NOTTINGHAM, June 17 — Two businessmen brothers who ​held opposite positions on Brexit at the time of the vote are both feeling disappointed 10 years on. For one new freedoms have been squandered, while the other bemoans the complications to ‌trade. The disillusion felt by Nigel Baxter, who has a co»»»

1. 61,732: Voters who did not choose PN and PL 61,732 eligible voters abstained, invalidated their vote, or voted for third parties in last week’s general election. Their number has declined by 7,508 since the 2022 election but remains 26,518 higher than in 2013, when only 32,974 eligible voters di»»»

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, on Wednesday, held a breakfast meeting in Abuja with the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, alongside diplomats from the European Union, Germany, Canada and France. Obi disclosed the meeting in a post on X, describing it as “an enr»»»

Asylum seekers who commit crimes or work illegally are to be thrown out of taxpayer-funded accommodation and lose their hand-outs. The rule changes, first announced last November, mean only those with legitimate asylum claims who follow the rules will get support, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood wil»»»

DUBLIN - Ireland looks set to elect a veteran independent left-wing lawmaker backed by the main opposition parties as president on Friday in what would be a bruising rebuke to the recently re-elected centre-right coalition. Catherine Connolly, 68, a leading pro-Palestinian voice in parliament and l»»»

Britain plans to tighten the rules over how migrants can settle permanently by making applicants prove their value to society, including being able to speak a "high standard" of English, interior minister Shabana Mahmood said on Monday. The plan is the latest government effort to dent the rising po»»»

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has dramatically won the Runcorn and Helsby byelection by just six votes in a blow to Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership. The hard-right party narrowly overturned Labour’s 14,700-vote majority in the first full-scale electoral test of Starmer’s government. The result, which cam»»»