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Liz Truss is disputing a invoice she has been requested to pay regarding a rustic home which she had use of as overseas secretary.The invoice is reportedly for £12,000 however the former prime minister's spokesman claims the precise determine is decrease. The bill, first reported in The Mail on Sunday, covers the interval in August 2022 when she used Chevening House in Kent, through the time she was working to be Conservative chief earlier than being elected to No 10 the next month.Ms Truss claims a lot of the bill pertains to utilizing the grace-and-favour dwelling for presidency enterprise and she or he maintains she shouldn't be liable for almost all of it. Image: The then overseas secretary met three Baltic overseas ministers a...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise mentioned Sunday that it’s time for President Biden to come back to the negotiating desk within the wake of House Republicans passing a invoice to lift the debt ceiling and keep away from default. The laws, which Senate Democrats and the White House say is a non-starter,...

Despite first surfacing virtually a month in the past, that is the primary time Sir Keir Starmer has been comprehensively interrogated over the assault adverts which have precipitated such a stir in his celebration.What the interview with Sophy Ridge uncovered was a possible vulnerability the Labour chief has opened up by adopting such an inflammatory model of campaigning. The core message the promoting is attempting to land is that Rishi Sunak must be personally held liable for any failures which have occurred within the final 13 years of Tory rule. Image: Labour celebration Tweet So, if that is the case, ought to this similar logic be utilized to the Labour chief?It seems so. Asked if he took full duty for each baby a...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is anticipated Monday to press President Biden on U.S. commitments to defend the island nation and bolster their financial alliances as China flexes its muscle on his doorstep within the South China Sea. The White House stated it invited Mr. Marcos for bilateral co...

Convicted terrorists might be banned from taking a number one function in non secular companies and face extra rigorous checks for extremist literature.The new guidelines are a part of a authorities plan to crack down on harmful radicalisers behind bars. Terrorist prisoners won't be able to guide the decision to prayer or ship sermons.This is along with current measures stopping essentially the most harmful prisoners main Friday prayers by extending the ban to all faiths and never simply these in high-security prisons.More on prisons:Nearly 'one in three prisoners launched on probation recalled to jail'Govt working out of jail locations and asks police for 400 cells The authorities has additionally confirmed limits on prisoners' property that may forestall extremists dodging ...

Sir Keir Starmer has denied {that a} Labour assault advert aimed toward Rishi Sunak is racist.A collection of current advertisements, which have been described as "gutter politics" and criticised by a few of Labour's personal MPs, have focused the prime minister personally. In an interview with Sky News - resulting from be aired on Sky News on Sunday from 8.30am - Sophy Ridge questioned the occasion chief about one specifically.It asks: "Do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison?"It provides, in capital letters: "Rishi Sunak doesn't." Labour cited information from the Ministry of Justice exhibiting that 4,500 adults convicted of intercourse acts on kids had averted a jail sentence because the Conservatives got here to energy in 2010.Ris...

National exemptions are in place to offer important care throughout strike motion by nurses, a union chief has insisted, telling Sky News employees would by no means depart sufferers unsafe or create extra threat.Royal College of Nursing (RCN) normal secretary Pat Cullen was chatting with Sophy Ridge On Sunday forward of a 28-hour walkout by members over pay. The industrial motion will run from 8pm on Sunday till 11.59pm on Monday night time after voting to reject the newest authorities supply.Politics newest: Union chief says nurses are pushed to the brinkThe union initially stated it could not conform to derogations - broad areas of care the place staffing is assured regardless of industrial motion - fuelling issues about sufferers being put in danger. It led Great Ormond S...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter tried like no president ever needed to put human rights on the heart of American overseas coverage. It was a turnabout dictators and dissidents alike discovered laborious to consider as he took workplace in 1977. The U.S. had such an extended historical past of supporting crackdowns on in style actions - was his insistence on restoring ethical rules for actual? ...

BUFORD, Ga. — A slate of Georgia Republicans led by Gov. Brian Kemp handily received reelection final 12 months over far-right major opponents endorsed by Donald Trump and backed by the state celebration chairperson, displaying the bounds of the previous president and his 2020 election lies within the crucial swing state. ...

The workers on the “overly political” National Archives refused to assist former President Donald Trump pack up his workplace within the ultimate days of his administration, in line with the previous president, and their absence brought about him to unknowingly take categorized materials to his dwelling in Mar-a-Lago. ...