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Keir Starmer is accused of breaking ‘gold-plated promise’ over plans to hike university tuition fees by more than £1000

Labour is drawing up plans to hike university tuition fees by more than £1,000 – even though Sir Keir Starmer once promised to scrap them. Ministers are understood to be looking at raising the £9,250-a-year charge in line with inflation, meaning it could…

LORD ASHCROFT: Don’t be gulled by Labour’s rocky start. The Conservatives have a huge task to restore their reputation for competent government

The Tories will gather in Birmingham on Sunday, for their first conference since July’s General Election disaster, in a much more cheerful mood than anyone could have expected. Labour‘s approval ratings have plunged, following the grasping hypocrisy of ‘freebiegate’ and a string of unpopular…

Famous Pittsburgh sandwich shop faces boycott over its treatment of JD Vance

A well-known Pittsburgh restaurant is now facing calls for a boycott after it turned vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance away from its doors. On Saturday afternoon, Senator Vance tried to make a campaign stop at Primanti Bros in North Versailles, but…

‘I’d like to pretend this is my apartment’: Keir Starmer jokes with US business leaders amid row over his undeclared use of Labour donor’s £18m London penthouse to address the nation on TV

Keir Starmer joked about pretending a flash UK government building in New York was his own home today – amid questions over whether he used a Labour donor’s opulent penthouse as his own home. The PM made the off-the-cuff remark as he entertained…

Sir Keir Starmer had ANOTHER £16,000 of clothes given to him by Labour peer Lord Alli as row over Prime Minister’s freebies deepens

The freebies row engulfing Sir Keir Starmer deepened on Friday night as it emerged he was given another £16,000-worth of clothes by Labour peer Lord Alli. Two donations, one for £10,000 in October 2023 and another for £6,000 in February this year, were quietly…

Tory leadership race could be cut short to allow Rishi Sunak’s successor to tackle Labour’s budget

The Tory leadership contest is set to be cut short to allow Rishi Sunak‘s successor to take on Rachel Reeves at next month’s Budget. Senior Conservatives are in talks about bringing forward the announcement of the party’s new leader by a week from its current…

Labour to hike university tuition fees to £10,500 despite previous pledge to scrap them altogether – amid fears the current system is ‘unsustainable’

University tuition is set to rise with inflation to £10,500 under the new Labour government, despite the party previously vowing to scrap them altogether. Officials have put together plans that would see tuition fees, which have been frozen for the last seven…

Keir Starmer in fresh war of words with Elon Musk as billionaire issues warning over UK

Sir Keir Starmer has once again entered into a war of words with X boss Elon Musk, after the US billionaire claimed people shouldn’t go to the UK. Elon Musk (Image: Getty) Mr Musk said that people should avoid visiting Britain because…

Keir Starmer reveals another £16,000 clothes donation from Labour peer Waheed Alli

Sir Keir Starmer was given additional clothes valued at £16,000 from wealthy Labour peer Waheed Alli, which the Prime Minister declared as a donation to his private office, it was been revealed. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin…

Angela Rayner wants to ruin our pretty little village – we’ll go to war to stop her

Angela Rayner at Labour Party Conference in Liverpool (Image: Getty) Angela Rayner is trying to force through a “massive” data centre in a quaint and quiet rural village – despite local decision-makers already furiously rejecting the proposal. The Labour Party MP for Ashton-under-Lyme is…