Burnham announces plans to clean up illegal waste dumps – UK politics live

The prime minister has promised a crackdown on criminal gangs making money from dumping waste Foreign secretary Ed Miliband has issued a rebuke to Israel after it published a tender for construction of a settlement in the occupied West Bank, calling it an “unacceptable and destructive act”.He said the UK would not “stand back and accept the destruction of the two-state solution”, as he pledged to set out measures in response to Israeli policies in the coming weeks. Continue reading...