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NICOLA STURGEON will “end the UK state pension overnight” with her independence plans, former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson claimed. The Scottish First Minister came closer to her goal of leading Scotland to independence last week after her Scottish National Party (SNP) secured Holyrood in the country’s elections. In the run-up to the ballot, Ms Sturgeon said she would use the victory – and a majority in parliament – as a springboard for holding a second independence referendum. While the SNP fell one short of a majority, many view the result as having given her a mandate to hold a ballot in the future, with Ms…

THE EU’s powergrab of financial firms has sparked a mass exodus of bankers from the City of London due to the lack of financial service provisions in the Brexit deal. Without any specific agreement on financial services, several banks such as Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Goldman Sachs have now moved senior bankers out of London. Instead, these firms have now looked to centres in Frankfurt, Paris and Milan. Due to the “post-Covid phenomenon”, some firms are also looking to relocate masses of workers by 2024. Indeed, Goldman Sachs has now swelled its workforce in Milan from 20 in 2017 to 60 due…

Thomas Tuchel blamed himself for fielding a much-changed lineup that lost narrowly to Arsenal, saying his side received a “wake-up call” that leaves them uncertain of Champions League qualification via the domestic route with two games left. Chelsea were overwhelmingly dominant against Mikel Arteta’s visitors but missed golden chances in both halves and conceded a 16th minute winner to Emile Smith Rowe after a calamitous error from Jorginho. Tuchel bemoaned their lack of intensity and admitted the seven changes he made, with an eye on Saturday’s FA Cup final against Leicester, did not help. “It is our fault, nobody else’s,” he…

BORIS JOHNSON has dragged Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford, and the leaders of the Northern Ireland assembly into a public inquiry into coronavirus as he announced an investigation into the UK’s handling of the pandemic. Addressing MPs in the Commons this afternoon, the Prime Minister committed to setting up a public inquiry with statutory powers to begin in spring 2022. Mr Johnson pledged to work with his counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to trash out the exact remits of the inquiry so the country could learn the lessons of the pandemic “as one Team UK”. He outlined the inquiry…

ISRAEL has declared a state of emergency in a city close to Tel Aviv, its former capital, after the country’s Arab minority reacted furiously to airstrikes in Gaza and police raids on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, with at least 40 killed – while a senior United Nations official has voiced concern about the risk of the unrest escalating into a “full-scale war”. Meanwhile, a restaurant in the city of Acre was destroyed in an arson attack, and in Jaffa, also close to Tel Aviv, police used stun grenades to disperse protesters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a state of emergency in Lod, after reports emerged…

The police officer poisoned in the Salisbury novichok attack has lodged papers in the high court suing Wiltshire police over the trauma he continues to suffer three years after being exposed to the nerve agent. Nick Bailey was critically injured after coming into contact with novichok when he entered the house of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Bailey, who was a detective sergeant, spent 17 days in hospital and retired from Wiltshire police in October 2020, explaining that the impact of the ordeal meant he could no longer do the job. Bailey’s lawyer, Patrick Maguire, a partner at the law…

If two Cities could celebrate, Manchester City had known their coronation was only a matter of time. But the likelihood of Leicester City joining the new champions in the Champions League had diminished with each setback so the result that decided the 2020-21 title may have a greater eventual significance for the 2016 winners. Leicester’s top-four push had been faltering. They lost 4-2 to Newcastle. They failed to beat 10-man Southampton, but in defeating a Manchester United side with 10 alterations, they ensured this opportunity was not squandered. Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s decision to prioritise Thursday’s rearranged game with Liverpool may not meet with approval…

Canadian pastor Arthur Pawlowski, who was arrested Saturday for allegedly violating public health orders by holding church services during the pandemic, said he felt like he was living in Hong Kong after he was released from jail on Monday night. “I just woke up in Hong Kong a few days ago,” Pawlowski said in an interview with Newsmax hours after his release. “I mean, I thought I emigrated to our beloved Canada, but I am in Hong Kong, full force.” Hong Kong people have been fighting for freedom in the past few years but have been brutally crushed by the CCP…

More resources are needed to address the “significant injustices” in the social care system, the health secretary has said, but he refused to say when the government would outline reforms amid mounting criticism of the Conservatives’ failure to properly address the issue in more than a decade in office. The government’s legislative priorities will be set out on Tuesday and, while the Tories have repeatedly insisted the care reforms are high on their agenda, Matt Hancock refused to say whether or not they would be included in the Queen’s speech. Hancock told BBC Breakfast: “There are a number of significant injustices in…

KEIR STARMER’S position remains under threat following the crisis at the top of the party following the local election defeat, insiders have claimed. Following Labour’s horrendous local election campaign, allies of former Deputy Leader Angela Rayner have warned she has much more power than she did before. Now the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, deputy prime minister and shadow secretary for the future of work, allies of Ms Rayner have revealed a leadership challenge could easily have been mounted against the Labour leader. Amid the reshuffle and crisis within the Opposition, insiders within the party claimed Ms Rayner had been held back…