A further 11 captives – nine women and two children – were released from Gaza into the hands of the Red Cross before being transferred to Egypt and then on to the Israeli military. READ MORE Israel and Hamas extend temporary ceasefire by two days Support fearless journalism Read The Daily Express online, advert free Get super-fast page loading Source: […]

Last week Chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed National Insurance would be reduced from 12% to 10% – worth £10billion. This will save workers, on average, £450 a year. The PM told the Daily Express: “Hard work should pay. That’s why the Chancellor just announced the biggest tax cuts at a fiscal event since the 1980s. “We will of course go further […]

A petition claiming that “bad owners” are to blame for attacks, and not the breed, has more than 600,000 signatures. From February 1, it will be illegal to own an XL Bully in England and Wales if it is not registered on the “index of exempted dogs”. A spate of attacks causing serious injury and even death triggered widespread concern […]

Penny Mordaunt criticises SNP’s ‘appalling record’ Penny Mordaunt ripped into the SNP’s “appalling legacy” in a brutal Commons takedown. The Commons Leader took aim at the nationalist party’s record, including its support for drug consumption rooms. Ms Mordaunt was responding to SNP Commons Leader Deidre Brock, who mocked her speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she urged the […]

Esther McVey mocks Labour as she defends new role Esther McVey poked fun at Labour as she defended her new role as “minister for common sense”. The Conservative MP was made a Cabinet Office minister in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle earlier this month. But the no-nonsense Tatton MP has been unofficially dubbed the “minister for common sense”. During oral questions to […]

The appointment of David Cameron as Foreign Secretary represents the “final insult” for all those who believe in Brexit, Ann Widdecombe has said. The former Tory minister, more recently a Brexit Party MEP, was speaking barely a week on from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s shock decision to hand a crucial role at the heart of his Government to the man […]

Experts and MPs privately believe the Chancellor is preparing to announce next April’s state pension will go up by 8.5 per cent despite discussions about paying it out at a lower rate. Age UK said the row has been “hugely unsettling” for many older people who are struggling to make ends meet. Charity director Caroline Abrahams said: “The prolonged speculation […]

Caroline Lucas and Camilla Tominey clash on Politics Live Ex-Green Party leader Caroline Lucas debated political expert Camilla Tominey on BBC Politics Live over the role educators play in influencing their students to take part in protests or political causes. Pointing to students at UCL “complaining about gross anti-Semitism on campus, GB News presenter Ms Tominey asked: “Can we trust […]

President Joe Biden has accused Hamas of committing a war crime for operating underground Hamas command centers in some hospitals in Gaza Strip. “You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military hidden under a hospital. And that’s a fact. That’s what’s happened,” Biden said while responding to a […]

Boris Johnson’s former chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, has launched another savage attack on the former prime minister and made an astounding claim. Cummings’ comments came during an appearance on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast where he was asked why Johnson’s Government “wasted” their 80-seat majority. He replied by saying he felt Johnson “didn’t care” about the country and was only in […]