The US military announced it will stop all maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports

The United States will blockade Iranian ports on the Strait of Hormuz, as oil prices climb higher.

The US military has confirmed it will stop all maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports, starting at 10am ET (2pm GMT) today. US crude oil prices rose eight per cent to $104.24 a barrel in early trading, while Brent crude, the international benchmark, climbed seven per cent to $102.29.

According to The Mirror, Brent crude has fluctuated wildly throughout the Iran conflict, jumping from around $70 per barrel prior to the war in late February to as high as $119 at various points.

On Friday (April 10) ahead of the peace talks, Brent for June delivery dropped 0.8% to $95.20 per barrel. Trump has stated his order is a direct response to Iran “knowingly failing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while warning that the US Navy will “blow to hell” any Iranians who attack them, and will intercept any vessel found paying transit tolls to Iran.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the Iranian parliamentary speaker who spearheaded negotiations in Islamabad, has ridiculed Donald Trump in an X post referencing US plans to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

The post read: “Enjoy the current pump figures. With the so-called ‘blockade’, soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4-$5 gas.” An image was also shared of a map appearing to show petrol prices across Washington, D.C.

In an earlier statement carried by Iranian outlets, Ghalibaf declared that Iran will not “surrender under threats”.

WASHINGTON — The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States.

That’s because President Donald Trump and many U.S. conservatives have long embraced Orbán, who has become an icon among the global right for his anti-immigrant stance. The American president’s agenda has striking parallels with the way the Hungarian leader used the levers of government to tilt the media, judiciary and electoral system to keep his party in power for 16 years.

Trump supported Orbán’s reelection bid and even dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Budapest last week — in the midst of the Iran war — to stump for the incumbent.

Orbán’s loss was a reminder of how the war has diminished Trump’s ability to help allied politicians overseas, as well as of the limited ability of leaders to use their power to tilt voting in their direction in an age of worldwide discontent over incumbents of all ideological stripes.

“Oppositions can win despite a tilted playing field,” said Steven Levitsky, a politics professor at Harvard and coauthor of the book “How Democracies Die.” “Democracies are facing many challenges in many parts of the world, but so are autocracies.”

Orbán’s defeat has immediate global implications because he was the European leader closest to Russian President Vladimir Putin and had blocked European Union aid to Ukraine, which is defending itself after Russian’s 2022 invasion.

His fall was celebrated on Sunday by both Democrats and Republicans, some of whom criticized their own administration for such overt support for the Hungarian leader.

“Don’t fiddle-paddle in other democracies’ elections,” Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said on the social media site X.

“The freedom-loving people of Hungary have voted decisively in favor of democracy and the rule of law,” posted Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, is part of the wing of the American right that embraced Orbán. The Conservative Political Action Conference, which Schlapp’s group hosts, held its first European session in Budapest and has made Hungary a regular destination.

Orban was a featured speaker at the group’s conference in Dallas in 2022.

Schlapp said there’s an easy explanation for Orbán’s loss.

“Eventually, democracies just want change,” he said. “In democracies, you don’t have kings, and the people in the end speak.”

“The people of Hungary were saying, ‘We’re having a difficult time with inflation, the economy and the war. Let’s try the new guy,’” Schlapp said, noting that he backs Trump’s Iran war but the turmoil it’s created, especially in European energy markets, hurt Orbán.

Diana Sosoaca, a far-right member of the European Parliament from Romania, on Sunday called Vance’s Hungarian visit “a big mistake” given widespread revulsion at the Iran war on the continent.

“You invite a representative of the United States of America, who created the big disorder in this world?” Sosoaca said in an interview posted by the Kremlin-controlled network RT, formerly known as Russia Today. “It was the biggest mistake he could do before the elections.”

An anti-communist activist in his youth, Orbán was initially elected prime minister in 1998 but took a turn to the right after being voted out in 2002. Upon returning to office in 2010, Orbán and his Fidesz party implemented a legal framework to consolidate authority that he and his allies developed while he was out of power.

Orbán embraced what he dubbed “illiberal democracy,” building a barrier on Hungary’s southern border to block migrants from Africa and Asia who were moving northward through Europe. He and his party stifled LGBTQ+ rights, cracked down on freedom of the press and undermined judicial independence.

Orbán cemented his power when his Fidesz party won enough seats in Parliament during the 2010 global recession to rewrite the country’s constitution. They restructured the judiciary to funnel appointments to the bench through party loyalists, redrew legislative districts to make it much harder for Fidesz members to lose elections and helped push Hungary’s media companies to be sold to tycoons allied with Orban.

The European Union has declared Hungary an “electoral autocracy.”

Orbán backers have scoffed at suggestions that the Hungarian leader is an enemy of democracy, and on Sunday he quickly conceded his loss. Democrats have worried that Trump will try to use his own executive power to tilt November’s midterm elections or the 2028 presidential vote to his party, much as Trump tried to use his official powers to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.

“Most importantly for American voters, even a guy who rigs the system can be defeated when the people unite and turn out against him,” said Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan group that says it combats authoritarianism.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California took the opportunity to jab at Vance: “Your ally Orban conceded. In 2028, will you @JDVance follow suit if you lose?” he posted on X.

Levitsky said defenders of democracy shouldn’t take too much comfort from Orbán’s loss, noting that in some ways Trump has been more oppressive. He cited Trump’s use of the Justice Department to investigate political opponents and the shooting deaths of protesters by immigration officers — steps that Orban’s government never took, Levitsky said.

But Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said he sees parallels between Trump’s and Orban’s political projects, as well as the potential fate of their parties at the polls.

“He was essentially doing what Donald Trump is trying to do here in the United States,” Van Hollen said of Orban. “My read of the election is that the people of Hungary rejected that, just like people in the United States are rejecting that here at home.”

Trump made no public comments Sunday about the election results in Hungary.

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Riccardi reported from Denver.

Voters will once again vote in local elections when the polls open on Thursday, May 7. Several Cambridgeshire councils have now announced lists of candidates standing in the May 2026 elections.

