Jenrick tells Britons to 'WAKE UP' as he issues warning over mass migration in wake of Amsterdam attacks

Starmer warned trade deal with Trump could spark new outrage from British farmers

Keir Starmer has been cautioned that a trade deal with Donald Trump could leave farmers—already angered by his ‘tractor tax’—feeling betrayed.

In his previous term, Trump eagerly supported the idea of a post-Brexit free trade deal with the UK.

However, US sources have consistently indicated that such a deal would need to include agriculture—a contentious issue due to controversial US practices like chlorine-washing chicken.

Former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls noted that, to secure the deal, Starmer would likely need to tell British farmers, “you’re going to have to pay a price,” at a time when they’re already frustrated with the government.

Balls said free trade deal negotiations "comes down to: are we willing to make concessions in the areas where the US will absolutely want us to do so for a meaningful trade deal? Two fundamental things you have to be willing to concede on: One is on agriculture, on American beef, on hormone-injected beef.

"You have to be willing to say to British farmers: ‘We’re really sorry, but in order to deliver lower American beef imports, you’re gonna have to pay a price'."

He said the second issue would be healthcare.

Nigel Farage will not vote for assisted dying bill as he admits huge fear: ‘Gives me the shivers’

Nigel Farage will not vote for the assisted dying bill, he has confirmed on GB News.

Speaking to Adam Cherry, the Reform UK chief said it would take “a lot of convincing” for him to change his mind.

MPs are set to debate and vote on legalising assisted dying in the Commons on November 29.

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UK needs to be ‘critical friend’ to Trump, says Davey

The UK needs to be a “critical friend” to Donald Trump, Sir Ed Davey has said after describing him as a “destructive demagogue” when the US election results came in.

The UK must be a "critical friend" to Donald Trump, Sir Ed Davey has warned.

The Lib Dem Leader described the president-elect as a "destructive demagogue" when it was announced that Trump would be returning to the White House.

He also called for a London summit on Ukraine for European leaders to co-ordinate before Trump takes office and for the Government to deepen trade ties with the EU as potential US tariffs loom.

“(The US is) one of our closest allies, and we do need to engage with President Trump,” the Lib Dem leader said.

“I’m really, really clear on that, but we also – I’m not sure if Nigel Farage or others will agree with this, (if) the Conservatives would agree with it – we do need to be a critical friend. Yes, we need to be a friend, but we have to be honest.

"It would be dishonest not to admit that the Lib Dems do not share all of Trump’s values.

“As a leader of a country, he’s one of our closest allies, but you’re not being a true friend if you don’t point out where you disagree."

He said that if Trump made good on his pledge to impose tariffs on UK imports to the US, then engaging with Europe on trade would become more pressing.

“Our economy is going to suffer. The cost of living will get even worse. The growth prospects will be hit, and we’ve got to look elsewhere, and that means Europe,” he said.

He also called for European countries to co-ordinate support for Ukraine before Trump took office in January with a “Save Ukraine summit” in London.

Speaking during a visit to Surrey Stands With Ukraine, an organisation based in Epsom that sends aid to Kyiv and beyond, he said: “I think we need to pre-empt whatever decision President-elect Trump eventually takes by showing UK leadership in Europe.

“I think by having that summit of European leaders, we would send a message to President-elect Trump, and hopefully a message that encourages him.

“He’s often said other countries need to do more – well, it will be a sign that other countries are doing more, and therefore that hopefully would encourage him to stay the course and continue the policies of President Biden when it comes to Ukraine.”

'Two-tier policing!' Fury as Nigel Farage 'rioters' effigy paraded during Bonfire Night celebrations

A Bonfire Night effigy of Nigel Farage holding rioters on a leash has sparked a fresh 'two-tier policing' row after police described the event as "spectacular".

November 5 revellers in Lewes, East Sussex, watched on as political floats and effigies made their way through the county town - and though the tradition dates back centuries, this year's inclusion of Nigel Farage has come under fire.

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David Lammy issues WARNING to Donald Trump amid apology row over 'Nazi sympathiser' comments

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has pledged to warn Donald Trump that hiking trade tariffs on Britain is "not in his interest".

Asked whether he'd pursue a fresh deal with Trump's America, Lammy said: "We will seek to ensure and to get across to the United States... that hurting your closest allies cannot be in your medium or long-term interests."

And his pledge comes mere hours after a row over his remarks on Trump in the past...

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Britain in line for Brexit win under Trump presidency, top Democrat admits

Britain could be in line for a trade "lane" with Donald Trump's America because of Brexit, a senior US Democrat has suggested.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who despite his party allegiance is a personal associate of Trump, said he believed the President-elect would have "sympathy" with Britain's departure from the EU - and would show more leniency towards the UK than Brussels or Nato.

