🔷 At least two people caused a disturbance on The Mall by running out in front of marching soldiers before being arrested, TV pictures showed
🔷 Royals appear for Trooping the Colour
🔷 Vegan activists vaulted fences near Buckingham Palace during Trooping the Colour before being tackled by police thetimes.co.uk/article/platin…
🔹 A huge crowd on The Mall cheered the Queen as she watched a flypast of more than seventy RAF aircraft from the Buckingham Palace balcony thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
🔷 RAF fighter jets fly in formation to form the number 70
🔷Thousands gather to watch the Red Arrows head over The Mall
🔺 BREAKING: Prince Andrew has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Friday, Buckingham Palace has announced
“After undertaking a routine test the duke has tested positive for Covid and with regret will no longer be attending tomorrow’s service,” the palace said thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
🔺BREAKING: The Queen will miss the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral in London tomorrow “with great reluctance” after experiencing “some discomfort” during today’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-…
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Russia attacked Ukraine with 145 drones and six long-range missiles overnight, including attacks on energy infrastructure, despite President Putin claiming he had ordered an end to strikes on the Ukrainian power grid
Ukraine has an undeniable right to defend itself on its own and supported by partners, President Stubb of Finland said today after meeting with President Zelensky in Helsinki
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Zelensky said he will talk to Trump today, the first time they have spoken directly since the bust-up between the two in the Oval Office last month.
Zelensky said he expects to hear details from the US president regarding his two-hour phone call with Putin yesterday
Lucy Powell, the Leader of the Commons, said that an Elections Bill — which would include lowering the voting age — could come in the next parliamentary session
In its manifesto Labour committed to giving “16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections”, but the pledge was not included in the government’s first King’s speech, setting out its priorities for its first parliamentary session
On the eve of election day, the polls had predicted the closest race in modern times. Instead, it was a rout
With Donald Trump poised to sweep Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, the pollsters — despite spending an estimated half a billion dollars on surveying the nation — underestimated the president-elect’s support for the third election in a row
🔺EXCLUSIVE: King Charles and his eldest son make millions from feudal levies on schools, hospitals, homeowners and the very charities they represent, a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and @C4Dispatches reveals today thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…
@C4Dispatches The ancient property empires that fund the King and the Prince of Wales have remained a closely guarded secret within the royal family and its small circle of advisers for centuries.
Even parliament has been denied access to the list of landholdings held by the royals
@C4Dispatches We used the royal addresses to uncover how the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are making millions of pounds by charging government departments, councils, businesses and the general public via a series of rents and feudal levies on land largely seized by medieval monarchs
Sir Keir Starmer has rejected Donald Trump's claims of US election meddling but the Republican presidential candidate has filed an official complaint — follow live updates below ⬇️
The complaint was filed on Monday by Gary Lawkowski, Trump’s deputy campaign manager, and accuses Labour of “forgetting the message” of the American War of Independence
The Trump campaign have used a post by Sofa Patel, Labour’s head of operations, as evidence of its claim of election interference.
Patel said in a LinkedIn post last week that she had almost 100 “current (and former) party staff” ready to campaign for Harris in many swing states