This year, elections are taking place in Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridge City, and Peterborough. However, they will not be taking place in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland, as these will take place in 2027.

This year’s elections will take place on Thursday, May 7. People have until midnight on Monday, April 20, to register to vote. For postal vote, the deadline is by 5pm on April 21. The deadline for a proxy vote is by 5pm on April 28.

Here is all you need to know about this year’s elections and who is elected in different wards.

South Cambridgeshire District Council

Elections will be held for all seats across South Cambridgeshire, including the district council, as well as town and parish councils. For the district council, the following candidates are nominated:

Balsham

• John Richard Biggs – Conservative
• David Burrell – Reform UK
• Bob Ensch – Green
• Geoff Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• Martin Parker Dixon – Labour

Bar Hill

• Graeme Hodgson – Labour
• Paul Pallan – Reform UK
• William George Scantlebury – Liberal Democrats
• Rebecca Seabrook-Tedd – Green
• Bunty Elizabeth Waters – Conservative

Barrington

• Colin Graham French – Conservative
• Jim Huntington – Reform UK
• Clare Rogers – Green
• Clare Sinclair – Labour
• Aidan Thomas Van De Weyer – Liberal Democrats

Bassingbourn

• Adam Bostanci – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Fiona Livingstone – Labour
• Christopher Rolf Meakin – Conservative
• Joseph Price – Green
• Stephanie Wright – Reform UK

Caldecote

• Terence John Cross – Reform UK
• John Robert Jefferies – Liberal Democrats
• Guy Lachlan – Independent
• Tom Postlethwaite – Green
• Chiranjeevi Sandi – Conservative
• Judith Louise Tustian – Labour

Cambourne

• Donavan Michael Bangs – Reform UK
• Shrobona Bhattacharya – Conservative
• Michael Allan Booth – Liberal Democrats
• Gavin Clayton – Green
• Rob Denison – Green
• Timothy Frances Lagé Hayes – Labour
• Dalia Heggo – Independent
• Trevor Jarman – Reform UK
• Paul Alexander Jobling – Reform UK
• Helene Elizabeth Leeming – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Rana-Beadle – Conservative
• Amber Thomas – Liberal Democrats
• Daniel John White – Conservative
• David Allan Williams – Labour

Caxton and Papworth

• Charles Barclay – Reform UK
• Leslie Charles Edwards – Conservative
• Andy Perkins – Labour
• James Earl Pickford – Reform UK
• Chris Poulton – Liberal Democrats
• Peter David Sandford – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Smith – Conservative
• Tagl – Green
• Jane Turner – Green

Cottenham

• Nigel Charles Francis Bolitho – Conservative
• Laura Cain – Green
• James Ronald Cochrane – Reform UK
• Colin Coe – Green
• Yasmin Dexter – Liberal Democrats
• Frederick Thomas Hargreaves – Reform UK
• Thomas Mark Hingston – Labour
• Linda Mary Morris – Conservative
• Gethin James Sanger – Labour
• Eileen Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Duxford

• Samuel Alexander Betz – Conservative
• David Horace Dobson – Labour
• Peter John McDonald – Liberal Democrats
• Tim Pavelin – Green
• Peter Young – Reform UK

Fen Ditton and Fulbourn

• Tim Andrews – Labour
• Chris Bailey – Labour
• Colin Barker – Reform UK
• Steve Bradshaw – Green
• Ian Paul Crowson – Conservative
• Vince Farrar – Liberal Democrats
• Karen Elizabeth French – Conservative
• Jacob Gray – Green
• Carla Hofman – Liberal Democrats
• Lukaz Lakomy – Reform UK
• Lee Andrew Martin – Conservative
• Angela Belinda Platt – Labour
• Ciprian Sandu – Reform UK
• Elisabeth Whitbread – Green
• Chloe Wills-Eve – Liberal Democrats

Foxton

• Donald Fisher Douglas – Conservative
• Luca Raffaello Ercole – Green
• James Hobro – Liberal Democrats
• Liz Miller – Reform UK
• Lavinia Anne Marie Pugh – Labour

Gamlingay

• Derek Graham Hill – Reform UK
• Rosanna Mahmood Bishop – Green
• Diane Audrey Myers – Conservative
• Giordy Salvi – Labour
• Dorrington Bridget Zoe Smith – Liberal Democrats

Girton

• Paula Brown – Reform UK
• Corinne Garvie – Liberal Democrats
• Stephen William George – Conservative
• Matthew Henden Gilbey – Green
• Clare Rachel Gray – Green
• Sarah Antonia Johnson – Labour
• Timothy Scott – Reform UK
• Richard Keith Stobart – Liberal Democrats
• Jennifer Margaret Stuart – Conservative

Hardwick

• Joe Beastall – Labour
• Hugh Clough – Green
• Catherine Stella Ffolliot Hubbard – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Manson – Reform UK
• Lina Maria Nieto – Conservative

Harston and Comberton

• Duncan Bullivant – Reform UK
• Henry Bullivant – Reform UK
• Ariel Martin Cahn – Liberal Democrats
• Laurence Peter Damary-Homan – Liberal Democrats
• Helen Haugh – Labour
• Aled Wynne Jones – Green
• Pauline Barbara Joslin – Conservative
• Lorraine Wendy Mooney – Conservative
• Emily Morris-Lower – Reform UK
• Lisa Sarah Redrup – Liberal Democrats
• Joseph Shortmoor – Labour
• Peter Andrew Slavny – Labour
• Michelle Taylor – Green
• Joshua Charles Vanneck – Conservative
• Lucy Young – Green

Histon and Impington

• John Brian Abbott – Reform UK
• Jayasimha Reddy Berumgudem – Conservative
• Chris Boulton – Reform UK
• Martin Gabriel Chahn – Liberal Democrats
• Mandy Kawalko – Reform UK
• Adam Morgan – Green
• Simon Charles Patenall – Labour
• Isaac Harry Rawlings – Labour
• James Rixton – Liberal Democrats
• Geo Sebastian – Liberal Democrats
• Edd Stonham – Green
• Mark Spencer Stuart – Conservative
• Paul Tarita – Green
• Joshua Michael Willis – Conservative

