As Keir Starmer fights to address the NHS crisis, sweeping reforms will see patients treated by general practitioners (GPs) rather than receiving specialised treatment in hospitals.
Routine appointments will be dealt with in community services close to patients’ homes in a move they believe could ‘fix the waiting list’.
The health service will also ramp up technology, meaning patients will have fewer in-person appointments. Instead, they will use the NHS app and wearable devices to monitor patients remotely.
NHS bosses claim half of the 135 million hospital outpatient appointments every year are ‘pointless’ and follow-ups and consultations could instead be done in high-street surgeries.
It comes as the government is set to launch a ten-year plan to create a ‘neighbourhood health service’, The Times reports.
‘As we deliver the transformational shifts in our 10-Year Plan, from hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention, it will have radical implications for services,’ Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the NHS ConfedExpo in Manchester.
‘Much of what’s done in a hospital today, will be done on the high street, over the phone, or through the app in a decade’s time.’
The plans are set to link family doctors, nurses, social care services and volunteers with money paid to NHS regions based on how effective their care is rather than how busy the hospitals are.
Streeting added: ‘We will use financial incentives to invest more in public health outcomes, not just in more activity that reacts to sickness.’
Earlier this week, figures revealed that the number of patients waiting has fallen to its lowest point in two years – but the number of patients waiting for more than a year for hospital treatment has increased.
The announcement comes after Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the NHS a cash injection worth an additional £29 billion per year.
Speaking to the Commons, the Chancellor said she is making a ‘record cash investment’ in the NHS, worth an extra 3 per cent a year in real terms.
The Chancellor insisted this would lead to ‘more appointments, more doctors and more scanners’ as Labour seeks to deliver on its manifesto promise to get the NHS ‘back on its feet’.
However, NHS bosses responded to the settlement with a lukewarm response. They said they would need even more money if the Government is to achieve its aim of treating 92 per cent of patients within 18 weeks of a GP referral by the end of this Parliament.
Matthew Taylor, of the NHS Confederation, which represents health organisations, said: ‘Difficult decisions will still need to be made as this additional £29 billion won’t be enough to cover increasing costs of new treatments, with staff pay likely to account for a large proportion of it.
‘On its own, this won’t guarantee that waiting time targets are met.’
Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, told the NHS ConfedExpo conference in Manchester that the health service has done ‘really well relative to other parts of the public service’.
But he added: ‘We all know it’s never enough because of the scale of advancement, all the ambition, the day-to-day cost pressures… but I think everyone’s starting to accept and understand we’ve got what the country can afford to give us.
‘We really need to get better value for that money – it is broadly the equivalent of the GDP of Portugal, so it’s a huge amount.’
Government documents accompanying the Spending Review show that, on average, from 2023/24 to 2028/29, the NHS in England will receive 3 per cent real-terms growth in day-to-day spending, equivalent to a £29 billion increase in annual budgets.
The Government said it will also invest up to £10 billion in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028/29, plus £6 billion to speed up tests and treatments.
Scanners, ambulances and urgent treatment centres are among things the extra cash – part of the overall £29 billion – will pay for, with the aim of delivering up to 4 million more tests and procedures in the next five years.
NHS England figures show 7.42 million treatments were waiting to be done at the end of March, relating to 6.25 million patients – up from 7.4 million and 6.24 million respectively at the end of February.
This is all utter rubbish – have you tried getting an appointment with your doctor? GPs are already overburdened with patients, can you imagine what it’s going to be like when they set all this up?
To slash NHS waiting lists, they should have treated only patients born in the UK. What an amazing idea that would have been.
The list goes on. We could even reduce the housing issue by providing social housing and housing help only to UK-born individuals.
It’s a fantastic idea, but one that this government would put in the bin alongside all the other good ideas.
You can’t even get to see a GP to tell you what is wrong with you, so what chance is there that they will heal you too?
So the government believe they will fix the enormous waiting lists in hospitals by giving GPs huge waiting lists instead – benefits to patients – zero.
What planet are these tools on? You can’t even see a GP for love or money. Or we get robbed off by either a nurse or told to go and see somebody at the chemist, and to top that, GPs are not specialists and this could end up being very dangerous for patients, and our government know it, but then that’s their plan – watch this space when people starting dropping down dead in their droves.
This is the shocking moment three teenage girls beat a 75-year-old man to death in a brutal street attack that was filmed on a mobile phone.
Never seen before CCTV footage shows the youths, aged 15, 16, and 17, pushing, shoving, and kicking Fredi Rivero by a bus stop in Islington, north London.
The oldest girl was also seen to punch the victim in the head causing him to fall back onto the pavement.
Mr Rivero, who had just got off a bus, suffered a severe head injury and went into cardiac arrest during the unprovoked attack on February 27 this year.
The Bolivian national was taken to the Royal London Hospital where he passed away in the early hours of February 28.
The three girls, who were seen staggering around with a vodka bottle, were arrested soon after the attack.
Police later learned that one of them had filmed the horrendous attack on her mobile phone.
In the footage, the 17-year-old shouts: ‘I don’t care’ and ‘Why are you chatting to little girls bruv’. She then said: ‘Hit me I f* dare you.’
Bystanders said the girls started telling them Mr Rivero had been harassing them but he did not seem to have done anything.
On Thursday, the teens, who cannot be identified because of their ages, appeared before Judge Judy Khan KC at the Old Bailey.
The girls, who attended via video link, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Judge Khan requested reports and remanded the defendants into custody to be sentenced on September 5.
Previously, police have said Mr Rivero was a ‘much-loved father’ whose family were ‘devastated by his death’.
On Thursday, the court session was attended by Mr. Rivero’s daughter, his ex-wife, and his relatives.
Detective Inspector Devan Taylor, Specialist Crime said:’Mr Rivero was a much-loved family man who died in a truly tragic incident.
‘I know how much his death has impacted those close to him and the wider community.
