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Prince Harry v Mail: Publisher accused of ‘wrecking lives’, as string of high-profile figures mentioned in court | Ents & Arts News

Prince Harry v Mail: Publisher accused of ‘wrecking lives’, as string of high-profile figures mentioned in court | Ents & Arts News

Published by Daniella Wilson

Prince Harry has personally attended the first day of his trial against Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) at the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London. He, along with co-claimants Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish, campaigner Baroness Doreen Lawrence, politician Sir Simon Hughes, and actresses Sadie Frost and Liz Hurley, all allege ANL had a practice of “clear systematic and sustained use of unlawful information gathering”. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Celebrities arrive at court for landmark privacy trial Allegations range from tapping their phones and bugging their homes to obtaining medical records by deception. ANL strongly denies any wrongdoing. Monday saw the opening arguments from the claimants – all represented by barrister David Sherborne – who said the publisher “knew they had skeletons in their closet,” telling the court the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday were engaged in unlawful information-gathering (UIG) over “at least two decades”. He also said ANL’s denials of unlawful acts to the Leveson Inquiry in 2011 …

will high-profile defections change the party’s image?

will high-profile defections change the party’s image?

Published by Sam Flores

A core function of political parties is to nurture talent and, in some cases, provide a credible path to power for ambitious politicians. In this fraught climate, Reform UK increasingly appears to be an alternative route for those who see no such path via the Conservative party. Before Robert Jenrick’s sacking (over his own supposed plan to defect), Nadhim Zahawi was the latest, and arguably the most high-profile, Conservative to throw his lot in with Reform. It seems a growing number of former Conservative MPs and councillors see Reform as a second chance at political relevance. A former chancellor of the exchequer, albeit for just two months at the tail end of Boris Johnson’s premiership, Zahawi brings with him the symbolic capital of high office. In announcing his switch, Zahawi claimed that only a “glorious revolution” could fix a “broken” Britain: “Nothing works, there is no growth, there is crime on our streets, and there is an avalanche of illegal migration that anywhere else in the world would be a national emergency.” The rhetoric is …