Month: November 2023

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By George Wright BBC News David Cameron will return to the cabinet table for the first time in more than seven years on Tuesday after his recall to government. Rishi Sunak will meet with his new cabinet

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Joshua Nevett Political reporter David Cameron has said he wants to support Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “at a hard time”, after making a dramatic comeback to government in a major cabinet reshuffle. The former prime minister

PA Media By Alex Kleiderman & Helen Catt BBC News The government is looking to strengthen police powers to deal with protesters, following demonstrations in London. Right-wing protesters clashed with officers on Saturday and some members of the huge pro-Palestinian march were accused of using antisemitic slogans. Suella Braverman is under continued pressure after criticising

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Israeli President Isaac Herzog has denied that Israel is striking Gaza’s largest hospital. Reports from staff at Al-Shifa suggest the facility, sheltering thousands of Palestinians, has run out of electricity. But Mr Herzog said “everything is operating”

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak has condemned “violent, wholly unacceptable” actions by far-right groups and “Hamas sympathisers” after protests and clashes in London. About 300,000 pro-Palestinian protesters marched to call for a ceasefire, in the biggest UK rally since the

By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg You won’t find a politician saying it loud, but fear matters. Running a government or a political party is not a business where the aim is to hold hands and sing Kumbaya. The task to is win power. To hold on to it. To get things done.

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Katya Adler & Toby Luckhurst BBC News, Paris Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC. In an exclusive interview at the Élysée Palace, he said there

Reuters By Dominic Casciani and Sean Seddon BBC News The Metropolitan Police has imposed an exclusion zone around the Cenotaph ahead of planned demonstrations in London this weekend. The force said any Pro-Palestinian protesters who try to assemble close to the war memorial would be arrested. Rishi Sunak has urged protesters to be “mindful of

Getty Creative / Andrew Medina By Christy Cooney BBC News Police chiefs must be able to operate without political interference, one of the UK’s most senior officers has said. Gavin Stephens, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) chair, suggested policing could be undermined if “public debate” influences decision making. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has accused

Reuters Rishi Sunak did not clear Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s article attacking the Metropolitan Police for its handling of pro-Palestinian protests. The PM’s spokesperson said Downing Street is “looking into what happened” with the article. But they added Mr Sunak had full confidence in the home secretary. Writing in The Times, Ms Braverman accused the

The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen has travelled with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) into Gaza. While the BBC had editorial control of the report, the section with the IDF has been viewed by them. The IDF showed the BBC what they said was a Hamas weapons factory, below a home in which children lived.

BBC/Getty By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn. It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight. He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it

House of Commons By Ione Wells, political correspondent, and Christy Cooney BBC News Labour MP Imran Hussain has quit Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow ministerial team over his desire to “strongly advocate for a ceasefire” in Gaza. Mr Hussain was the shadow minister for the New Deal for Working People. He said he remained committed to

Reuters By Paul Seddon Politics reporter King Charles has outlined the government’s priorities for the year ahead, in his first King’s Speech as monarch. The speech outlined 21 laws that ministers intend to pass in the next year-long session of Parliament. Around a third have been carried over from the previous session, or previously published

PA Media Offenders who commit murders with sexual or sadistic content will get life sentences, under plans to be set out in the King’s Speech on Tuesday. The speech, where King Charles reads out the government’s plan for the coming months, is part of the State Opening of Parliament ceremony. It will also include measures

Reuters By Simon Jack & Lucy Hooker BBC News British Steel plans to close down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, putting up to 2,000 jobs at risk. The business, owned by China’s Jingye Group, wants to replace them with two electric arc furnaces – one at Scunthorpe and one at Teesside. The construction is expected