‘I would like to offer my heartfelt sympathy to Mr Rivero’s family for their loss and express my admiration for the dignity they have shown throughout the investigation.
‘I also wish to thank the members of public who went to Mr Rivero’s aid as he lay injured.
‘The young defendants have now accepted they were responsible for the killing of Mr Rivero, in what was a senseless and completely out of the blue attack on a lone elderly man.
‘The age of the defendants adds to the devastating nature of this incident and they will now have to deal with the enormity of their actions.’
This is not manslaughter, it’s murder because murder is based on intent, and the age of these teenagers should be irrelevant when lives are needlessly taken – age is no excuse.
All the excuses will be coming out shortly – they have ADHD, they come from a broken home where there is alcohol abuse blah, blah, blah. It’s not their fault, the system has failed them. It is their fault!
The fact that they attempted to place the responsibility on the victim is concerning.
Corporal punishment needs to be implemented now! It was prohibited by the Tories and destructive behaviour has sky-rocketed since then.
It’s horrendous these days with young people, whether they be male or female – they’re like a pack of wild animals. Visualize living to 75 years old and being a good human being, only to die in such a senseless way.
A gang of suspected foreign criminals seized the home of a frail pensioner while she was visiting her ‘lonely’ 102-year-old friend, sparking an ‘absurd’ two-month legal battle to remove them.
Shameless squatters allegedly broke into the elderly woman’s £590,000 terraced property in Chingford, north-east London, at the end of April and have refused to vacate.
The retired woman, who is thought to be in her 80s and living alone, is believed to have been ‘deliberately targeted’ by an organised crime group from Eastern Europe.
She has been left effectively homeless as a consequence and is understood to have suffered a serious health condition following her nightmare ordeal.
The Metropolitan Police, however, have declined to intervene to remove the gang, arguing that the situation is a civil infraction rather than a criminal one, even though her house is now in the hands of strangers.
And those now allegedly holding the pensioner’s property ransom have defiantly told MailOnline ‘it’s all fine’ and ‘nothing is happening’ – before refusing to say when or if they would be leaving.
The fiasco has sparked fury among neighbours, with one 63-year-old fuming: ‘They’re taking the p. This elderly woman has worked so hard for this country and paid her taxes and now this has happened… It’s fing outrageous.’
Meanwhile, former Conservative Party leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, blasted the squatters, saying it was both ‘absurd’ and ‘astonishing’ they had not been evicted.
‘They’re scum,’ Sir Iain said last night. ‘It’s the only thing you can say about them.
‘This whole thing is organised – it’s an organised crime… [but] trying to get police to take action on this is completely astonishing.’
When MailOnline visited the tranquil suburban street, a number of families were seen coming in and out of the three-bed terraced house.
One was driving an untaxed, grey Mercedes C class. Others appeared to be driving a luxury BMW X5.
The group was also accompanied by at least three young children.
It’s unclear whether those spotted entering and leaving the home are among the likely squatters.
Locals claimed to have seen dozens of people visiting the property in recent weeks – while others alleged that human faeces had been smeared on neighbouring homes.
After suffering from a severe medical condition, the elderly homeowner—who was previously believed to be a widowed mother—is now living with family in the West Country.
Neighbours say they’ve heard those living in the house claim to have a tenancy agreement saying they can stay there. However, this has been disputed, with Sir Iain branding the claim ‘total rubbish’.
Speaking to MailOnline, one man living on the street said the squatters were a nightmare who had left neighbours ‘paranoid’ and fearing for their homes.
The gentleman who requested not to be named said, ‘They have been there since April.
‘There has been trouble. Apparently, there’s a lot of people in there and a lot of children.’
A woman added: ‘There’s two old ladies either side [of the house] and they are kept up every night with loud music and doors slamming.
‘It has been reported to the police and they said they can’t do anything.
‘They are not even hiding that they are squatting. They just don’t care.’
Since early May, local MP Sir Iain has been fighting to get the group out, communicating with the police on a daily basis.
But the former Tory minister told MailOnline he has been left stunned by the seeming inaction from authorities to kick the group out.
According to the MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, authorities were essentially hamstrung by uncertainty about whether the squatters’ acts constituted a criminal or civil infraction.
He said the Met was refusing to take action in the belief it was a civil breach – while delays in arranging a court order due to the ‘complexities’ in the case had left the pensioner effectively homeless for months.
The MP added: ‘There’s no question I think [the squatters] broke in, which is an offence, and squatting in a residential building which is occupied – that’s an offence.’
When someone intentionally occupies a property without authorisation and resides there or plans to do so, this is known as squatting.
Under UK law, it is illegal to squat in a residential building such as a flat or house. It carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison, a £5,000 fine – or both.
Nevertheless, when someone initially enters a property with the consent of the landlord, it is not squatting – for example those who have a rental or tenancy agreement. Although squatting in non-residential building or land is not in itself illegal, it is a crime to damage the property, and it’s usually a crime not to vacate land or property when you’re instructed to do so by the homeowner, police, the council or via a repossession order.
There is a similar offence dubbed ‘cuckooing’, which is when a home is taken over by a group – usually criminals – while the resident is still living there.
There have been instances of drug dealers forcing their way into the homes of disabled or vulnerable residents before setting up a narcotics factory there.
‘Cuckooing’ has recently been made a criminal offence as part of the Government’s new Crime and Policing Bill. It followed an amendment to the lawmaking, put forward by Sir Iain.
Nevertheless, the Tory MP claimed the law still needed to be toughened up to prevent crime gangs from seizing homes.
‘The law is too soft and too vague on this,’ he added. ‘Here we have something that’s meant to be an offence but police don’t get involved because it’s under the civil code.’
It comes after Sir Iain claimed there had been other alleged instances of squatters seizing people’s homes in the Waltham Forest area.
It’s feared organised crime groups are targeting the properties of vulnerable or isolated people before moving in while homeowners are away.
