Delegates gather in Manchester as Tory leader unveils scheme to deport 150,000 people a year from the UK Tories pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice Good morning. The Conservative party conference is starting in Manchester today – although you could be forgiven for thinking it’s another Reform UK conference, because Kemi Badenoch has already made two huge policy commitments that are straight out of the Nigel Farage manual. First, on Friday night, she announced that the Tories would withdraw from the European convention on human rights. Continue reading...

On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say.