Though he told reporters Trump's triple election victory - winning the US House and Senate alongside the White House - was "very sobering", Murphy was optimistic about Brexit Britain's place in a Trump-led world.

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Rupert Lowe rages at small boats surge - 'I don't want them... Do you?'

Rupert Lowe has lashed out at damning new data showing that over 3,000 small boat migrants arrived in Britain between October 24 and November 6 - the day after launching into a blistering tirade against "the invasion".

Today, Reform's Great Yarmouth MP lamented the "all male, all young" arrivals, adding: "I don't want these unchecked men in our country. Do you?"

But on Thursday, he slated how "the border crisis and ensuing mess" had become "almost normal".

Lowe wrote: "Thousands and thousands of young males, almost exclusively from cultures with very different values to our own, being imported into the country on an industrial scale.

"The vast majority ditch their passport - what does that tell you? Doesn't exactly scream honesty, does it?

"And what happens post-arrival? They're shipped off around the country. To be put up and cared for in accommodation, often hotels, that has been ripped away from the local community.

"The area has a bustling business taken from them, replaced with dozens and dozens of these males - who are free to roam as they please."

He added: "Imagine being told all this 10 years ago. You'd have been laughed out the pub.

"Yet here we are. The invasion continues, and those of us who raise fair concerns are denounced as racists and 'far-right'. How the hell has it got to this point?"

ICYMI: 'Wales NEEDS Reform!' Farage takes the fight to Labour as party sets out crucial election deadline

Reform UK is set to be Labour's "main challenger" in the 2026 Welsh Senedd election, Nigel Farage has vowed ahead of the party's Wales conference today.

Farage - alongside chief whip Lee Anderson and chairman Zia Yusuf - will be taking to the stage today as the populist party sets out its 18-month plan to make strides in the devolved Government.

In a statement ahead of the landmark conference today, Farage said: "The Senedd elections are now just 18 months away.

"During the general election, we launched our Contract with the People in Merthyr Tydfil."

He hailed Reform as "now the main challenger to Labour in Wales", and added: "Our conference in Newport marks the beginning of our efforts to present a fresh choice to voters who have been badly let down.

"Wales needs Reform.”

The Brexit heavyweight warned that the Welsh people have paid the price for "failure after failure" by successive Labour Governments, and vowed that Reform will come out on top against Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservatives' "same old stagnant promises and policies".

The party isn't expected to appoint a specific Welsh leader - so under Farage's tutelage, Reform is eyeing up having 16 Members of the Senedd in 2026, with its leader having previously said that it would win "a lot of seats".

It's also polling ahead of the Tories - in a new poll from Survation, which surveyed 2,006 adults living in Wales, 30 per cent of respondents said vote Labour if a Senedd election was called now, with Plaid Cymru on 21 per cent, Reform on 20 per cent, and the Conservatives on 17.

EXCLUSIVE: Staggering leaked messages show BBC staff in meltdown at Trump win: 'The Annoying Orange won'

Leaked messages show BBC staff expressed their dismay following Donald Trump's election victory, GB News can reveal.

"Somehow I knew this was coming and yet I'm still disappointed", one BBC employee wrote on an internal communications channel, seen by this broadcaster.

Another wrote: "For those of you have only just woken up, the Annoying Orange has just won the election."

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'Same old faces, same old message!' Tories take aim at Reform as crunch election battle heats up

The Welsh Conservatives have taken aim at Reform UK for "betraying Welsh voters" ahead of the populist party's landmark conference in Newport today.

Just yesterday, Nigel Farage vowed that his party will be Labour's "main challenger" in the May 2026 Welsh Senedd election.

Meanwhile, Lee Anderson has said the workers of South Wales view Reform as a "proper alternative" to a Government which has only ever seen Labour or Labour coalition leadership since devolution in 1997.

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Starmer rolls back the years as PM appoints Blair's chief of staff - and Chagos negotiator - Jonathan Powell as National Security Adviser

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Tony Blair's chief of staff Jonathan Powell as the UK's new National Security Adviser to replace the outgoing Tim Barrow.

Powell, whom Starmer said "has devoted his career to protecting the interests of the country", was handed a job as the PM's Special Envoy for negotiations between the UK and Mauritius over the Chagos Islands less than a month before Britain agreed to surrender them.

"Together with his experience helping to negotiate the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement and work on some of the world's most complex conflicts, he is uniquely qualified to advise the Government on tackling the challenges ahead and engage with counterparts across the globe to protect and advance UK interests," Starmer added.

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'It's like ANIMAL FARM!' Ex-Tory MP fumes at Labour 'giving in' to public sector over 'groundbreaking' Tube drivers' pay offer

Transport for London's "groundbreaking" offer to Tube drivers to ward off strikes has been compared to Animal Farm in a scathing attack by a former Tory MP.

