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Ben Jennings on Reform UK’s council candidates – cartoon
Nigel Farage defends the party’s proceedures after its would-be councillors made racist, violent comments on camera during ITV’s undercover investigation
Eritrea accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘political gimmick’ over visa ban threat
Home secretary says she will block all Eritreans from UK unless a returns deal is agreed for rejected asylum seekers and criminals Shabana Mahmood has been accused of launching a “perfunctory political gimmick” by the Eritrean government in a row over the return of rejected asylum seekers and criminals. After the home secretary threatened to block all Eritreans from entering the UK unless a returns deal was agreed, the country’s embassy claimed the UK had failed to engage in “meaningful and appropriate” dialogue. Continue reading
John Healey poised to raise taxes on banks in budget
Exclusive: Chancellor to target sector in his first budget to help offset damage caused by Iran war on public finances John Healey is poised to tax Britain’s banks in his 28 October budget to help offset the damage inflicted on the public finances by war in the Middle East, the Guardian understands. The chancellor is in Bangkok, where the International Monetary Fund has praised the UK’s progress towards balancing the books, urging him to “stay the course”. Continue reading
Repressive, secretive and highly militarised: Eritrea, the east African country facing UK visa ban threat
Country has not had an election in 33 years and has withdrawn cooperation with UK on migrant returns Eritrea, the east African country embroiled in a row with the UK over its refusal to accept the return of rejected asylum seekers and criminals, is considered one of world’s most secretive and repressive states, with reports of arbitrary detention and severe restrictions on freedom of expression, opinion and religion.
Just as Saint Nige thought it was safe to reappear, along comes pesky ITV | John Crace
How dare the channel reveal more racism and bigotry within Reform just as he was planning a press conference?
Top health civil servant urged to play no role in clampdown on ADHD clinics
Four MPs raise conflict of interest concerns over Samantha Jones’s past links to a big provider of ADHD assessments A senior civil servant should play no part in ministers’ crackdown on private ADHD and autism clinics because of her recent ties to the industry, MPs have said. Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs are demanding that Samantha Jones, the Department of Health and Social Care’s permanent secretary, steps away from any role in plans to toughen regulation of the booming market in private neurodiversity assessments. Continue reading
Labour councils told to end agreements with Greens who do not condemn ‘Zionism is racism’ policy
Party chair calls on Labour groups to end local deals if Green councillors do not reject motion attacked as ‘antisemitic’
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson sentenced to 15 years for child sexual offences
Donaldson was found guilty in June of 18 counts of sexual abuse including one rape between 1985 and 2008 Jeffrey Donaldson has been sentenced to a total of 15 years for sexual offences against two women who were children when he abused them three decades ago. The sentence at Newry crown court on Thursday completed the downfall of a former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader who once dominated unionism in Northern Ireland. Continue reading
Wes Streeting in US for Hegseth meeting as Ukraine tensions escalate – as it happened
Defence secretary’s meeting comes after Burnham said he would help facilitate reconciliation between Zelenskyy and Trump
Burnham v Swinney: will the UK PM overshadow the SNP’s conference?
Prime minister presents new kind of challenge for SNP, and his Scottish visit will loom large over its big event
The Guardian view on Trump’s deal with Putin: grim and grubby, but not gamechanging | Editorial
Editorial: President Zelenskyy’s allies must show the Russian president that American perfidy won’t alter the course of a war the Kremlin is losing
The UK energy secretary is flirting with a bad idea for bills – the ‘rising block tariff’
There are many reasons to reject this affordability ‘solution’, not least it being complex and fiddly. Just keep things simple
That Kemi is spectacularly wrong about almost everything is a big help to the PM | John Crace
One good poll has convinced the Tory leader she is invincible. She was back in her happy place with a scattergun PMQs
This civil war on the British right is a charade – its politics are more united than ever | Jonathan Liew
Don’t be fooled by its bickering leaders. Their calibrated fake fighting will probably end in coalition, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Wes Streeting’s unintelligible jargon shows how well he’s bedded in at the MoD | John Crace
For the first time in his life, Wes is enjoying keeping secrets – though he did admit he isn’t ‘keen on fighting a war’
Ben Jennings on Reform’s pledge to suspend the UK asylum system – cartoon
The party’s most hardline immigration policies to date have been condemned by refugee charities and others as ‘unworkable’
Father was asked for DNA test to get a passport for his daughter
New post-Brexit rules mean that dual nationals cannot enter the UK unless they have a British passport My teenage daughter is unable to see her grandparents because of the UK’s new requirement for dual nationals to hold a UK passport. I’m a UK citizen, married to a French national, and we live in France. Our two older children have both French and UK passports. Our third child was born while we were living in Zimbabwe and only has a French passport. Continue reading
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