Labour

Tory police and crime commissioner is told to apologise and act more professionally on social media after wrongly accusing a man of misusing public funds

A police and crime commissioner has been ordered to apologise to an individual over ‘disrespectful’ and inaccurate comments he made on social media. Festus Akinbusoye, the Conservative PCC for Bedfordshire, was reprimanded after suggesting the unnamed man had misused public funds. The

April 25, 2024

Sadiq Khan is berated by rival Susan Hall over record on policing and ULEZ expansion during bad-tempered London mayor debate

Sadiq Khan was berated over his record on policing and ULEZ during a bad-tempered London mayor debate last night. The Labour incumbent came under fire from Tory candidate Susan Hall as they clashed on LBC with just over a week until crucial

April 24, 2024

Sadiq Khan is blasted for spending millions to hire pen-pushers while crime in London soars

By Martin Beckford Policy Editor Published: 17:15 EDT, 14 April 2024 | Updated: 17:28 EDT, 14 April 2024 Sadiq Khan has been blasted for taking millions more pounds from his policing budget to hire more pen-pushers while failing to cut violent crime.

April 14, 2024

‘It’s subhuman’: Residents furious as council makes them ‘homeless’ after kicking them out of shipping container homes on estate branded ‘worst place to live in Britain’

The final residents of two shipping container estates branded ‘the worst place to live in Britain’ have been given eviction notices which will see them kicked out in days. They are in ‘total limbo’ and claim they could be left on the streets

April 6, 2024

Daytime thefts reach record high with seven out of 10 pickpockets and nearly half of bike thieves striking in daylight, new figures show

Thieves are becoming more brazen as thefts during the daytime reached a four-year record high, new figures show. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed more than seven in ten (71 percent) of pickpocketing incidents and nearly half of bike thefts (46

April 6, 2024

Labour crime tsar who moaned about ‘savage frontline cuts’ to police funding spent £50,000 of taxpayers’ money on a campaign campervan

By Claire Ellicott Whitehall Editor Published: 18:30 EDT, 29 March 2024 | Updated: 09:14 EDT, 30 March 2024 A Labour crime tsar who bemoans a lack of cash for her force has bought a £50,000 campaigning campervan with taxpayers’ money. Durham Police

March 30, 2024

Rishi Sunak rules out holding the general election on 2 May as PM dismisses growing speculation he could go to the polls in just seven weeks’ time

Published: 14:35 EDT, 14 March 2024 | Updated: 14:37 EDT, 14 March 2024 Rishi Sunak tonight ruled out holding the general election on 2 May as he dismissed growing speculation he could go to the polls in just seven weeks’ time. The

March 14, 2024

Keir’s ‘quad’ to run the country: Starmer plans to tear up ‘unwieldy’ Cabinet government system and take key decisions with top allies

By Greg Heffer, Political Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 07:07 EDT, 11 March 2024 | Updated: 07:18 EDT, 11 March 2024 Sir Keir Starmer will tear up the ‘unwieldy’ system of Cabinet government if he becomes PM and rely on a ‘quad’ of

March 11, 2024

Bankrupt Birmingham City Council faces strike action after Labour-run local authority votes for £300million of ‘devastating’ cuts and huge council tax hike

Bankrupt Birmingham City Council is facing strike action after a Labour-run local authority voted for ‘devastating’ cuts and a huge council tax hike. The Unite Union said it would do ‘everything in its power politically and industrially’ to make sure workers don’t

March 6, 2024

As pro-Palestinian firebrand George Galloway storms home in Rochdale by-election, how the Israel-Gaza war is causing chaos across the political landscape

As pro-Palestinian firebrand George Galloway stormed home in Rochdale by-election, fury over the Israel-Gaza war is causing chaos across the political landscape. The conflict became the stand-out issue in yesterday’s Rochdale by-election which saw Mr Galloway triumph with almost 40 per cent

March 2, 2024

This is a disaster for Britain… it’s what happens when the Tories and Labour fail to stand up for our values, writes ex-Labour MP IAN AUSTIN

The election of George Galloway isn’t just a problem for Rochdale, it is a disaster for the country. The veteran rabble-rouser has poisoned politics with nasty extremism for decades. Tony Blair expelled him from the Labour Party after Galloway called on British

March 1, 2024

DOMINIC LAWSON: The former Post Office boss has lost her CBE, but a perjurer, a fraudster and a sex criminal are still Lords. Isn’t it time we stripped them of THEIR titles?

