Category: Politics

Party tries to reassure MPs over build and function of the scheme and gather ideas for how it could improve public services UK politics live – latest updates Ministers have launched a charm offensive to win over sceptical Labour MPs to back the digital ID scheme, asking MPs to offer ideas about how it could…

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve, having read the witness statements, said he was ‘mystified’ why the prosecution did not go ahead Good morning. Late last night No 10 finally released the three witness statements written by Matthew Collins, the deputy national security adviser, for the Crown Prosecution Service to assist its prosection of the two…

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More information on the incident at a Townsville facility involving ADF personnel: the Queensland ambulance service said three people were injured after a single-vehicle crash. Paramedics assessed one patient with life-threatening injuries. 1,117 rentals (2.3%) were affordable for an ambulance…

Judge Susan Illston says administration has ‘taken advantage of lapse in government functioning’; Russell Vought says his office wants to be ‘very aggressive in shuttering bureaucracy’ Full report: judge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdown The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is further distancing herself from her fellow Republicans and accusing men…

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society A retired British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation. John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, who, as treasurer and chair respectively,…

Israel previously said the flow of aid would be cut by half and Rafah crossing would not open as planned due to delay in returning bodies of hostages Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostages’ remains Under Gaza’s ceasefire deal, Israel freed dozens of doctors, nurses, paramedics and other medical personnel seized during…

Court supports home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character grounds Australia’s high court has unanimously backed the government’s 2024 decision to refuse far-right provocateur Candace Owens a visa to enter the country. The full bench of the court ruled on Wednesday that the minister’s denial did not…

Shadow finance minister says party has to end the post-election ‘apology tour’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Murray Watt to spruik proposed rewrite of nature laws to WA miners Faster environmental approvals could save proponents hundreds of millions of dollars, according to analysis the federal…

Mike Johnson speaks on federal government shutdown as it enters 14th day with little end in sight China has hit back at accusations from the US that it is trying to hurt the world economy, as the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies appeared to re-escalate, amped up by aggressive rhetoric on both…

Pink Pony Club, a song by Chappell Roan inspired by The Abbey gay bar in West Hollywood, was the inspiration for new Oxford Street club Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Sydney nightclub whose name was inspired by a lesbian…