The Independent - October 26, 2024

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October 26, 2024

'No one is joining the dots and making sure domestic abuse victims are protected'

Women's minister Anneliese Dodds backs our campaign

3 mins

PM retracts stock owners not 'working people' claim

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced to climb down from his suggestion that he does not consider people who have an income from assets such as shares of property to be working people.

2 mins

Why Reeves may tweak the fiscal rules to borrow more

As she makes her final preparations for the Budget, Rachel Reeves has already indicated that she will present a package of tax increases and cuts to public spending plans amounting to around £40bn per annum over the next few years.

3 mins

Crucial test that Reeves's Budget cannot afford to fail

How do you sell what you admit will be a painful Budget? That's the question the best brains in the Starmer government have been wrestling with ahead of Wednesday's make-or-break package, which will set the terms of political trade for the five-year parliament.

3 mins

UK will rejoin EU within 15 years, says ex-Brussels chief

Britain will rejoin the European Union within 15 years, a former European Commission chief has predicted.

2 mins

Tory MP vents on spitting, scooters and 'street scars'

Neil O'Brien pushes to make UK 'vaguely civilised again'

2 mins

RAF spy pictures of Gaza could be used against Israel

Intelligence gathered by RAF spy planes flying over Gaza could be used as evidence against Israel in The Hague, it is understood. Surveillance aircraft have carried out almost daily missions over the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip to try to help the Israelis.

1 min

Nazi-obsessed knifeman guilty of attempted murder

Callum Ulysses Parslow stabbed an asylum seeker at a hotel

3 mins

Paranoid schizophrenic mother stabbed daughter to death over fear of lasers

A mother who stabbed her daughter 11 times in the chest as she slept was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed she was being targeted by \"lasers and technology\", a court has heard.

5 mins

Fake firm steals 22-tonnes of cheese worth £300,000

More than £300,000 worth of cheddar has allegedly been stolen from a London-based cheesemonger in an elaborate scam. Neal's Yard Dairy said it delivered around 950 wheels (22 tonnes) of cloth-bound cheese to an alleged fraudster posing as a wholesale distributor for a major French retailer before realising it was a fake firm.

1 min

Israel launches several airstrikes against Tehran

Explosions in capital were reported by Iranian state media.

1 min

Israel hit in Gaza kills 38 as journalists die in Lebanon

An Israeli strike killed 38 people in Khan Younis, Gaza's health ministry has said, and three journalists in southern Lebanon, as Israel's military continues to ramp up its offensives.

3 mins

Iran extends prison term of Nobel-winning activist

Iranian authorities have added six months to the prison sentence of rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, according to a group campaigning for her release.

2 mins

Tech CEO named Britain's most inspiring Black person

Dean Forbes, the chief executive of software solutions firm Forterro, has been named the UK's most influential black person by The Powerlist 2025.

2 mins

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