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Keir Starmer will lead a new Cabinet committee to deal with the fallout from the Iran conflict.

The group – the Middle East Response Committee –...

The UK is underprepared for war due to the ‘ever-expanding welfare budget’ and ‘corrosive complacency’ from Keir Starmer’s government, former Nato chief George Robertson has...

Families and businesses across Britain are bearing the cost of instability ‘they did not cause’, the chancellor has said amid UK-led moves to reopen the...

US President Donald Trump warned Monday that any Iranian attack boats that approach the naval blockade he has ordered around the country’s ports will be...

US President Donald Trump said US forces would destroy any Iranian ‘fast attack ships’ that approach the American naval blockade of Iranian ports that came...

France and Britain will work on a ‘peaceful multinational mission’ to restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz but it would be ‘separate from the...

Fuel protests along motorways across Ireland have caused traffic disruption after the government delivered half a billion euros worth of measures on fuel.

Although blockades at...

Keir Starmer’s government will follow EU rules without necessarily giving MPs a vote on each piece of red tape under plans which will be unveiled...

Keir Starmer has refused to join Donald Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which could compound economic pain for Britons with higher petrol costs.

The...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned ‘the war in Iran will come at a cost to British families and businesses’.

Reeves said that although the scale...