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The Conservative Party's annual conference - the first after its devastating defeat in July's House of Commons elections - began yesterday in Birmingham, where the four candidates for the new leadership will present their vision of where the party should go.more

Boris Johnson has revealed that while Prime Minister he tried to dissuade Prince Harry from leaving the UK with his wife Meghan. Harry and Meghan announced in early January 2020 they were stepping back as senior working royals.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in a speech to the UN General Assembly session yesterday, said that his country was returning to a more active and constructive role in the world. He also stressed that an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East was in no one's interest.more

If we allow aggressors to take over land with impunity, Putin may turn against Poland or the Baltic states, Vice President Kamala Harris announced yesterday during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski. Harris also criticised Donald Trump's plans to end the war, calling them ‘Putin's plans’.more

The world's richest man Elon Musk has not been invited to this year's International Investment Summit, organised by the UK government, most likely because of posts he made online about anti-immigrant riots in the country, the BBC reports today.more

US President Joe Biden and the leaders of 30 other countries yesterday signed a joint declaration of the G7 and EU countries on the reconstruction of Ukraine, reaffirming, among other things, their commitments to freeze Russian assets until Russia pays reparations. The meeting was attended, among others, by Polish President Andrzej Duda.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer received a symbolic but politically embarrassing blow at the end of Labour's annual conference. Delegates to the conference, in a resolution adopted yesterday, called on the government to reverse its already approved decision to take away winter heating subsidies from pensioners.more

Labour has promised to crack down on benefit fraud by reintroducing “snooper’s charter” proposals mooted under the last government that would allow welfare officials to request information from claimants’ bank accounts.more

Poland will want to organise an EU-British summit during its upcoming EU presidency on the issue of London's announced reset of relations with Brussels, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna said.more

The US economy is in great shape, although its major problem is the scale of the national debt; elements of Donald Trump's and Kamala Harris's programmes could spoil this, the media assess. Prof. Witold Orłowski says that the policies of the Republican candidate threaten to cause a downturn in America and the world.more

Businesses that break work visa rules will be banned from hiring employees from abroad under a new immigration plan, the Prime Minister announced on Tuesday. Sir Keir Starmer told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that his government will reduce migration and Britain’s dependency on foreign workers. more

Poland has a convergent outlook with the UK on many issues, including security, but we hope that the Labour government's announced reset in relations with the European Union will further improve bilateral Polish-British relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna announced.more

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday warned that the budget deficit left by the previous government would require her to make tough decisions, but assured that this did not mean a return to the austerity policies of the early part of the previous decade.more

The electoral success of Germany's extremist parties and their dislike of Ukraine may change Chancellor Olaf Scholz's policy towards Kyiv. An SPD delegation has reportedly already visited Moscow, wrote the main foreign affairs commentator of the ‘Financial Times’, Gideon Rachman.more

A former member of the Defence Forces’ elite Army Ranger Wing who was killed while fighting Russian forces in Ukraine had previously lost an eye in an explosion following an attack there.more

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump announced yesterday in an interview with Sinclair Media Group that if he is not elected to the highest office in the land this year, he will not participate in the next election in 2028.more

Although Labour's annual conference, which began yesterday in Liverpool, is the first time Labour has been in power for 15 years, they have little to be pleased about. The start of the conference has been overshadowed by issues, of which there have been an unexpectedly large number in recent times.more

Vladimir Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine, because only his defeat will open up the possibility of building a new democratic Russia, but both the opposition and the West must not squander this opportunity again, as happened in the 1990s, according to recently released Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza.more

The valves opened, the sea gurgled in and slowly, imperceptibly at first, the ship began its journey to the bottom of the Atlantic. The 60-metre MV Shingle debuted in Ireland a decade ago as a smuggling vessel, but then became an unwanted hulk. On Wednesday afternoon it performed its swan song – scuttled off County Mayo to create an artificial reef.more

Mass immigration and woke culture are leading England into a national identity crisis, Robert Jenrick has claimed.more

Former President Donald Trump's visit to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Pennsylvania has been cancelled, an insider to the Republican candidate's plans confirmed yesterday.more

The French daily "Le Monde" assesses that Poland has become "a new key player in Europe", which was helped by the development of its economy and "acceleration of changes in the geopolitical context". The daily emphasizes the unprecedented increase in Poland's defense spending.more

Keir Starmer has declared more free tickets and gifts than other major party leaders in recent times, with his total now topping £100,000 after recent support for his lifestyle from Labour donor Waheed Alli. The prime minister has accepted almost 40 sets of free tickets during his time as Labour leader, mostly to football matches.more

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has summoned the Russian Ambassador today following Russia’s malicious and deliberate public campaign of aggression against the UK. more

Nicola Sturgeon has predicted Scotland will become independent as part of a "wider shake-up" of UK governance, including Irish reunification. The former first minister also suggested further devolution for Wales in the coming years as part of a "very healthy realignment of how the nations of the British Isles are governed and co-operate together”.more