Nigel Farage's Reform UK has won a local by-election (special election) in party Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick's constituency (electoral district).
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured a significant local election victory over the Conservative Party. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won a local by-election (special election) in Reform Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick’s constituency (electoral district). DETAIL: On Wednesday, it was announced that Reform candidate Matthew Evans had won the East Markham ward (city council district) by-election. The ward is located in Newark constituency in Nottinghamshire, in England’s East Midlands region. The constituency is represented by Reform’s Robert Jenrick in the House of Commons. Reform secured 49.6 percent of the vote, while support for Olukemi “Kemi” Badenoch’s nominally Conservative Party plummeted by…Open
A Nottinghamshire police officer was dismissed for breaching equality standards after telling a detainee who called English people "animals" to "go home" during a heated exchange.
A Nottinghamshire police officer was dismissed for breaching equality standards after telling a detainee who called English people “animals” to “go home” during a heated exchange. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A police officer in Nottinghamshire, England, was dismissed after an accelerated misconduct hearing found he breached standards of equality and diversity by telling a detainee who called England a “dirty nation” and the English people “animals” to “go home” during a confrontation. DETAIL: ‘Officer B,’ whose identity is being protected, had served the community for over two decades, told the detainee, ‘Person B,’ to “get on a boat and go back to where you came from” after being provoked by the comments…Open
An Afghan man who posed as a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old girl in Nottingham, England, has been jailed.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Abdul Khan, an Afghan asylum seeker believed to be 28, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison at Nottingham Crown Court after being convicted of grooming and twice raping a 13-year-old girl. He will theoretically be subject to automatic deportation to Afghanistan after serving two-thirds of his term, but the British government does not currently return Afghans to their homeland, even if they are subject to deportation orders. DETAIL: Khan arrived in Britain hidden in the back of a truck in 2015 and claimed a false date of birth in his asylum application. Using the name “Abs” on Snapchat, he pretended to be a 14-year-old boy and exchanged sexual messages with the victim. He arranged to meet her…Open