One of the greatest of honours is the CBE: Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Three days ago, it was announced that the King, on the advice of the Honours Forfeiture Committee, had stripped Paula Vennells, the former

February 25, 2024

The topic that is dominating British politics: Pro-Palestine protests bring streets to a standstill and cause chaos in the Commons while ‘Gaza by-election’ takes place in Rochdale… as families worry about cost of living and inflation

Pro-palestine protests have swept the country and dominated the British political landscape in recent months, with fury over the Israel-Gaza conflict causing chaos in the Commons and becoming the stand-out issue in the Rochdale by-election. The vote has been dubbed a referendum

February 25, 2024

Rebel Tories threaten to scupper flagship crime Bill if it leads to abortion being decriminalised

Dame Diana Johnson’s amendment could be passed next month in a historic vote By Martin Beckford for The Mail on Sunday Published: 17:52 EST, 24 February 2024 | Updated: 20:12 EST, 24 February 2024 Rebel Tories are threatening to bring down the

February 25, 2024

How it took a group of woke ad execs 13 days of riding on trains, five months of ‘co-creation workshops with writers, poets and performers’ (and £100,000 of public money) to dream up Sadiq Khan’s ‘patronising and insultingly twee’ London Overground rebrand

It could be a scene straight from the vaults of cult political comedy The Thick Of It. A group of branding execs paid £100,000 of public cash to sit on London Overground trains for 13 days until inspiration struck for a name for the

February 18, 2024

DANIEL HANNAN – Why Russia must be broken up: For more than a thousand years it’s been the tyrannical land of the purge, the gulag and Ivan the Terrible. Conquest is wired into its psyche

Phew! I was starting to feel downright unpatriotic. Russia has sanctioned hundreds of Brits, including 213 Conservative and 74 Labour MPs. But, until yesterday, my name was not on any of the lists. ‘You been sanctioned too, Hannan?’ the MPs would ask,

February 12, 2024

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Now bring Boris off the bench, Rishi. He’s your star striker

The Labour Party is currently in a considerable mess. An obvious rift has opened up between Sir Keir Starmer and his Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in which Ms Reeves is currently the winner. Such conflicts are normal in government, but it is

February 11, 2024

Keir Starmer demands Rishi Sunak ‘do the right thing’ and apologise ‘swiftly’ for transgender joke at PMQs – as mother of murdered trans teen Brianna Ghey declines to get involved in Commons row

Sir Keir Starmer today demanded Rishi Sunak ‘do the right thing’ and apologise ‘swiftly’ for his transgender joke at Prime Minister’s Questions. The Labour leader called on his Tory rival to heed a call by Peter Spooner – the father of murdered

February 9, 2024

Indian chief execs are too scared to visit London in case they are hit by Mayfair Rolex robbers as Britain and New Delhi haggle over post-Brexit trade deal

Business leader Devin Narang raised fears about soaring crime in the UK capital He warned Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy at a summit By Aidan Radnedge Published: 10:27 EST, 7 February 2024 | Updated: 10:51 EST, 7 February 2024 Indian chief

February 8, 2024

Rishi Sunak ‘invites Brianna’s mother Esther Ghey for talks’ amid furious row about swiping at Keir Starmer’s trans views while she was watching PMQs

Rishi Sunak has invited Brianna’s mother for talks as a row rages over his swipe at Keir Starmer’s trans views while she was watching PMQs. The premier has dismissed pressure to say sorry after he ridiculed the Labour leader’s claim that some

February 8, 2024