Author: James Carter

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…

Sir Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally told human rights lawyers they had made a greater contribution to society than the decorated British soldiers they had spent years falsely accusing of murder and torture in Iraq, newly obtained emails reveal — a disclosure that has prompted former senior military figures to demand his immediate resignation. Emails analysed by The Telegraph show Attorney General Lord Hermer making the extraordinary claim in April 2014, at a moment when key evidence had emerged at a public inquiry that fatally undermined the case his legal team had been pursuing against British troops. Writing to a…

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is emerging as a genuine third-party force in Australian state politics, with new polling showing the populist movement commanding the support of one in five Victorian voters ahead of November’s state election — a development that has sent shockwaves through both major parties and prompted the Liberal Party to consider a dramatic shift in its preference strategy. Two sources inside the Victorian Liberal Party told The Age the party was now seriously considering directing preferences to One Nation ahead of Labor at the November 28 state election, reflecting how seriously the centre-right has begun to…

Angela Rayner has told Labour MPs that the moment to remove Sir Keir Starmer from Downing Street is “now or never,” as the embattled Prime Minister faces what could be the most critical week of his premiership — including a potential Commons vote that his own allies say would effectively function as a confidence motion. Rayner, the former Deputy Prime Minister, is understood to have spent the weekend canvassing support among Labour backbenchers alongside her allies, according to MPs who spoke to the Mail on Sunday. “The line from Angela is that it needs to happen now otherwise this deadly…

Sir Keir Starmer is facing accusations of breaching the ministerial code after it emerged that an undeclared visit to the Washington headquarters of defence technology firm Palantir — a company that was simultaneously a client of Lord Mandelson’s lobbying firm — was never logged on his official transparency returns. The Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson attended the meeting at Palantir’s Washington DC offices on 27 February 2025, while Mandelson was serving as Britain’s ambassador to the United States. The visit, which involved a presentation on the company’s work followed by an office tour, was also attended by Britain’s defence attaché…

Sir Keir Starmer is considering sacking Rachel Reeves as Chancellor in a sweeping post-election reshuffle that Labour insiders are describing as a last-ditch attempt to salvage his authority after what is widely expected to be a disastrous set of local election results on 7 May. According to sources close to the government, Downing Street has pencilled in significant changes to the Cabinet for the days immediately following the local polls, with Reeves’s position among those under consideration. One insider described the plan as “one final roll of the dice” to re-establish the Prime Minister’s grip on his administration before potential…

Labour is facing the loss of Birmingham city council for the first time in decades as around 40 pro-Palestinian independent candidates make gains across traditionally safe seats in Britain’s second-largest city, capitalising on a toxic combination of local failure and deep anger over the government’s position on Gaza. The scale of what is unfolding in Birmingham represents one of the most significant electoral shifts in British urban politics in a generation. In ward after ward with large Muslim populations, candidates running under independent and pro-Gaza banners are on course to win seats that Labour has long treated as untouchable. The…

Labour backbenchers are actively plotting to remove Sir Keir Starmer from Downing Street in the immediate aftermath of the local elections on 7 May, with multiple MPs telling The Telegraph that the Prime Minister’s position has become untenable and that a swift leadership transition is now the party’s only viable path forward. The mood within the parliamentary Labour Party has shifted sharply from despondency to outright anger over the past week, driven by the continuing fallout from the Mandelson security vetting scandal and the subsequent revelation that Downing Street had sought to secure a diplomatic posting for Lord Doyle —…