Jennifer McKiernan,Political reporterand Joshua Nevett,Political reporter Watch: The “two main parties are rotten”, Robert Jenrick says in first speech as a Reform member Former Conservative shadow minister Robert Jenrick has announced he is joining Reform UK, hours after he was sacked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for plotting to defect to Nigel Farage’s party. Jenrick…
US President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to quell unrest over federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. He threatened to send in troops following a night of protests and vandalism in the Minnesota city after an agent shot a man in the leg. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
The key moment of Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform UK had it all. It was politics at its most raw: where choreography hasn’t had time to get its boots on. Hundreds of us were crammed into a room at Reform HQ designed for far fewer – and then when Nigel Farage unveiled his latest recruit,…
Will GrantBBC’s Cuba correspondent in Havana Watch: Public pay their respects to Cubans killed in Venezuela during US raid From sunrise, throngs of military personnel, government officials and civilians lined the route between Havana’s airport and the Armed Forces Ministry to applaud home the remains of 32 Cuban troops killed in Venezuela as they passed…
25 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform UK features heavily on Friday’s front pages. The former Conservative shadow minister, who was sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting against her, has become the “most senior Tory to switch to Reform”, the Guardian reports. Jenrick has called the Conservatives “rotten” and a “failed” party….
Actor Timothy Busfield has made his first court appearance after turning himself in on criminal charges that he allegedly sexually abused two boys on the set of a TV series filming New Mexico, prosecutors say. The Emmy-winning actor, who starred in Thirtysomething and The West Wing, was taken into custody in Albuquerque on two counts…
Joe PikePolitics correspondent EPA On Wednesday afternoon in a large wood-panelled room in parliament, Robert Jenrick was sitting alongside Kemi Badenoch and the rest of the Conservative shadow cabinet talking about foreign policy. “He was honestly very positive and chipper”, says one who was in the room. Within twenty-four hours a sensational leak from inside…
Watch: Machado says she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has told reporters that she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it. “I think today is…
World champion Luke Littler beat veteran Paul Lim 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Bahrain Masters. On his first trip to the oche since retaining his world title at Alexandra Palace on 3 January, Littler put in a statement performance. The 19-year-old had an average of 106 as he brushed aside 71-year-old Singaporean Lim….
Reuters Rights groups say more than 2,400 people were killed in the authorities’ violent crackdown on protests Families of people killed in the protests in Iran have told the BBC that the authorities are demanding large sums of money to return their bodies for burial. Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that bodies are being…