Scottish Tory leader Findlay says SNP's indy 'obsession' is dangerously irresponsible

Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' motion. The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood. Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK Nearly all women who try to reach the UK in small boats from northern France have been raped on their journey, Shabana Mahmood has claimed. In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, the home secretary said far-right, balaclava-wearing activists would “kill” or “kick me out of my own country” if they took power. Continue reading...

Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism. Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs and expected to be challenged, passes by 1,022 votes to 813 The Greens have formally adopted a policy that equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state, a move opposed by the bulk of the party’s MPs and which is expected to face legal challenge. Zack Polanski, who heads the Greens in England and Wales and missed the vote at the party’s conference in Brighton to campaign in.

For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace. The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’ It’s a thought. A bold one. Possibly a career-ending one. But a thought nonetheless. When Theresa May told the Tory conference in 2002 that under Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives had become “the Nasty party”, many members took that to mean they had become undesirable. Within a few years, David Cameron had moved the Tories closer to the “hug a husky” centre and by 2010 he.

As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’. Party formally adopts policy which equates Zionism with racism, as all Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam , the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June, when she was a frontbencher but not yet in the shadow cabinet, Lam was asked at a meeting with activists if she thought the pensions triple lock was.

The Guardian view on trapped leaseholders: Labour must keep its promise to set them free | Editorial. The government pledged to end an unfair system. Ministers must give homeowners power over costs, rather than another place to complain “To the millions of leaseholders across the country, you have my word. The days of you being squeezed for every penny are coming to an end,” Andy Burnham told the Labour party conference . Only a few hours earlier, his housing secretary, Angela Rayner, had announced that the government would legislate for a new independent regulator and launch a consultation to cap.