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In a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi demanded the Tories hand back cash to Frank Hester and said he is presiding over a 'terribly racist period'

MP Diane Abbott has sat as an independent since April last year after Labour withdrew the whip following comments over the Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities

Vladimir Putin's forces have been branded "wildly irresponsible" after the GPS signal and internet signal were blocked as Defence Secretary Grant Shapps flew back from Poland

Michael Gove said the Muslim Association of Britain, Cage and Mend and the neo-nazi British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative will be assessed for extremism

It’s understood Frank Hester has donated another £5million to the Tories since January - a figure the Tories did not deny - on top of the £10million he had already handed the party

Tory peer and chairman of supermarket giant Asda Stuart Rose said the 'sooner we call an election the better' and even suggested he could endorse Keir Starmer's Labour

By refusing to return Hester’s donation, Mr Sunak is giving licence to the racists who prey on people’s worst instincts

In a fiery PMQs exchange Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, and other MPs discussed a Tory donor's racist comments about Diane Abbott - but the veteran MP was not chosen to ask the PM a question

Communities Secretary Michael Gove has unveiled a long-awaited extremism definition aimed at ensuring certain groups are effectively blacklisted by public bodies

Artist Damien Hirst, who was a free school meals kid, will argue that culture should be 'not just for the rich by the rich' as he endorses Labour's plan to widen access

They wouldn’t begin to explain how I feel as not just a young woman, but a young Black woman. The attack on Diane Abbott was an attack on all Black women for just… existing, writes Serena Richards

Rishi Sunak was challenged to explain how he'd find an estimated £46billion a year to scrap National Insurance Contributions (NICs), but didn't rule out NHS and pension cuts

Pollster Savanta said it was the lowest vote share it had recorded for the Tories since Liz Truss was forced to resign as Prime Minister in 2022 after trashing the economy

Conservative Minister Kevin Hollinrake made the extraordinary admission as the Government battles the move on from the row over Frank Hester's alleged comments about Diane Abbott

Businessman Frank Hester, who gifted the Tories £10million, allegedly said seeing Diane Abbott on TV made him 'want to hate all Black women' and that she should be 'shot'

Former PM Boris Johnson could be deployed to help worried Conservatives cling on in the North and the Midlands - but do you think BoJo can help save the Tories' Red Wall seats?

Britain is gearing up for a general election this year after 14 years of Tory rule. Here are the latest polls and odds on Labour, the Conservatives, Reform UK, Lib Dems and more

New legislation to finally clear the names of hundreds of wrongly-convicted postmasters will at last be introduced today after they had their lives ruined by the Horizon scandal

The arrogance of the government spokesman trying to claim the remarks were not gender or race-based would be laughable if this wasn’t so serious, writes Darren Lewis

The PM earlier declined to say whether millionaire Frank Hester’s alleged comments that Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' were racist - only that they were 'unacceptable'

Frank Hester, who is the Conservative Party's biggest donor, allegedly said looking at Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' and that she 'should be shot'

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch is the most senior politician to say that Frank Hester's alleged comment that Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women' was 'racist'

Voters in marginal seats are being bombarded with videos of their local Tory candidates every time they log onto Facebook amid growing speculation about a May election

Emma Osborne says she was told her stepfather Danny Middleton may have been one of the 34 bodies removed from the Legacy funeral home in Hull as Humberside Police investigate the firm

Burglars and shoplifters are among prisoners who will be released two months early as the country runs out of spare jail cells. But do you agree with these emergency measures?