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Nearly 60,000 unauthorised migrants and convicted criminals have been removed or deported from the UK since Labour took office, the Home Office has said.The announcement came amid claims that the government was promoting “harmful stereotypes” by equating migration with criminality.Officials said the figure was the highest number in a decade.The department said 15,200 people who were in the UK illegally were removed since the 2024 election – a 45% increase on the previous 19 months.A statement said 43,000 people left voluntarily after being told they were in the UK illegally. Deportations of foreign national offenders have risen by 32%, with…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sparred with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday during a Senate Banking Committee hearing over a joke President Donald Trump made about Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh.Warren, the panel’s ranking member, asked Bessent about comments Trump made over the weekend, when he joked — or appeared to joke — about suing Warsh if he failed to lower the national interest rate. The question triggered a shouting match between the two.CAN YOU SHUT HIM UP?: WATERS AND TREASURY’S BESSENT CLASH OVER TRUMP’S ECONOMIC AGENDAWarren: This one should be an…

The most dangerous moment of Keir Starmer’s premiership came just after lunchtime on Wednesday, when mutiny was the talk of the Commons tea room.Anger is widespread across Labour – but it was at its most palpable amongst the party’s new MPs, as the Conservatives used a humble address to force the disclosure of the vetting documents and communications linked to Peter Mandelson, disgraced by his close association with Jeffrey Epstein.“At about 2pm yesterday, if someone had pulled the trigger, we would have moved,” one 2024 intake MP said on Thursday. “No one dared. I think that says a lot.”Another new…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., to allow her and her husband to have a public hearing on the Epstein files Thursday.Clinton issued the challenge in a post on X, saying Republicans have ignored her and former President Bill Clinton’s previous testimony on the topic.”For six months, we engaged Republicans on the Oversight Committee in good faith. We told them what we know, under oath. They ignored all of it. They moved the goalposts and turned accountability into an exercise in distraction,” Hillary…

Dan Thomas, a former Conservative leader of Barnet council, has been announced by Nigel Farage as Reform UK’s leader in Wales, three months before Senedd elections in which the hard-right party could win the most seats in the country.Farage received a standing ovation before he introduced Thomas at a sold-out rally of approximately 1,000 people at the International Convention Centre Wales, near Newport, on Thursday morning. Journalists were jeered and booed during the media conference.Thomas led Barnet council between 2019 and 2022, when the north London council was seized by Labour, and defected to Farage’s Reform party last summer. He…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A pro-life group is releasing a new report claiming abortions have continued to rise nationwide since 2020 because of a Biden administration FDA policy that allows abortion pills to be prescribed via telehealth and shipped by mail — a move the group says the Trump administration could reverse.In a report obtained by Fox News Digital, the Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) argues that a COVID-era FDA policy under former President Joe Biden is driving an estimated more than 500 mail-order chemical abortions per day, citing data from Guttmacher and…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature’Of course’ Starmer and McSweeney are safe in their jobs, says ReedThe prime minister and his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney are safe in their jobs, Steve Reed insisted.Asked whether Keir Starmer’s position is secure, the housing secretary told BBC Breakfast: “Of course it is.”On Sky News, he was pressed on whether McSweeney is safe in his role, after being blamed by many Labour MPs for pushing for the appointment of his ally Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US in 2024.Reed answered: “Yes, of course he is.”ShareMandelson…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado, who is mounting a longshot Democratic primary challenge against his boss, Gov. Kathy Hochul, as she runs for re-election, is choosing a far-left politician with a history of legal and financial troubles as his running mate.Delgado on Wednesday named former Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, as his running mate in an effort to beef up his support among progressives as he runs from the left against Hochul, a moderate Democrat.”India Walton represents exactly the kind of transformational and…

Labour MPs have warned that Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister are numbered after a day of fury over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.The government was on the brink of a defeat in the Commons until a mid-debate amendment brokered by Meg Hillier and Angela Rayner to force the release of documents about Mandelson’s appointment and the depth of his relationship with the convicted child sex offender.MPs said the eventual release of the documents – which may be delayed by a police investigation into Mandelson – could trigger a leadership challenge.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election to a seventh term, becoming the latest Republican lawmaker to step aside amid a growing wave of GOP retirements ahead of the next election cycle.Loudermilk released a statement announcing his retirement, saying it has been a “tremendous honor” to represent the people of Northwest Georgia for six terms.He also said that during his tenure, he focused on upholding the U.S. Constitution and representing the 11th Congressional District.”I first ran for election to Congress in 2014 and, as I stated then,…