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The party leader posted with the rest of the 'Reform Five' in Parliament this morning after becoming an MP last week at the eighth attempt. And he immediately set his sights on winning over Labour voters, citing warnings to Keir Starmer from Sir Tony Blair that the PM needs to have a 'plan to control immigration' to ward off Reform. Mr Farage told GB News: 'The whole establishment knows that we're here. And can the Conservative Party claw those votes back from us? They're so split and divided, the civil war has broken out already within the Conservative party.

It wasn't until he found 10 tons of soil on a bedroom floor that Charles Reeves, 57, realised that the tenants in his £3 million London home had turned it into a cannabis farm. 'We had so many happy memories as a family in that house,' he says. 'But now they've been ruined. The growers completely wrecked the place and it's cost £80,000 to repair. The experience has been very damaging - we feel utterly violated.' But Charles's horror story is by no means unique.

Even before the election took place, financial advisers reported a huge influx of enquiries off the back of Emmanuel Macron's decision to call a snap election, with well-off French citizens considering a move to more fiscally favourable territories such as Italy, the historic tax haven of Switzerland, and Spain. But the victory of the NFP over Macron's centrists and the hard-right National Rally (RN) this Sunday has forced France's elite to seriously consider how their fortunes would fare given the very real prospect of a dramatic tax-and-spend economic policy. The hard-left alliance plans a huge spending spree that would deliver a major boost to minimum wage and public sector pay, reduce the pension age from 64 to 60 and freeze prices of essential goods - measures it claims will cost some €150 billion over three years. But Macron's camp warned it could cost as much as much as €300 billion and will entail the scrapping of tax breaks and credits for companies as well as soaring income tax. Ministers have also warned against a spending spree given that France is already grappling with a budget deficit of 5.5% of GDP.

The 37-year-old had promised 'fireworks' in his fourth round against Holger Rune - but after the match itself failed to produce so much as a sparkler, he grabbed the microphone and aimed a Roman candle straight at the Centre Court crowd. The seven-time champion turned his on-court interview into a rant about what he felt were boos directed at him during his straight-sets win on Monday evening, telling the audience: 'I know all the tricks... you can't touch me.' It seemed the crowd were simply cheering 'Ruuuuuuune' for his opponent but Djokovic, as he often does, saw things differently.

Australian tennis firebrand Nick Kyrgios has publicly slammed his colleague Andrew Castle after 'disrespectful' remark, reopening a beef with the BBC commentator.

Tony Blair raised concern that the extra revenue will be needed unless the government 'changes approach' on issues like AI. But the intervention will raise fresh alarm after new Chancellor Rachel Reeves was accused of paving the way for taxes. Ms Reeves issued a doom-laden warning yesterday about the 'spending inheritance' from the Tories . And she revealed she has already commissioned Treasury officials to conduct a review of the public finances 'so that I can understand the full scale of the challenge'. Conservatives said it showed their election attack lines about Keir Starmer not being honest about his tax plans were coming true.

Three Lions fans are scrambling to fly out to Dortmund for the high-stakes encounter, which could see their team have another shot at glory at their second successive Euros final. But fans are fuming at UEFA's decision to allow German official Felix Zwayer given his 2005 conviction for taking a €300 (£253.82) bribe from a fellow referee who was fixing the match. After he oversaw Borussia Dortmund's contentious 3-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in 2021, Bellingham - then playing for Dortmund - hit out at his appointment and was subsequently fined.

NEW It was an unlikely career trajectory for the presenter once best known for her speed with arithmetic on Countdown - but Carol Vorderman's reinvention as a political commentator is all but complete. Vorderman, 63, went to war with the BBC 's Laura Kuenssberg at the weekend, accusing the veteran political journalist of bias during an interview with Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey on her Sunday show. Kuenssberg had qualified her congratulations to the Lib Dems for winning more than 70 seats with the phrase 'I suppose', prompting Vorderman to call for the BBC to replace her with fellow presenter Victoria Derbyshire. Responding to the clip, the maths whiz had written on X: 'Vic D is exceptional and gives them all a hard time if that is what's needed. She knows her detail and cuts through with any bias. BBC is lucky to have her.' And in the two days since that interview aired Vorderman has tweeted nothing but politics - praising Labour's new education secretary and congratulating the Lib Dems and the Greens on their new arrivals to Parliament

Kate Beckinsale has revealed her weight loss is down to the 'stress and grief' of the death of her stepfather and her mother's cancer diagnosis as she hit back at trolls. The British actress, 51, slammed some of her 'a**hole' followers, who told her she needed to put on weight in the comments section of her latest Instagram post.

NEW This is the dramatic moment brave Tesco staff tried to thwart two crooks stealing booze and tobacco before one was hit by a car as he fled the scene. One customer in the busy London store filmed the shocking moment on her mobile phone as one of the two thieves was trapped momentarily behind the tills. The two thieves, clad in black, got behind the checkout are and started loading bottles of spirits and packs of rolling tobacco into their bags.

