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Razor wire put up at new Chinese super embassy site after youths scale gate in security incident

Local residents are due to challenge the Government’s decision to give the go-ahead to the huge diplomatic development

Evening Standard

Local elections 2026: What's at stake for Starmer, Labour and London?

The Prime Minister faces a battle for survival as the results of the May elections come in

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Ministers announce £1m for Jewish communities ahead of antisemitism talks

It comes as Sir Keir Starmer prepares to host figures from public life in Downing Street to discuss a ‘whole of society’ response to antisemitism.

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Special moment hailed with passing of Northern Ireland Sign Language Bill

Campaigners described a long journey to the legislation that includes the provision of free sign language classes to deaf children and their families

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IShowSpeed criticizes planned removal of Communities on X, cites 100K-member group

They say it's not a good move.

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£100 home heating oil grant to be paid out by ‘summer at earliest’

Communities Minister Gordon Lyons has urged the UK Government to act with measures that can be delivered rapidly to help those struggling with costs.

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Trump raises hope of swift end to war as he pauses Iran energy blitz sending oil price plunging

The US president suspends threat to ‘obliterate’ Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz was not opened

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Labour ‘have to make our case’ to voters ahead of May contests, Steve Reed says

The Communities Secretary claimed the response on doorsteps ‘has been more positive than the opinion polls’ suggest.

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DUP minister ‘claiming’ some of the earliest US settlers for Northern Ireland

Gordon Lyons said it is ‘not about division’ but to make Northern Ireland stand out in the minds of those in the US.

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New anti-Muslim hate definition ‘will not restrict freedom of speech’, Steve Reed says

The latest government figures showed that religious hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales reached a record high in the year ending March 2025

The Independent UK

Anti-Muslim hate definition will not restrict freedom of speech, vows Steve Reed

Critics have raised concerns that doing so could create backdoor blasphemy laws, and curtail speech about Islamic extremism.

Evening Standard

Oil prices latest: Reeves ready to support release of reserves and issues inflation warning over US-Iran war

Price of oil has surged since US and Israel launched airstrikes towards Iran 10 days ago

The Independent UK

New measures to tackle extremism at universities and in charity sector unveiled

Government is launching a new action plan to promote ‘shared values that unite us as a nation’

The Independent UK

Morgan McSweeney: The rise of Sir Keir Starmer’s right-hand man

The Prime Minister’s chief of staff held many political roles during his journey from building sites to Downing Street.

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Donald Trump may U-turn on opposition to Chagos Islands deal, suggests Cabinet minister

Communities Secretary Steve Reed argued that the US president unleashed ferocious criticism against the UK over the agreement as a negotiation tactic in his bid for America to acquire Greenland

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Furious backlash grows against cancelling local elections which 'could see 10 million denied vote'

The Conservatives, Reform UK and Liberal Democrats have condemned the delays

The Independent UK

Labour MPs call for planned Chinese ‘mega-embassy’ in London to be axed

Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly set to approve the proposal ahead of his trip to China

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Bin collections under threat in some London boroughs from town hall funding cuts, warn business leaders

Bosses warn London will be particularly badly hit by the controversial reforms

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London Muslim fun run ‘reviewing policies’ after over-12 girls ban sparks uproar

Communities Secretary Steve Reed ‘appalled’ by race that had excluded women in Tower Hamlets

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Presbyterian Church raised concerns with PSNI after child sex offence conviction

The Church has been called upon to provide more clarity around ‘serious failings’ in safeguarding.

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Lack of clarity around Presbyterian Church safeguarding failures, says Lyons

Moderator Rev Trevor Gribben is to stand down after stating people have been harmed and others placed at risk because of the failings in the Church.

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Minister 'appalled' as London councillors stand in Bangladesh elections

Communities Secretary Steve Reed has written to Tower Hamlets Council

Evening Standard

'Go to America,' Andrew told by Government he should face US grilling on links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

‘Any individual who can help with an investigation of that gravity should go and help if they can,’ says Communities Secretary Steve Reed

The Independent UK

Government approves two new Surrey councils as reorganisation milestone reached

A local government minister said the approved proposal is more likely to be financially sustainable.

Evening Standard

Foreign Office and Home Office drop demand for security changes at new Chinese mega-embassy in London

EXCLUSIVE: Two Whitehall departments had been requesting that a planning condition be a new ‘hard perimeter’ for part of the controversial new diplomatic complex at Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets

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