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Jeremy Corbyn has also said that Sir Keir Starmer’s insistence that the pair were never friends is “primary school stuff”. The former Labour leader, who has been blocked from running as the party’s candidate in Islington North at the next general election, said that he had always seen Sir Keir as a “colleague” when the pair worked together. The veteran left-winger, who sits in the Commons as an independent, also

Rishi Sunak is under investigation after facing allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares his wife holds in a childcare agency that was boosted by the Budget. Parliament’s standards watchdog opened the inquiry into the Prime Minister under rules demanding MPs are “open and frank” when declaring their interests. The investigation relates to the shares Akshata Murty holds in Koru Kids, a Downing Street source told the PA

The return of Britain’s Got Talent has drawn around half a million fewer viewers than last year, when the show came back on air for the first time since the pandemic. ITV said the first episode of the 16th series had an average of 5.5 million viewers based on overnight figures. The peak viewing figure of the premiere of the talent show on Saturday at 8pm was 6.2 million viewers. The broadcaster said it was ITV1’s

The King and Queen Consort have personally chosen a recipe for “Coronation Quiche” in celebration of the Big Lunches due to be staged to mark their coronation. Charles and Camilla shared the recipe for the open baked savoury tart, which features spinach, broad beans and tarragon, the royal family’s official Twitter account revealed. For the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, Coronation Chicken – cold chicken in a curry

A court in Moscow has convicted a top Kremlin opponent on charges of treason and denigrating the Russian military and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr, a prominent opposition activist who twice survived poisonings he blamed on the Kremlin, has been behind bars since his arrest a year ago. He has rejected the charges against him as political and likened the judicial proceedings against him to

Nikita Kuzmin has revealed that Graham Norton is his dream Strictly Come Dancing celebrity partner. The 25-year-old Ukrainian dancer has been a Strictly professional since 2021. Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Monday, Kuzmin was asked by presenter Sally Nugent about his ideal Strictly partner, to which he replied: “Well, I just recently said that I would really wish to have Graham Norton. “Just because I think it would be really

Millions are eligible for the spring Covid-19 booster from today as hundreds of thousands of vaccination appointments are made available to book through the NHS. Around five million people in total are eligible for a booster until the end of June, with the first vaccinations taking place from Monday across 3,000 sites in England. Eligible people include those aged 75 and over, and anyone aged five and over who has

The NHS is spending more than £1 million a week hiring private ambulances to attend emergency calls, according to research by a trade union. Unison said its figures were based on responses from two thirds of ambulance trusts in England that pay commercial companies to provide cover for critically ill patients. More than a dozen private companies are being commissioned by ambulance trusts across England to fill widening gaps in

Labour has pledged to train thousands more GPs as it claimed nearly three million patients have seen their practice close down or merge in the past five years. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said GP practices are “shutting up shop across the country”, leaving people to “travel miles to be seen and GPs overburdened”. According to figures obtained by the party through freedom of information (FOI) responses from NHS bodies