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Downing Street spokesman will not say when PM realised his deputy had not paid her full stamp duty liabilityReeves has ‘full confidence’ in Rayner after stamp duty errorKitty Donaldson from the i says Keir Starmer may get the report from his ethics adviser about Angela Rayner tomorrow.NEW: Senior Government sources are playing down reports ministerial watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus could send Sir Keir Starmer his report into Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s tax affairs as soon as today. One Whitehall source said tomorrow is more likely. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/04/tories-flat-tax-angela-rayner-keir-starmer-news-updates-uk-politics-live Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-09-04

President asks supreme court to reverse earlier decision that most of his sweeping trade tariffs were illegalTrump asks supreme court to overturn trade tariffs rulingHello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.We start with news that Donald Trump has asked the US supreme court to overturn a lower court decision that most of his sweeping trade tariffs were illegal.Children in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio and hepatitis.The governors

Legislation validates flawed decisions, cuts off appeals and gives government sweeping powers to deport people, campaigners claimFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe major parties have been accused of “stitching up” a deal to transform Nauru into Australia’s “dumping ground and penal colony” as parliament passed laws stripping basic legal rights from a group of noncitizens set to be deported.The home affairs legislation passed the Senate on Thursday, after a snap three-hour parliamentary hearing the night before. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/04/labor-coalition-pass-deportation-laws-naura-australia-penal-colony-australia-critics-say Author : Sarah Basford Canales

Labor attorney general says settling appeal right thing to do after Coalition’s ‘disastrous’ automated Centrelink debt recovery schemeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government has agreed to pay $475m in additional compensation to roughly 450,000 victims of the robodebt scandal, in the largest class action settlement in Australian history.The government announced on Thursday it had agreed to settle Knox v the commonwealth – an appeal from the original 2020 robodebt class action settlement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/04/robodebt-victims-win-record-settlement-centrelink-government-compensation Author : Dan Jervis-Bardy Publish date :

Another 18 people injured when Gloria funicular railway car derails and apparently crashed into a buildingA day of national mourning has been declared in Portugal after at least 15 people were killed when Lisbon’s well-known Gloria funicular railway car derailed and crashed on Wednesday.An emergency services spokesperson said some foreign nationals were among the dead but would not identify the victims or disclose their nationalities. At least 18 people, including a child, were injured, five of them seriously. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/at-least-three-people-killed-many-injured-in-lisbon-funicular-crash Author : Helen Livingstone and agencies Publish date : 2025-09-04 01:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs

Will Thilly danced, backspun and moon-walked at Cranford meeting while raising questions on local tax hikesA man from New Jersey has gone viral after breakdancing at a local town hall meeting.Will Thilly, a resident of the township of Cranford, just outside New York City, on Tuesday took to the podium by performing a wordless robot dance. As he made his way up the aisle, he spun around and danced without music, leaving the room in an awkward silence. Some attendees looked away while others buried their faces in their hands. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/new-jersey-breakdancing-tax-town-hall Author : Maya Yang

Former foreign affairs minister avoided Beijing photocall featuring Vladimir Putin. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe government will provide $1m of funding to support Afghanistan, after it was hit wth a deadly earthquake.In a statement, the foreign minister, Penny Wong, said the earthquake has exacerbated the dire humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/04/australia-politics-live-bob-carr-daniel-andrews-beijing-putin-question-time-labor-coalition-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-ntwnfb Author : Krishani Dhanji Publish date : 2025-09-03 21:23:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealedUS politics live – latest updatesChildren in Florida will no longer be required to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chicken pox, polio and hepatitis, said Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, on Wednesday in a speech during which he likened vaccine mandates to “slavery”.Ladapo, hand-picked for the role by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, is a long-time skeptic of the benefit of vaccines, and has previously been accused of peddling “scientific nonsense” by public health advocates. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate Author

Donald Trump calls clamor over Jeffrey Epstein files a ‘Democrat hoax that never ends’ as bipartisan group of lawmakers try to force vote on legislationTrump can’t use Alien Enemies Act, court rulesAs part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/03/donald-trump-immigration-tariffs-epstein-us-politics-live-news-updates Author :

Judge said shadow justice secretary’s comments during trial of Elias Morgan were ‘ill thought through’ The justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has suggested that her Tory counterpart, Robert Jenrick, was guilty of “risking the collapse of trial”, after he was criticised in court for tweeting about a criminal case.Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, posted on social media about a murder trial a week after it had begun, making comments that the judge said were “ill thought through”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/justice-secretary-suggests-jenrick-risked-collapse-of-trial-with-tweet Author : Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-09-03 13:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Starmer says he is ‘proud’ to sit beside working class woman who became deputy PM after Rayner admits underpaying stamp duty on £800,000 flatKemi Badenoch is probably hastily redrafting her PMQs script in the light of Angela Rayner’s statement about underpaying her stamp duty. She has got less than half an hour to craft the right questions. And she will probably want to ask about the economy, and hate speech laws, too.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/03/farage-starmer-badenoch-pmqs-news-updates-uk-politics-live Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-09-03 11:20:00 Copyright for syndicated

Philippe Lazzarini says Unrwa has been ‘sounding alarm bells for months’ over famine and violence in Gaza but law has been ‘blatantly disregarded’Tens of thousands of reservists in Israel will return to active service in the coming weeks amid an intense debate in their ranks over the war in Gaza, which reflects wider divisions in the country.Some will be forced to make their decision within days. The Israel Defense Forces began mobilising tens of thousands of reservists on Tuesday after calling up 60,000 for an expanded offensive in Gaza City, one of the few places in the devastated territory outside