‘They can see there is a gap in the law,’ Sir Iain said. ‘Once they understand that they know exactly how they can operate and exploit it. They move just before the law can act.’
MailOnline understands a court hearing is scheduled to take place on July 8 about the home allegedly seized in Chingford.
Speaking of the impact the ordeal has had on the elderly woman, Sir Iain added: ‘The impact on her has been profound as it would be on anybody.
‘But for someone of her age, the impact would be even greater.’
When MailOnline approached those living in the home in Chingford, a woman claimed she had spoken to police who had told her ‘everything is good’.
After being questioned about allegations squatters had moved into the home, the woman said: ‘I am still awaiting a response from the police.’
Pressed on claims they had kicked out the elderly woman to squat in the home, she added: ‘The police said everything is good.
‘They said it’s all fine. We don’t speak anymore. Nothing is happening and it’s fine.’
According to reports, the suspected squatters’ contested tenancy agreement is being examined by the Metropolitan Police to see whether any criminal offences have occurred. The force will take action if it has.
A spokeswoman for the Met added: ‘We are aware of reports of squatting at a property in Chingford.
‘Officers are working with the local Safer Neighbourhood Teams and in partnership with the local authority to resolve the issue and support the property owner.
‘Patrols have also been stepped up in the local area and our enquiries are ongoing.’
Waltham Forest Council said it was ‘aware of allegations regarding a privately-owned house in Chingford’ and the upcoming court case next month about this.
A spokesman added: ‘The council’s anti-social behaviour team is supporting the police to ensure local residents are kept safe while this issue is resolved.
‘We are attempting to make contact with the householder via their family to see what further support we may be able to offer.’
Simply gather your loved ones and friends and reclaim what is rightfully yours.
These outsiders come into our country and all they do is take, take, take when it’s not theirs to take.
It’s a shame we don’t know the address. I’m pretty certain a few chaps would pop by for a brief chitchat with these people because the police won’t do anything, but then we all know that invaders in our country take priority!
If they’re allowed to get away with this, then we are all at risk. A deterrent has to be set otherwise they will tell all their buddies how easy it is to just take from us!
What if squatters took over an MP’s home? I imagine the repercussions would be different.
As violence raged through Northern Ireland for the second consecutive night, this is the horrifying moment a demonstrator was set on fire in the streets of Ballymena.
Footage showed one protestor up in flames as rioters launched petrol bombs, fireworks and masonry at police officers – who condemned the ‘racist thuggery’ of rioters.
In addition to the violence that wounded 17 police officers, there were protests in Belfast, Lisburn, Coleraine, Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey.
Cars and properties were also set on fire in Ballymena after violence first erupted on Monday following a calm vigil of 2,500 people that descended into mayhem.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) deployed riot police, fired plastic baton rounds and used water cannons as well as dog units as they battled to restore order.
It comes after two 14-year-old boys – who both needed a Romanian interpreter in court – were charged with the attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on June 7.
A third arrest was made in relation to the alleged sexual assault on Monday night as a 28-year-old man was taken in for questioning and then released.
Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said other arrests are expected following the examination of video footage and said the PSNI was actively working to identify those responsible for the ‘racially motivated’ disorder.
Mr Henderson added there will be a significant policing operation in the town in the coming days to reassure the community.
Police officers from England and Wales will be brought to Northern Ireland if needed to help the PSNI, the senior police officer added.
In a statement, the PSNI said calm had been restored in the Clonavon Terrace, North Road and Bridge Street areas by around 1 am on Wednesday.
Officers in the Clonavon Terrace area came under ‘sustained attack over a number of hours with multiple petrol bombs, heavy masonry, bricks and fireworks in their direction’.
A spokesperson said earlier in the evening that a number of protests took place in areas of Belfast, Lisburn, Coleraine and Newtownabbey.
In Carrickfergus, two bins were set alight and bottles and masonry were thrown at police in the Sunnylands area by a group of 20 to 30 young people at around 8.30 pm.
Bins near the O’Neill Road roundabout in Newtownabbey were set on fire.
Officers used a number of plastic baton rounds and a water cannon to try to disperse the gathering during the disturbance in Ballymena.
The spokesperson said: ‘Businesses and homes were attacked and damaged and a number of vehicles were also set on fire in the area. Seventeen officers were injured with some requiring required hospital treatment.
‘Five people were arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour and remain in police custody this morning. A male was also arrested on suspicion of disorderly behaviour on the O’Neill Road in Newtownabbey.
‘A number of nearby roads were closed by police to ensure the safety of the public and local residents, and to enable officers to deal with the situation and disorder safely. All roads were subsequently reopened.’
Fifteen officers had been injured during similar scenes in Ballymena on Monday.
PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said scenes of violence in Ballymena ‘risk undermining the ongoing criminal justice process led by the PSNI in support of a victim who deserves truth, justice, and protection’.
He added: ‘The mindless violence witnessed over the past two nights in Ballymena is deeply concerning and utterly unacceptable.
‘These criminal acts not only endanger lives but also risk undermining the ongoing criminal justice process led by the PSNI in support of a victim who deserves truth, justice, and protection. Ironically, and frustratingly, this violence threatens to derail the very pursuit of justice it claims to challenge.
‘Let me be clear: this behaviour must stop. I appeal to everyone involved to cease all further acts of criminality and disorder immediately. As with any serious offenders in Northern Ireland, we will pursue those responsible and bring them to justice.
‘We will now begin our investigation of reviewing all evidence gathered, including video footage, and images of the individuals involved will be released to identify offenders. Do not throw away your future and do not continue to endanger or intimidate the lives of others.’
Following a peaceful demonstration earlier in the day in support of the family of a girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted in the vicinity, violent unrest broke out on Monday night in the town’s Clonavon Terrace.
A gathering of 300 yobs threw petrol bombs at officers, broke windows and torched cars throughout the Harryville area – the day after the calm vigil turned violent.