Linton

• Nathan Banks – Green
• Henry Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• John Batchelor – Liberal Democrats
• Katy Ensch – Green
• Sarah Jane Hucum – Reform UK
• Merrie Mannassi – Reform UK
• Mike Murray – Labour
• Yorsh Naidoo – Conservative
• Ernie Turkington – Labour
• Sean Williams – Conservative

Longstanton

• Dominic George Brigstocke – Labour
• Tom Bygott – Conservative
• Alison Paula Elcox – Reform UK
• Sunita Hansraj – Liberal Democrats
• Lucy Ann Mance – Green
• Tristan Luke Pithers – Conservative
• Silke Scott-Mance – Green
• Liam Donovan Varnam – Reform UK
• Natalie Warren-Green – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Rosemary Wilson – Labour

Melbourn

• Mark Edward Arnold – Conservative
• Lee John Bovington – Reform UK
• James Phillip Bull – Labour
• Simon James Copley – Green
• Bobby Ford – Labour
• Jose Hales – Liberal Democrats
• Sally Ann Hart – Liberal Democrats
• Thomas Julian Charles Leigh – Conservative
• Max Henry Schwiening – Green
• Phyllis Smith – Reform UK

Milton and Waterbeach

• Gail Denise Arnold – Conservative
• Paul Joseph Bearpark – Liberal Democrats
• Anna Elizabeth Bradnam – Liberal Democrats
• Ellie Crane – Green
• Oli Fisher – Green
• Natania Goldrich – Reform UK
• Ann Hodson – Reform UK
• Ge Huang – Conservative
• Laura Macleod – Liberal Democrats
• Elizabeth Anne McWilliams – Labour
• Frank Morris – Conservative
• Mary Judith Perkins – Labour
• Ron Sharp – Reform UK
• Joe Welford – Green
• Gareth Mark Wright – Labour

Over and Willingham

• Jason Denison – Green
• Robert Fairbrother – Reform UK
• Ian Hunter – Labour
• James Hutchcraft – Liberal Democrats
• Mark Macdonald – Conservative
• Aisha Rashid – Liberal Democrats
• Colin Reynolds – Green
• Michael Paul Smith – Reform UK
• Graham William Waters – Conservative

Sawston

• Chloe Balhatchet – Green
• Mark Chater – Reform UK
• Daniel Clark – Green
• Gifford Frances Pamela Douglas – Conservative
• Graham Harrison – Reform UK
• Brian Milnes – Liberal Democrats
• Anand Pillai – Labour
• Ed Sanders – Liberal Democrats
• Ben Shelton – Conservative

Shelford

• Lee Denison – Green
• Miranda Fyfe – Green
• Nick Gay – Labour
• Farhan Hussain – Liberal Democrats
• John William Lamble – Reform UK
• Mark Andrew Lunn – Liberal Democrats
• Brigitta Naunton – Reform UK
• Angela Dorothy Niblett – Conservative
• Yvonne Nobis – Labour
• Rebecca Louis Shiret – Conservative

Swavesey

• Vivien Caroline Biggs – Liberal Democrats
• Phil Cohen – Green
• Sue Mary Ellington – Conservative
• Karl Lattion – Reform UK
• Barbara Joanna Mills – Labour

The Mordens

• Frankie Brook – Green
• Daniel James Greef – Labour
• Josh Johnson – Reform UK
• James Leopold Stuart – Liberal Democrats
• Heather Rose Williams – Conservative

Whittlesford

• Sophi Berridge – Green
• Clare Elizabeth Downie – Labour
• Claire Hill – Reform UK
• Sarah Louise Vowler – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lynn Williams – Conservative

Cambridge City Council

In Cambridge, there will be one councillor elected to 13 wards. There will then be two councillors elected in Trumpington following the resignation of Nadya Lokhmotova.

Abbey

• Anne Roe Rosemary Ansell – Liberal Democrats
• Tommy Brace – ReforM UK
• Simon Brignell – Communist Party of Britain
• Margaret Maria Cleminson – Green
• Ruaidhri O’Donnell – Labour
• David Philip Smith – Conservative

Arbury

• Robert Boorman – Conservative
• Will Burrows – Reform UK
• Carmen Sefira Davison – Green
• Jocelynne Scutt – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Fionna Tod – Liberal Democrats

Castle

• Khalid Abu-Tayyem – Independent
• Carol Bedson – Reform UK
• Luke Patterson – Liberal Democrats
• Dace Ruklisa – Conservative
• Alex Sage – Green
• Simon Smith – Labour

Cherry Hinton

• Eric William Barrett-Payton – Conservative
• Anusha Iyer – Green
• Russ McPherson – Labour
• Mike Nicolson – Reform UK
• Ahmad Rushdhi – Liberal Democrats

Coleridge

• Tim Brunton – Liberal Democrats
• Steve Burdett – Reform UK
• Louise Sarah Nicmanis – Green
• Anna Smith – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mitchell Sam Worthington – Conservative

East Chesterton

• Jean-Ann Bartlett – Conservative
• Ania Bobrowska – Liberal Democrats
• William James Dry – Communist Party of Britain
• Isaac Groves – Green
• Sarah Haithcock – Labour
• Godfrey Orr – Reform UK
• Mark Wells – Reform UK

King’s Hedges

• Mahfuj Ahmed – Conservative
• Zarina Anwar – Independent
• Eleanor Cooke – Independent
• David Michael Creek – Liberal Democrats
• John McKay – Reform UK
• Daniel Quinn – Green
• Martin Andrew Smart – Labour

Market

• Edwin Kwaku Addo – Labour
• Katie Porrer – Liberal Democrats
• Alex Sefton-Tromans – Green
• Mark Wells – Reform UK
• Panda Xiong – Conservative