In today’s newsletter: The leftwing candidate crushed rivals Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns. Will his leadership take the party to new heights – or risk alienating hard-won moderates?Good morning. After a bruising leadership contest, Zack Polanski didn’t just win the Green party vote, he cleaned up. His “eco-populist” platform – which borrowed directly from Nigel Farage’s playbook – earned him 85% of votes.Polanski defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, winning 20,411 votes relative to their 3,705 in a ballot of party members. The contest exposed deeper questions about Green party identity and how it positions itself amid a rapidly shifting

In an unprecedented spectacle the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea led a group of more than 20 world leaders at a victory day parade in BeijingFull report: Xi Jinping appears with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un at China military paradeIt is an image that, had it been published just a few years ago, would have been dismissed as a piece of mischievous photo-shopping: the leaders of Russia and China, accompanied by the head of a pariah regime whose mission to arm his country with nuclear weapons had been opposed at the United Nations by his two companions.But dramatic

Xi Jinping is showing off China’s military hardware at event attended by leaders from Russia, North Korea, Iran and MyanmarThe parade has commenced, they are singing the Chinese national anthem.Photos have emerged showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stepping off his armoured train at Beijing Railway Station accompanied by his daughter, Kim Ju-ae. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/03/china-victory-day-military-parade-80th-japan-surrender-live-updates-xi-jinping-putin-kim-jong-un-latest Author : Ima Caldwell Publish date : 2025-09-03 01:17:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Opposition leader says she ‘felt sick’ watching a neo-Nazi interrupt Jacinta Allan’s press conference on Tuesday. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRowland denies government trying to put more information out of public’s reachSo what about the Albanese government’s promise that it’s open and transparent?As we found out through robodebt, which was another example of a lack of transparency which cost people lives under the previous government, just labelling something cabinet in confidence does not make it so and we intend to enshrine that in this law.We’ve had cases where FoI requests have

The men, who had been released after serving criminal sentences, are from Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Jamaica and YemenLawyers for five men deported by the US to Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, said they are being denied proper access to their clients, who they said are being imprisoned illegally.The men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba have criminal convictions, but had all served their sentences and been released in the US, their lawyers said. The US deported them to the small southern African country without warning in July, claiming they were “depraved monsters”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/lawyers-say-men-deported-by-us-to-eswatini-are-being-imprisoned-illegally Author : Rachel

Laken Ashlee Snelling, a 21-year-old cheer team member, faces charges of corpse abuse and evidence tamperingA University of Kentucky athlete allegedly placed her dead infant inside a trash bag later found in a closet while trying to hide the baby’s birth, leading to her being jailed, according to local authorities and media reporting.Laken Ashlee Snelling, 21, faces charges of corpse abuse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant after her arrest on Sunday, police in Lexington, Kentucky, said in a statement. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/university-kentucky-cheer-charged-dead-infant-closet Author : Ramon Antonio Vargas Publish date : 2025-09-02

Judge said administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany Ice agents on immigration raidsUS politics live – latest updatesA judge has ruled the Trump administration’s use of national guard troops during southern California immigration enforcement protests is illegal.Judge Charles Breyer ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump’s administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids. The judge did not require the remaining troops withdrawn, however. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trumps-national-guard-troops-los-angeles-illegal Author : Guardian staff and agencies Publish date : 2025-09-02 15:08:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Republicans and Democrats are at loggerheads over funding, while Donald Trump is to make a mystery announcement from the Oval Office later today Donald Trump’s “exciting announcement” expected at 2pm ET will be “related to the Department of Defense”, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna plan to hold a news conference tomorrow with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse as the political fallout from the saga continues to engage Congress on several fronts. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/02/congress-returns-government-shutdown-funding-trump-announcement-us-politics-live-latest-updates Author : Joseph Gedeon (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier) Publish date : 2025-09-02 12:35:00 Copyright

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’Lamb says the Greens are “the antidote to Reform”.That gets a big round of applause.We’re a home for all those people across the country holding their heads in their hands as the Labour government lets them down again and again and again, whether it is switching from the aid budget or from people with disabilities and not bringing in taxes … we need.And that is why, in reaction, a new Green wave is sweeping the country as people turn to us.It’s already

Chancellor will face more limited fiscal headroom at budget after yield on 30-year bond increases to 5.68%Business live – latest updatesReshuffle gymnastics prepare Starmer to walk tricky budget tightropeBritain’s long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level in 27 years, intensifying the pressure on chancellor Rachel Reeves before the autumn budget.The yield, or interest rate, on 30-year UK government debt hit 5.680% on Tuesday morning. That is its highest level since 1998, indicating that it will cost the UK more to borrow from the markets, above the previous 27-year high of 5.649% set in April. Continue reading... Source link :

Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers.Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/02/women-stop-linking-asylum-seekers-sexual-abuse Author : Ben Quinn Publish date : 2025-09-02 04:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

The landslide destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorMore than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivor, said the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/02/sudan-landslide-kills-at-least-1000-people-rebel-group-says Author : Reuters Publish date : 2025-09-02 02:25:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Those in UK aged 11-17 said seeing a celebrity gambling or advertising it made them want to emulate them, survey findsChildren as young as 11 feel tempted to try betting after being “flooded” by celebrities and sports stars promoting it, according to two reports that found nearly 90% of children aged 13-17 are exposed to gambling content online.The UK’s leading gambling charity, GambleAware, which commissioned the reports, urged regulators and policymakers to address social media accounts and influencers producing betting content on platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch in light of the findings. Continue reading... Source link :