TfL is set to hand the drivers a four-day work week, a 4.5 per cent pay rise, paid lunch breaks, fewer hours in the working week and more paternity leave, according to The Standard.

But an incredulous Alexander Stafford has labelled the offer "just like Animal Farm".

He wrote on social media: "Labour giving in once again. It's just like Animal Farm. Public sector good. Private sector bad. Who do they think pays for the public sector?"

'Pugnacious' Badenoch 'will make PMQs important again', George Osborne says in Ed Balls love-in

Kemi Badenoch will "make PMQs important again", former Chancellor George Osborne has said.

Osborne lauded Badenoch's Wednesday debut in the Commons against Sir Keir Starmer this week - and has claimed she will restore the session to its past prominence.

He told Ed Balls on their Political Currency podcast: "When you and I used to sit across from each other in the chamber, PMQs really mattered. It was like a core pivot of the political week and it really matters in opposition because it is your big opportunity for everyone to focus on what you are saying.

"Ever since the Miliband-Cameron clashes, I felt like PMQs had become much less important, even in the run-up to the last election with Keir Starmer as leader of the opposition and Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. It just didn't feel like that was where all of the political energy of the week was focused.

"I thought on the basis of that one performance this week Kemi Badenoch is going to make PMQs important again.

"That is partly a reflection of her very pugnacious style, it is partly a reflection of the political reality which is the Government is not doing as well as the Government would hope and so there is a bit of a chink for the opposition to go at."

Yusuf: 'Reform has all the momentum in British politics'

Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf has piled praise on his party's newly-elected councillor James Crawford, who ousted the Conservatives in Wyre overnight.

Crawford pipped the incumbent Conservative councillor to the post by more than 100 seats in another boost for the surging populist party.

Reacting to the news, Yusuf wrote on social media: "Another Reform WIN. Congratulations James Crawford, the latest Reform Councillor. Reform has all the momentum in British politics."

'It's not just supermarkets' warns Griffith as Reeves's Budget sends costs spiralling

Customers are set to foot the bill for a "barrage of costs" imposed on businesses by Rachel Reeves's Budget, the Shadow Business Secretary has warned.

Reacting to a warning from retail giants Sainsbury's that the Budget "is going to feed through to higher inflation" and "there will be difficult decisions to take as a result", Andrew Griffith said it wasn't just supermarkets staring down the barrel of soaring costs.

It's "not just supermarkets, every business I’ve spoken to has same story", he said.

David Lammy refuses to apologise for 'racist Nazi' Trump jabs - but insists he can find 'common ground' with President

David Lammy has refused to apologise for calling Donald Trump a "Nazi sympathiser" in the wake of the 45th President's electoral success this week.

The Foreign Secretary was pushed on whether he thought Trump had changed since he labelled him a "woman-hating, neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath" six years ago.

On social media, the Tottenham MP had written: "Trump is not only a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath...he is also a profound threat to the international order that has been the foundation of Western progress for so long."

And the year prior, he said: "Yes, if Trump comes to the UK, I will be out protesting on the streets. He is a racist KKK and Nazi sympathiser."

But speaking on the BBC’s Newscast podcast, Lammy threw out his own statements as "old news".

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He said he had made in-roads with Trump in September because he "felt it in my bones" that he would return to the White House.

He told the broadcaster: "My gut had been telling me, but also my head had been telling me, that they were in a strong position.

"I think that what you say as a backbencher and what you do wearing the real duty of public office are two different things.

"And I am Foreign Secretary. There are things I know now that I didn't know back then."

He added: "You don't get to be a senior politician in our country unless you can find common ground. I'm well known in Westminster. I get along with folk. I just do!"

Reform UK looks to Wales ahead of landmark party conference as Farage sets sights on Senedd

Reform UK's Welsh conference is set to kick off in Newport today, with Nigel Farage billing the party as the future "main challenger" to Labour at the Senedd election in 2026.

Farage is set to speak today - we'll bring you the latest updates from the conference as they come in.

Reform UK surge to ANOTHER council victory as Farage's party unseats Tories

Reform UK have won yet another council by-election, exactly one week after Nigel Farage's party sent a warning shot to Labour in Wolverhampton.

Last night, Reform won the Marsh Mill ward seat in Wyre, Lancashire - ousting the incumbent Conservative councillor by more than 100 seats.

James Crawford surged to victory with a 38.6 per cent vote share in the party's first attempt in Marsh Mill, which saw Labour and the Tories suffer a -15 per cent and -27.2 per cent slump respectively.

Last week, when Anita Stanley won in Wolverhampton, party chairman Zia Yusuf called the result as a "stunning victory" and said it proved no Labour seat was safe, while the Tories were falling "even further behind".

"Reform is rapidly opening local branches and assembling its ground campaigning capabilities... By the time of the English county council elections in May, Reform will be a formidable electoral force," he vowed.

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