Newnham

• Katie Barron – Liberal Democrats
• David Carmona – Independent
• Sabina Harris-Hercules – Labour
• Lui Murton – Reform UK
• Poppy Simister-Thomas – Conservative
• Frances Eleanor Toye Scott – Green

Petersfield

• Luke Burrows – Reform UK
• Kathryn Fisher – Green
• Myfyr Cameron Holloway – Labour
• Sam Oliver – Liberal Democrats
• Paul Roper – Conservative

Queen Edith’s

• Maruf Ahmed – Labour
• Colin Bedson – Reform UK
• Alexander Magnus Burt – Conservative
• Mary Shayne Mitchell – Green
• Amanda Joan Taylor – Liberal Democrats

Romsey

• Rosy Greenless – Labour
• Rob Nelson – Conservative
• Charles John Walmsley – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Watson – Reform UK
• Jacqui Whitmore – Green

Trumpington

• Michael Steven George – Conservative
• Edward Ekin Gokmen – Green
• Guy Greenway – Reform UK
• William John Grimwood – Liberal Democrats
• Olaf Hauk – Liberal Democrats
• John Michael Ionides – Conservative
• Samuel Lloyd – Reform UK
• Chloe Eva Mosonyi – Green
• Henry Shailer – Labour
• Carlos Toranzos – Labour and Co-operative Party

West Chesterton

• Charlotte Hannah Copley – Green
• Mike Harford – Conservative
• Geoff Leach – Reform UK
• Guy Mills – Liberal Democrats
• Nick Picton – Independent
• Richard Swift – Labour

Huntingdonshire District Council

Elections will take place in all wards across Huntingdonshire.

Alconbury

• Sarah Caine – Liberal Democrats
• Chip Colquhoun – Green
• Ian Derek Gardener – Conservative
• Joy Isaacs – Labour
• Roger Lane – Reform UK

Brampton

• Damilola Ademiniyi – Labour
• Hannah Charlotte Copley – Green
• Liam Paul Dewey-Beckett – Liberal Democrats
• Philip Makwana – Conservative
• Leslie Alex John Parren – Reform UK
• Malcolm Philip Ryman – Reform UK
• Fardous Siddique – Labour
• Bill Sinclair – Conservative
• Warren Smith – Liberal Democrats

Buckden

• Christopher John Bulow – Green
• Sean Calvin – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine Frances Grigg – Conservative
• Martin Andrew Hassall – Independent
• James McGregor Kerr – Labour
• Ian Richard Simmonds – Reform UK

Fenstanton

• Martin Paul Hewitt – Conservative
• Hayley Elizabeth Howatt – Reform UK
• Nick Sarkies – Liberal Democrats
• Danny Raymond Scott – Green

Godmanchester and Hemingford Abbots

• Rosemary Ann Armstrong – Conservative
• Kevin Anthony Barr – Conservative
• Sarah Joanne Conboy – Liberal Democrats
• Kieron Marriner – Reform UK
• Daniel Mayhew – Labour
• Brett Alistair Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Debbie Mickelburgh – Liberal Democrats
• Ambrose Ntuk – Labour
• Francis William Reid – Green
• Paula Jane Sparling – Conservative
• Stephen Ronald Spencer – Reform UK
• Mark Joseph Turley – Reform UK

Great Paxton

• Stephen Claffey – Liberal Democrats
• Malcolm John Gaylor – Reform UK
• Amanda Laurene Lower – Conservative
• Hollie-Ann Topliffe – Green

Great Staughton

• Stephen Cawley – Conservative
• Ann Christine Fryer – Reform UK
• Tony Hulme – Liberal Democrats
• Yavin Michael Owens – Labour
• Paul James Westerman – Green

Hemingford Grey and Houghton

• Kevin Ronald Bryant – Labour
• Graham Paul Bundy – Reform UK
• Jacqui Cook – Animal Welfare Party – People, Animals, Environment
• Adrian Hyde – Reform UK
• David Norman Keane – Conservative
• Anne Mary Meredith – Liberal Democrats
• Tamara Jasmine Page – green
• David John Priestman – Liberal Democrats
• Raymond Paul Andrew Simpson – Conservative

Holywell-cum-Needingworth

• John Colin Bleazard – Reform UK
• Laura Blows – Liberal Democrats
• Robin Carter – Liberal Democrats
• Paul James Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Bob Marsh – Reform UK
• Jon Neish – Conservative
• Phoebe Elizabeth Watts – Green
• Matthew Wetherfield – Labour

Huntingdon east

• Sergiu Ardelean – Reform UK
• Zara Louise Bobby Dolan-Ansary – Labour
• Tomin Geo – Conservative
• Seona Gunn-Kelly – Green
• Jo Harvey – Liberal Democrats
• David George Howard – Reform UK
• Nathan Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• George Frederick Michael Joyce – Conservative
• Rashid Mahmood – Labour

Huntingdon north

• Sophie Rose Feary – Conservative
• Leedo George – Conservative
• Ryan Grange – Green
• Michael Stuart Grice – Liberal Democrats
• David Henly – Reform UK
• Mike Humphrey – Liberal Democrats
• Georgie Hunt – Green
• Phillip Jones – Liberal Democrats
• Marion Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Patrick Kadewere – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Steven Lancaster – Reform UK
• Keith Ivan Prentice – Conservative
• Lianne SImpson – Independent
• Mike Simpson – Reform UK
• Sam Wakeford – Labour

Kimbolton

• David Jonathan Blake – Reform UK
• James Roger Catmur – Liberal Democrats
• Jonathan Alexander Gray – Conservative
• Kelly Sophia Ramsbottom – Labour
• Julie Stark – Green

Ramsey

• Ash Austin – Independent
• Janet Boston – Labour
• Jeff Clarke – Conservative
• Ryan Coogan – Reform UK
• Steve Corney – Independent
• Adela Eva Costello – Conservative
• Gerard Augustin Crean – Liberal Democrats
• Clare Delderfield – Liberal Democrats
• Val Fendley – Independent
• Karan Maheshwari – Reform UK
• Zak Alex Martin – Conservative
• Anna Lisa Clenachan Pritchard – Green
• Howard Julian Tobias – Reform UK
• Graham Martin Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Sawtry