As the crowd raged around the town, the PSNI stated that multiple homes and businesses were attacked. Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, and north Belfast also saw unrest.
Masked thugs hurled bottles, wood, rocks, metal bars, wheelie bins, and even a kid’s bike as fear swept through Ballymena.
The mob of protestors cheered loudly when fireworks were directed at police lines in startling sights.
Litter and debris were scattered across the roads and pavements, while smashed glass surrounded the town’s streets.
Families in the area told reporters they were fleeing their homes while some residents marked their doors with their nationality in an apparent bid to avoid the attack.
Roadside vehicles were damaged with hammers, and rioters flipped them over and punctured their tyres.
Officers from the PSNI ran through the town accompanied by police dogs, dodging flying objects and debris from the fires.
Armoured Land Rovers attempted to protect residences while police detained people and forced hundreds of people away from properties.
Officers used a loudspeaker to make a repeat warning to ‘disperse as force is about to be used against violent individuals’.
Baton rounds – a less lethal alternative to traditional bullets – were fired on protesters, the PSNI later revealed.
In a statement, when the rioting had finally been quelled at 1 am, the force said: ‘Calm has been restored in Ballymena following serious disorder in the Clonavon Terrace, North Road and Bridge Street areas last night.
‘Disorder broke out shortly before 8 pm and continued for several hours with masonry and petrol bombs thrown at police officers and police vehicles. A number of homes and businesses were also attacked.
‘During the disorder, authorised officers discharged a number of Attenuating Energy Projectiles (AEPs) and the water cannon was also deployed in an attempt to disperse the crowds. Calm was restored to the area at around 1 am.
‘Police also dealt with sporadic disorder in Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus with some incidents in north Belfast.’
Thick smoke plumes blanketed the skies as flames blazed dangerously near residential structures.
Houses were seen with their windows smashed in and doors vandalised with holes kicked through them.
Properties had windows smashed as some residents chose to display signs about the nationalities of those usually resident, including one saying ‘British household’ and another with ‘Filipino lives here’.
As a massive fire spread from the end of a row of terraced houses and around traffic lights in the town centre, PSNI used a water cannon on the crowds.
The Northern Ireland Secretary said there is ‘no justification’ for attacks on police officers or vandalism in Ballymena.
In a social media post, Hilary Benn said: ‘The terrible scenes of civil disorder we have witnessed in Ballymena again this evening have no place in Northern Ireland.
‘There is absolutely no justification for attacks on PSNI officers or for vandalism directed at people’s homes or property.’
The scenes of brutality in Ballymena on Monday saw 15 police injured and four homes set alight.
A Romanian mother of three who lives in one of the houses and was attacked during the violence said she has been left too scared to stay in the area.
She said her children were asking why their house was being attacked during disturbances in the town on Monday night.
Several properties were damaged on Clonavon Terrace, while several residents said on Tuesday that they now intend to leave the area.
The woman from Romania, who said she was too afraid to give her name, claimed she tried to flee her house after the front window was broken.
‘The children were asking me why are we being attacked,’ she said.
‘I don’t want to stay here now, the children are afraid and I am afraid.’
A Romanian man said he had lived in the area for 15 years. ‘We don’t even know why this happened to us,’ he said.
‘The riots started last night. We didn’t expect it to come to our house.
‘We tried to get out of the house and go to a safe place.
‘I have lived here 15 years. Everything else has been nice, everything has been OK.
‘I have so many friends in Ballymena, I have got so much support.
‘Everyone was texting and asking us if we are OK, if we are safe, if they can do anything for us.’
He added: ‘I am lucky because the damage here is not too bad, but my sister has three kids, I have a little girl.
‘We are going to live in a friend’s house for a while and then try to move out of here.’
He said: ‘I like to believe I am a Ballymena man now, I have been living here half of my life.
‘I understand if people want to protest but it did not have to be like this.
‘We should not have to pay the price.’
PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said the force had a significant operation in place over the coming days in case there was any repeat of the disturbances on Monday night in the town.
He said: ‘We are actively working to identify those responsible for last night’s racially motivated disorder in Ballymena and bring them to justice.
A 29-year-old man was charged with riotous behaviour after being arrested during disorder in Ballymena on Monday night.
The man, who is expected to appear before Ballymena Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, July 3, has also been charged with disorderly behaviour, attempted criminal damage and resisting police.
Mr Henderson said other arrests are expected following the examination of video footage.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman described the circumstances which saw police and ethnic minorities targeted as ‘very concerning’.
A spokesman for the PM said: ‘The disorder we saw in Ballymena is very concerning.
‘Obviously, the reports of sexual assault in the area are extremely distressing, but there is no justification for attacks on police officers while they continue to protect local communities.
‘PSNI and the justice system must be allowed to carry out their jobs and our thoughts are with the victims of the assault as well as the police officers who were injured.’
It’s awful what has happened, but the Irish like so many British people have had enough of thousands of economic migrants being put in their neighbourhoods – specifically young men who treat women differently to us!
Once a wonderful place to live, Ballymena is now a terrifying place to live, but this is what we are witnessing in every town in the UK and Ireland right now.
People can’t surely believe that all of these same events over the western world are just coincidences. Someone is attempting to harm our society. We can see who is implementing it, but not who is orchestrating. We need to break, remove, and stop those hoping to destroy our societies through open border policies by any means possible. Starting with our own government.
Sadly, when individuals feel threatened, they resort to violence, even though it is never the solution.
A third Chinese scientist has been charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States after a University of Michigan student and her boyfriend were caught last week.
At Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sunday, Chengxuan Han was taken into custody and accused of smuggling items into the United States.
Police allege Han sent four packages which ‘contained biological material related to roundworms’ from China to the US.
The packages were sent between September 2024 and March 2025 and addressed to people linked to the University of Michigan laboratory.
According to court filings, Han first denied mailing the goods. Later, she said they contained plastic cups instead of Petri dishes.
