Author: James Carter

Chancellor Rachel Reeves was seen wiping away tears as Sir Keir Starmer received a standing ovation from Labour MPs at his final Prime Minister’s Questions, in a striking display of unity from a party that had ousted him just two years after his landslide election victory. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and her MPs remained seated throughout, as Starmer prepares to hand over Downing Street to Andy Burnham on Monday. Starmer was cheered into the Commons chamber for the weekly session, with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle opening proceedings by thanking him “for his public service, his international leadership, particularly in his steadfast…

Jurors at Southwark Crown Court have been shown CCTV footage of Conservative MP Patrick Spencer inside London’s Groucho Club, as he stands trial accused of groping two women during a night out in August 2023. Spencer, who represents Central Suffolk and North Ipswich and lost the Conservative whip after being charged, denies both counts of sexual assault against him. The footage shown to the jury captured Spencer, 38, mingling at the members’ club in the period after the alleged assaults took place. In the clip, he is seen sitting on a sofa with a small group of people before pushing…

Older Tesla models are proving far more troublesome for owners than any other used electric vehicle on Britain’s roads, according to new data shared exclusively with the Daily Mail and This is Money. Figures from used warranty provider Warranty Solutions Group (WSG) show the Tesla Model S tops the list for repair claims, with more than a third of owners forced to make a claim within the space of a year. According to WSG’s data, 34.8 per cent of Tesla Model S owners filed a warranty claim between May 2025 and April 2026, with the average repair costing £1,012. The…

The UK government has formally proscribed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), citing threats to life and intimidation carried out on British soil, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has confirmed. The move, made possible by newly fast-tracked legislation, makes the IRGC the first state military organisation to be designated under the UK’s new foreign influence powers. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed the designation in a written statement to Parliament, saying the UK has “identified activity linked to the IRGC involving threats to life and intimidation on UK soil”. The announcement follows the government’s decision to fast-track the National Security (State Threats)…

Motorists are being warned that petrol and diesel prices are on the way back up, just weeks after drivers enjoyed the biggest monthly fall in diesel costs on record. Fresh US strikes over the weekend, launched in response to an Iranian attack on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz, look set to reverse the recent price relief at UK forecourts. Fuel prices had fallen sharply through June, with drivers benefiting from lower oil prices as ceasefire talks in the Middle East raised hopes of easing tensions. Diesel alone dropped by 17p a litre last month, the largest single-month…

Nigel Farage has resigned as MP for Clacton and triggered a by-election he intends to contest himself, but Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens have all refused to field candidates, leaving the Reform UK leader facing a field dominated by fringe contenders including satirical candidate Count Binface. Nigel Farage formally stood down as MP for Clacton on Wednesday, resigning through the traditional mechanism of accepting the Crown office of Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and is now expected to seek re-election in an August by-election. Reform UK has confirmed it will not field an alternative…

Kilchoan Estate, a 13,000-acre Highland property owned by German industrialist Christoph Henkel and his wife Katrin, has opened to guests as Dunton’s first European destination, offering fossil fuel-free luxury accommodation accessible only by boat or on foot in one of Scotland’s most remote wilderness areas. A remote Highland estate on the Knoydart Peninsula has opened its doors to guests for the first time, following a major restoration by German billionaire industrialist Christoph Henkel and his wife Katrin. Kilchoan Estate by Dunton spans 13,000 acres between Loch Nevis and Loch Hourn and marks the luxury hospitality brand’s first property in Europe,…

Volodymyr Zelensky joked he could not safely meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow due to Ukrainian drone strikes, during a strikingly warm exchange with Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Turkey that also saw the US president offer Kyiv a licence to manufacture Patriot air-defence missiles. Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky put on a display of warmth at Wednesday’s NATO summit in Turkey, a marked shift from their fractious history, as the US president floated giving Ukraine the right to manufacture its own Patriot interceptor missiles. Asked by Trump whether he would travel to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin, a…

Only 27 of Victoria’s 79 councils have adopted Daniel Andrews’ mandatory glass recycling scheme, with a growing coalition of local governments warning the multi-million-dollar rollout is unaffordable and unnecessary given the success of the state’s Container Deposit Scheme. A signature recycling policy introduced by former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been described as “all but dead” nearly three years after he left office, as the majority of the state’s councils refuse to implement it. Andrews’ 2027 deadline requiring all Victorian councils to introduce purple-lidded glass recycling bins is facing widespread resistance, with government insiders telling the Herald Sun the target…

William Nieporte says he was forced out of the $8 billion asset manager he co-founded for breaching a return-to-office policy he himself signed off on, in a rare legal dispute now playing out on two separate fronts. The co-founder of an asset management firm now worth more than $8 billion has launched legal action claiming he was pushed out of the business for failing to comply with a return-to-office policy that he helped put in place. William Nieporte, 57, ran Bramshill Investments for nearly a decade alongside his high school friends Art DeGaetano and Stephen Selver before being fired in…