"Too many people feel politics is happening to them rather than for them, while too many communities still believe Westminster has failed to understand the pressures they face every day"21:35, 16 Jun 2026View ImageVoice of the Mirror has its say...Angela Rayner is right that the challenge facing Labour is significant, but far from impossible.Her message that the party must listen more closely to voters and show it is on the side of ordinary working people is one all its MPs must heed. Voters delivered a stark warning in last…

Thirsty racegoers are tipped to sink a record 70,000 bottles of bubbly at Royal Ascot this week as eye-popping hats stole the show on day one. Bookies reckon punters will smash previous records during the five-day festival, with the World Cup helping fuel the celebrations.Previous meetings have seen around 65,000 bottles necked. Nicola McGeady, of Ladbrokes, said: “Royal Ascot is one of the biggest social events of the summer and with the World Cup also underway, all signs point to a record amount of champagne being consumed…

The Border Force has seized 12 tonnes of cannabis worth around £139million in what is believed to be the agency's largest ever seizure of the drug20:44, 16 Jun 2026View 2 ImagesAlmost 12 tonnes of cannabis were seized by Border Force at Southampton Port(Image: @ukhomeoffice/x)The Border Force has confiscated 12 tonnes of cannabis valued at approximately £139million in what is thought to be the agency's biggest ever haul of the substance.Roughly 1,200 boxes of cannabis were discovered packed into two shipping containers at…

My job is to read between the lines.What politicians aren’t saying, what they are trying to signal, why they choose to act when they do. Sometimes it is headache-inducing, trying to figure out what on earth they are trying to say. Sometimes I ask a question and they answer a different one, the one they would rather answer.But when I interviewed Angela Rayner on Tuesday, she did something unusual. When I asked her if she thought it was too late for Keir Starmer to turn things around, she admitted she wasn't answering my…