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Starmer urges Iran and Israel to ‘step back’ after strikes targeting Tehran

Reporter USJune 13, 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged restraint following Israeli strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear programme. Fears of a full-scale conflict have been stoked by warnings of “severe punishment” from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and reports of drone launches in response. A Cobra meeting is expected early this afternoon to discuss the UK response […]

MPs debate a ban on assisted dying adverts

Reporter USJune 13, 2025

MPs are debating further changes to the assisted dying bill including a ban on organisations advertising that they offer the service. Other amendments being discussed cover regulations about which substances or devices may be used to facilitate a person’s death. The bill would allow terminally ill adults with less than six months to live to […]

Stockton MP’s asylum seeker comments branded ‘inflammatory’

Reporter USJune 13, 2025

A council leader has said an MP’s claims the local authority takes a “disproportionate number” of asylum seekers were “misleading and inflammatory”. Conservative MP for Stockton West Matt Vickers said in Parliament last week that Stockton Borough Council had “volunteered” to take in more asylum seekers and it left “huge numbers of lone men hanging […]

Mel Stride pushed to say sorry for Liz Truss’s mini-budget

Reporter USJune 13, 2025

Sir Mel Stride is pushed to say sorry for Liz Truss’s mini-budget by the BBC’s Nick Robinson. In a speech last week, Stride disowned Truss’s £45bn package of tax cuts, which spooked financial markets and led to the former Tory PM’s resignation in 2022. Listen to the full episode here.

Welcome for housing pledge – but is it too late for some?

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

Danielle has moved four times in the last nine months with her three children. They became homeless after receiving a section 21 “no fault” eviction order from their landlord, and since then their local council has placed them in a shared house, as well as in hotel rooms. Despite the government’s promises to fund more […]

Scotland to get extra £2.9bn from Treasury, says Reeves

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

Andrew Picken BBC News Scotland North Sea Midstream Partners The St Fergus gas terminal in Aberdeenshire is the planned site of a new carbon capture project Holyrood’s budget will rise by £2.9bn a year on average as a result of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spending review, according to Treasury officials. Reeves said block grant funding from […]

Peers criticise £9.6m House of Lords front door

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

Peers have criticised the new front door to the House of Lords, after ministers revealed it cost £9.6m and still does not work properly. The Peers’ Entrance began a multi-year security upgrade in 2023, but is still not fully accessible for disabled peers, and requires a permanent member of staff on site “to press the […]

Labour must tell its working class story, says Jonathan Reynolds

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said Labour needs to be “better” at telling the story of the working-class communities it represents. Speaking at a lunch for parliamentary journalists, he accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of being an “absolute parody” when he said he wanted to re-open coal mines in Wales. Reynolds said his grandfather […]

Data bill opposed by Sir Elton John and Dua Lipa finally passes

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

A bill which sparked an extraordinary stand-off between some of the UK’s most high-profile artists – and their backers in the House of Lords – has finally been passed. Peers wanted an amendment to the drably-titled Data (Use and Access) Bill which would have forced tech companies to declare their use of copyright material when […]

Bangladesh leader declines to meet Tulip Siddiq

Reporter USJune 12, 2025

Joshua Nevett Political reporter Reuters Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has refused to meet Labour MP Tulip Siddiq to discuss corruption allegations against her during his visit to London. Yunus told the BBC the allegations were a “court matter” and said he had confidence in Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), which is investigating Siddiq. The ACC […]

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Stockton MP’s asylum seeker comments branded ‘inflammatory’

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