• Simon Bywater – Conservative
• Ross Ben Martin – Conservative
• Rick Rambridge – Reform UK
• Ian David Scales – Green
• Robin Neil Simpson – Labour
• Haydn Stevens – Reform UK
• Sarah Rose Wilson – Liberal Democrats
• Kerry York – Liberal Democrats

Somersham

• Edwards Charles Binns – Reform UK
• Keith James Brown – Liberal Democrats
• Kevin Hawkins – Labour
• Sarah Louise Hodgson-Jones – Conservative
• Jamie Troup – Green

St Neots east

• Lara Charlene Davenport-Ray – Green
• Stephen William Ferguson – Green
• Sally Patricia Guinee – Liberal Democrats
• Keith Harrison – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Ronald Hilton – Reform UK
• Gary Hyams – Conservative
• Rob Moores – Reform UK
• Angela Joyce Robertson – Conservative

St Neots Eatons

• Barry Sidney Banks – Independent
• Val Dajchin – Green
• Nigel Philip Eaton – Conservative
• Michael Peter Gilks – Labour
• Alan James Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Jacquieline Priscilla Hunt – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Rayner Jennings – Conservative
• Colin John Maslen – Reform UK
• Geoff Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Nicholas Sharp – Green
• David John Smith – Reform UK
• Stewart Thornton – Reform UK
• Harry Phillip Vallance – Conservative
• Ellisa Westerman – Green
• Bev White – Party of Women

St Neots Priory park and Little Paxton

• Robert Edward Bralee – Green
• Barry Stephen Chapman – Independent
• Harriet Dolby – Conservative
• Pascal Christopher Darren Ferguson – Green
• John Keith Holmes – Green
• Carole Ann Innes – Liberal Democrats
• Randall Neil McDonald – Reform UK
• Steve O’Hara – Reform UK
• Tony Osborne – Reform UK
• Ganesh Sittampalam – Liberal Democrats
• Richard Lewis Tomlonson – Conservative
• Alfie Yorke – Conservative
• Mark David Young – Liberal Democrats

St Ives east

• Paul Bullen – Conservative
• Michael John Burke – Liberal Democrats
• Martin James Gill – Conservative
• Mandy Harrington – Reform UK
• Simon John Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Shariqa Mokbul – Independent
• Louise Maria Newberry – Green
• Noah Sanderson – Reform UK
• Luke Viner – Labour and Co-operative Party

St Ives south

• Peter Andrew Brasher – Green
• Alex Bulat – Labour and Co-operative Party
• William Deacon – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Paul Kenneth Dickinson – Reform UK
• Natasha Fatio – Reform UK
• Cath Gleadow – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew William Riddell – Conservative
• Craig Thomas Smith – Conservative
• Nic Wells – Liberal Democrats

St Ives west

• Cheryl May Cannon – Conservative
• Patricia Ann Jordan – Liberal Democrats
• Julie Elizabeth Kerr – Independent
• Max Mulcrone – Reform UK
• Rose Sarah Williams – Green

St Neots Eynesbury

• Kenneth Billington – Conservative
• Camille Violet Etchart – Liberal Democrats
• Catherine James Goodman – Green
• Ricky James Ioannides – Reform UK
• Pavlos Kasdovasilis – Reform UK
• Julie Martin – Conservative
• Antonie McGowan – Liberal Democrats
• Tony Nelson – Reform UK
• Alexander Pushkarev – Conservative
• Deanna Seeff – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Smith – Independent
• Been Streeter-Strong – Independent
• Ian Pele Taylor – Independent
• Doug Terry – Independent

Stilton, Folksworth and Washingley

• Tim Alban – Conservative
• Marge Beuttell – Conservative
• Robert Bowden – Labour
• Sharon Elizabeth Brennan – Reform UK
• Eric Mark Darling – Reform UK
• Padrica Valerie Kennington – Liberal Democrats
• Amanda Charmaine Norton – Liberal Democrats
• Stasi Revel – Green

The Stukeleys

• Louise Ascroft – Liberal Democrats
• Ann Blackwell – Liberal Democrats
• Alan John Brugnoli – Conservative
• Val Cody – Reform UK
• Freya Cushman – Labour
• Judy Samantha Moore – Green
• Sikho Ndebele – Labour
• Phil Pearce – Conservative
• Tom Sanderson – Liberal Democrats
• Many Simmonds – Reform UK
• Sally Smith – Conservative
• Suzanna Williams – Reform UK

Warboys

• Anthony Thomas Bailly – Green
• Sharon Anne Docherty – Liberal Democrats
• Alan Garford – Reform UK
• Helen Mary Victoria Kewley – Liberal Democrats
• Charlotte Ann Lowe – Conservative
• Douglas Haig McIlwain – Conservative
• Iain Ramsbottom – Labour
• Sarah Smith – Reform UK
• John Nigel Wills – Green

Yaxley

• Justin Andrews – Conservative
• Michelle Britton – Labour
• Eric Richard Butler – Conservative
• Kieran James Edwards – Liberal Democrats
• James Thomas Francis – Reform UK
• Peter John Gammons – Reform UK
• Kev Gulson – Conservative
• Sally Howell – Liberal Democrats
• Max Jephtha – Green
• Christopher George Reeve – Reform UK
• Andrew Wood – Liberal Democrats

Peterborough City Council

Elections will take place for 18 wards in the Peterborough area. Here are the candidates running in each ward:

Bretton

• John Robert Bolton – Reform UK
• Susan Jane Glasgow – Labour
• David Kerry Narrainen – Green
• Scott Warren – Conservative
• Rohan Wilson – Liberal Democrats

Central

• Steve Cawley – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Shaz Choudhary – Green
• Khurram Iqbal – Labour
• Jason Kerridge – Liberal Democrats
• Shahzadi Khan – Conservative
• Jeff Pitt – Reform UK

