James Cleverly

Israeli Home Front Command officers inspect an apartment building struck by an Iranian missile in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Maya Levin)

Energy boss says price rises may be “inescapable”

Morning View

Editorial: NI should build mansion block flats as part of our housing stock

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater makes a statement in the House of Commons, London, on the third reading of the assisted dying Bill, ahead of a debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Commons

Historic vote brings assisted dying closer to becoming law in England and Wales

The front runner in the race Robert Jenrick explains his position on Northern Ireland yesterday. He said only he went to NI during the campaign. . Pic by Ben Lowry Wednesday October 2 2024

Conservative leadership hopefuls defend their approach to Northern Ireland

By 7.30pm with no leadership hopeful in sight, more than half the guests had left the NI conference event above on Tuesday night, October 2 2024. Pic Ben Lowry

NI Tories disappointed when leaders fail to show - until one does at end

Morning View

Editorial: It's a bad sign that Tory leadership hopefuls ignored NI event

Former home secretary Suella Braverman is expected to be a contender in the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party

New Tory leader must strengthen party's relationship with unionism says DUP MP

Morning View

Editorial: UK should quit European Convention yet NI won't be allowed to

Morning View

Editorial: National service for the young is good idea but it has come too late

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent

Rwanda: UK and Irish ministers to meet amid row over migration

Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill has called for a “thought-out” response to people who seek asylum in Ireland after travelling from the UK

O’Neill seeks ‘thought-out’ response to cross-border asylum seekers in Ireland

Morning View

Editorial: We needed to know how MPs divide on Gaza yet speaker blocked that

Morning View

Editorial: Mary Lou tells a UK government what it must do about NI pay

As MPs debated the Bill, Mr Wilson said the objective of creating a deterrent for migrants crossing the Channel in small boats was supported by the DUP

Rwanda Bill risks making Northern Ireland a magnet for migrants, DUP claims

A veterinarian preparing a syringe for vaccination of cow at farm

Northern Ireland Protocol: vets' body raises concerns over supply of animal meds

This image provided by Maxar Technologies on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 shows an overview of al-Ahli Hospital after explosion in Gaza City. (Satellite image ©2023 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Rishi Sunak to visit Israel as UK probes hospital blast
Rishi Sunak will arrive in Israel on Thursday, commencing a two-day trip to the wider region as concerns grow over the conflict in the Middle East.
By Sam Blewett, David Hughes and Nina Lloyd, PA

Jamie Bryson, Director of NI Policy, Centre for the Union, giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at the House of Commons in central London, which is investigating the effect of paramilitary activity and organised crime on society in Northern Ireland. Picture date: Tuesday October 17, 2023.

Bryson evidence session was like ‘character assassination’, DUP MP says

Jake Marlowe

Seventeen British nationals are feared dead or missing in Israel

Israeli soldiers are seen in a staging ground near the Israeli Gaza border, southern Israel, on Monday

UK backing Israel after it declares ‘siege’ on Gaza following Hamas attacks

Doug Beattie

Beattie says rumours of Windsor Framework power-grab 'vindicate my stance'

As the House of Commons gets back to work, the party conference season starts and an event approaches that aims to sell Northern Ireland to foreign investors, you can expect to hear sceptics, who insist that the sea border created intractable problems rather than an enviable business environment, lambasted for spurning opportunities

Owen Polley: Framework propaganda will ramp up for the new parliamentary term

The port of Larne, which will become a frontier checking point for goods. Although the UK government announced that a green lane ‘removes any sense of a border in the Irish Sea’, such a claim is generally treated with some scepticism. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

Analysis: How green is the Green Lane for goods under the Windsor Framework?

A smoke rises over sunflowers field on the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine on Wednesday. Christian Aid, has said that Russia's unilateral decision on grain had again put so many at risk from rising food prices and had exposed “the fragility of the world's food system” (AP Photo/Libkos)

Canon Ian Ellis: Russian decision to end grain deal is latest Ukraine disaster

Lorries at Belfast Port. The House of Lords committee found that some businesses will find the new processes more burdensome than under the protocol with grace periods

Lords report into Windsor Framework: Hauliers were forthright witnesses

Lorries and goods being check at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs checking facility in Belfast Port.

