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Tim Montgomerie says his appeal will be a test of whether the party can tolerate free speech.
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Ron Bailey has been quietly changing the law for the past 40 years - how does he do it?
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The prime minister lists his financial interests for the first time since returning to Parliament.
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Rough sleepers in England will be offered housing, in a move likened to the “Everyone In” initiative during the pandemic.
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The Liberal Democrats say taking part in the scheme would "destroy the business model" of gangs arranging Channel crossings.
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Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do itBurnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by ChristmasI’ve always thought you can tell something about a country by what it learns to walk past. And, somewhere along the way, we’ve got used to seeing people sleeping rough on our streets.We see people bedded down in doorways and sat outside stations, carrying their lives in rucks
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MPs’ register of interests shows hospitality and trips worth more than £12,000 and contributions from longstanding Labour donorsDonors to Andy Burnham gave almost £350,000 over the months before he became Labour leader and prime minister, with major contributors including his former adviser Sacha Lord as well as billionaires David Sainsbury and Gary Lubner.The new MPs’ register of interests also shows Burnham declaring hospitality and trips worth more than £12,000 – many of them relating to Grea
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New York mayor Zohran Mamdani shows Britain’s Andy Burnham that confronting billionaires need not mean the end of cooperation with Donald TrumpIn November, Californians will vote on a one-off 5% levy on residents worth more than $1bn. The union-backed plan could raise $100bn, more than enough to replace federal healthcare funding stripped away by Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. About 200 very rich people would pay. But the referendum is becoming a test of whether extreme wealth can bu
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Tim Montgomerie - a prominent former Conservative activist - says he plans to appeal against the suspension.
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Russia has threatened the UK with ‘consequences’ after reports that British drones were used by Ukraine to strike targets on Russia’s mainland for the first time.The Ministry of Defence has rebuffed these threats, saying the UK is ‘committed to providing equipment Ukraine needs to defend itself against Putin’s illegal invasion’.Annie Kelly speaks to senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTubeLuke’s new book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest will be publish
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Telling the country to enjoy the heat while it burns, you have to wonder if Tice has lost all sense of realityThese are the doggiest of dog days. Times when hours turn into days and almost nothing happens in between. Days of precious R&R, when only a few politicians venture out, and then only to fend off accusations they are doing next to nothing and prove they are still alive. Much like the rest of us. The silliest days of the silly season. Days that are made for men like Richard Tice.There
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Britain has supplied more militarily significant munitions to Kyiv before but there are political reasons for Moscow’s remarksEurope live – latest updatesRussia’s embassy in London has accused the UK of “deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace” after it emerged over the weekend that Britain was supplying attack drones to Kyiv. Continue reading...
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BBC Verify has been breaking down Reform's plans to save more than £50bn a year from the welfare bill - and how realistic it is.
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The PM communicated with a person posing as Susie Wiles, the chief of staff to Donald Trump.
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If elected, the Conservatives say they would amend the Town and Country Planning Act.
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The change, which has been welcomed by campaign groups, will come into effect in England from April.
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The PM’s net zero pragmatism may please some voters, but as parts of the country go up in flames, it’s an increasingly hard sellWhen the siren sounded on Friday night, my first thought was fire.Weeks of unrelenting sun in the normally soggy Peak District, where I was visiting my mum, have bleached green valleys a dangerously dry, crispy blond. One of her neighbours had earlier pointed out an ominous cloud of smoke on the horizon, coming from one of the wildfires raging all summer on the moor. Wh
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BBC Verify breaks down what the party says it wants to do to cut the benefits bill - and how realistic it is.
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Alaba has said he took out two taxpayer-funded loans during the pandemic but insisted he had not tried to avoid paying the money back.