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Burnham claims EU summit could boost growth and help control illegal migration – UK politics live

12 October 2026 at 11:53

The prime minister tells MPs the next summit with the EU will be held on 20 November

Burnham to urge MPs to embrace closer ties with EU

Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, is speaking now. He started his speech with an account of a 73-year-old woman dying in North Wales after having to wait 23 hours for an ambulance, and he sought to link this to immigration.

He said:

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates that 15,000 people across Britain died last year due to excess wait times for emergency treatment. That’s 300 people a week, 300 lives destroyed, 300 families devastated.

And that number has increased tenfold over the last decade. This is a moral outrage, and it is a direct result of decisions made by Tory and Labour governments.

I don’t think that’s because he wants to have a fight over the European Union. I think that’s because he knows what we’re talking about today impacts hard in what is known as the red wall.

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Β© Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images

Β© Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images

Β© Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images

Skies across the UK illuminated by the northern lights

10 October 2026 at 18:30

Though mostly visible near the Arctic Circle, the natural phenomenon dazzled sky-gazers as far south Devon, Hampshire and Kent

The northern lights illuminated the skies across the UK on Friday and Saturday evening.

Sky-gazers as far south as Devon, Hampshire and Kent were treated to the dazzling natural phenomenon, also known as the aurora borealis.

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Β© Photograph: James Bell/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.

Β© Photograph: James Bell/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.

Β© Photograph: James Bell/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.

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