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    Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron have challenged Theresa May over a long-delayed inquiry into foreign funding and support of jihadi groups in the UK, after the Home Office suggested the investigation may not be published. The inquiry into revenue streams for extremist groups was commissioned by David Cameron when he was prime minister and is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia. But the Guardian revealed last week that the report was still incomplete and its contents may not be published. The Labour leader used a speech in Carlisle on Sunday evening to challenge the prime minister over the delayed report. Corbyn referenced May’s speech after the London Bridge attack on Saturday, in which she said challenging terrorism would require some difficult and often embarrassing conversatio...

    Prime Minister Theresa May squirmed in a TV interview as she was forced to admit a key anti-terror power has been used on just one suspected jihadist in two years. Mrs May was being questioned by ITV's Julie Etchingham about temporary exclusion orders (TEO). They were introduced in 2015 when she was Home Secretary to intercept British jihadists attempting to return to the UK after fighting in Syria. But Home Secretary Amber Rudd confirmed last week just one of the 350 suspected UK jihadists who has returned from Syria have been slapped with a TEO. It comes at a time of major scrutiny of Britain's anti-terror measures in the wake of the Westminster attack, the Manchester Arena bombing and the London Bridge killings in the space of two months. In the humiliating interview to...

    Jeremy Corbyn has revealed his plans for his first day as Prime Minister should Labour win the General Election. The Labour leader said if elected on Thursday, he would confront Donald Trump about climate change and ask him to retract his unacceptable remarks about Sadiq Khan after Saturday’s terror attack in London. On his first day in power he would also immediately guarantee the rights of EU nationals living in Britain and call Angela Merkel to kick-start Brexit talks, he said – adding he would smooth relations with the German chancellor by inviting her to an Arsenal match. Read full election coverage on MSN's dedicated page Mr Corbyn told The Guardian he would call an emergency budget to quickly implement key Labour policies, such as raising the minimum wage to £10 an ...

    Wire Calls for General Election to be postponed after second terror attack in two weeks Politicians are coming under pressure to suspend the General Election after the latest terrorist outrage. Within hours of the attack on London Bridge, there were calls on social media for Thursday's poll to be postponed. The demands came as police said that six victims had been killed in the attack along with the perpetrators of the outrage. After last month's attack at the Manchester Arena, which claimed 22 lives , campaigning was suspended for several days. The call for political activity to be put on hold was made by Mark Oxley in a petition he posted on the Change.org website. I and I'm quite sure a high percentage of the UK population agree that now is not the time to have a ...

    Theresa May has said there is far too much tolerance of extremism in our country and that its time to be more robust in tackling it. Delivering a statement outside Downing Street following the terror attack that has killed seven and injured 48, the Prime Minister said it was time to say enough is enough. She said that identifying and stamping it out across the public sector and across society would require difficult and embarrassing conversations. Theresa May Warning that the UK was facing a new trend of terrorism she described a copycat situation where terrorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to attack. by copying one another and often using crudest means of attack. Mrs May said that this was the third terror attack on UK soil in three months and during th...

    At least 1,000 people were injured, seven seriously, after a bomb scare triggered a stampede among Juventus fans watching he Champions League final in Turin, local authorities said Sunday. AFP reporters witnessed the chaotic scenes that ensued in a packed square 10 minutes before the end of the match on Saturday evening. The panic seemed to have been triggered by fireworks being let off and one or more people shouting that a bomb had exploded—a notion that quickly filtered through the crowd. The incident compounded a miserable night for supporters of Juventus, who lost the Cardiff final 4-1 to Real Madrid. It also underlined the impact recent acts of terror are having on a jittery public across Europe and the problems now faced by organisers of any mass gathering of people...

    The unsayable in Britain's general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist "assets" in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal "review". The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years. The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a "hardline Islamic state" in Libya ...

    The Conservatives have U-turned on a flagship pledge to build “a new generation” of social housing announced in their manifesto just weeks ago. Theresa May personally promised her policy would deliver a constant supply of new homes for social rent, but her housing minister has now admitted planned homes would be let at up to double normal social rent rate. The embarrassing admission represents the second about-turn on a Conservative manifesto pledge, after the damaging furore around the dementia tax. Tory officials played down the reversal, but Labour claimed it showed one of the Prime Minister’s key pledges to help low-income families had fallen apart, while the Chartered Institute of Housing branded it very disappointing. In mid-May the Conservatives announced they would...

    There were questions about Mrs May's dementia tax U-turn, the Government's cruel fitness-to-work tests for disabled people and school funding. Meanwhile Mr Corbyn was grilled over his views on Trident nuclear missiles and the IRA. Here we've taken a look at the most uncomfortable moments at each of the two leaders during the 90-minute Q&A session at the University of York... When Theresa May was skewered by a disabled woman over fitness to work tests An audience member - who is partially sighted, has mental health issues and spent 18 months on an NHS waiting list for counselling - blasted the Prime Minister. She said: "It's so important. The NHS is an absolute shambles for mental health at the moment. I applied for NHS counselling about, I think, at the end of 2015. My...

    Two dads one of which is transgender - have spoken of their happiness as they prepare to welcome their first biological child. Trystan Reese, 34, and Biff Chaplow, from Portland, Oregon, are already parents to two adopted children but always longed for a baby of their own, the Daily Mail reports. After experiencing a miscarriage at six weeks last year, the couple were concerned that they had missed their ‘only’ chance but announced their good news on WNYC podcast, the Longest Shortest Time. Here, the dads revealed that following the miscarriage they initially wanted to wait a year before trying to conceive again, but they decided to try right away after taking the complications of restarting and stopping testosterone into consideration. Six months into trying, Trystan woke...