All news on the topic: Westminster

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Labour insiders say senior figures tried to broker deal between Wes Streeting and Angela Rayner
According to reports, allies of Wes Streeting are trying to recruit ousted Angela Rayner to support him in a leadership contest in exchange for a Cabinet position and reinstatement as Deputy Prime Minister.
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Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez Posts £2 million Bail amid Swiss money laundering extradition fight
Venezuelan energy magnate Leopoldo Alejandro Betancourt Lopez has been allowed to travel by private helicopter between his Chelsea and Oxfordshire residences while he contests efforts to have him sent to Switzerland on money-laundering charges.
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Attack in central London: woman in 20s reports rape in historic Victoria Embankment Gardens
The victim, in her 20s, reported she had been attacked in Victoria Embankment Gardens, Westminster, at around 4am on Tuesday.
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Farmers defy police ban and drive tractors into Westminster to protest Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax plan
Police had banned tractors from Whitehall, but farmers angry about Rachel Reeves’s tax changes brought their budget day protest to Westminster anyway.
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Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but convicted of smashing her phone
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been acquitted of harassing a transgender activist, but found guilty of causing criminal damage to her mobile phone.
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British ex-soldier speaks out as Kenya seeks his extradition for alleged killing near army base
Robert James Purkiss is facing extradition for the alleged septic tank murder of Agnes Wanjiru near an army training base.
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Defence secretary underpaid council tax due to Westminster classification mistake
Defence Secretary John Healey has admitted to underpaying nearly £1,500 in council tax on his Westminster flat due to "an administrative error" by Westminster City Council.
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Prince Andrew appears 173 times in Epstein files, making him the most-referenced Brit
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the most mentioned British name in the bombshell cache of 23,000 Jeffrey Epstein-linked documents handed to the US House Oversight Committee by the Epstein estate.
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Senior CPS prosecutor appears in court accused of sexually assaulting woman
A senior prosecutor for the CPS has appeared in court regarding an allegation that she sexually assaulted another woman.
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Reality star and royal insider Ben Duncan plunges 100ft to death from £1,000-a-night hotel
Big Brother star and reported friend of Prince William, Ben Duncan, has died aged 45.
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Westminster officers raid offices over snail farm tax avoidance
A London council has discovered offices filled with boxes of snails as it vows to crack down on a "bizarre" attempt to avoid business rates.
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UK drops China spying case against ex-parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash
For Christopher Cash, it was a job he loved. The young parliamentary researcher, then in his late twenties, was a China specialist who worked in turn for two influential backbenchers, Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Kearns.
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Ex-Reform MP under investigation for allegedly using social media to ’promote racism’
A former Reform UK MP is being investigated over claims that he used social media to “facilitate racial abuse”.
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Graham Linehan to stand trial over online attacks on transgender woman
Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan is set to face trial, accused of harassing a transgender woman, days after his arrest over social media posts.
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UK pauses family migration for refugees ahead of asylum overhaul
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced she is temporarily suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system until new, tighter rules are introduced.
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Reform UK council leader bans councillors from speaking to local newspaper
A Reform UK council leader has prohibited his councillors from speaking to a local newspaper.
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Inside Anduril’s PR blitz: how a US weapons firm won influence and contracts in Westminster
“We find ourselves locked in a critical race – a race for upholding democratic values,” urged Paul Hollingshead, then a senior figure at the weapons tech company Anduril.
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‘Nothing to hide’: Rayner defends £700k Brighton pad
Angela Rayner has admitted to a council tax controversy involving her three homes. The Deputy Prime Minister has recently purchased a seaside apartment near Brighton for over £700,000.
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Angela Rayner buys £700k Brighton flat as third home amid housing row
Deputy PM Angela Rayner has spent more than £700,000 on a luxury seaside apartment — her third home.
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Russian spies in UK Parliament: agents exposed at Brexit-related event
A BBC News investigation has discovered that three Bulgarians, who were convicted of espionage for Russia, had previously attended an event at the Palace of Westminster.
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The chief whip’s diaries disclose the rescue of a Tory MP from a KGB agent in a London brothel
From MPs’ requests for peerages to Rishi Sunak labeling a minister as ‘fucking useless’, tales from former chief whip Simon Hart’s diaries have garnered attention.
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Met Police refers itself to information watchdog after Westminster honeytrap victims’ identities were disclosed to each other
The email was sent by an officer with all recipients’ email addresses mistakenly visible to each other. The scandal involved various figures in Westminster being targeted with flirtatious messages.
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London council boss charged with drink driving and possession of class A drugs
The leader of a London council has been charged with drug and driving offences after allegedly failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
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Man arrested in connection with Westminster honeytrap case
A man has been arrested in connection with the Westminster "honeytrap" scandal.
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Corruption is on the rise in Britain. Will ousting the Tories make a difference?
Labour is talking a good game on cleaning up Westminster as an election looms — but the U.K. has a long history of opposition parties promising the earth.