Day: September 28, 2025
Labour MPs and members are relieved to hear him speak so unequivocally but are expecting a backlash from the right
Politicians tend to prefer different awkward euphemisms when they talk about the extreme right. “Divisive” has so far been the descriptor of choice for Keir Starmer.
But this Sunday the prime minister went further. It was racist, he said, unequivocally, for Reform UK to end indefinite leave to remain, a policy that threatens the lives of people long settled in Britain.
Kathleen Whitehead, known with sibling as ‘the Twinnies’, put their long life down to wine, chocolate and exercise
Britain’s oldest identical twin has died at the age of 105 – three years after her sister.
Kathleen Whitehead died peacefully this month. Her twin, Dorothy Sivyer, died in July 2022.
