News 10/05/26

The repatriated Britons from the hantavirus cruise ship have arrived at Arrowe Park after landing in Manchester earlier today.

They were taken by bus to the Wirral hospital site in Merseyside, where they will remain for seventy two hours while medics carry out checks. Hospital trusts say the group will stay in a managed setting for clinical assessment and testing.

Sir Keir Starmer will promise bolder action on challenges facing the country as he tries to persuade Labour MPs not to remove him as leader.

The prime minister is expected to reset his premiership in a speech on Monday after heavy election losses. More Labour MPs have called for him to quit while Angela Rayner said the party needed to appeal to voters facing squeezed living standards.

Angela Rayner has made her first comments since Labour’s election results.

In a statement she said the government was not working and needed to change. She warned it could be Labour’s last chance and urged the party to put common interest ahead of factionalism. Rayner also criticised the decision to block Andy Burnham from standing in a by election calling it a mistake.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister has warned against deploying warships in the Strait of Hormuz.

He said any deployment would escalate the crisis and warned involvement with the United States would receive a response. The Ministry of Defence says HMS Dragon is being sent to the Middle East ahead of a multinational operation to protect shipping.

Vue, Europe’s largest cinema operator, has appointed investment bankers to oversee a sale or listing which could value the company at one and a half billion pounds.

Rothschild will advise investors who took control after restructuring. Vue operates in eight countries and is a major cinema operator in the UK Italy and Germany with more than two thousand screens across two hundred and twenty five sites.

The first passengers evacuated from the hantavirus stricken cruise ship have arrived in Madrid.

Fourteen Spanish nationals from Tenerife face quarantine at a military hospital. French nationals were flown to Paris while other countries, including the UK, prepared flights. Staff in Tenerife wore hazmat suits and hosed evacuees down on the tarmac. Three people have died on the MV Hondius, including two hantavirus cases.

Police are investigating arson after a group of men attacked a van and kicked a woman’s bag in Stoke Road.

Thames Valley Police said the incidents happened between half past twelve on April twenty fifth. Officers say the group damaged a white van, threw a pyrotechnic device into a passing car, spat at motorists and threw items at vehicles.

Labour MP Catherine West says the party must move quickly to replace Sir Keir Starmer after election losses.

The London MP urged cabinet ministers to challenge the prime minister and threatened to act herself. More Labour MPs have called for Sir Keir to resign, including Josh Simons. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has backed the prime minister ahead of a speech on Monday.

Iran has sent its response to United States proposals through mediators, according to Iranian state media.

No details have been released, though reports suggest a fourteen point memorandum linked to talks on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. A ceasefire launched after the conflict began in February has held despite exchanges of fire. Iran continues blocking the Strait of Hormuz while the United States enforces a blockade of ports.

The first passengers and crew from the MV Hondius have disembarked in Tenerife after the cruise ship arrived earlier this morning, according to officials.

The voyage began in southern Argentina on the first of April and two passengers died during the journey. All one hundred and forty nine people onboard, including twenty two Britons, are not showing symptoms of hantavirus.

Iran has warned vessels from countries complying with United States sanctions could face difficulties crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

Comments carried by Tasnim news agency were attributed to Iranian army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia. Iranian lawmakers say they are drafting legislation to formalise management of the waterway, including clauses forbidding passage to vessels from hostile states.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing the first explicit threat of a leadership challenge from one of his MPs.

Former minister Catherine West’s interview with Radio Four’s PM programme raised eyebrows around Westminster. Labour MPs across the party reportedly said they did not expect the comments, with one figure on the Left asking what was going on while another simply said crikey.

Two men who filmed themselves verbally abusing a Jewish man in northeast London for social media content have pleaded guilty to an antisemitic hate crime.

Adam Bedoui and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub travelled to Clapton Common and filmed the encounter on TikTok. Metropolitan Police said the pair tried to flee but were detained by officers before appearing at Thames Magistrates’ Court.

The MV Hondius has arrived within the port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife after uncertainty over how passengers would disembark.

There had been disagreement until late last night over whether the ship would remain offshore or come into port. Spanish health officials have now boarded the vessel to carry out final checks and begin disembarking passengers, according to the country’s health ministry.

More than two hundred thousand people have arrived in the UK in small boats since records began eight years ago.

Sky News understands the milestone was reached on Friday when new arrivals brought the total to two hundred thousand and thirteen. The Home Office says seventy people crossed the English Channel on Friday, bringing this year’s total to seven thousand three hundred and eighty. Around forty one thousand people crossed the Channel in twenty twenty five, a thirteen percent increase on last year.