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Boris Johnson has insisted that if he’s Prime Minister, Brexit will happen on the 31st of October – come what may, do or die.
Jeremy Hunt is not just a Tory leadership hopeful, he is, in fact, also the Foreign Secretary, and today he told parliament he could not envisage any situation in which the UK joins the US in a war with Iran.
For years, it was a staple of daytime television. But the Jeremy Kyle Show was cancelled by ITV last month after the death of a contributor.
The father of a child with a rare genetic disease is having to move to the Netherlands to receive treatment that the NHS won’t fund.
Southern Water has been hit with a record punishment of £126 million after waste was found to have spilled from its sewage plants into the environment.
Nimko Ali has campaigned most of her life to end FGM, after being mutilated at the age of seven.
Heavy metal was born in the West Midlands. From the late 1960s, when the industrial furnaces still roared, ears began bleeding to the sounds of Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and many more.
When mass demonstrations in the spring led to the downfall of Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, protesters hoped for a peaceful transition to civilian rule. But since then, the backlash has been brutal. Hundreds have died or gone missing. One man has tightened his grip on power through the most brutal arm of the state, known as the…
Conservative MP Margot James is supporting Jeremy Hunt for leader of the Conservative party.
Solicitor General Lucy Frazer is a backer of Boris Johnson.
How exactly do Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt think they’ll break the Brexit deadlock?
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson says even if parliament voted against no deal it would be up to him, as PM, to decide if he ever requested the extension of EU membership needed to give it effect. When Tory rebels were plotting last month to book a day in parliament to stop no deal they planned to use the…
Boris Johnson hasn’t always been crystal-clear about the detail of his Brexit plans.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become something of a poster-boy for Europe’s far right. He’s portrayed himself as the defender of a white, Christian Hungary at risk from refugees and migrants. His government has rewritten the constitution, tightened control over the media and remodelled the justice system. Now in his fourth term in office, he’s taken…
Last month, I received a letter from a Swedish woman. She had seen an old news film shot in 1980, in which I had reported from the frontline of the Iran/Iraq war. She said my team had filmed a man, who then had been a young Iranian soldier languishing in an Iraqi prisoner of war…
France is preparing for a potentially record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures are forecast to hit 40 degrees Celsius later this week. Authorities in Paris have enacted an extreme heat plan, fearing a repeat of the conditions which killed an estimated 15,000 people in France in 2003. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain are also preparing for oppressive heat.
When Turkey’s President Erdogan and his ruling party lost control of Istanbul, the result was cancelled and a re-run was ordered. Last night, voters gave their verdict on the President’s autocratic rule in emphatic style. March’s narrow 13,000 vote victory for the opposition was transformed into a far larger majority of more than three quarters of a…
Eight years after the government and health bosses pledged to provide homes for people with autism and learning disabilities in England, thousands are still locked in mental health hospitals. Many are children, and some have been there for years, even decades. The promises were made after people were filmed being abused at the Winterbourne View care home.…
He backed away from a military strike on Iran at the last minute over its attack on a US drone, but now President Trump has imposed new economic sanctions. The increased pressure on Iran comes at the same time as the US asks for fresh negotiations. But Tehran doesn’t want to talk until sanctions lift, and it’s…
The parents of a British man who joined Islamic State militants have told this programme they have no regrets about sending him money and would do it all again. Last week, they were given a suspended prison sentence for terrorism offences after sending him £223 four years ago. In their first television interview since then, John Letts…
Conservative MP Gillian Keegan was originally a Rory Stewart supporter until he was knocked out of the leadership race.
Prisons Minister Robert Buckland is a Boris Johnson backer.
For a supposedly great communicator, Boris Johnson seems somewhat uncommunicative. He ducked out of TV discussions when there were many more would-be Tory leaders in the race. Now there are only two, he is no keener on appearing. His reluctance to appear on tomorrow’s TV debate has led Sky to cancel it. Jeremy Hunt saw…