Nationalists 'undermining peace' in effort to advance a border poll: DUP

Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard briefs the media on search efforts for the missing mini submarine

Five trapped on Titan submersible all believed to be dead – expedition company

Polling stations will be open from 7am to 10pm on Thursday as Northern Ireland elects 462 councillors

Protocol features in last-ditch votes appeals from three main unionist parties
Northern Ireland goes to the polls on Thursday to elect 462 new councillors, with parties holding their collective breath to determine who comes out on top.
Adam Kula

White-tailed eagle (RSPB)

Shock voiced over 'severe blow' to rare eagle population after dead birds found

James Cleverly and Margaret Ritchie in the Lords committee today

Brexit: Entirety of UK will have 'not for EU' printed on goods

Stormont, the seat of the NI Assembly (lit up in blue for the jubilee, 2022)

Windsor Framework: 'Inconceivable UK govt would ignore Stormont Brake'

Former big name in Belfast UUP breaks with old comrades to endorse DUP

Pacemaker Press 21/11/2015: First Minister Peter Robinson bids farewell during the DUP annual conference at the La Mon Hotel, as he steps down from power

'Government will be watching DUP vote share': Ex-First Minister Peter Robinson

James Cleverly in the Lords committee today

Re-opening Windsor Framework talks with EU 'could leave UK with worse deal'

There will be no renegotiation of the Windsor Framework agreed between the UK Government and the EU, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has told the House of Lords Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland Sub-Committee

There will be no renegotiation of the Windsor Framework – Cleverly

The evacuation of British Nationals onto an awaiting RAF aircraft at Wadi Seidna Air Base in Khartoum, Sudan at the weekend.

Sudan crisis: UK to continue rescue operation with further flight on Monday

Smoke billows over Sudan's capital Khartoum. Credit: Getty

Breaking Brits in Sudan to be evacuated on a ‘vulnerability basis’

People evacuated from Sudan arrive at a military airport in Amman on 24 April 2023 (Photo: KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking Evacuation flights begin to bring British nationals home from Sudan

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly (pictured) and the European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic will together chair a meeting today that will see the UK and the EU formally adopt the new arrangements for Northern Ireland, after the Government won the backing of MPs for the Windsor Framework earlier this week.

Windsor Framework to be signed off today by UK and EU

The DUP’s East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell has said the Secretary of State needs to come to terms with the requirement for cross community support.
Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

DUP plays down UK and EU signing off WF

Freight lorries arriving at Larne port

WF will cause an irreversible fracture between GB and NI says top haulier

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and the European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic will together chair a meeting that will see the UK and the EU formally adopt the new arrangements for Northern Ireland, a deal sealed last month following protracted negotiations. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Brexit deal set for formal sign-off amid continued DUP opposition

Irish premier Leo Varadkar is to travel to Brussels today, Thursday, for a meeting of EU leaders where the Windsor Framework will be discussed.

Leo Varadkar to meet EU leaders and discuss WF

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in the House of Commons - 22-03-23

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson makes clear DUP will not return to Stormont

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks to a PA reporter at his party offices in Parliament Buildings, Stormont. The DUP will oppose the Government in this week's first parliamentary vote on the new Windsor Framework Brexit deal. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said DUP officers met on Monday morning and unanimously agreed to vote against the first aspect of the Windsor Framework to be considered by Parliament, the Stormont brake.

Government stands by Windsor Framework deal on Brexit

Freight lorries travelling through the Port of Belfast

Lords to examine 'economic and constitutional implications' of Framework

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making a statement about the Northern Ireland (NI) Protocol in the House of Commons in London on February 27, 2023

The Windsor Framework – how egg sandwiches and late nights fuelled the deal

King Charles III meeting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen yesterday during an audience at Windsor Castle, Berkshire

King and von der Leyen meeting ‘not unusual’, says Cleverly

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson

'Don’t rush deal, it has to be right' Sir Jeffrey Donaldson urges PM

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held a “positive” call with the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen.

Downing Street source suggests 'good progress' has been made in Protocol deal

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears to be closing in on announcing a new post-Brexit deal for Northern Ireland

MPs ordered into Commons on Monday as Rishi Sunak appears to close in on deal

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

UK will not sign off NI Protocol deal until all DUP concerns addressed: Cleverly

Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Vadym Prystaiko (centre) and his wife Inna Prystaiko (centre left), with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (second right) and his wife Akshata Murty (right), members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, outside 10 Downing Street, London, as they observe a minute's silence to mark the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Picture date: Friday February 24, 2023.

Sunak leads minute’s silence marking Ukraine’s resistance to Putin’s invasion

'Significant issues remain unresolved' as we approach more deadlines for implementing EU legislation in NI

EU medicines rules 'costly and inefficient' and 'creating risk of cliff edges'

Ukrainian troops and their UK military instructors, commemorate lives lost in the Russian invasion of Ukraine during a sunrise commemorative service, at Lydd army camp in Kent, to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the conflict. Picture date: Friday February 24, 2023.

Ukraine marks one year of war as UK and allies pledge ongoing support

Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris will attend talks with the EU’s Maros Sefcovic in Belgium today

Fresh talks in Brussels over Northern Ireland Protocol amid delays in deal

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