The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at the government’s international investment summit, and how talk of slashing ‘red tape’ is going down among Labour MPs. And, after the death of the ex-SNP leader and former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, what will his legacy be? Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/politicspod Source: www.theguardian.com
The first people to be intercepted at sea by the Italian navy under a controversial migration deal with Albania are on their way to the Balkan nation to have their asylum claims processed. As part of the pact signed off on by Italy’s far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, a navy ship set off on Monday…
US consumer safety officials announced recently they had ordered the recall of 2m Fisher-Price baby swings after they were linked to at least five infants’ deaths and posed a suffocation risk. The product, the Snuga Swing, was “doomed to fail” according to a commissioner with the US Product Safety Commission, which said infants should never…
North-west Europe is forecast to experience a burst of autumn warmth this week, thanks to warm air from southern Europe spreading northwards. This brief episode of warmer-than-average conditions will be driven by an amplified, or “wavy”, jet stream, which will allow warm air to push farther north. Daytime temperatures across much of France are forecast…
Don’t worry about Labour’s workers’ rights bill, Starmer tells investors Keir Starmer then tells international investors they shouldn’t be worried about Labour’s employment rights bill, introduced last week. Let me be clear, they are “pro-growth”, Starmer insists. Workers with more security at work, with higher wages, is a better growth model for this country, he…
Salford Lads Club, the youth centre immortalised by the Smiths on the sleeve of their third studio album The Queen Is Dead, is under threat of closure. The rising costs of maintaining and running the Grade II-listed building, as well as a drop in grant funding, have left it with a shortfall of about £250,000.…
A coroner has warned that gas piston ottomans could present a risk to life, after a woman died when her bed collapsed on her, trapping her between the mattress and the base. Helen Davey, 39, a mother of two from Seaham in County Durham, died on 7 June when she suffocated after becoming accidentally trapped…
Anthony Albanese has backed Steven Miles’s opposition to nuclear power while joining the Queensland premier on the first day of pre-poll voting in the state election. At a joint press conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, the prime minister was asked about Miles’s plan to hold a plebiscite on nuclear if Labor wins this…
South Australia has launched a bid to host a major UN climate conference in 2026 in Adelaide, with the premier, Peter Malinauskas, declaring it would draw more than 30,000 people and could be worth $500m to the state. Australia is vying with Turkey to host the year-ending climate summit known as Cop31, with a decision…
The family of a paralysed right-to-die campaigner who was refused permission to have a doctor kill him has said he would be “absolutely fuming” that the right-to-die laws have not changed in the 12 years since his death. Tony Nicklinson’s daughter, Lauren Peters, said he would also be frustrated that the assisted dying bill, which…
