Day: September 14, 2025
Phillipson warns divided Labour cannot win as she vies to become deputy leader
September 14, 2025Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said she wants to “unite” the Labour Party and beat Reform UK as she vies to become deputy leader. She is running against Lucy Powell, who lost her post as Commons leader in the Cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner resigned as deputy party leader over her tax affairs. Ms Phillipson […]
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Business Secretary pledges steel tariff announcement ‘as soon as possible’
September 14, 2025Business Secretary Peter Kyle has said that tariff relief for UK steel is being negotiated and that he will “make sure that we have an announcement as soon as possible”. The UK and US signed a trade deal in June that reduced tariffs on car and aerospace imports to the US, but failed to agree […]
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Mandelson had ‘quite a record’ as ambassador but Epstein links ‘inexplicable’
September 14, 2025Peter Mandelson left “quite a record” for eight months in post but his links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after his first conviction were “inexplicable”, a former UK ambassador to the US has said. The Labour grandee was sacked as US ambassador on Thursday after emails were published showing he had sent supportive messages even as […]
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Is Westfield Stratford shopping centre open today? Fire breaks out at east London site
September 14, 2025Jen Mills Published September 14, 2025 9:13am Updated September 14, 2025 11:55am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Shoppers had to abandon their cars for the night after fire broke out at Westfield shopping centre in east London yesterday evening. The Stratford City […]
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Women aged up to 74 ‘targeted by serial sexual attacker’ in London neighbourhood
September 14, 2025Brooke Davies Published September 14, 2025 9:00am Updated September 14, 2025 10:42am
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The rise of rentvesting: ‘I’m a homeowner, but I pay £2,500 a month to rent in London’
September 14, 2025Despite owning a ‘nice family home’ in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, Charlie Clark pays £2,500 a month to live in a London rental flat. ‘Ideally, I would like to buy a place in London, but it just feels impossible,’ the 34-year-old CEO of SEO agency Minty Digital tells Metro. Seeing no way to […]
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‘My children and I haven’t had hot water for over a month – it’s disgraceful’
September 14, 2025A family who were left without hot water for more than a month at their south east London home have branded the response from their housing association ‘disgraceful’ and are demanding compensation. Remi Olawole had been waiting for repairs to her boiler since August 5 but says she has been ‘fobbed off’ by Clarion Housing […]
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