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The insurgent party's membership has swelled by 25,000 in the last month.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today (Sunday 7 July) detailed the new border control policy the Labour government is set to implement after scrapping the controversial Rwanda Bill. Saying “nobody should be making these boat crossings”, Ms Cooper, who was made Home Secretary on Friday (5 July), explained that the UK needs “a major upgrade in law enforcement”: “We are immediately launching the process to recruit the new border security commander, but also to make sure we have new cross-border police and to get new counter-terror powers in place.” After chairing his first cabinet meeting as prime minister yesterday, Sir Keir Starmer announced that the Rwanda deportation plan “was dead and buried before it started.”

Proposal is one of several being looked at by Ministry of Justice to address the ‘acute’ prison crisis

The UK's new Defence Secretary has pledged to step up the UK's support for Ukraine on a visit to Odesa, less than 48 hours after his appointment.

The prime minister repeats his message that working closely with the devolved nations will be "key to delivering change" across the country.

Britain's newly appointed health secretary, Wes Streeting, will hold talks next week with junior doctors to end an industrial strike action, he said in a statement on Friday.

Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he would scrap a controversial plan to fly thousands of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda in his first major policy announcement since winning a landslide election victory.

The Prime Minister spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this afternoon.

In an otherwise jubilant night for Labour, the party has performed badly in areas with a high proportion of Muslim voters