Dogsthorpe

• Pip Gardner – Green
• Mohammad Haseeb – Labour
• Ishfaq Hussain – Conservative
• Sandra Ringler – Liberal Democrats
• Petr Torak – Independent
• Bryan Andrew Tyler – Reform UK

East

• Ian Hardman – Liberal Democrats
• Sam Hemraj – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Aleem Miran – Conservative
• Nassim Rhaiem – Green
• Dave West – Reform UK

Eye, Thorney and Newborough

• Anthony Church – Liberal Democrats
• Sue Farr – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Layton Mark Mills – Reform UK
• John Peach – Conservative
• Adam Warr – Green

Fletton and Stanground

• Christian Hogg – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Johnson – Labour
• Jon Lloyd – Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Maria Pinotes – Reform UK
• Neil Seekings – Conservative

Fletton and Woodston

• Andy Coles – Conservative
• Steve Harknett – Independent
• Ed Murphy – Green
• Yvonne Claire Scarrott – Reform UK
• Harvey Woodhouse – Labour

Gunthorpe

• Muhammad Ahmed – Labour
• Andrew Bond – Liberal Democrats
• Andrew Macfarlaine – Conservative
• Tom Rogers – Reform UK

Hampton Vale

• Marco Cereste – Conservative
• Steve Newson – Reform UK
• Toqeer Ahmed Sethi – Green
• Simon Turp – Labour
• Paul Wiggin – Liberal Democrats

Hargate and Hempsted

• Hamza Jarral – Labour
• Simon Christopher Jones – Reform UK
• Katherine Sharp – Green
• Vishal Vichare – Conservative
• Neil Walton – Liberal Democrats

North

• Javed Akhtar – Conservative
• Noreen Bi – Labour and Co-operative Party
• Mohammed Munir – Green
• Keith Sharp – Reform UK

Orton Longueville

• Olu Akinyele – Labour
• Ruwan Madugalla – Conservative
• Jonathan Orchard – Green
• Nick Penniall – Independent
• Philip Anthony Whitworth – Reform UK

Orton Waterville

• Stephen James Arnott – Reform UK
• Steve Bailey – Labour
• Alex Bowerbanks – Green
• Sanjaya Dodamgoda – Conservative
• Ray Knight – Independent

Park

• Murtaza Ahmed-Munir – Conservative
• Reza Behravan – Reform UK
• Tassadaq Hussain – Green
• Fiona Radic – Independent
• Beki Sellick – Liberal Democrats
• Saif Ali Yasin – Labour

Paston and Walton

• Iva Banyalieva – Conservative
• Ryan Gallagher – Reform UK
• Rob Fetch – Your Party
• Adif Shaheed – Liberal Democrats
• Mohammed Yasin – Labour

Ravensthorpe

• Shokat Ali – Green
• Matthew Clements – Labour
• Gul Nawaz – Conservative
• Ashli Philip – Reform UK
• Nick Sandford – Liberal Democrats

Stanground South

• Julian Bray – Independent
• Janet Elizabeth Brown – Conservative
• June Mary Bull – Peterborough First Independent
• Charles Rhys Coster – Green
• Andrew Deacon – Labour
• Peter David Reeve – Reform UK
• Miriam Sellick – Liberal Democrats

Werrington

• Ruta Dalton – Conservative
• Bradley Dilloway – Labour
• Sarah Areatha – Peterborough First Werrington Independent
• Chris Watson – Reform UK

Wittering parish

• John William Bradshaw
• Susie Ellen Briers
• Brian Day
• Jo Gault
• Dave Hughes
• Kate Jackson
• Liz Putterhill
• Russell John Archer Pye
• Iain Wilkinson
• Emma Lindsey Wilson-Jones

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian voters on Sunday ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions.

It was a stunning blow for Orbán — a close ally of both U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin — who quickly conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result. U.S. Vice President JD Vance had made a visit to Hungary just days earlier, meant to help push Orbán over the finish line.

Election victor Péter Magyar, a former Orbán loyalist who campaigned against corruption and on everyday issues like health care and public transport, has pledged to rebuild Hungary’s relationships with the European Union and NATO — ties that frayed under Orbán. European leaders quickly congratulated Magyar.

His victory was expected to transform political dynamics within the EU, where Orbán had upended the bloc by frequently vetoing key decisions, prompting concerns he sought to break it up from the inside.

It will also reverberate among far-right movements around the world, which have viewed Orbán as a beacon for how nationalist populism can be used to wage culture wars and leverage state power to undermine opponents.

It’s not yet clear whether Magyar’s Tisza party will have the two-thirds majority in parliament, which would give it the numbers needed for major changes in legislation. With 93% of the vote counted, it had more than 53% support to 37% for Orbán’s governing Fidesz party and looked set to win 94 of Hungary’s 106 voting districts.

“I congratulated the victorious party,″ Orban told followers. “We are going to serve the Hungarian nation and our homeland from opposition.″

In a speech to tens of thousands of jubilant supporters at a victory party along the Danube River, Magyar said his voters had rewritten Hungarian history.

“Tonight, truth prevailed over lies. Today, we won because Hungarians didn’t ask what their homeland could do for them — they asked what they could do for their homeland. You found the answer. And you followed through,” he said.

On the streets of Budapest, drivers blared car horns and cranked up anti-government songs while people marching in the streets chanted and screamed.

Many revelers chanted “Ruszkik haza!” or “Russians go home!” — a phrase used widely during Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, and which had gained increasing currency amid Orbán’s drift toward Moscow.

Turnout in the election was nearly 80%, according to the National Election Office, a record number in any vote in Hungary’s post-Communist history.

Orbán, the EU’s longest-serving leader and one of its biggest antagonists, traveled a long road from his early days as a liberal, anti-Soviet firebrand to the Russia-friendly nationalist admired today by the global far-right.

The EU will be waiting to see how Magyar changes Hungary’s approach to Ukraine. Orbán repeatedly frustrated EU efforts to support the neighboring country in its war against Russia’s full-scale invasion, while cultivating close ties to Putin and refusing to end Hungary’s dependence on Russian energy imports.

