Politics

• Pete Hegseth berargumen bahwa perjanjian gencatan senjata dengan Iran lebih dari tiga minggu lalu ‘berarti jam 60 hari dijeda, atau berhenti’ • Berlangganan email Breaking News US untuk mendapatkan peringatan buletin di kotak masuk Anda • Halo dan selamat datang di liputan langsung kami hari ini.

Pemimpin Partai Hijau membagikan ulang sebuah unggahan di media sosial yang tampak menunjukkan petugas menendang kepala tersangka serangan Golders Green Laporan lengkap: Kritik Zack Polanski terhadap penangkapan pelaku penyerangan Golders Green akan memberikan ‘efek mengerikan’ (chilling effect), kata kepala Met Selamat pagi, selamat datang di blog politik Inggris kami. Komisaris polisi Metropolitan Mark Rowley membantah bahwa ia telah “melakukan intervensi politik” setelah menulis surat terbuka kepada Zack Polanski terkait cara petugas menangkap tersangka penyerangan Golders Green. Lanjutkan membaca...

• Menteri pertahanan akan diinterogasi oleh para pembuat undang-undang di Komite Angkatan Bersenjata Senat setelah sesi yang penuh ketegangan di DPR kemarin. • Daftar untuk email Breaking News US. Halo dan selamat datang di liputan politik AS kami saat Pete Hegseth menghadapi hari kedua interogasi dari Partai Demokrat di Capitol Hill, di mana para senator mendapatkan kesempatan pertama untuk mengonfrontasi atau memuji kepala Pentagon atas penanganannya terhadap perang Iran. • Menteri pertahanan berdebat dengan Demokrat - dan beberapa Republik - kemarin selama hampir enam jam dengar pendapat Komite Angkatan Bersenjata DPR, di mana ia menghadapi pertanyaan mengenai biaya perang dalam dolar, nyawa, dan berkurangnya stok senjata krusial.

Robert Hayward memprediksi Reform akan menjadi pemenang besar, merebut kursi baik dari Labour maupun Conservatives. Selamat pagi. Kita sekarang memasuki pekan terakhir kampanye untuk Scottish parliament, Welsh Senedd, dan pemilihan lokal Inggris. Keir Starmer semula merencanakan pidato besar hari ini, tetapi ia, dan para pemimpin politik lainnya, hari ini berfokus pada respons mereka terhadap penikaman di Golders Green dan ancaman antisemitisme yang dihadapi komunitas Yahudi Inggris – yang digambarkan sebagai “darurat keamanan nasional” oleh Jonathan Hall KC, peninjau independen pemerintah untuk undang-undang teror. Berikut adalah berita semalam kami. Dan berikut adalah blog langsung kami oleh Taz Ali. Taz akan meliput sebagian besar reaksi politik terhadap berita tersebut, sehingga hal itu bukan sesuatu yang akan saya liput di sini. (Dan karena proses pidana sedang berjalan, komentar terkait serangan tersebut tidak akan diperbolehkan di kolom komentar, mohon maaf.) Lanjutkan membaca...

Presiden AS mengatakan monarki Inggris setuju bahwa Teheran tidak boleh memiliki senjata nuklir

• PM akan menghadapi Kemi Badenoch dan anggota parlemen lainnya pada PMQs terakhir sesi parlementer 2024-26

Neither political party is immune to conspiracies in a time of intense distrust in government and media, experts say After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracies immediately spread about whether the event was staged.The rhetoric has become a common refrain from both sides of the aisle in an era of deeply fractured politics and intense distrust in political institutions and media, and in the president himself. Continue reading...

State visit of UK royals continues as monarch to tell US lawmakers that ‘our countries have always found ways to come together’Sign up for the Breaking News US email Hello and welcome to our coverage of US news as the Trumps continue hosting King Charles and Queen Camilla during their state visit.As expected, the British royals have a packed itinerary of events this morning including been greeted by Donald and Melania Trump at the White House, signing the guest book and exchanging gifts. Continue reading...

Morgan McSweeney among those giving evidence to foreign affairs committee ahead of Commons vote Good morning. The former US president Lyndon Johnson is credited with saying the most important skill in politics is knowing how to count, meaning that ultimately what matters is being able to win a vote. But sometimes in politics what matters just as much, or even more, is the ability to win the argument. Today Keir Starmer will be tested on both these measures.Winning the vote should be easy. Here is our overnight preview story by Pippa Crerar on the events setting up today’s vote on a motion tabled by Kemi Badenoch, as well as MPs from five other opposition parties (the Lib Dems, the SNP, the DUP, Restore Britain, TUV) and a string of independents, referring Starmer to the privileges committee. Continue reading...

Alan Johnson and David Blunkett say Tory proposal for a privileges committee inquiry is a ‘nakedly political stunt’Good morning. Kemi Badenoch is trying to get Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to give MPs a vote on a proposal to get the Commons privileges committee to investigate allegations that Keir Starmer lied to MPs in statements he made to them about the vetting of Peter Mandelson. Other opposition parties may be backing her, but we don’t know for sure because the process is relatively secret; MPs have to write a private letter to the speaker, who then decides whether this is a serious request that should be decided by the Commons as a whole, or a frivolous complaint that should be ignored. (We do know that Karl Turner has written to the speaker about this too, but only because he was daft enough to post his letter on social media last week.) Today we are likely to find out whether or not Hoyle is agreeing to a Commons vote.Boris Johnson was referred to the privileges committee over allegations that he lied to MPs about Partygate (allegations the committee concluded were justified). Badenoch wants to make the case that Starmer is just as dishonest as Johnson. He isn’t, by any stretch, and the claims that Starmer lied to MPs about Mandelson are spurious; they relate to contest intepretations of political language of the kind that are commonplace in parliamentary debate. But the fact that this has even become a live consideration for the speaker is a big win for the Tories.The fact that Kemi Badenoch has changed the accusations she is levelling against the PM on an almost daily basis as her claims have failed to stand up to scrutiny shows what this is really about. This is a nakedly political stunt with no substance ahead of the May elections.Any comparison with Boris Johnson is absurd. When parliament referred that matter to the privileges committee, a police investigation had directly disproved his categoric statements that he knew nothing about the breach of lockdown rules.I suppose our constituents might ask [if a privileges committee goes ahead], have we got the balance right between holding the government to account and seemingly squabbling amongst ourselves when there is so much else going on that perhaps parliament ought to be focusing on as well.I have to say, a really truthful position is, why the rush at the moment? Has it got anything to do with local elections? Continue reading...