She eventually acknowledged mailing the samples, which she had gathered while conducting research for her PhD in Wuhan, China, according to the records.
The charges come less than a week after University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow Yunqing Jian, 33, was charged alongside Zunyong Liu, 34, for attempting to smuggle a weapon of ‘agroterrorism’ into the United States in a diabolical plot allegedly linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
Liu arrived in the United States from China in July 2024 carrying four small baggies of Fusarium graminearum – a product responsible for causing billions of dollars worth of damage to livestock, wheat, barley, maize and rice globally each year.
The three defendants are connected to the same university lab.
Han was originally denied a visa to the US in March 2025, mainly because she struggled to conduct her required visa interview in English, which is a necessity.
She was unable to respond to simple enquiries about her background or area of study.
Two weeks later, Han applied again and during her second interview ‘spoke credibly about her educational background, current studies, and post graduate plans.’
Han is also accused of lying to border authorities who asked her about the packages she had previously sent.
When officers attempted to check her phone, they learned it had been wiped three days before she arrived, the court documents state.
After Jian was first arrested last week, FBI chief Kash Patel delivered a terrifying warning.
‘This case is a sobering reminder that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions and target our food supply,’ he said.
If successful, the plot ‘would have grave consequences… putting American lives and our economy at serious risk.’
The duo have been charged with conspiracy, smuggling, making false statements and visa fraud.
In a startling twist, the criminal complaint reveals that Jian may have been victorious in smuggling pathogens into the United States years before.
The research student, who reportedly had pledged her loyalty to the CCP, had revealed in messages to Liu that she once carried a pathogen in her shoe on a trip to America in 2022.
‘Electronic evidence also shows that Jian has been involved in smuggling packages of biological material into the United States on prior occasions,’ the complaint said.
Separately, messages revealed she had arranged for another associate from China to send her a book with a plastic baggie of the substance hidden inside in early 2024.
The shocking disclosures make one wonder what Jian and Liu intended to accomplish with the virus.
The complaint also revealed that Jian had obtained funding from the Chinese government to conduct similar work on the same pathogen while she lived in China.
Her boyfriend is employed at a Chinese university where he also studies Fusarium graminearum.
The duo had ‘discussed the shipping of biological materials and research being done in the laboratory’ before he arrived in the United States.
If ingested by people or animals, the toxins of Fusarium graminearum result in vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive abnormalities.
‘The alleged actions of these Chinese nationals, including a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party, are of the gravest national security concerns,’ US Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. stated.
In July 2024, Liu was turned away at the Detroit airport and sent back to China after changing his story during an interrogation about the red plant material found in his backpack, per the FBI.
He originally claimed he knew nothing about the samples but later admitted he was planning to use the material for research at the lab, the complaint described.
The FBI said authorities found a scientific article on Liu’s phone that was titled, ‘Plant-Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions.’
A week before he arrived in the US, Liu traded messages with his partner, who said: ‘It´s a pity that I still have to work for you,’ according to investigators.
FBI agents visited Jian at the campus lab in February, as she told them: ‘100 per cent no,’ when asked if she had been helping Liu with the pathogen at the lab.
But her text messages indicated she was researching the product before her boyfriend arrived in the country.
The agency said it found a signed statement on her phone expressing her support for the Communist Party of China.
The university does not have federal permits to handle Fusarium graminearum.
In a statement, the University of Michigan said it did not receive ‘funding from the Chinese government in relation to research conducted by the accused individuals.’
‘We strongly condemn any actions that seek to cause harm, threaten national security or undermine the university’s critical public mission.’
Gorgon Jr. described the allegations against the ‘two aliens’ as the ‘gravest national security concerns.’
The US does not have an extradition treaty with China, meaning Liu’s arrest is doubtful unless he returns.
The charges come as the Trump administration strives to crack down on international students on US campuses, promising last week to start withdrawing the visas of some Chinese students, including those studying in ‘critical fields.’
China is the second-largest country of origin for international students in the United States, behind only India. In the 2023-2024 school year, more than 270,000 international students were from China, making up approximately a quarter of all foreign students in the United States.
‘Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,’ Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated.
There appear to be numerous harmful, intrusive flora and fauna from China unexpectedly appearing in the US, and they are the enemy of the state.
China is running rings around the West. Stealing technology, smuggling in bioweapons, infiltrating agents, buying Pacific island leaders and the list goes on, and what’s more, they do it blatantly and just don’t care.
Everyone was so quick to hop on the bandwagon to deport Latins/Hispanics and ban Africans but there was complete silence on the Chinese.
The University of Michigan shouldn’t be allowed to enrol students from China, or any other country come to that. No American university should be permitted to enrol them.
Universities need to quit doing studies with Chinese researchers – ‘fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.’
At the moment these are the only two who have been caught, that we know of, but there are probably more – sleepers everywhere.
This lot would start a world war without even firing a shot.
The US government need strict travel prohibitions put on the Chinese. The Wuhan virus was simply a warning shot.
Nothing good comes out of Wuhan, and it seems like WWIII has already begun, but covertly.
An asylum seeker who allegedly recruited child soldiers has won an appeal to remain in Britain.
The Sri Lankan, who remains unknown after he was given anonymity by the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, faces claims he ‘enlisted children under the age of 15 years old to separatist terrorist group Tamil Tigers.
The tribunal also heard he was working for the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation [TRO] – a refugee charity – but was secretly supplying information.
Because he was accused of being a war criminal, the French legal system earlier decided that he should not be granted refuge, and the Home Office agreed, denying the man refugee status and endeavouring to deport him.
He then won an appeal against the judgment in 2023, with a judge citing a lack of evidence to reinforce the accusations.
The Home Office has now lost an appeal of their own, meaning the asylum seeker can stay in the country.
British judges stuck with the ruling two years ago and said there is not enough evidence to say the allegations are true.