A multimillionaire towel tycoon is in a bitter £2.5 million legal row with his youngest child over a country mansion, after his son allegedly auctioned off or dumped hundreds of thousands worth of 'luxury furnishings'. Businessman Michael Parker (left), who says he has 'given everything' to son Thomas Parker-Bowyer, 30,(right) is now suing him over sprawling seven-bed mansion in Buckinghamshire. According to him, the 60-year-old resided at the ranch-style home - worth an estimated £2.2 million - until he signed it over to his son for inheritance tax purposes.

Jill Biden was 'fuming by the pool'. It was 2003, and inside the family home in Delaware, senior Democrats were trying to persuade her husband Joe to run for president. Joe knew she didn't want him to do it. She decided to force the issue. Scrawling 'NO' in large letters on her stomach with a black marker pen, the former part-time model marched into the room where they were meeting in her bikini. Mr Biden got the message - he didn't run that year, although Jill changed her mind over time, with her husband finally winning the presidency in 2020 after ousting Donald Trump. But amid escalating concern over the President's mental competence, and his declaration yesterday that he was 'firmly committed' to running for re-election, how dearly Democrats would love the First Lady to write that same instruction on her midriff again - if that's what it takes to persuade Joe Biden to bow out.

The Indian leader is currently being hosted in Moscow by the Kremlin autocrat. Modi arrived on the day Putin's forces had blasted Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv with a powerful Kh-101 missile on a day of savage Russian attacks on Ukraine which killed 38 - including four children - and wounded over 170. The pair hugged when they met as Putin hosted him at his Novo-Ogaryovo palace outside Moscow. Zelensky had met with Modi last month. The furious Ukrainian President posted: 'It is a huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts to see the leader of the world's largest democracy hug the world's most bloody criminal in Moscow on such a day.'

Even the bluntest of pencils could endeavour to join the dots laid out by Lily Allen during her latest podcast interview. The singer and actress has sparked inevitably wild speculation regarding the identity of a 'successful and incredibly beautiful' A-list star who accused her of trying to seduce her musician boyfriend. Now 39 and happily married to Stranger Things star David Harbour , Allen was 24-years old when the alleged incident took place during preparations for a charity fundraiser in 2009.

ANDREW PIERCE: The pictures wouldn't look out of place in Country Life magazine. An ostentatious chandelier, a three-oven Aga in the flagstone-floor kitchen, while the stylish study features floor-to-ceiling custom bookcases. The £750,000 sandstone mansion, set in glorious Lanarkshire countryside, even comes with stable blocks. Welcome to the home of Morgan McSweeney - now the second most powerful man in the country. Tony Blair employed the thuggish Alastair Campbell as his chief spin doctor, while Peter (now Lord) Mandelson revelled in his nickname 'The Prince of Darkness'.

Suki Waterhouse showed off her trim figure just four months after she welcomed her first child with Robert Pattinson.  The 32-year-old model, singer and actress took to her Instagram on Monday to share a set of sizzling bikini snaps.  Rocking a pink cherry-print two-piece, the Daisy Jones & The Six star showcased her enviable physique as she posed by a swimming pool.

People from around the world have shared the bizarre design fails they've spotted and Bored Panda has collated them into an online gallery. The unique examples include someone who made a flower bed in an umbrella (top right), while another thought it would be a good idea to make a knitted cover for the toilet seat (left). Bottom right: At least this bizarre coin purse might remind you to brush your teeth.

Last week, Amelia Shean heard a knock at her door, but when her boyfriend went to answer it, they discovered it wasn't for either of them. 'We have an antique door knocker,' she explains. 'It's very heavy and people were using it as part of their shot. They were holding it to stage a photograph, and they'd let it fall so it sounded like someone was knocking.' It's not the first time something like this has happened. 'We also had a man walking past the window again and again until he knocked on the door to ask if he could come and take a look around inside,' she says.

Futuristic all-electric 'tram-buses' will be seen on London 's streets for the first time within weeks, Sadiq Khan has confirmed. The new vehicles called ieTrams have been built by Spanish company Irizar and will operate on route 358 between Orpington and Crystal Palace in South East London. The 20 accessible tram buses, which are track free, are finally due to hit the roads later this summer having been delayed from an initial launch date of early 2023. Their covered wheels are designed to make road conditions safer for pedestrians and cyclists to avoid them being caught and dragged underneath them. The ieTrams will be powered by a pantograph at each end of the route which will allow them to recharge in less than ten minutes and have a smaller battery.

