Author: James Carter

Two Green Party election candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred after allegedly posting antisemitic content online, including posts suggesting that attacking a synagogue constituted “revenge” and accusing the British government of being “overrepresented with Zionist Jews.” The Metropolitan Police detained two women aged 54 and 57 in London on Thursday morning under Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986, taking them into custody for questioning. The arrests followed an investigation launched after concerns about antisemitic material posted online were reported to police on 21 April. The Met has not confirmed the identities of those…

The Bank of England has held its base rate at 3.75 per cent, with eight of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee voting to keep rates unchanged and just one member pushing for an increase. The decision was widely anticipated by economists, who had warned that the ongoing conflict in Iran had made it too soon for rate setters to move in any direction with confidence. Before the war erupted on 28 February, the Bank had been expected to cut rates today, reducing the base rate to 3.5 per cent in what would have been the first reduction…

Reform UK has announced plans to ban foreign nationals from accessing taxpayer-funded student loans, describing the current system as a “foreign student ponzi scheme” that has cost the British public more than £4 billion a year. Nigel Farage’s party says up to 300,000 foreign nationals living in the UK are currently drawing on student loans annually, with the cost to taxpayers having risen by 40 per cent in recent years — up from £3.2 billion in 2021-22. Under Reform’s proposals, maintenance loans, grants and all Student Loans Company funding would be restricted to British nationals only, with foreign nationals expected…

Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded that Sir Keir Starmer take decisive action to protect Britain’s Jewish communities, saying words alone were insufficient in the wake of the Golders Green stabbings, as Israel warned that London had become too dangerous “to openly walk the streets as a Jew.” The Israeli prime minister’s intervention came as the British government faced a wave of international and domestic condemnation following Wednesday morning’s knife attack in north London, in which two Jewish men — one in his 70s and another in his 30s — were stabbed on Golders Green Road by a suspect who was seen…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski is facing intense criticism after a video resurfaced in which he suggested that fears about antisemitic attacks within Jewish communities may be a matter of “perception of unsafety” rather than actual danger — comments that landed days before two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green in a knife attack now being investigated by counter-terrorism police. The contrast between Polanski’s words and the violence that followed has drawn furious responses online, with one user writing sarcastically: “Don’t know why he’s worried, it’s probably just a perception of unsafety and a couple of unstabbings.” Another went…

The chairman of John Lewis has delivered a stark warning about the state of retail crime in Britain, describing the current wave of shoplifting as the worst he has witnessed in 35 years in the industry — while firmly rejecting the growing public appetite for workers to physically confront thieves. Writing in The Telegraph, Jason Tarry said he received “daily reports of abuse, organised criminal gangs and serious physical attacks” on John Lewis and Waitrose staff, but insisted the answer lay not in encouraging “have-a-go heroes” but in a coordinated response from retailers, law enforcement and the courts working together.…

Potentially explosive messages between Peter Mandelson and government ministers have been reviewed and are ready for release, but are unlikely to be published before next week’s local elections — meaning Sir Keir Starmer could face a fresh crisis over the scandal the moment Parliament returns. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee confirmed last night it had completed its review of a large tranche of documents the Government was ordered to release in February. However, ministers are to be given the opportunity to contest the level of redactions applied on national security grounds, and with Parliament proroguing today ahead of the King’s…

Rupert Lowe, the Restore Britain MP and former Reform UK politician, has proposed banning all foreign nationals from claiming UK welfare benefits and deporting migrants who are unable to financially support themselves — with the savings redirected to reduce taxes for British workers. The policy, outlined by Lowe on social media, would bar non-British citizens from accessing Universal Credit, disability benefits and social housing, with a proposed residency and employment requirement of at least five years before any entitlement could be considered. Foreign nationals who cannot demonstrate financial self-sufficiency would be required to leave the country, with deportation for those…

Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff has told MPs he made “a serious mistake” in recommending Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the United States, saying the depth of the Labour peer’s relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “way, way, way worse” than he had ever understood it to be. Morgan McSweeney, who resigned from his role in Downing Street in February, appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee and gave his most candid account yet of the events surrounding Mandelson’s appointment and eventual sacking. He said the revelations that emerged about Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein — including photographs…

Britannia Daily can exclusively reveal an interview with Harris Khaliq, the independent candidate standing in Birmingham’s Ward End district, who has spoken candidly about Labour’s treatment of Muslim communities, his reasons for leaving the party and what he would do if elected. As a growing number of independent candidates prepare to contest traditionally safe Labour seats across Birmingham — threatening to end the party’s decades-long grip on Britain’s second city — Britannia Daily spoke exclusively with one of the most prominent challengers to hear directly from him about why he believes Labour has forfeited the right to govern communities it…