The Home Office’s original case referred to the French asylum court’s ruling that he ‘ought to be excluded from a grant of asylum under Article 1F of the Refugee Convention due to his alleged involvement in war crimes in this case the alleged recruitment of children’.
But a judge found that the government department ‘had not shown serious grounds for concluding that [the Sri Lankan] was guilty of the war crime of conscription or enlistment of children under the age of 15 or using them to participate actively in hostilities’.
The judge added: ‘I am not satisfied even on the evidence of his own admissions, accurate or otherwise, to the French that this goes far enough to show that the [Sri Lankan] was effectively collecting information which he knew was going to be misused, and misused specifically for the recruitment of child soldiers under the age of 15.
‘Nor am I satisfied that there are serious reasons for considering on all the evidence adduced that the [Respondent] has been shown to have knowingly materially assisted in the recruitment of child soldiers under the age of 15, by the work done by the T.R.O. in gathering information, possibly subsequently used by the L.T.T.E. for that purpose.’
Lawyers for the Home Office contended at the London appeal that the judge had not given the French court’s ruling due consideration.
But, Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Adrian Seelhoff disagreed, saying: ‘The Judge assessed that evidence to see if it supported the [Home Office’s] case that [the Sri Lankan], whilst working for the TRO, supplied details which the LTTE used to recruit child soldiers.
‘[The Home Office’s] position before us was not that the Judge was bound to follow the French Court decision, but that he had not given adequate reasons for reaching a different decision or that he failed to attach weight to the decision.
‘We find that the Judge did give adequate reasons for not following that decision, and for the weight he attached to it and that accordingly there is no error of law in the decision under appeal.’
Is anyone going to be deported, and has the UK gone insane?
An asylum claim should be denied unless those coming into the country can prove categorically that they can sustain themselves, if not, they should be deported. No second or third chances because nothing would have materially changed.
Makes me wonder what would happen if one of these migrants emerged at the doorstep of one of these judges with a knife or gun, what would the judge say, ‘Come on in and have a cup of tea.’ No, of course not, but we welcome any vile creature here to this doomed Starmer Island.
A Labour council who fined a resident £1,000 for putting his bins out a few hours early has been accused of behaving like the ‘Stasi’.
Clyde Strachan, 37, decided to help refuse collectors by putting his rubbish outside his West Kensington home shortly before midday in May.
He then went away for a week and when he returned he was faced with an ‘environmental enforcement notice’, which demanded he make contact with Hammersmith and Fulham Council.
The engineer then received a £1,000 fixed penalty notice, stating: ‘There was one large box, six bags of waste, and one food bin deposited on the pavement and left.
‘It isn’t collection day so it shouldn’t be there.
‘There is no formal right to appeal, however, the council will accept representations from you within seven days.’
Mr Strachan told The Telegraph: ‘I spoke on the phone to one of the council officers and said I was willing to receive a warning but felt a £1,000 fine was excessive.
‘I said I had put the bins out early as I was not available the next day. It was an honest mistake. I didn’t feel as though I needed to grovel, but it felt like that was what he was after.’
The fine has sparked criticism towards the council’s ‘law enforcement team’.
Comparing it to the ‘Stasi’ – the secret police who helped maintain communist power in East Germany through spying and brutality.
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary said: ‘Instead of cracking down on genuine anti-social behaviour, the state tries to reassert itself by punishing well-meaning people for tiny infringements.
‘This huge fine for putting the bins out a few hours early veers into Stasi-like control of people’s lives. This man was clearly doing the right thing in the circumstances.’
Since then, the fine has been withdrawn.
A council spokesman said: ‘Mr Strachan asked for a review of the FPN on May 28 when he let us know that the reason he put the rubbish out early was that he had been going on holiday the following day.
‘The following day, the council froze the fine pending a review.
‘We have since cancelled the FPN as we agree that Mr Strachan made an honest mistake and is not a persistent fly-tipper.’
It makes me laugh. The council can fine you for putting your rubbish out early, but you can’t sue the council when they don’t collect your waste on time or go on strike.
This is incredible and the people in charge of that department at the council should talk with their staff and find out who made this decision and who authorised the fine.
It’s about time we were given the names of these people who work in government departments, ruining the lives of everyday people, and hiding behind their pen-pushing desks, but then I guess they’ve got to pay for those comfy hotels somehow!
This guy was obviously using his initiative, but that’s not allowed these days, much the same as having an opinion that doesn’t fit the narrative.
Councils should be going after the real fly-tippers, but instead, they are just going for the easy targets. Just enter the country illegally, get the red carpet treatment, and put your bin out on the wrong day. The problem is he is he isn’t a migrant and he doesn’t need an interpreter.
Since you can never be sure when they will arrive, many people set their bins out the night before to make sure they don’t miss the collection if the bin lorry is early.
The worrying point of this story is that the notice said, ‘There was no right to appeal.’ There should always be a right to appeal because mistakes get made even by Labour councils.
An outraged mother has accused the NHS of ‘shocking discrimination’ after her eight-year-old son was denied vital treatment – just because he goes to private school.
Tory MPs described the move as ‘morally indefensible’ and a manifestation of Labour’s ‘vile class war’, while the parent attacked the unjust ‘two-tier’ decision as a blatant breach of the health service ethos of offering equal treatment for all.
However, The Mail revealed on Sunday that her case is only one example of private students being refused access to NHS treatments.
The mother of the eight-year-old blamed Labour’s war on private schools for encouraging NHS managers to deny her child help with his crippling joint condition.
‘If you discriminate against children because of the school they went to, where does it end?’ she asked.
Her son was referred to a paediatrician at Kingston Hospital in south-west London after she noticed he was ‘struggling to hold the pen well enough to write properly’, along with other mobility problems.
At the hospital appointment, she was asked to fill in a form asking, ‘Where does your child go to school?’ Days later, she received a text message saying the child had been ‘declined’ for the crucial next appointment with occupational health therapists.
