The Times view on the Chagos Islands deal: Troppo - Sir Keir Starmer and the attorney-general have taken leave of their senses in paying a foreign government billions to take possession of a strategically vital British territory

Tom Tugendhat: As Security Minister I saw the advice on the Chagos Islands deal. This ‘explanation’ is nonsense.

Labour’s education bill catastrophic for children, Birbalsingh warns

Why Kemi Badenoch's new immigration policy is unlikely to work

Home Office ordered to pay £100,000 to asylum seeker whose life it ‘grossly restricted’ | Immigration and asylum

Starmer's law chief Lord Hermer said there was a 'moral' case for Britain to pay slavery reparations, praised 'inspiring' Just Stop Oil and branded Trump an 'orange tyrant'

Starmer Faces UK Cabinet Disquiet Over Chagos Deal

Rachel Reeves left with tough choice as fiscal headroom dwindles

Starmer voice coach was not key worker, Labour sources admit - Leonie Mellinger visited the party’s London headquarters to prepare Sir Keir for a press briefing, despite restrictions on in-person work

Sir Keir Starmer ‘to push ahead’ with Chagos Islands deal

‘Rachel Reeves, you must do better’: Chancellor urged to act before hospitality’s collapse

Tax lawyers working ‘flat out’ for non-doms who choose not to leave UK

UK and Italy to launch Mafia-style crackdown in bid to stop small boat crossings

Taxpayer loses £250m on Rishi Sunak’s start-up fund

Keir Starmer can't escape the European question

Asda Loses Key UK Court Ruling in £1.2 Billion Equal Pay Contest

UK to unveil £100mn development finance drive

Russia ‘hacked Starmer’s dangerously obvious email account’

SNP to consider banning cats - Owners could be forced to keep pets indoors or, in some cases, prohibited from owning them, to protect wild animals

Labour cuts back £1bn project to tackle rural mobile ‘not-spots’

Labour eases checks on illegal migrants

Keir Starmer is an 'HR manager not a leader' while Angela Rayner simply 'manipulates people' and is surrounded by union bosses, PM's current chief of staff said

Small boat migrants with children to be exempt from punishment - Exclusions from offence of ‘endangering another during sea crossing to UK’ in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill raise questions of law’s effect

Beware the 'Boriswave' migration surge: Britain now faces a 'ticking time bomb,' experts warn

Weekly Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 26/01/25