The LGIU's response to the unexpected proposal from the Scottish government to reorganise local government into regional authorities.

Thousands of tonnes of clothes, toys, furniture and tech are being flown in from Xinjiang - which Uyghur campaigners say is a 'national disgrace'

Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine An adviser used by Nigel Farage and others in Reform UK to boost their social media popularity has suggested that Britain would be better off had it stayed neutral in the second world war instead of fighting Nazi Germany. Jack Anderton, who ran Farage’s hugely successful TikTok account before helping Luke Campbell become the Reform mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire, also said the UK should not support Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. Continue reading...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been in a high-security prison for more than 1,600 days.

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Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have raised the case of Jagtar Singh Johal when he met Indian PM Narendra Modi on Thursday.

Labour MP Blair McDougall is calling for Crown immunity in UK prison estates to be abolished.

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

Badri Japaridze of Lelo for Georgia became the third opposition politician to receive a prison sente

A charity boss says funding for palliative care must equal that of assisted dying

Ahead of the third reading vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for England and Wales, expected in the House of Commons, expected this Friday (20 June 2025), the Royal College of Psych...

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10 babies are born in this country as a result of rape every single day. Yet there is nothing stopping perpetrators having access to these babies.

Davy Russell’s win for Labour has shattered John Swinney’s strategy of talking up Reform’s support to divert disgruntled...

The prime minister was speaking at BAE Systems in Glasgow as the UK Government publishes its strategic defence review

Party leader says he wants UK to be a ‘crypto powerhouse’ during speech at Las Vegas conference

Shein is working towards a listing in Hong Kong after the online fast-fashion retailer's proposed initial public offering (IPO) in London failed to secure the green light from Chinese regulators, said three sources with knowledge of the matter.

How to react to the local election results. A lesson from a battle-scarred veteran of the war against populist nationalists.