Marine Le Pen’s lawyers told a Paris appeals court that she never ran a fake-jobs scheme. “At no moment did Marine Le Pen imagine that she broke the rules,” said counsel Sandra Chirac Kollarik. Le Pen denied any plan to…
A private investigator convicted of obtaining secret information unlawfully told the high court that the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday remained his “best customers” for nearly two years after his 2005 conviction. Steve Whittamore said his work for…
At the post-PMQs briefing on 11 February 2026 in London, No 10 declined to say whether Matthew Doyle could lose his peerage. The row concerns allegations that he failed to disclose he had campaigned for a council candidate later charged…
Three senior judges have ruled that the UK government’s decision to ban the direct action group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws was unlawful and disproportionate. The ruling hands the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, a sharp legal and political defeat. Civil…
Manchester United has issued a rare public statement stressing its “inclusive and welcoming” values after co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe faced widespread condemnation for saying the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants. Ratcliffe, who is based in Monaco, apologised for his…