‘Mr Congeniality’ Burnham advises Badenoch to ditch the point-scoring over defence spending | John Crace
Leader of the opposition rehashes last week’s questions as she comes up short against a PM who preaches consensus…
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UK defends sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements after backlash – The Latest
The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, is facing a backlash over the government’s sanctions against illegal Israeli…
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis…
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Farage is clearly struggling – I saw that for myself. But his legacy will be a poison that runs deep | Andy Beckett
The mood at the Reform conference was volatile and brittle. But the forces massing further to the right of the party…
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Liz Truss relaunches podcast on channel of broadcaster famous for ‘grow concrete’ exchange
Podcast is now on YouTube site of Mike Graham, fired from TalkTV after racist post appeared on his Facebook page UK…
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Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit
Bridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agenda UK politics…
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Burnham urged to tackle inequality with policies including wealth tax
Key thinkers suggest other radical measures in Compass report such as free personal social care and abolishing Lords…
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‘It’s like a death sentence’ says British widow facing deportation from Sweden
Exclusive: Joyce Thomas, 78, describes her ‘nightmare’ hours before the deadline for her removal from country A…
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Inside Reform UK – podcast
Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd talks to former Reform insider Tim Montgomerie before heading to the 2026 Reform UK…
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Far-right port protests: police told to improve intelligence gathering
Whitehall officials ask why laws meant to clamp down on mask wearing at demonstrations were not used Police have been…
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Burnham says Britain will ‘continue to act in support of our values’ after UK launches sanctions on Israel – as it happened
Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, earlier claimed that the UK was ‘systemically working against the state of…
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Will UK sanctions have any impact on Israel’s ‘settler terrorists’ in West Bank?
A look at whether Ed Miliband’s plans will be effective and what they signal for future Israel-UK relations UK politics…
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UK condemns Israeli settler ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank – The Latest
The UK has attacked ‘settler terrorism’ deployed in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, whilst announcing…
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I am sending the assisted dying bill back to the Lords – and this time, peers must do the right thing | Lauren Edwards
The will of the elected chamber – and a popular, compassionate piece of legislation – must not be frustrated again by a…
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The byelection here in Holborn and St Pancras is Labour’s to lose. But lose it might | Polly Toynbee
The Greens appeal to young and progressive voters here on defence, rent controls and North Sea oil. The Burnham bounce…
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Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds
Nearly half of respondents say spending on personal independence payments should be increased There is little appetite…
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Policing minister makes statement on ‘intimidating and thuggish’ anti-migrant protests – as it happened
Sarah Jones tells MPs ‘those responsible should expect to face the consequences’ Healey says Andy Burnham set out in…
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Farage still Reform’s best hope as rivals struggle to match appeal to party faithful
Despite series of scandals, members remain loyal to their leader as questions over his successor grow Few British…
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A Reform UK without Nigel Farage used to be unthinkable. Not any more | Gaby Hinsliff
The scandals are building, his touch perhaps not quite what it was. And, most of all, his party rivals are beginning to…
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Polanski faces Green rival in his pursuit of Keir Starmer’s old seat
Hamza Chowdhury says most of his fellow Green Camden councillors back him to contest 8 October byelection Zack Polanski…
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‘Thuggish’ far-right protesters descend on Dover and Portsmouth – The Latest
Far-right activists gathered in two disruptive demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend, attempting to…
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Is the UK about to see the rise of the far right? – podcast
Alternative für Deutschland has claimed a historic win in Germany, continuing the pattern of populist far-right parties…
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No 10 condemns ‘thuggish’ far-right activists after Portsmouth unrest
Hundreds of men, some in balaclavas, try to prevent asylum seekers’ processing, two days after similar scenes in Dover…
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I had an amazing experience as a disabled person at school in the 70s. Since then, discrimination has got far worse | Mik Scarlet
Toxic narratives around ‘benefit scrounging’, fed by successive governments, have become embedded in the national…
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‘We can win here’: Zack Polanski presses the flesh in Holborn and St Pancras
Polanski is confident of taking seat vacated by Keir Starmer, but says he will stay on as Green party leader even if he…
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That sound you hear is not the world ending – it’s liberalism being monstered | Waleed Aly
It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies…
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Black-clad Dover vigilantes will return if police do not act, say campaigners
Far-right linked group able to mobilise at scale due to police ‘inaction’, says founder of Hope Not Hate The group of…
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Undercover report on donations ‘looks bad’ for Reform, admits Nigel Farage – as it happened
The Reform UK leader is under pressure after senior aides appeared to plot how to bypass electoral laws on foreign…
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Zia Yusuf’s post about Camden council leader is ‘straightforward racism’, says minister
Senior Reform UK figure has faced criticism within party after post about Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee…
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Farage says overseas donation row ‘looks bad’ but denies Reform broke law
Robert Jenrick says party has followed legal protocol ‘at all times’ as Met police consider launching investigation…
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London mayoral contenders limber up for a race that is Sadiq Khan’s to lose
Tories and Reform hope to unseat the incumbent by tempting some Labour voters to shift to the right The bicycles have…
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Falklands row shows urgent need to commit to 3% target, says Labour defence committee chair
Exclusive: Tan Dhesi says Argentinian threats make it more crucial than ever that PM increase defence spending Javier…
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Catastrophic dangers await Burnham’s push for English devolution | Phillip Inman
Like France, the UK has always been centralised – and imposing a new political structure brings huge risks Devolution…
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‘The chancellor is in a bind’: is No 11 at odds with Burnham’s big vision?
MPs applaud PM’s ambition and optimism but John Healey has yet to show he can match leader’s radical perspective Until…
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Reform continues to cast doubt on climate science. Do its supporters agree?
Climate scepticism is common at the Reform party conference, but many also criticise Labour for failing to protect…
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Gaza refugee says sister-in-law ‘would be alive’ if Home Office had let her come to UK
Anwar, who lives in Glasgow, says Home Office refused visa application despite Maryam having cancer A man living in the…
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