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Labour leader Keir Starmer seems to have changed his mind about immigration (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Tories are set to lose power but Labour are out of touch with reality

Andrew Ness, Portfolio Manager, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust

Emerging Markets are weathering macro headwinds - Andrew Ness

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin in Moscow in April.

Analysis: Do not overlook trouble brewing in Belarus and Moldova

A general view of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Picture: Andrey Borodulin/AFP via Getty Images

Europe's largest nuclear power plant forced to switch to emergency generators

(Left to right) European Council president Charles Michel, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, France's president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US president Joe Biden and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are given a tour of the Itsukushima Shrine. Picture: Jacques Witt/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

G7: Western leaders launch new measures to stop Russia, China

Anti-nuclear campaigners at Faslane on the Clyde in 2020 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: UK support of Ukraine could bring nuclear nightmare

Defence secretary Ben Wallace leaves the Cabinet Office in Whitehall. Picture: PA

Ben Wallace mocks SNP MP for saying there is no 'armoured' warship in Scotland

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo: Twitter/Rishi Sunak)

Sunak vows 'support' for Zelensky as leaders share warm embrace at Chequers

Ukraine Entry Tvorchi performs on stage during The Eurovision Song Contest.

Home city of Ukraine's Eurovision entry attacked by Russia ahead of performance

Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina and English actress Hannah Waddingham present the first semi-final of the 2023 Eurovision Song contest at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Eurovision: Why Russia, North Macedonia & Bulgaria aren’t competing

Russia threatens military response after UK sends missiles to Ukraine

Ben Wallace making a statement on Ukraine, to the House of Commons in London on May 11, 2023.

UK to send long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine

Bank of England impose another interest rate hike

Singer Mae Muller outside BBC Wogan House in London, after she was confirmed as the UK's act for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, performing the track I Wrote A Song.

What time is Eurovision 2023? Who will represent the UK? How can I watch it?

Apparently there’s no rule that says a Eurovision entry can’t have another run, so why not bring back this legend? Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie or ‘Lulu’ is a Scottish Pop Singer who had the winning entry for Britain at the song contest in 1969, “Boom-bang-a-bang”. It would be an epic comeback performance.

The Perfect Scots for Eurovision: 13 Scottish artists you chose for Eurovision

The solitary Soviet era T-34 tank parades through Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow at the weekend.

The biggest irony of Russia’s Victory Day event? Where its parade tank was made

A car hit by the remains of a Russian drone shot down over the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is loaded onto a truck (Picture: Sergei Chuzavkov/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe Day and Eurovision provide an eloquent response to Putin's 'Victory Day'

Eurovision 2023 venue The M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool - Credit: Eurovision / M&SBA

Eurovision semi-final 2023: Full guide to event including timings

Ukraine War: What is the Victory Day parade in Russia, what did Vladimir Putin say about the west?

What is Victory Day in Russia & what did Vladimir Putin say?

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow.

‘Civilisation is at a turning point’ says Putin at Victory Day celebrations

United Kingdom's Eurovision entrant Mae Muller at the National Lottery's Big Eurovision Welcome Party at St George's Hall, Liverpool.

How Eurovision voting works and the new changes for this year

Kalush Orchestra, Eurovision winners from Ukraine, performing their first UK gig at Shangri-La's Truth Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Why can’t Ukraine host Eurovision 2023? Who will represent Ukraine this year?

Tinder owner Match has become the latest global firm to exit Russia.

More than 20 global firms quit Russia in past month, report reveals

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stands next to Dutch Senate president Jan Anthonie Bruijn and Dutch House of Representatives president Vera Bergkamp ahead of a meeting, in The Hague, as part of his first visit in Netherlands.

Attacks on Ukraine amid Kremlin 'assassination attempt' row

Russia has accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Vladimir Putin in a drone attack

Russia accuses Ukraine of Kremlin drone strike

Tinder will cease operating in Russia

Dating app Tinder to stop operating in Russia following Ukraine war

The UK government is facing renewed criticism over taxation of oil and gas drillers as BP reports global profits of nearly £4bn for the first three months of this year, while households struggle to pay rocketing energy bills

‘Obscene’ profits spark call for ‘generational’ reform of oil and gas taxes

Men carry the coffin of eight-year-old Uliana Troichuk, killed during the Russian attack on a residential building in the village of Apolyanka, outside Uman, Ukraine.

