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    Theresa May has announced the UK government will today revoke visas of suspects related to the murder of the Saudi journalist and dissident, Jamal Khashoggi. The action comes after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dismissed the kingdom's efforts to blame Mr Khashoggi's death within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on rouge operatives. Ms May, who will later speak with King Salman of Saudi Arabia over the killing, told MPs gathered in the Commons that the government condemned the murder of the journalist in the strongest possible terms. She said ministers have made clear that the Saudi officials must cooperate with Turkey and conduct a full and credible investigation. She continued: The claim that has been made that Mr Khashoggi died in a fight does not ...

    A victim of modern slavery who was trafficked to the UK at the age of three and subject to decades of sexual abuse was told to leave the country as soon as they were identified, MPs have heard. The former Independent Anti-Slavery commissioner told a parliamentary committee about an individual who was informed by the Home Office that they had been recognised as trafficking victim and in the same letter told that they were an illegal immigrant. Kevin Hyland OBE was speaking to the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday about a lack of professionalism in the government’s approach to tackling modern slavery, warning that it sometimes makes it up as it goes along. I’ve seen a case where a child was trafficked to the UK at the age of three and then sexually abused for ...

    Twenty-nine Nobel Prize winners have warned Theresa May a hard Brexit could cripple science. The world leading scientists banded together in a letter to the Prime Minister, as well as European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, to say a hard Brexit could seriously damage research. The letter, also signed by six Fields Medal mathematicians, said creating new barriers would inhibit progress to the detriment of us all. It came after Ms May announced in the Commons that extending the Brexit transition beyond 2020 would be a last resort and that the deal is 95 per cent complete. Nobel winner and Crick director Sir Paul Nurse, one of the signatories to the letter said: Science and research matter for economic growth health and quality of life and the environment. ...

    Prince Harry used to be the most popular royal among the British clan, but his wife, Meghan Markle, has already taken his place. Kate Williams, a royal historian, told Channel 5 News (via Express) that Prince Harry needs to get used to his wife getting more attention from royal fans. Essentially, there is no rulebook saying you must do this you must not do this and I think the royal family is becoming more and more informal. Simply, the thing is that Harry has to recognize now that he is no longer number one, he is no longer number one, she is, she added. Prince Harry shouldn’t also follow in Prince Charles footsteps because the latter struggled with the shift in popularity from him to Princess Diana. I remember when Prince Charles and Princess Diana went on thei...

    Prime Minister Theresa May has been told that she has just 72 hours to save her job. The warning comes from MPs frustrated by Mrs May's handling of Brexit negotiations after an unsuccessful summit last week. For a no confidence vote to be triggered, 48 letters from Conservative MPs must be submitted to the party's chairman and some have claimed that that threshold could soon be reached. Brexit supporter Andrew Bridgen told the Mail On Sunday that Mrs May must attend Wednesday's meeting of the Tory 1922 committee of backbenchers or risk mak(ing) the letters go in even faster. He said: This week Theresa May will find that she is drinking in the last chance saloon and the bad news for her is that the bar is already dry. David Davis, a possible successor to Mrs May, ...

    One of the victims of a grooming gang jailed for abusing 15 girls believes there are more young people yet to speak out. Speaking anonymously to Sky News, the woman who was abused between the ages of 13 and 18 shared her story and urged others to get justice for themselves. The call comes after sixteen men were jailed for a total of 221 years as part of the grooming gang who abused 15 girls in and around Huddersfield between 2004 and 2011. Four more men were found guilty and are waiting to be sentenced for offences such as rape and trafficking for sexual exploitation. The victim said she became friends with the men at first before the abuse started. They used to buy you gifts, give you cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, she said. And then I was in a relationship with...

    Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march on the streets of London later demanding a people's vote on Brexit. It is expected to be the biggest protest to date as pressure builds on the prime minister over her negotiating strategy. Many believe the UK is heading for a no deal or a bad deal Brexit and want to have their say. Among the celebrities involved are actor Steve Coogan chef Delia Smith and Dragons Den star Deborah Meaden. Some have even contributed to buses bringing people to the capital from all over the country. It is thought that thousands of students will take part many of whom were too young to have their say in the 2016 referendum. Hilary Gyebi-Ababio a third year student at Bristol University told Sky News: I was three days shy of voting a...

    Canada's biggest pension fund is preparing to swoop for part of a stake in London's Gatwick Airport that could be worth more than £3bn days after it unveiled a plan to use its emergency runway to boost capacity. Sky News has learnt that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is part of a group of investors which are proposing to buy out Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), Gatwick's biggest shareholder since 2009. A deal is expected to be finalised in the coming weeks, with CPPIB participating in an agreement alongside other pension and infrastructure funds. If it proceeds with a transaction, the Canadian retirement scheme, which managed $356.1bn (£272bn) at the end of its financial year in March, would invest hundreds of millions of pounds in Britain's ...

    Anjem Choudary has been released from jail today after serving just half his five-and-a-half year sentence for swearing an oath of allegiance to ISIS. The hate preacher, 51, was swept out of Belmarsh Prison in south-east London at 4am this morning and taken to a bail hostel in north London. Choudary, branded Britain's most dangerous extremist, is a free man despite becoming 'hardened' in jail and more determined than ever to spread his toxic Islamist propaganda. The hate preacher's already militant views became 'far more extreme and aggressive' while locked up and he now regards himself as a 'martyr', according to those who met him in prison. Yet he has been released automatically after only serving half his jail term despite inspiring around 100 British jihadis t...

    Theresa May has insisted she is convinced she will get a deal on Britain’s withdrawal from the EU, despite a moment of truth summit passing with no sign of a breakthrough. The Prime Minister infuriated MPs from all sides of her party by indicating she is ready to delay the UK’s final departure from EU structures until 2021 in the hope of breaking the deadlock over the Irish border. Just a month after the humiliating Salzburg summit at which her Brexit proposals were roundly dismissed by EU leaders, Mrs May admitted that there were more difficult moments to come before agreement is reached. But she said she had found a very real sense that people want that deal done among her fellow leaders, citing positive comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel who she was m...