Politics

We spoke to Ealaf Al-Najar, member of UK Youth Parliament, and Jon Tonge, professor of politics at Liverpool University, who chaired the Youth Citizenship Commission under Gordon Brown.

One and a half million more young people could get the vote at the next general election under government plans to lower the voting age to include 16 and 17-year-olds. 

The Labour MP Diane Abbott has been suspended for a second time from the Labour Party this evening. 

We spoke to Labour peer Helena Kennedy, who arranged the evacuation of more than 500 people from Afghanistan in 2021 and is still in contact with many in the country.

The Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent inquiry into the accidental release of personal details of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban as well as British spies and special forces. 

The British Prime Minister and German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, today signed a ‘Friendship Treaty’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the location chosen for its symbolic reference to a loving, and politically useful, royal marriage between the United Kingdom and Germany.

Staunch Trump supporters are questioning his decision to distance himself from those pushing to release government files on the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of the president.

We were joined by congressman Mike Quigley, who is co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus.

Alongside the weapons deal Donald Trump announced yesterday was a warning of sanctions against Russia – but not just yet.

We were joined by Labour councillor Peymana Assad, who was born in Afghanistan. 

We were joined by Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard from Westminster.

If there was no ceasefire in Ukraine in 50 days, Trump said, he would impose 100% secondary tariffs – hitting those who do business with Moscow like China and India.

President Trump says he’s imposing 30% tariffs on goods from Mexico and the European Union, starting from the beginning of next month.

We spoke to the Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Kamila Hawthorne.

GPs are being encouraged to stop handing out fit notes – also known as sick notes, to sign people off work, and instead offer specialist help to manage their health conditions while getting them back into work.