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    Prince Harry is preparing to join his wife Meghan and baby Archie in Canada at the end of the week following a constructive summit on the young family's future within the monarchy. They are believed to be staying at the $14 million mansion on Vancouver Island where the family spent their extended Christmas break. It has been reported that the waterfront home is owned by Hollywood mogul Frank Giustra, although he has denied this. It came as Justin Trudeau offered his support to Harry and Meghan and said most Canadians would welcome the couple making their home there. The Canadian Prime Minister said there were still lots of discussions to have but backed the couple’s wish to spend much of their time in the Commonwealth country, where Harry's grandmother the Queen i...

    The Queen has confirmed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are no longer “full-time working members of the Royal Family” and expressed her regret at their decision. The 93-year old monarch issued a rare personal statement at 5pm, an hour after the family’s two-hour Sandringham crisis summit over the Sussex’s future ended. She said the discussions involving Prince Harry, Prince William, Prince Charles and their private secretaries, had been constructive and said she supported and understood her grandson’s desire to lead a more independent life. The statement said: Today my family had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family. My family and I are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan’s desire to create a new life as a young family....

    Boris Johnson has hailed the wonderful compromise that has seen the return of devolution to Northern Ireland, after meeting Stormont's newly-appointed leaders in Belfast. The prime minister said Stormont was open for business again in the wake of the restoration of power-sharing following three years of political deadlock. Mr Johnson praised politicians from all sides in Northern Ireland, saying they had put aside their differences, stepped up to the plate and showed leadership. I just want to say how grateful I am to all the parties, to everybody here in Northern Ireland, for the way they have compromised the way they have worked together to get Stormont up and running once again, he said. It's shown a willingness to trust each other and to set aside differences ...

    Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey has said she would abolish the House of Lords if she won power. The favoured candidate of the Labour left in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn also indicated that she would be ready to authorise a second independence referendum in Scotland. Ms Long-Bailey is one of four contenders, alongside Keir Starmer, Jess Phillips and Lisa Nandy, to have secured the necessary 22 nominations from MPs and MEPs to join the race ahead of Monday’s deadline. Launching her campaign last week, she vowed to go to war on the establishment, and she today confirmed that this would mean an end to the unelected Upper House of Parliament. She declined to say what replacement she envisages for the second chamber, but indicated she wants a democ...

    Labour leadership contender Jess Phillips has suspended one of her key aides over completely unacceptable messages posted on social media. The decision came after the The Mail on Sunday uncovered tweets from the team member, in which they described Israel as the murderer that was inflicting Holocaust conditions on Palestinians. Despite admitting she was really sad to have taken action against a valued member of staff, Ms Phillips said the suspension was necessary and the only was to start building a bridge again with the Jewish community. The tweets were posted between 2014 and 2016, before the staff member joined the Birmingham Yardley MP's team. Israel compared to Isis One message, addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly, appeared to liken...

    She will launch a new charitable enterprise This is something that we already know Harry and Meghan are planning to do – and the project has been in the works for some time, ever since they decided to split from the Cambridge family with the Royal Foundation. On the couple's new website, the duke and duchess explained that they will be revealing more details about the project in due course, but did give an outline of what they hoped to achieve when the venture launches. "Through local and global community action, progressive change can be achieved far quicker than ever before. In 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to shape their charitable entity to respond to these pressing needs. After carefully considering a number of foundation models, and having researc...

    The Duchess of Sussex has flown back to Canada as Prince Harry remains in the UK amid a fallout over the couple’s move to resign as senior royals. Meghan returned to North America on Thursday to be with her eight-month-old son Archie, a spokeswoman for the Duchess of Sussex confirmed. She hadn’t planned to stay in the UK for long after arriving in Britain on Monday ahead of the bombshell announcement, sources told the Daily Mail. It comes after the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duke of Cambridge were said to have ordered their teams to find a workable solution over Harry and Meghan's future amid four-way talks to head off a royal crisis. Buckingham Palace revealed they would work at pace to find an outcome for Harry and Meghan in a matter of days, not weeks. Roya...

    Two sex workers who were dragged through the courts for sharing a workplace just to keep each other safe are celebrating after charges against them were dropped. The extraordinary climbdown saw the Crown Prosecution Service accused of trying to extort cash from the pair by forcing them to hand over their earnings. The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), a campaign group that fought their side, has said the Crown’s decision to abandon proceedings strengthens the case to decriminalise prostitution altogether. It came after thousands of people wrote to the CPS in outrage that the women were being prosecuted instead of protected. One of the pair, named only as Ms O, said: They said I was a criminal but I am a good mother working to make sure my child has a better...

    Jeremy Corbyn’s successor as Labour leader will be announced on April 4 after a three-month contest, the party’s ruling body has decided. Nominations for the race to replace Corbyn will open formally on Tuesday, with the ballot taking place between February 21 to April 2, the National Executive Committee (NEC) agreed on Monday. The general public will be able to take part in the leadership election if they join the party by next week or if they pay £25 each to register for a one-off vote, the NEC decided. A 48-hour window will be created to allow people to sign up as so-called registered supporters with voting rights. Candidates will have just under a week to get the required nominations from fellow MPs. A further month will be allowed to get the necessary nominat...

    Abolfazl Abutorabi has reportedly threatened to attack the White House in response to a message from President Trump that promised severe consequences if the Islamic nation escalates hostilities with the U.S. Abutorabi was responding to a question about how Iran should react to the death of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani during an American airstrike, The Independent reported. This comes as President Trump vowed to hit Iran hard should the country retaliate against the U.S. for Soleimani's death. Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recentl...