She then discovered that the specialist unit had penned a letter to her GP saying, ‘We are unable to see this child as we do not provide a service to school-age children who attend independent schools [sic]. We are only commissioned to provide a service to mainstream schools.’
The boy’s older brother – who has the same condition, hypermobility syndrome – had been treated without issue several years earlier.
Their mother, who wishes to stay nameless while her son’s case is ‘in limbo’, said: ‘I have never been refused treatment for my children – until now. There is clearly a two-tier system at play.
‘I have complained bitterly and asked who created these eligibility criteria and where it says in the NHS constitution that it’s OK to discriminate against independent schoolchildren.’
The mother of an autistic girl in Somerset told this newspaper her daughter was denied access to NHS mental health services and was told: ‘If you can afford the school fees, you should pay privately. If you had kept your child at the local authority primary school, she would have been supported.’
It is known that the NHS in Norfolk denied a youngster a much-needed standing frame because the child attended a private school.
And last month we revealed how young cancer patients from private schools had to pay £115 an hour for tutoring in an Edinburgh hospital’s wards, while it is provided free to state school pupils by the city council.
Shadow schools minister Neil O’Brien said last night that the cases ‘seem like incredibly unfair discrimination’.
Citing Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ decision to slap VAT on school fees, he said: ‘Labour are already piling extra taxes on independent school parents. For their children to then be denied vital NHS services, which parents already paid for through their taxes, seems completely unfair. How can it be right that children with disabilities are denied services by the NHS because they attend a certain school?’
Shadow equalities minister Saqib Bhatti said: ‘This is shocking. No child should be penalised based on what school they go to.
‘Ultimately, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s vindictive attack on independent schools has legitimised this kind of pernicious discrimination and triggered a class war against our children.
‘Now it falls to the Health Secretary to urgently review NHS policies to ensure nobody is denied access to healthcare, no matter what their background.
‘We must not allow this quasi-Marxist class war to take root in our public institutions and certainly not in our NHS.’
Shadow paymaster general Richard Holden added: ‘The effect of front-rank Labour politicians targeting their vile class war on children who attend independent schools is brought into sharp relief by actions like this – where kids who need help are denied local NHS services.
‘This culture of hate that Labour stoke out of perverse class envy has profound consequences for those in both state and independent schools but it’ll always be the most vulnerable who suffer the most.’
And Tory MP Greg Stafford, a member of the Commons health and social care committee, said: ‘Denying NHS treatment to a child because of the school they attend is morally indefensible and completely at odds with the founding principles of the health service. Care should be based on clinical need, not a postcode or a parent’s school choice. This decision must be reversed – and fast!’
The Mail on Sunday understands that other NHS trusts have also denied occupational therapy treatment to children because they attend independent schools.
The eight-year-old, who attends a prep school in Kew, was denied an appointment with Richmond children’s occupational therapy service that would have been the ‘most important stage’ of his assessment.
It would have identified the severity of symptoms – which include painful and easily dislocated joints and even issues with internal organs – and determined his future care.
At its most debilitating, hypermobility syndrome can be classed as a disability, and professionals say a specialist assessment is vital for children with the condition to prevent more serious issues.
Physiotherapist Deepa Subramaniyan, a specialist in hypermobility at Adelaide Children’s Physio clinic in London said long-term effects ‘can include such severe mobility issues that a child can end up in a wheelchair.
‘It’s precisely for this reason that they need specialist assessment to determine how they should be treated. The earlier therapy starts, the better it will be in the long run.’
When the mother received the news that her son would not be seen by therapists at the unit – based at Ham Clinic and part of Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust – she said: ‘I knew straight away something wasn’t right because we have used this service before.
‘At the hospital, I was asked “Where does your child go to school?” I’ve never been asked that before. It was never relevant so why is it relevant now? The only thing that has changed is a new government. It is Orwellian.’
The woman, who runs a small business with her husband, says the denial of an appointment was part of an ‘anti-private school zeitgeist’. Branding her son’s treatment as ‘shocking and blatant discrimination’, she added: ‘Labour’s dislike of independent schools is filtering down into the NHS and that is very damaging.
‘The NHS has always been such a beacon of treatment for all. If you discriminate against children because of the school they went to, where does it end?
‘In cases like my son’s, they are effectively discriminating against children who are disabled and against some of the most vulnerable members of society. This is going to affect a lot of children if it is a new NHS protocol. Many people will not want to send their children to independent schools if it means foregoing NHS treatment.’
Such an exodus would follow the record 11,000 pupils who have left the sector since Labour introduced VAT on fees in January.
The woman added: ‘I genuinely despair at what is happening. It’s the demolition of the British private school system It feels like an ideological battle is going on.’
The website of her local NHS Trust says children’s occupational therapy services are offered to ‘all school-aged children who are residents in the Richmond or Kingston boroughs and attend a state-maintained Richmond school.’
A spokesman refused to address specific claims that private pupils had been discriminated against but ‘apologised if the wording in our correspondence caused upset. We are in the process of revising it to ensure greater clarity.’
He added: ‘Occupational therapy services are available to all school-age children who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) either through the NHS or the local authority. For children without an EHCP, advice may be available through existing NHS services provided in state schools.’
This is scandalous. While those who enter by boat receive free medical treatment, we are now treated as second-class citizens in our own nation.
All of this appears extremely suspicious to me. Is what they are doing even legal? You can’t be refused a service for which you are taxed.
The boy’s mother is a taxpayer. We are supposed to have a universal National Health service, free to all at the point of use.
This makes me extremely angry. We seem to bend over backwards to provide medical care to those that just drift onto our shores, uninvited, undocumented and unvetted, and from countries where disease is prevalent, putting our own people at risk.
After calling for tax increases, Angela Rayner’s popularity among Labour members has skyrocketed.
The leap in favourability for the Deputy Prime Minister followed a leaked memo in which she called on Rachel Reeves to raise £3 billion to £4 billion a year from the rich.
