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MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer picking up a dropped trade agreement at the G7 Leaders' Summit.
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Rachel Reeves outside 11 Downing Street before a cabinet meeting.
Rachel Reeves reconsiders non-dom tax changes to halt exodus
Portrait of Baroness Louise Casey.
Grooming gangs ‘still at large, and the victims aren’t believed’
Crime
Portrait of Baroness Louise Casey.
Grooming gangs ‘still at large, and the victims aren’t believed’
Crime
Pro-choice protestors holding a banner that reads "For a Woman's Right to Choose".
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Pro-choice protestors holding a banner that reads "For a Woman's Right to Choose".
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Baroness Louise Casey holding a red file folder.
Baroness Casey tells MPs that grooming victims want change
Baroness Louise Casey holding a red file folder.
Baroness Casey tells MPs that grooming victims want change
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer picking up a dropped trade agreement at the G7 Leaders' Summit.
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Starmer bends for a friend in a comedy of errors
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer picking up a dropped trade agreement at the G7 Leaders' Summit.
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Starmer bends for a friend in a comedy of errors
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There are concerns that the agreement could exclude Tata Steel, Britain’s biggest steel manufacturer

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Sir Keir Starmer met President Trump at the G7 summit in Canada, where Trump said the UK would be ‘very well protected’ from tariffs ‘because I like them’

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Two former heads of MI5 are among 60 senior figures warning Sir Keir Starmer that cutting the budget for conflict resolution would be a false economy

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Baroness Casey of ­Blackstock said police, local authorities and other institutions had avoided the question of ethnicity “for fear of appearing racist”
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Landmark report reveals authorities used flawed data to dismiss concerns

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Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has expressed her “deep concerns” about abortion law changes in a letter to her constituents
Ministers likely to back ‘extreme’ plans to decriminalise abortion

The vote would protect women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks but has been condemned by the justice secretary

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‘Whitehall tried to block Rotherham grooming scandal exposé’

Dominic Cummings claims officials wanted Michael Gove to stop the publication of a Times story about the sexual abuse and trafficking of children

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Luke Charters, the MP for York Outer, with his wife, Beth, and their son
Pro-Palestinian protesters are threatening me, says MP

Labour’s Luke Charters says activists are scaring away his constituents and have ‘crossed a line’

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Businesses could be forced to tell workers what colleagues earn

New measures designed to improve pay transparency may also require employers to list salary brackets on job adverts

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Baroness Casey of Blackstock says the grooming gang problem has been used as a tool by the far right
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Baroness Casey: I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls

The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal

The Times

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Jun 17, 2025
As Starmer and Trump agree a trade deal, what about steel?

There are concerns that the agreement could exclude Tata Steel, Britain’s biggest steel manufacturer

The Times
Jun 17, 2025
Starmer and Trump agree US-UK trade deal

Sir Keir Starmer met President Trump at the G7 summit in Canada, where Trump said the UK would be ‘very well protected’ from tariffs ‘because I like them’

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
UK facing global insecurity with ‘one hand tied behind its back’

Two former heads of MI5 are among 60 senior figures warning Sir Keir Starmer that cutting the budget for conflict resolution would be a false economy

The Times
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Far-right bandwagon? Starmer’s been on it a while

Months after dismissing those calling for a national inquiry into grooming gangs, the PM has now announced one. But is it the humiliation his critics say?

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
Ethnicity ‘brushed aside’ in grooming gang inquiries

Landmark report reveals authorities used flawed data to dismiss concerns

The Times
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Jun 16, 2025
Ministers likely to back ‘extreme’ plans to decriminalise abortion

The vote would protect women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks but has been condemned by the justice secretary

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
‘Whitehall tried to block Rotherham grooming scandal exposé’

Dominic Cummings claims officials wanted Michael Gove to stop the publication of a Times story about the sexual abuse and trafficking of children

The Times
Jun 16, 2025
Pro-Palestinian protesters are threatening me, says MP

Labour’s Luke Charters says activists are scaring away his constituents and have ‘crossed a line’

The Times
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Businesses could be forced to tell workers what colleagues earn

New measures designed to improve pay transparency may also require employers to list salary brackets on job adverts

The Times
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Baroness Casey: I feel rage on behalf of the abused girls

The peer whose report recommends a public inquiry into grooming gangs says nobody is learning the lessons of the scandal

The Times
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