LONDON (Reuters) -The British government policy of housing thousands of asylum seekers in hotels was facing severe pressure on Wednesday, as opponents leapt on a court ruling to call for protests and legal action to have them all evicted. According to a regular tracker of voters’ concerns, immigration has overtaken the economy as the biggest…
CNN — The United Kingdom could become one of the first European countries to lower the voting age to 16 in all national elections, in what the government is calling a landmark effort to “future-proof” its democracy. If passed by the parliament, the proposed reforms, unveiled Thursday, would bring national votes in line with elections in Scotland,…
Reform UK leader warns PM has ‘bowed down’ to ‘arrogant’ French president Nigel Farage has declared that Sir Keir Starmer‘s new migrant deal with France is a “humiliation for Brexit Britain”. The Prime Minister unveiled the “groundbreaking” agreement aimed at getting a grip on the Channel crisis at a joint press conference with French president…
LONDON (AP) — U.K. police announced Monday that the weekend performances by rap punk duo Bob Vylan and Irish-language band Kneecap at the Glastonbury Festival are subject to a criminal investigation after they led crowds in chants calling for “death” to the Israeli military and chants of “Free Palestine.” Police said the performances at the…
law refers to biological sex. The landmark ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes. Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that “the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a…
LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England halved its growth projection for the British economy this year as it cut its main interest rate Thursday for the third time in six months. In a statement, the bank’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee lowered its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.50%,…
Prince Harry today accepted a ‘substantial’ payout from The Sun’s publisher which said sorry to him and his mother Princess Diana for intruding into their private lives. News Group Newspapers (NGN) offered an ‘unreserved apology’ to the Duke of Sussex for using private investigators to snoop on him. It is understood Harry’s payout is in…
A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the planet’s orbit in 2026. BepiColombo was built by the Stevenage-based company Astrium, now Airbus, and launched in 2018. The spacecraft comprises two satellites that will gather data for at least a…
Cetiosauruses and a megalosaurus are thought to have left prints at trackway dating to nearly 166m years ago Gary Johnson was clearing clay with a digger at the Oxfordshire quarry where he works when he hit an unexpected bump in the limestone surface. “I thought, it’s just an abnormality in the ground,” he said. “But…
Cadbury has not been awarded a royal warrant for the first time in 170 years, barring the company from using the Royal Arms on its products for the foreseeable future. The famous chocolate brand — highly regarded for being the late Queen Elizabeth II’s favorite — was one of 100 companies removed from the list…