JD Vance praises Brexit during Munich speech: 'No voter went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants'

President Trump confirms he will meet Keir Starmer 'in the next few weeks'

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had spoken with Sir Keir Starmer the day before and he agreed to meet with him, perhaps in the next few weeks.

Trump also said he would he would take a hard stance on Saturday on Gaza, the Palestinian enclave for which he has proposed a US takeover and where a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants is in place.

Badenoch faces call to apologise after party political clip filmed in Parliament

KemiBadenoch faces a call to apologise for filming part of a Conservative Party political broadcast in Parliament.

Commons Leader Lucy Powell called for a "full and speedy apology" after she heard allegations the Tory leader also used a Government-funded car in the four-minute video.

A Conservative Party spokesman told GB News: "The Leader of the Opposition is a security protected individual, and is provided with secure transport for official and party political use. Similar arrangements apply to Ministers, who are able to use Ministerial cars for party business."

Lammy to urge European nations to adopt sanctions against people smuggling gangs

David Lammy will urge European countries to develop sanctions against people smuggling gangs as he meets counterparts at the Munich Security Conference this weekend.

The Foreign Secretary has said that only working together to tackle smugglers will “take the wind out of their sails”.

The UK is due to host a migration round-table meeting alongside Italy at the conference on Saturday, which will see figures from Poland, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Germany and other nations discuss smuggling and immigration crime.

Lammy said: "Criminal gangs enabling irregular migration are a national security threat across Europe. We must deliver on our mandate to smash the gangs, secure this country’s borders and deliver the plan for change. Only by working together with our neighbours will we take the wind out of their sails and degrade the appalling trade in people.

"We must also target the root causes of migration, which is why we are boosting opportunities across eastern Africa – making people less likely to travel to the UK in the first place."

Starmer says Britain supports Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to joining Nato

Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain is committed to Ukraine being on an “irreversible path” to joining Nato after the US appeared to rule out membership for the war-torn country.

The Prime Minister bolstered his backing for Kyiv in a phone call with President Volodymir Zelensky as global leaders gather in Munich for a major security conference.

A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "The Prime Minister began by reiterating the UK’s concrete support for Ukraine, for as long as it’s needed. He was unequivocal that there could be no talks about Ukraine, without Ukraine.

"The Prime Minister reiterated the UK’s commitment to Ukraine being on an irreversible path to Nato as agreed by allies at the Washington Summit last year."

Rupert Lowe praises Vice President JD Vance's 'brutal' speech

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe has heaped praise on JD Vance's Munich speech, calling it "brutal."

Reacting to the Vice President's speech, the Reform UK MP said: "Every single brutal second of this from JD Vance. Truth, after truth, after truth. Uncontrolled mass immigration has put every European at risk. We didn’t vote for this, we don’t want it. Deport the illegal migrants, secure the border."

He added: "The Americans have got a real hero in JD Vance."

Davey demands Starmer go to Munich to meet JD Vance - 'Seize the moment!'

Sir Ed Davey called on the Prime Minister to "seize the moment" and go to the Munich Security Conference to make clear to Donald Trump that his proposals on Ukraine are "unacceptable."

Responding to news of Sir Keir Starmer’s call with the US president on Thursday, the Liberal Democrat leader said: "Keir Starmer must be clear with Donald Trump that his proposals on Ukraine are unacceptable.

"There is not a moment to lose. It is critical that the Prime Minister joins the gathering of global leaders taking place this weekend at the Munich Security Conference, and does all he can to bolster support for Ukraine.

"Keir Starmer must seize the moment and ensure that Trump’s plans to lock Ukraine, the UK and European allies out of decisions about our shared future do not succeed."

Reform UK wins its first EVER council seat in Wales as candidate receives higher vote share than Farage did in Clacton

Reform UK has won its first ever Welsh council seat in a landmark victory - with a higher vote share than Nigel Farage received in his constituency last year.

The populist party has booted out long-standing Labour from the seat of Trevethin and Penygarn (Torfaen) with an astounding 47 per cent of the vote.

Labour came second, with 26.6 per cent of the vote - in a humiliating blow to Starmer's party with 49.2 per cent of their previous vote share in the previous election.

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Labour's meeting on counter-extremism failed to discuss 'Islamist extremism' for 90 minutes

The Labour Home Secretary's key meeting on counter-extremism failed to discuss - or even refer to - "Islamist extremism" for its opening 90 minutes.

The phrase "Islamist extremism" did not come up in the first part of a Home Office meeting - which did not go unnoticed by one attendee, Fiyaz Mughal, who is the founder of NGOs Faith Matters and Tell MAMA.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mughal said that 90 minutes had passed before any civil servant or experts who were leading the meeting even mentioned "Islamist extremism" - despite it being considered the largest security threat in Britain.

'Risks bringing chaos back to Britain!' Labour suspects Tories of 'dodgy backroom deal' with Reform as top Tory dodges grilling

Labour has accused the Conservative Party of sorting a "dodgy backroom deal" with Farage's party, after top Tory Robert Jenrick refused to rule out the possibility of a pact.

When asked whether the parties would agree on a deal, Jenrick told The Sun that neither Reform nor Tory leader Kemi Badenoch have expressed a desire to conduct a merger - failing to rule out the possibility of a future pact.

In resonse, a Labour spokesman said: "The Tories continue to say the quiet part out loud: they’re plotting a dodgy backroom deal with Reform to deceive the public.

