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Britons should be forced to vote, says influential charity as turnouts drop
Britain is facing ‘a vicious cycle of unequal turnout, economic stagnation and political disillusionment’, the Constitution Society has said
BMW worker was fired after bosses authorised secret filming over back pain
Mohamed Kerita, who worked in the firm’s manufacturing factory, suffered with back pain from 2017, the tribunal in Reading heard
Starmer and Macron are up against a small boats crisis – but how many migrants cross the Channel and who gets turned away?
The prime minister wants a radical deal with French authorities as data shows migration on small boats is at its highest-ever levels despite 4 in 10 migrants being prevented from crossing the Channel. Alicja Hagopian reports
Voices: ‘Who do they think they are?’ Readers clash over NHS doctor strikes
Our community is sharply divided over the upcoming doctors’ strike and their demand for a 29 per cent pay rise. While one reader blamed the NHS, calling it ‘a broken system,’ another said, doctors ‘should be ashamed’
Appeal after £10,000 stolen from man at Paddington train station
British Transport Police have released images of three women as part of their investigation
Former Tory chairman defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in blow to Kemi Badenoch
Sir Jake Berry, who was chairman of the Tories under Liz Truss and a staunch Boris Johnson ally has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Starmer’s hopes of ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal hanging in the balance as talks with Macron continue
Government sources describe reports a deal has already been agreed as mere ‘speculation’
Pine marten kits spotted in national park for first time in 100 years
It is a ‘historic moment’ for conservation efforts
Bridget Phillipson’s fury that a vulnerable child was placed in a caravan at cost of £75,000
Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has told The Independent that she wants to end the practice of putting vulnerable children in care into illegal squalid homes