Category: Politics

Stormy Daniels ‘likely’ called as witness today, her lawyer tells AP It is “likely” that Stormy Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, will be called to testify today, her lawyer told the Associated Press. The $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels is at the center of this trial. Trump said earlier […]

John Swinney’s accession to the leadership of the Scottish National party has been called a “coronation”. Yet the smooth handover of power that took place yesterday was not a given. That the party avoided another acrimonious battle – like the one last year between his predecessor Humza Yousaf and former finance secretary Kate Forbes – […]

Nottingham Forest’s appeal against a four-point Premier League deduction for breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) has been rejected. Forest said when the punishment was imposed in March that they were “extremely disappointed” and claimed spending restrictions on promoted clubs undermined the league’s “integrity and competitiveness”. A Premier League appeal board heard the case and […]

Reeves says, after years of Tory chaos, ‘stability is change’ Reeves says Labour has a vision for the country. Stability will be change, she argues. I know – warm words are not enough. I do not underestimate the challenges we face. But I am so ambitious for our country. I know the huge potential found […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A joint press conference by Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron after talks on the first day of the visit glossed over the thorny question of trade relations between their two countries. A bottle of exclusive Louis XIII cognac was among the […]

Good morning and welcome to our Ukraine blog as the time has just passed 10am in Kyiv and Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin will be sworn into office at a lavish ceremony in the Kremlin later today, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever before. As AFP writes, the 71-year-old has […]

Introduction: Halifax reports small rise in UK house prices Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of busines, the financial markets and the world economy. Another day, another healthcheck on the UK housing sector. And this morning, lender Halifax have reported that the market is “finding its feet” in the face of higher borrowing […]

Adrian Dunbar is to curate a festival in Liverpool dedicated to the work of Samuel Beckett. The programme includes four specially commissioned productions, one involving prisoners at HMP Liverpool. The Line of Duty actor said of Beckett: Unbound 2024: “Engaging with Beckett makes you think about the fundamentals of life. Those fundamentals are sometimes hard […]

Animal welfare campaigners are challenging the decision to allow producers of Scottish salmon to drop the word “farmed” from labelling. An application by the industry body claimed changing the protected name wording on the front of packaging from “Scottish farmed salmon” to “Scottish salmon” made sense because wild salmon was no longer sold in supermarkets, […]

Two women have sprayed the words “MeToo” on a 19th-century painting of a woman’s vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet in a stunt by a performance artist, a museum and the artist said. “The Origin of the World”, a nude painted from 1866, was protected by a “glass pane” and the police were on site […]