The Independent - November 05, 2024

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November 05, 2024

Harris and Trump scramble for vital few thousand votes

Seven swing states will decide who wins existential’ contest

2 mins

Too close to call: predicting the result is a fool's game

Polls can simulate the result all night long but in a contest this tight, it’s educated guesswork, writes Chris Blackhurst

4 mins

How Starmer is preparing for either Trump or Harris

Since becoming prime minister on 5 July, Sir Keir Starmer has only met with one of the two candidates hoping to be elected president and it was not with his natural Democrat ally Kamala Harris, but Republican rival Donald Trump.

4 mins

Democrats upbeat as stars align with late voting surge

The mood couldn’t contrast more among employees of the two presidential candidates, reports Andrew Feinberg

3 mins

A foreign policy legacy that paints Biden in a bad light

Four years may not be so very long in the great sweep of history, but it is still hard to remember which hopes and fears gripped the world especially in Europe as the United States prepared to vote for its president last time around.

5 mins

University tuition fees rise for first time in eight years

University tuition fees will increase in England for the first time in eight years as part of a major overhaul of the higher education system, education secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced.

2 mins

Patel lands cabinet position as shadow foreign secretary

Kemi Badenoch is set to make a highly controversial choice in one of the most senior jobs in her shadow cabinet with Dame Priti Patel set to be unveiled as shadow foreign secretary.

2 mins

NFU warns farmers will get militant over 'tractor tax'

Ministers have been warned that they face a militant” backlash from farmers over the so-called tractor tax of imposing inheritance death duties on family farms worth more than 1m.

3 mins

Can Starmer succeed in reducing immigration?

Keir Starmer has announced that the government is to make further progress on its manifesto pledge to “smash the criminal gangs” and reduce the flow of irregular migration in small boats across the English Channel.

3 mins

'Smoke-free generation' bill to be introduced by Labour

Proposed legislation aimed at creating the first smoke-free generation” is set to be introduced in parliament.

2 mins

Brilliance of Jones outshone his Michael Jackson albums

The late great music producer Quincy Jones is famous for working with the King of Pop’ but he did so much more, including playing trumpet for Presley, arranging for Sinatra and leading the way for Black talent, writes Mark Beaumont

5 mins

'My son said only way he'd get to leave is in a body bag'

Mother says IPP robbed son of adult life before he died at 34

3 mins

Royals face calls to dissolve 'disgraceful' private estates

King Charles is facing calls to dissolve his lucrative private estates and refund the cash-strapped NHS after it emerged he is making millions from renting out ambulance parking spaces and sub-standard properties.

3 mins

Royals face brunt of Spain's anger at officials over floods

Spain’s prime minister was the real target of protesters who hurled clots of mud at the Spanish king and queen when they visited the centre of the nation’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory, a royal expert has said.

3 mins

Trial of suspects in teacher beheading begins in France

Eight people have gone on trial in Paris on terrorism charges over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.

3 mins

It will be women who feel the impact of Tube strikes most

As any seasoned Londoner will know, Tube strikes are just as much part of the fabric of city life as the London Underground itself.

2 mins

'Melania is interesting. Very vulnerable, always has been'

There aren’t many celebrities that Jonathan Becker hasn’t photographed and there’s a story behind them all. He tells Zoé Beaty about the pick of his five decades behind the lens

7 mins

Amorim's two key tasks as he tries to revive Man Utd

Ruben Amorim will soon leave a team with 10 league wins this season for one with nine league goals. He will quit a side first in their domestic league for one in 13th.

3 mins

Boss levels: Anfield stages meeting of new likely lads

Around the turn of the year, when five of the major European clubs were looking for new managerial candidates, one official involved in recruitment let out a sigh.

4 mins

Women's scene in real need of a matchmaker for 2025.

On Saturday night in Birmingham, Chantelle Cameron won for the second time in what has been a bad year for professional women’s boxing in Britain and Ireland.

3 mins

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