By my reckoning, yesterday will be remembered as perhaps the most difficult of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership yet, with even close allies telling me they are not sure where it will end. His admission at Prime Minister’s Questions that he knew of the friendship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him as […]
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Is the Mandelson-Epstein crisis Sir Keir Starmer’s Profumo scandal? Both involved sex, call girls, lurid revelations and a police investigation. Tap here for the latest on the Epstein files The Profumo scandal brought down Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s. Secretary of state for war John Profumo had an affair with call
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Leicester City have been docked six points after being found to have breached profit and sustainability rules (PSR) for the 2023/24 season. Leicester, who play in the Championship, were docked the points after being found to be in breach of the English Football League’s (EFL) financial rules, the Premier League said in a statement on
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Documents released by the US Department of Justice reveal plan for Jeffrey Epstein to own a majority stake in Sarah Ferguson’s women’s empowerment brand after his child sex offence conviction. In 2009, Sarah Ferguson began a year-long effort to launch Mothers Army, a company and personal brand with the mission to “help amplify the voices
Saturday Night Live has announced the comedians cast for the first UK incarnation of the hit late-night US series. They include Taskmaster stars Ania Magliano and Emma Sidi, Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, and Ayoade Bamgboye, who was named best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards last year. Larry Dean, who has appeared on Live
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British nationals Lindsay and Craig Foreman have been sentenced to 10 years in prison over allegations of espionage in Iran. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has condemned their sentence as “completely appalling and totally unjustifiable”. “We will pursue this case relentlessly with the Iranian government until we see Craig and Lindsay Foreman safely returned to the
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A weather system, named as Storm Pedro, is forecast to bring rain and snow to Britain today and tomorrow – but “much milder” conditions are expected for the weekend. The naming comes from Meteo France, the equivalent to the Met Office in France, where the storm is expected to have a bigger impact. Despite the
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Young people who have encountered the police and have been victims of crime have said they lack trust in the system and often feel unheard. Sky News listened in as sixth-form students at one London school were visited by a minister ahead of the government announcing it was launching a consultation to give young people
An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a university student was stabbed in Leicester city centre. Police were called just after 5pm on Tuesday following a report a man had collapsed in Oxford Street, close to the junction with Bonners Lane, near De Montfort University. The attack happened in Leicester city centre.
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The government says it wants to fix fostering. Again. This week’s pledge – £88m, a national recruitment drive, and promises to “modernise” the system – sounds familiar because it is. For more than a decade, successive governments have announced plans to attract foster carers while quietly avoiding the harder question: why so many are leaving.
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