour councillors writing directly to their leader to demand he clarify the party’s position on a ceasefire in the region. The letter, from the Labour Muslim Network, reads: “As Labour councillors elected to serve our […]

With European Union member states pushing for a ceasefire, a prominent UK-based critic has said the bloc’s attempt to persuade Israel to “down arms” its war on Hamas proves Brussels “does not understand the Middle East”. Reform UK deputy leader Ben Habib also urged the EU to “get back in its box” when it comes to foreign policy – and […]

In the next key step in Sweden’s bid to join NATO, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has forwarded the Nordic nation’s accession protocol to the Turkish parliament. It was a much-awaited follow-up to an agreement signed between Erdogan, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in July. As part of the deal, Erdogan had assured that […]

Tories cheers as SNP MP crosses the floor An SNP councillor has become the latest political figure to quit the party in protest over the way his MP wife Lisa Cameron was bullied before and after her defection to the Conservatives. Mark Horsham, a councillor in south Lanarkshire, branded the SNP “divisive and agressive” in a parting shot to Humza […]

Police stop vans showing images of kidnapped Israeli children A huge row has broken out after Metropolitan Police officers blocked a legal demonstration displaying the faces of Israeli children kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. It came just days after the same force had allowed Hamas supporters to openly display signs on the streets of London in pr-Palestinian protests […]