A mother said she left people 'flabbergasted' after she turned up for her own C-section wearing a full face of make-up so she'd 'look good' when the baby arrived. Bromley Elford, (pictured in all) 28, from Wantage in Oxfordshire, had opted to book in for a C-section for the birth of her second baby, after experiencing an 'awful' natural birth with her first child nine years ago. Knowing the exact time and date she would be giving birth, the 28-year-old said she woke up two hours before she needed to be at the hospital to apply a full face of makeup and straighten her hair. The mum-of-two is never without a fresh set of nails of eyelash extensions, and wasn't going to have a baby get in the way of looking her best.

It was a welcome ray of light in a bomb-scarred London still suffering from the impact of the Second World War. On this day in 1947, Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten announced their engagement. The happy couple appeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony (inset right) to wave to thousands of well-wishers. But while 'Lilibet' and Philip - now the most 'in-demand' couple in London - embarked on a round of celebratory balls and parties, not everyone at the Palace was quite so delighted. Sir Alan Lascelles, her father George VI's private secretary, spoke for many courtiers when he wrote of Philip: 'They felt he was rough, uneducated and would probably not be faithful.' The Princess had been only vaguely aware of Philip's existence when she was first properly introduced to her distant cousin, then an 18-year-old officer cadet, during a family visit to her father's alma mater, the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon, in the summer of 1939 (left).

More Pamplona daredevils have been injured under the hooves of bulls on the third day of festivities, with two men taken to hospital with minor injuries, local government sources in the Spanish city said.  According to the University Hospital of Navarra, two men, aged 24 and 29, suffered from injuries to their face, but none were caused by direct contact with the bulls' horns and are not life threatening.  Dramatic pictures showed revellers stumbling and covering their heads as they tried to outrun the rampaging fighting bulls on Tuesday morning in the dangerous race - which takes place over 850 metres through the city's narrow streets.

Cheryl McGregor, from Rome, Georgia, is a mother-of-seven and a grandmother-of-17 who met the love of her life in 2012 when he was just 15 years old and she was 52. Years later, Cheryl, 63, tied the knot with 26-year-old husband Quran McCain and the pair's unlikely romance and immense age gap quickly turned them into TikTok sensations. After spending years boasting their love online, the couple revealed they would be having a child via surrogacy, since Cheryl is unable to naturally conceive a child because of her age. Now, they have once again shared an update about their unicorn baby as they uploaded footage of themselves at their gender reveal.

Sofia Theodoridis, 94, was running errands when she called grandkids Sophie, 24, and Vickie, 22, to ask them for help with tending to her garden. But when the sisters did not answer, Sofia, from Connecticut, immediately began plotting her revenge. She decided to lock Sophie and Vickie out of the house - with the duo recording the moment they begged to be let back inside.

The former world's fattest man has opened up about his fluctuating weight, saying doctors predicted he would die before 40. Paul Mason, from Ipswich, who has defied predictions to make it to 64 years old, tipped the scales at 80 stone at his heaviest (pictured left), before dropping down to 19 stone (pictured right) after finding love and having a gastric bypass operation in 2010. Speaking to The Mirror, he revealed is now back at 36 stone and bedridden, but he is determined to use his time to enjoy his own life and to help others where he can (pictured centre in 2023).

Emma Watson's mystery man has reportedly been revealed as fellow Oxford student Kieran Brown. The Harry Potter actress, 34, was recently enjoyed a romantic date with the hunk at a pastry shop close to the University, days after they were seemingly spotted kissing. While Emma is doing a part-time Master's degree at Oxford while Kieran is said to be working towards a PhD in 19th century literature and economics. 

The Normal People actress, 26, turned heads on Monday as she arrived for the premiere of the Twister sequel at Cineworld Leicester Square in London. Daisy looked cosy with co-star Greg Powell, 35, as the pair beamed at one another while posing with In The Heights star Anthony Ramos, 32. She stunned for the premiere in a satin strapless gown which had a ruched detailing at the waist and a full skirt, as well as a flowing cape draped over her left shoulder. Daisy's gown, which also had a leg split, was paired with black patent stilettos and she was seen being protected from the unpredictable British weather with an umbrella.

Michael Mason, 37, created the £700 structure for ten-year-old Leo, who has Tourettes and aspires to be a professional rock climber when he's older. He uses the wall a couple of times a week and an incredible video shows him going upstairs in the three-bedroom terraced house by climbing the DIY rock face.

He can strike a golf ball as well as a football, it appears. But after teeing-off in style with his England team-mates, Bukayo Saka came back down to earth with a bump. The Arsenal forward, 22, was filmed being applauded by the squad after striking a golf ball as the team regrouped at their training camp - a golf and spa resort in Blankenhain, Thuringia, ahead of tomorrow's showdown with the Netherlands. Saka turned to acknowledge their praise, before promptly tripping over a golf bag. He ended up on the grass, as teammates including Luke Shaw , 28 and Trent Alexander-Arnold , 25, struggled to contain their laughter.