Politics - Sunday, September 13, 2026

More than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job losses Hundreds of UK hospitality businesses, backed by celebrity chefs including Angela Hartnett and Heston Blumenthal, have asked Andy Burnham to lay out plans to lower VAT for the sector, urging him to make good on his previous pledge. More than 800 businesses have written an open letter to the prime minister as part of the #V...

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President Donald Trump called the moment "terrible" after video showed AOC and Zohran Mamdani appearing to laugh during the Ground Zero ceremony.

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Kirsty McNeill reaffirms Labour’s 0.7% of GDP pledge and promises value for money to allay voter concerns The development minister, Kirsty McNeill, has declared herself “a huge believer in aid”, as she reaffirmed Labour’s manifesto pledge to return to a target of 0.7% of national income spending. McNeill, a former adviser to Gordon Brown and senior executive at Save the Children, declined to give any timetable, re...

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Dispatch audio captures the frantic search for Tom Tiffany after his plane lost power and plunged into Lake Wausau in darkness Saturday night.

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Prime minister vows to ‘reindustrialise Britain’ through new partnership with business The prime minister is to host business leaders, entrepreneurs and local mayors at Downing Street on Monday to pitch his government as a “partner for growth” that can offer a stable platform for investment and jobs in the UK. Ahead of the event, Andy Burnham said the country had “everything it needs to succeed”, including talente...

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US president brushes off Andy Burnham’s opposition to referendum and says he will remove Irish whiskey tariff Donald Trump has reiterated his support for Irish unification and brushed off Andy Burnham’s opposition to a referendum. “Everybody says that. Then things happen,” the US president said on Sunday of the British prime minister’s response. Continue reading...

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President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for the family of Lindsay Clancy’s three children while signaling that he would not intervene in the former nurse’s state murder case.

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PM has so far declined to insert curbs on UK-based donors, despite £72m donations from billionaires to Reform UK Trade unions, MPs and donors have urged the government to look again at party funding rules, after Reform UK insisted £72m in donations from two crypto billionaires was within the law. Andy Burnham, a previous backer of caps on domestic donations, has so far declined to insert any curbs in the elections...

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President Donald Trump told reporters he wants Volodymyr Zelensky to stop hitting Russian diesel refineries, saying the strikes are causing a global fuel shortage.

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The Supreme Court blocked Missouri's new congressional map, forcing the state to use 2022 boundaries that favor Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City district.

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Call for constitutional change in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales likely to challenge Burnham’s devolution agenda The first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are to affirm their countries’ right to seek independence from the UK at a summit that is likely to challenge Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda. The Plaid Cymru leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, the Scottish National party leader, John Swinney, an...

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President Donald Trump demands a 30-foot George Washington statue replace the "Infinity" sculpture outside the National Museum of American History in Washington.

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