内容摘要：The party had seen its support drop in the polls, with some suggesting Reform could beat Labour to second place in next year's Holyrood elections.

The party had seen its support drop in the polls, with some suggesting Reform could beat Labour to second place in next year's Holyrood elections.

The genealogy company entered his record into its vast online database, allowing him to view other users whose DNA closely matched his own."Half of the names I'd just never heard of," he says. "I thought, 'That's weird', and called my wife to tell her the old family joke might be true after all."

Matthew then asked his dad to submit his own DNA sample, which confirmed he was even more closely related to the same group of mysterious family members.Matthew started exchanging messages with two women who the site suggested were his father's cousins. All were confused about how they could possibly be related.Working together, they eventually tracked down birth records from 1946, months after the end of World War Two.

The documents showed that one day after his father was apparently born, another baby boy had been registered at the same hospital in east London.That boy had the same relatively unusual surname that appeared on the mystery branch of the family tree, a link later confirmed by birth certificates obtained by Matthew.

It was a lightbulb moment.

"I realised straight away what must have happened," he says. "The only explanation that made sense was that both babies got muddled up in hospital."Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed outside a Sikh temple he led in Surrey, British Columbia in June 2023.

He had been a vocal advocate for the creation of a separate state for Sikhs in India, called Khalistan. India has accused him of being a terrorist and of leading a militant separatist group - accusations his supporters call "unfounded".Four Indian nationals have since been arrested and charged in connection to Mr Nijjar's death.

Trudeau alleged that agents of the Indian government were involved in the killing, while the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said it had strong evidence that India was involved in orchestrating campaigns of violence and extortion on Canadian soil.India strongly rejected the allegations, calling them "preposterous", and the row led