Recent revelations have shown a top member of Orbán’s government frequently shared the contents of EU discussions with Moscow, raising accusations that Hungary was acting on Russia’s behalf within the bloc.

Members of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement are among those who see Orbán’s government and his Fidesz political party as shining examples of conservative, anti-globalist politics in action, while he is reviled by advocates of liberal democracy and the rule of law.

In Budapest, Marcell Mehringer, 21, said he was voting “primarily so that Hungary will finally be a so-called European country, and so that young people, and really everyone, will do their fundamental civic duty to unite this nation a bit and to break down these boundaries borne of hatred.”

During his 16 years as prime minister, Orbán launched harsh crackdowns on minority rights and media freedoms, subverted many of Hungary’s institutions and been accused of siphoning large sums of money into the coffers of his allied business elite, an allegation he denies.

He also heavily strained Hungary’s relationship with the EU. Although Hungary is one of the smaller EU countries, with a population of 9.5 million, Orbán has repeatedly used his veto to block decisions that require unanimity.

Most recently, he blocked a 90-billion euro ($104 billion) EU loan to Ukraine, prompting his partners to accuse him of hijacking the critical aid.

Magyar, 45, rapidly rose to become Orbán’s most serious challenger.

A former insider within Orbán’s Fidesz, Magyar broke with the party in 2024 and quickly formed Tisza. Since then, he has toured Hungary relentlessly, holding rallies in settlements big and small in a campaign blitz that recently had him visiting up to six towns daily.

In an interview with The Associated Press earlier this month, Magyar said the election will be a “referendum” on whether Hungary continues on its drift toward Russia under Orbán, or can retake its place among the democratic societies of Europe.

Tisza is a member of the European People’s Party, the mainstream, center-right political family with leaders governing 12 of the EU’s 27 nations.

Magyar faced a tough fight. Orbán’s control of Hungary’s public media, which he has transformed into a mouthpiece for his party, and vast swaths of the private media market give him an advantage in spreading his message.

The unilateral transformation of Hungary’s electoral system and gerrymandering of its 106 voting districts by Fidesz also will require Tisza to gain an estimated 5% more votes than Orbán’s party to achieve a simple majority.

Additionally, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries had the right to vote in Hungarian elections and traditionally have voted overwhelmingly for Orbán’s party.

Russian secret services have plotted to interfere and tip the election in Orbán’s favor, according to numerous media reports including by The Washington Post. The prime minister, however, accused neighboring Ukraine, as well as Hungary’s allies in the EU, of seeking to interfere in the vote to install a “pro-Ukraine” government.

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Associated Press journalists Béla Szandelszky, Marko Drobnjakovic, Ivan L. Nagy, Florent Bajrami in Budapest, Hungary, and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pointing to stark racial wealth disparities — including a gap of more than $180,000 between White and Black households — to justify expanding diversity initiatives, raising taxes and cutting police positions.

Mamdani last week released a 375-page “Preliminary Racial Equity Plan” that argues systemic racism is a key driver of those disparities, with White households holding more than $200,000 in median wealth compared to less than $20,000 for Black households.

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The Mamdani administration says the report will serve as a roadmap for future policy, including restoring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and directing resources toward closing racial gaps in income, housing and education.

The push aligns with Mamdani’s broader $127 billion agenda, which includes higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, a potential 9.5% property tax increase if state lawmakers do not act, and a reduction of roughly 5,000 NYPD officers.

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“This is not an indictment of any one New Yorker,” Mamdani said during a Tuesday press conference. “It is an indictment, however, of policies and politics that have persisted for far too long.”

City officials described the plan as the first time a New York City administration has required major agencies to evaluate their work through a racial equity lens and identify disparities. The plan sets goals across seven areas, including the economy, housing, public safety, health and infrastructure.

The report traces racial disparities in the city back centuries, citing historical factors including colonization and slavery.

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The rollout quickly sparked pushback from conservatives and the Trump administration, which has sought to roll back race-based initiatives since taking power last year.

“Sounds fishy/illegal,” DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted on X. “Will review!”

“Straight-up racism against White people,” the conservative influencer account Libs of TikTok posted on X.

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“The reality is Mamdani is implementing blatantly racist policies that reward and punish people based on their skin color,” conservative commentator Paul A. Szypula posted on X.

The city has opened a 30-day public comment period as officials consider next steps.

Mamdani’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

As she faced reporters for the first time after announcing herself as a Liberal, Marilyn Gladu seemed to hint that, as an MP on the government side of the House, her riding of Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong would get access to government funding that it was not getting so long as she was a Conservative MP.

“We were a bellwether riding for 52 years before I got elected,” Gladu told reporters Friday in Montreal. “So that means that they always had the advantage of government support. And after 10 years and four elections, even my strong Conservative supporters were saying to me, ‘We like you, you’ve worked hard, but we really need to have that support, we need affordable housing, we have infrastructure needs.’”

But the suggestion that Gladu’s riding — or that any riding not held by a government MP — was missing out on government support is a hard one to prove.

Global News has tracked every spending announcement made by the government since 2011 and, in the current Parliament, has logged 4,131 spending announcements in which a combined $20.5 billion has been allocated to projects in Canada and around the world.

In all those announcements since the 2025 election, there were 19 projects in Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong which received a total of $26.8 million in federal funds.

The average across all 343 ridings is 12 projects worth a combined $30.7 million. So Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong had more federal projects funded than the average, although the combined value of all those projects was below average.

But what about ridings held by opposition MPs versus ridings held by government MPs? The evidence suggests that, broadly speaking, ridings held by a government MP do not disproportionately benefit from federal funding relative to an opposition riding. Or, to put it another way, ridings held by opposition MPs receive significant federal funds for a significant number of projects despite the fact their MP does not sit on the government benches.

So far in this Parliament, ridings held by Liberal or government MPs have seen 1,739 projects funded worth a combined $7.4 billion. Ridings held by opposition MPs have seen more projects funded — 2,178 — though the combined value of those projects is about half of the value of government-held ridings or $3.8 billion.

