Hilary Benn bumped off NEC as Trident debate looms
The shadow foreign secretary is quietly dropped from Labour’s governing body as the party tries to avoid a damaging row over the renewal of Trident.
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In recent days, there has been promising news about a number of drugs that scientists hope could offer an effective treatment for the worst coronavirus cases.
The EU has declared war on fake news. But leaders admit the aim is to make sure “anti-democrats don’t win at the ballot boxes”.
The main public spending watchdogs say the government is still cutting the money it gives to councils. And figures from the Treasury suggest real-terms reductions in councils’ overall spending power will continue until 2020.
The Director of Public Prosecutions says she will apologise over failures in 47 cases of rape or serious sexual assault where crucial evidence was not shared with defence lawyers. The mistakes were identified in a national review into thousands of cases launched earlier this year after a string of rape cases collapsed because of issues…
All cases brought by a disgraced human rights lawyer against Iraq war veterans are being reviewed after he was struck off for misconduct. Phil Shiner was found to have acted dishonestly – including paying a fixer to change his evidence to the £31million inquiry into the abuse allegations. The Defence secretary Michael Fallon said his…
Sergeant Blackman’s former commanding officer reveals to Channel 4 News the untold story of warnings issued about the disgraced marine’s unit, a lack of leadership and how “more could have been done in advance to avoid” the tragic outcome.
Boris Johnson’s record on affordable housing is under scrutiny as the race to decide the next Mayor of London gets underway.
Prime Minister David Cameron is to visit areas hit by flooding, he announced after chairing a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergencies committee in Downing Street.
The government is putting a positive spin on today’s big announcement on defence spending. How strong will the armed forces really be in 2020?
Party delegates in Scotland vote overwhelmingly against renewing the nuclear deterrent, rejecting the official line of the UK party.
The shadow foreign secretary is quietly dropped from Labour’s governing body as the party tries to avoid a damaging row over the renewal of Trident.
Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, is to be released, a British Government spokesman said.
The Foreign Secretary says Britain and the US are “completely aligned” on the need for Syria’s president Assad to leave power.
A Royal Marine jailed for the murder of a Taliban insurgent let his professional standards “slip to an unacceptably low level” and showed “poor leadership”, an internal review has found.
‘More Wolfie than Lenin’, was one Labour MP’s verdict on Jeremy Corbyn. But many Labour MPs admit they just don’t know him or what sort of leader he would be.