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Rachel Reeves will ditch Britain’s over-reliance on China to secure critical minerals needed for electric vehicles and phones.The Chancellor wants to safeguard the long-term supply of lithium, graphite and cobalt for major industries by giving them financial backing.She is set to announce the boost for UK companies at the Budget to help in defence, aerospace and renewable energy.Western countries have been looking to break the Communist country’s grip on minerals essential for hi-tech goods.The minerals are essential for electric vehicles navigation systems, wind turbines and solar panels.The move will also make it easier for UK Export Finance to secure contracts…

Few centenarians exhibit as much joie de vivre as Dorothea Barron who celebrates her 100th birthday today.The Second World War heroine – who lied her way into the forces – played a pivotal role in the D-Day landings and has since become a poster girl for The Greatest Generation. The indomitable centenarian might only stand 5ft tall but her fearlessness is as infectious as it is instantly-recognisable.Just last month she took to the skies in a Spitfire as a thank you for her service to a country that owes her so much.And tomorrow friends, family, and the last remaining vets from…

Sir Keir Starmer has admitted people who own shares and assets “wouldn’t come within my definition of working people”.The Prime Minister, giving his clearest indication yet of who may be hit with punishing tax hikes in next week’s Budget, said he believed a working person was somebody who “goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly cheque”.But they do not have the ability to “write a cheque to get out of difficulties”, he said.Labour insisted tax rises will not impact working people – as he vowed not to raise income tax, VAT or national insurance.Asked…

Kemi Badenoch says leaving the European Convention on Human Rights will not solve Britain’s migration crisis.The Tory leadership frontrunner warned immigration lawyers, who are using the convention to fight deportation orders, would target other areas of law to block removals.She warned the UK has a “problem with culture and with people”.Mrs Badenoch added that Home Office staff “want to look after people, they want to help them”, adding “we need to make sure those people work in charities”.She told GB News: “We should be deporting people more than we are now.“What worries me, is we will say we will leave…

A budget is just days away and there’s concern from many about the impact it’ll have on their lives.But policies that have already been set in motion are already having a bearing on the choices people are making – with property owners and home buyers being no exception.Many are worrying about the ramifications that Deputy PM Angela Rayner’s plans to plough ahead – quite literally – to build more than a million houses across Britain will have on their brick and mortar assets.But experts from Stacks Property Search say that understanding Labour’s policies and adapting your property strategy to the…

A furious NHS worker has blasted a bewildered Labour minister demanding that they “start doing something now” to fix the treasured health service.The Question Time audience member was fuming that Labour is set to launch yet another consultation – that Labour’s dubbed a “big national conversation” – to help improve the health service.She let her feelings known by taking aim at Labour MP for Streatham and Croydon North and Secretary of State for the Environment, Steve Reed.The audience member said: “I actually work in the NHS – I actually work in the emergency department and we have given you…this ten…

Britain will be back in the European Union “within 15 years”, a former Eurocrat has predicted.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has prioritised closer ties with Brussels, insisting the UK must forge a new relationship with the EU.He has even suggested Britain must put “the Brexit years behind us”.And Former Italian Prime Minister and EU Commission president Romano Prodi said: “The UK will be back in the EU within 15 years.”Mr Prodi told an audience UCL Centre for Finance Annual Lecture in London that he originally thought Britain would rejoin in “20 years”.Sir Keir has ruled out a free movement deal…

A documentary with “never before seen evidence” revealing the dark secrets of a mystery serial killer in the 1960s – named the Zodiac Killer – has just dropped on Netflix.It became one of the most chilling and notorious cases as the so-called Zodiac Killer taunted press and police with letters claiming responsibility for 37 murders in Northern California.However even after extensive investigations, nobody was never prosecuted due to insufficient evidence, making it one of the most chilling unsolved cases. The lead suspect is named as Arthur Leigh Allen, and in the new documentary, David and Connie Seawater who knew Arthur well…

A heated debate over reparations for slavery erupted during BBC’s Question Time, as an audience member dismissed demands for compensation as “ridiculous.”The debate aired live from Plymouth this week and part of it focused on whether the UK should allocate funds to atone for its colonial past.Emily Sheffield, a journalist on the panel, said: “I think it’s an incredibly complex question.”She added:“King Charles has said that we must understand the path of history. I do think there is further acknowledgement to be made of the pain, the stain of that terrible period of history that caused so much damage to…

Queen Elizabeth II’s “favourite” royal residence could undergo a huge change as King Charles has submitted plans to turn part of the Balmoral Estate into a wedding venue.Members of the public may soon have the opportunity to hold their own regal nuptials in the Queen’s Building, which is just metres away from the world-famous castle. The Balmoral Estate covers around 50,000 acres and is a working estate with grouse moors, forestry and farmlandThe rules around where you can tie the knot in Scotland are a lot more relaxed than England as wedding venues do not need a licence, which is…