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    The YouGov poll for the Times suggests Labour has 28 per cent of the vote share while the Conservatives are on 40 per cent – providing them with a 12-point lead. It appears to be the biggest gap between the two parties since the end of Gordon Brown’s premiership in 2010 following the financial crash. Interestingly, when Labour voters were asked by YouGov to choose between Ms May and Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister a large proportion – 29 per cent – opted for the Tory leader. If compared with the 9.3 million who voted Labour at the general election in 2015 it would be equivalent to 2.7 million voters. The poll added that among voters generally around 19 per cent thought Mr Corbyn would make a better Prime Minister than Ms May. A second poll on Tuesday appeared to show the T...

    Police are investigating the death of a British woman in Pakistan after her husband claimed she was the victim of an honour killing for marrying a man from outside the family allegedly against her parents’ wishes. Samia Shahid, a 28-year-old Bradford, died on Wednesday while visiting relatives in Pandori village near Mangla Dam in northern Punjab, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Shahid’s local MP, Naz Shah, has demanded that authorities in Pakistan exhume her body and commission an independent autopsy. The police officer running the investigation in Pakistan told the Guardian he had sent samples from the body to the country’s top forensics lab in Lahore on Tuesday. Mohammad Aqeel Abbas, the station house officer for Jhelum district who is investigating the case, said a p...

    Prime Minister Theresa May has arrived in Northern Ireland for talks with the region's political leaders on the fall-out from the EU referendum result. Mrs May is meeting Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle, Belfast. Brexit is set to dominate the agenda. In Northern Ireland 56% voted to Remain and the UK-wide vote to Leave has triggered intense political wrangling in the region. The result has sparked a renewed debate on a potential referendum on Irish reunification with the Republic of Ireland, an EU member state. The Stormont Executive is divided on the EU issue, with Mrs Foster's Democratic Unionists backing Brexit and Mr McGuinness's Sinn Fein advocating Remain. Ahead of her visit, Mrs May insisted the UK...