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New Zealand’s high commissioner to the UK has made an emotional visit to the scene where custody officer Matt Rantana was shot dead, ahead of an inquest later today. Bede Corry joined Metropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick to pay his respects at Croydon Custody Centre in London, where New Zealand-born Sgt Ratana was killed … Read more
Britain needs a ‘Nightingale moment’ for school pupils with extra funding for teachers and remote-learning in case of second lockdown, argues children’s commissioner Anne Longfield said schools need a rescue package on a par with the economy She called for more money for a possible return to remote-learning over winter More than £35billion has been … Read more
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan is to resign after attending a golf dinner with 80 people, in breach of Ireland’s Covid lockdown rules. A spokesperson for the senior Irish politician told broadcaster RTE he was stepping aside. He has been under intense pressure after attending an Irish parliamentary golf society dinner in the west of Ireland … Read more
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan is told to ‘consider his position’ by Ireland’s political leaders after he attended golf dinner with more than 80 people in breach of Covid guidelines EU commissioner Phil Hogan attended golf dinner with 80 people on Wednesday Two senior Irish politicians have resigned after details of the dinner came to … Read more
The deputy commissioner of the Met Police says the officers who stopped MP Dawn Butler in a car did not know she was black because the windows were tinted. Sir Steve House today threw his support behind the police officers after the Labour MP accused them of racial profiling when the BMW in which she … Read more
Schools must be kept open ahead of pubs or shops in any future coronavirus lockdown, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned. In a major intervention, Anne Longfield said children had been treated as an ‘after-thought’ in the first lockdown and insisted they must be at the heart of future plans. She said schools should … Read more
Prince Harry has reignited the row over Britain’s colonial history as it emerged today he wanted the organisation to ‘acknowledge the past’, even if it’s ‘uncomfortable’. It is likely to cause a ruckus in the Royal household, with his grandmother the Queen being head of the 54-nation group, and his father Prince Charles to succeed … Read more
JK Rowling’s charity co-founder Baroness Nicholson has been reported to the Lord’s Commissioner for Standards over claims she bullied a British transgender model she called a ‘weird creature’. The politician is thought to have made the comments on Twitter about Munroe Bergdorf, an outspoken advocate for social justice. In another, now deleted tweet, Baroness Nicholson also … Read more
As any man or woman in police uniform will tell you, neutralising the terrorist threat of individual Islamist extremists is almost impossible. Far-Right racist terrorists present their own problems, but they are generally easier to monitor because they tend to gather in places such as pubs and football grounds which can be more easily observed. … Read more
A police and crime commissioner has defended the police officers who allowed the statue of Edward Colston to be pulled down during a Black Lives Matter protest. Avon and Somerset’s Sue Mountstevens led the rebellion against Home Secretary Priti Patel as she blasted politicians who tried to ‘influence or second guess operational police matters’. Ms … Read more