"The Conservatives wrecked public services and Nigel Farage plans to wreck the NHS - charging patients thousands for routine treatments. Their now open secret risks bringing chaos back to Britain."

Starmer to meet Trump in forthcoming visit, Downing Street confirms

Keir Starmer will soon be packing his bags for his forthcoming trip to meet with President Donald Trump in Washington DC.

Downing Street has confirmed that during their exchange, the PM and the President stressed the "special nature of the UK-US relationship, the strength of our alliance and the warmth of the connection between the two countries".

The phone call took place while the PM hosted Mark Burnett - Trump’s Special Envoy to the United Kingdom - who highlighted the "huge potential for even stronger collaboration on trade, tech and cultural matters" between the two nations.

Labour education minister exposed over running WhatsApp group calling pensioners 'terrorists'

A Labour minister used to oversee a horrendous WhatsApp group which featured messages calling pensioners "terrorists" and abused colleagues.

Education minister Stephen Morgan was in charge of a Labour group chat which contained slurs against elderly residents and veterans who rallied against mass immigration, The Sun reports.

Further attacks were launched on former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - with one AI-edited image being shared Keir Starmer holding the hand of a small version of the Richmond and Northallerton MP with the caption: "C'mon, you don't want to miss the Rwanda flight."

A Portsmouth Labour spokesperson said: "We acknowledge some of the language used in this chat should be of a higher standard. Portsmouth Labour will continue to campaign relentlessly for the change that residents want, and for the services Portsmouth council taxpayers deserve."

Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to joining Nato, PM assures Zelenskyy

Ukraine is on an "irreversible path" to becoming a Nato state, the Prime Minister has assured Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The phone call between the two world leaders has followed President Donald Trump informing journalists that he did not see a way that any nation in "Russia's position" would permit Ukraine to join the international organisation.

Recounting this morning's phone call between Starmer and the Ukrainian president, a Downing Street spokesman said: “[The Prime Minister] was unequivocal that there could be no talks about Ukraine, without Ukraine."

“The Prime Minister reiterated the UK’s commitment to Ukraine being on an irreversible path to NATO, as agreed by Allies at the Washington Summit last year," he added.

Starmer's excuse for Chagos deal 'blown out the water' by Labour minister as islanders plead to STAY British

The PM's reasoning of national security for his Chagos Islands deal has been "blown out of the water" by one of his own ministers - as Chagos Islanders beg to remain under British sovereignty.

Science minister Sir Chris Bryant has seemed to suggest that it was not possible for an international organisation to shut down UK communications in the Indian Ocean - as Starmer's team has previously suggested.

"The ITU cannot challenge the UK’s use of civilian or military spectrum,” Bryant said, responding to a written parliamentary question.

"It is possible that one country could challenge another’s spectrum use, for instance if it should cause harmful interference across borders, and if unresolved bilaterally could seek arbitration through an ITU body."

In the past, Downing Street has insisted that the PM's deal to hand over the islands to Mauritius is necessary to ensure the safety of communications at the US-UK military base due to concerns that the possibility of a UN court's rejection of British sovereignty would ultimately be cornered into yielding its secure communications by UN organisation International Telecommunication Union.

The move would, in effect, undermine any sensitive communications on the jointly-owned US-UK base.

A spokesman for the PM told journalists last week that "the electromagnetic spectrum at the Diego Garcia base would not be able to continue to operate without a deal".

The seemingly apparent rift within Starmer's Cabinet has come at the same time as 400 Chagossians gather to beg Britain to not surrender the territory - with one 70-year-old telling The Telegraph that the islanders had "no voice" in the deal.

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'Won't touch the sides!' Starmer's defence spending plans blasted by top military bosses in stark warning

Top military bosses have warned the Prime Minister that his current defence spending plans are not sufficient to meet targets within the department.

Although Labour has promised to increase its spending on defence to 2.5 per cent of GDP, the Government has not yet disclosed when it plans to do so.

Lamenting the lack of funds, one Whitehall source told The Telegraph: "This 2.5 per cent figure won’t touch the sides".

Donald Trump has urged Nato members to spend at least five per cent on their defence budget in order to assume greater responsibility for Ukraine.

'Between 5,000 and 6,000 people a year' will kill themselves under assisted dying plans, both supporters and critics say

Between 5,000 and 6,000 people a year will kill themselves if MPs and peers change the law to legalise assisted dying, critics and supporters of the reforms have told GB News.

The new estimate is far in excess of the estimate by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who proposed that fewer than 1,000 patients a year in England and Wales are expected to choose assisted dying should the law pass.

The Government is officially neutral on Leadbeater's Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and has not published an impact statement to estimate many people might kill themselves.

However, a critic and supporter of the proposals both told Chopper's Political Podcast - out today - that it will be between 5,000 and 6,000 a year.

Tory MP Neil Shastri-Hurst - who supports the proposals - said: "I've heard a figure of about 5,000 or 6000. I think that's probably the ballpark we're in.

"The Government has set out the reasons for not doing an impact assessment at this stage. There are arguments for and against - inevitably, the bill will be refined as we go through the committee stage."

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Tulip Siddiq stays silent after UN report finds aunt's regime tortured and killed children

Tulip Siddiq has stayed silent after a UN report revealed that her aunt's regime tortured and murdered children in Bangladesh last year.

Sheikh Hasina left Bangladesh in August 2024 following protestors storming her palace - as well as the parliament.

Siddiq resigned as Labour's City minister last month after a series of controversial stories surfaced regarding her connections with her aunt's party - the Awami League.