She earned a huge 71-point approval rating, up from 46 points, on LabourList’s Cabinet league table, which ranks ministers as determined by Labour members.
But the Chancellor is on minus 28, lower than Sir Keir Starmer on minus seven, in the Survation poll.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband heads the rankings with 74 points, according to the 1,304 people questioned whether they had a favourable view of ministers.
Ms Rayner also came second on a list of possible prime ministers should Sir Keir not fight the next general election, winning the support of 47 per cent.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is the favourite with support from 57 per cent of activists while Health Secretary Wes Streeting comes third with 21 per cent.
Tom Belger, editor of LabourList, said: ‘Many members may be restless but the notable upward trend for most Cabinet members gives ministers rare good news.’
Members also want to see the government reverse its welfare changes and extend its winter fuel cutbacks, according to the polls.
Some 59 per cent said Labour should reverse plans to reform disability-related benefits and 80 per cent want more pensioners eligible for the energy payments.
She will never see a surge in popularity with the UK voters – that is the reality!
Her popularity has surged among Labour members, who are a bunch of champagne socialists who have never had a real job and have never had to live in the real world. However, if you tax the rich they will just leave the UK, but then if they leave they were not that patriotic in the first place, and thus traitors to their country.
Angela Rayner’s working-class upbringing does not imply that she is sympathetic to the issues that regular people face. She has been a wealthy politician for many years, and it is obvious that she has forgotten her working-class upbringing.
There is very little chance that Angela Rayner will become prime minister even if Keir Starmer were to quit, and the reason is Labour will not win the next election.
Popular my foot, she’s about as popular as stepping in something nasty on the pavement.
Those who have worked hard and made sacrifices to support themselves and their families will be clobbered, not the privileged few.
A few more votes may seem like a huge boost when you have almost little support or popularity, but Angela Raynor is widely hated.
She needs to define wealthy. In my eyes she is wealthy and she still owes the taxpayers’ for her council house that she bought cheap and made a nice profit on.
Why bother to work at all because the government will steal your money regardless?
In the last 30 years, I have witnessed our government waste our hard-earned money on a massive scale. Why should we have what we have worked so hard for watch it being squandered and frittered away?
Perhaps we should make a stand and sit on our hands and let the state feed, clothe and house us. Let them furnish our accommodation and give us all the mod cons. They do it for migrants, so why not us? Our government are mug enough to finance their lifestyle, now they should finance UK natives, but they won’t because they want to destroy the little people who have toiled hard – our government are spiteful critters.
She will never be popular with the masses – she is a stooge and Labour minion and she needs to be dumped on the scrap heap with the rest of the other minions.
A mother bombarded with 11 bus lane fines feared she would be dragged into court after a taxi was registered to her home.
Anna Brunskill was horrified when, on April 23, she received a notice from the DVLA telling her a vehicle had been registered at her address in Warrington with a name she did not recognise.
Since then, the 49-year-old has received almost a dozen £70 bus lane penalty notices, totalling £W770.
She said nine of these charges were posted to her on May 15, despite her having no idea who owns the car now tied to her home address.
Warrington Borough Council and the DVLA have already been notified of the matter by the marketing manager.
In the pictures on the penalty papers, Anna saw the car that seemed to have a taxi light on its roof.
Given that there are two roads in the region with similar names, she suggested there was a chance it was an unintentional error.
However, the unexpected amount of fines worried her.
However, Warrington Borough Council, in Cheshire, confirmed it was a ‘genuine mistake’.
Describing the debacle, Anna said: ‘We suddenly got 11 fines in the post.
‘I think that’s what raised my suspicions more than anything.
‘We don’t know this person, we’ve lived at this address for 14 years and we don’t know the car at all.
‘That’s not very nice, it’s a bit worrying especially these days with identity fraud.
‘It’s definitely alarming and the fact that he only bought this car in April just before we started getting these fines.’
When she received the notice that a new vehicle had been registered at her address, confused Anna swiftly rang the DVLA to report this to them.
She said they told her they would open a case for her and then on May 8 Anna received the first bus lane fine for the car that had been registered to her address.
She said rang the local council, who told her to get an acknowledgement form from the DVLA and send it to them so they could pause the charges.
While on the phone with the council, Anna says she was told that there were 10 other penalty charges for the car registered at her address.
A massive stack of them arrived in the mail two days later.
Since then, the DVLA has confirmed to Anna that its records no longer contain her address.
Anna said: ‘It was worrying.
‘I was more worried about the bus lane, to be honest, and the DVLA bit because I thought, you don’t want to not be paying your penalty notices.
‘You can get all sorts of things against your name can’t you if you don’t sort things like that? So that was my main worry.
‘You could get a county court judgement against you.
‘When you’re talking about county court judgements and stuff it can affect your credit history and all sorts.
‘It is absolutely irritating, I probably spent about three hours in total speaking to people, being on hold, waiting for people.
‘They’ve all been very helpful to be fair but time out of your working day isn’t great.’
The DVLA said that any motorist who receives fines or correspondence for a vehicle they do not own should contact Action Fraud, the issuing authority of any fines or penalties and also write to DVLA giving as much information as possible.
They said that if the DVLA is made aware of an error on the vehicle record, upon receipt of satisfactory evidence, the Agency will remove the address details from the vehicle record.
They explained it is an offence to knowingly provide false information or documents to the DVLA under the Road Traffic Act 1972.
A Warrington Borough Council spokesman said: ‘Unfortunately, a genuine mistake was made when the taxi driver’s vehicle was registered with the DVLA.
‘Ms Brunskill’s fines for driving in a bus lane have now been cancelled, and no further action will be taken.’
If these letters had a different name, why did this woman open them? I simply would have sent them back to the sender, but you just don’t want to take any chances these days. If you don’t take action the scammers will probably give your details to other scammers and then things will get far worse.
Some people might say this is a non story, but it’s not, it’s a warning to other readers who would not know what to do, so as well as it being newsworthy it’s also educational.
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