This data is drawn from press releases issued by the government to draw attention to the funded projects.

Global News has extracted data from those press releases ever since the 2011 federal election and tracked which ridings got how much in each Parliament. The pattern in the current minority Parliament in which a significant number of projects and funding flows to ridings even if they are not represented by a government MP seems to hold for the two previous minority Parliaments.

During the majority Parliaments from 2011-2019, ridings held by government MPs collectively saw more funds and more funded projects than ridings held by opposition MPs but, by definition, in a majority Parliament, the government holds more than half of all ridings.

 

As for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong’s record while Gladu has been an MP, it has been around the middle of the pack relative to all other ridings through all four Parliaments.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the U.S. has no valid reason to carry out a military attack against the island or to attempt to depose him.

Speaking in an interview on NBC News’ Meet the Press program, the president said an invasion of Cuba would be costly and affect regional security. But should it happen, Díaz-Canel said, Cubans would defend themselves.

“If the time comes, I don’t think there would be any justification for the United States to launch a military aggression against Cuba, or for the U.S. to undertake a surgical operation or the kidnapping of a president,” Díaz-Canel said, speaking through a translator.

He added: “If that happens, there will be fighting, and there will be a struggle, and we will defend ourselves, and if we need to die, we’ll die, because as our national anthem says, ‘Dying for the homeland is to live’.”

His comments come as tensions between Cuba and the U.S. remain high despite both sides acknowledging talks, although no details have been shared.

Díaz-Canel has accused the U.S. government of implementing a “hostile policy” against Cuba and said it has “no moral to demand anything from Cuba.” He noted that Cuba is interested in engaging in dialogue and discussing any topic without conditions, “not demanding changes from our political system as we are not demanding change from the American system, about which we have a number of doubts.”

Cuba blames a U.S. energy blockade for its deepening woes, with a lack of petroleum affecting the island’s health system, public transportation and the production of goods and services.

Cuba produces only 40% of the fuel it consumes, and it stopped receiving key oil shipments from Venezuela after the U.S. military attacked the South American country in early January, seized President Nicolás Maduro and took him to New York to face drug trafficking charges. Then, with cooperation from ruling party leaders, the Trump administration began implementing a phased plan to end Venezuela’s entrenched crisis.

The arrival of a Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of crude oil in Cuba in March marked the island’s first oil shipment in three months. Russia has promised to send a second tanker.

Despite threatening tariffs in January on countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, the Trump administration allowed the tanker to proceed.

“Cuba’s finished,” President Donald Trump said at the time. “They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership and whether or not they get a boat of oil, it’s not going to matter.”

Díaz-Canel said his government takes Trump’s words as a warning.

“You hear that Cuba is next, that Cuba is going to be next, that there are, there’s a way out, that they’re going to take over Cuba,” he said. “So, from the position of responsibility within the leadership of the country, that is a warning. And we need to responsibly protect our people, protect our project and protect our country.”

Peace negotiations with Iran fell apart after Tehran severely misjudged what kind of leverage the regime believed it held, a U.S. official told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

While Vice President JD Vance left Islamabad, Pakistan, without a deal between the U.S. and Iran, the official said Vance used the talks to measure the Iranians own assessment of their position in the negotiations.

Vance found that Tehran thought they held a strong hand going into negotiations, according to the official, who added that no deal can be achieved when one party deludes itself into believing they have leverage that, in reality, they do not have.

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The U.S. official described the talks to Fox News Digital as starting out tough, though developing into a more friendly and productive dialogue over the duration of the 21-hour-long negotiations.

The high-stakes talks between the U.S. and Iran ended without a deal after Iranian officials refused to accept American terms, Vance said earlier Sunday during a press conference from the Serena Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.

“So we go back to the United States, having not come to an agreement. We’ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things we’re willing to accommodate them on and what things we’re not willing to accommodate them on,” Vance said at the time. “And we’ve made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms.”

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The U.S. official said that over the course of the discussions, the Washington delegation determined it was clear that the Iranians did not comprehend that the core of any peace deal hinges on Iran never obtaining a nuclear weapon.

While that point remains the main objective of any potential peace deal, the U.S. has other red lines that it will not compromise on.

The official said that the U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement on all of Washington’s red lines, which include: Iran ending all uranium enrichment; the dismantling of all Iran’s major nuclear enrichment facilities; the retrieval of highly enriched uranium; the acceptance of a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies; an end to the funding of Iran’s terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis; and Iran fully opening the Strait of Hormuz with no tolls for passage.

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The official added that Vance has underscored that while a deal remains on the table, it is up to Tehran to accept the terms.

“And we leave here with a very simple proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer,” Vance said during the earlier press conference before departing Pakistan. “We’ll see if the Iranians accept it.”

WASHINGTON — Former 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said that the US will “probably” need to dispatch a special forces team to retrieve Iran’s uranium stockpile.

“That’s probably what it’s going to come down to. I mean, this is a special force mission. It would take about a week to ten days to get done. They know how to do it. It’s dangerous,” Haley told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

“It’s not something that we can, you know, just sit and think is casual. I think they have to do it. But once they do that, they’re taking away literally one arm of the Iranian regime to where they no longer can threaten any of our allies.”

President Trump has reportedly considered greenlighting a high-risk operation to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles, which are thought to be buried deep underground after the US hit its nuclear sites with super-heavy bunker buster bombs.

However, so far, Trump has refrained from approving that operation. Instead, he has publicly warned Iran that the US is monitoring its nuclear sites via satellite and will strike if Iran attempts to recover its stockpiles.

Experts have suggested that if Iran’s stockpiles of uranium were fully enriched to 90%, they’d have enough material for at least 10 nuclear bombs.

Haley, who ran against Trump in 2024 for the GOP nomination, has largely supported the president’s military campaign against Iran. She indicated Sunday that she is not eyeing a 2028 presidential run and argued it’s too early to think about whom she may support.

“I will not,” she said when asked about running.