Russia's frontline defences 'most extensive' in world, MoD says

UK Minister of State for Security Tom Tugendhat . (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK division ‘helps Russia and China’, claims Tory minister thete

Satellite imagery shows the once flourishing city turned into a wasteland, with landmark buildings reduced to rubble.

Google Earth reveals desolation in Mariupol after relentless bombing

Officially it is reported that there are 195 countries in the world today and India is the most populated.

How many countries in the world 2023 and is India or China the most populated?

Ukrainian artillery fire towards Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut in Donetsk (Picture: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine has just six months to win the war for the West – Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Vehicles are seen stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the Delhi-Jaipur expressway in Gurgaon, on April 25, 2023. - India will overtake China as the world's most populous country in the coming week, hitting almost 1.43 billion people, the United Nations said on April 24. (Photo by Vinay GUPTA / AFP) (Photo by VINAY GUPTA/AFP via Getty Images)

India’s population to be world’s largest by end of month, says UN

A Kremlin spokesman has denied that Putin is using body doubles after health concerns

Putin spokesperson claims Russian president ‘doesn’t use body double’

Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti hopes to promote greater understanding of different perspectives (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Edinburgh International Festival brings a message of hope with lessons for all

Russia is top of the list of European countries' alcohol consumption. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Which countries in Europe have the biggest alcohol problem?

People carry on their shoulders Othman Mohamed, a senior general loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, last week. British diplomats and their families have been evacuated from the country.

Sudan: The decision to evacuate UK embassy staff came at just the right time

A protest against Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine outside the Russian consulate in Edinburgh. The Russian flag can be seen in the background (Picture: Lesley Martin/PA)

Yousaf should call for Putin's diplomats in Edinburgh to be expelled from UK

The Ministry of Defence has been accused of "failing the state and those in uniform".

SNP warn defence procurement ‘failing those in uniform’

A Chinese ship takes part in military exercises northeast of Pingtan island, the closest point in China to Taiwan. Rising tensions could affect the global economy (Picture: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

Economic forecasts suggest there's more trouble to come – John McLaren

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.

Ukraine-Russia: Vladimir Putin visits occupied territories

Russian president Vladimir Putin is undergoing chemotherapy treatment, according to top secret US documents leaked from the Pentagon - Credit: Getty Images

Vladimir Putin undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer

Roddy Gow OBE, Chairman, Asia Scotland Institute

Talk of bromance between Russia and China may be premature - Roddy Gow

Inessa meets her son Vitaly after the bus delivering him and more than a dozen other children back from Russian-held territory arrived in Kyiv in March.

Why is Russia happy to allow ‘kidnapped children’ to return to Ukraine?

French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands at a Franco-Chinese business council meeting in Beijing yesterday (Picture: Ludovic Marin/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

China has a historic decision to make that's as big as when Mao met Nixon

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in a Franco-Chinese business council meeting in Beijing. Picture: Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP

Macron appeals to China leader Xi Jinping to 'bring Russia to senses'

Donald Trump sits with his lawyers during his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday (Picture: Timothy A Clary/pool/Getty Images)

UK must resist Trump-style populism to restore public confidence in politics

Finnish, Nato and US flags during a Nato foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels. Picture: Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images

Finland hands over documents to become Nato member

Russia is likely looking to "sponsor and develop" an alternative to the Wagner Group in Ukraine to ensure more control, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

Russia looking to develop replacement for Wagner Group in Ukraine

The price of crude oil increased by 5.5% on Monday April 3.

Oil prices rise more than 5 percent as production is cut

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's government applied to join Nato last year.

Finland to become 31st member of Nato after Turkish parliament lifts block

Professor Angus Laing. Image: Scott Louden

Investment Conference: Heed spirit of Adam Smith

A statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous Square in Baghdad, Iraq, in April 2003 (Picture: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)

For many countries, the Iraq War is a lasting reminder of western hypocrisy

BBC series This Is Going to Hurt and The Responder lead the nominations at the Bafta television and craft awards with six each.

BAFTA Television Awards 2023 nominations announced - full list

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday, March 20, 2023. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP)

Xi Jinping stresses close ties with ‘dear friend’ Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday. Picture: Sergei Karpuhkin/AFP via Getty Images)

What image is Vladimir Putin trying to portray from PR drive?

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