Starmer is in the Commons to formally apologise for the forced adoption scandal, in which an estimated 185,000 unmarried mothers who, between the 1950s and 1970s, were pressured or coerced into surrendering their babies. A 2022 parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry called for an apology. Now Starmer – in legacy mode – is doing so…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We say the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”