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AfD leaders celebrated tonight as exit polls projected a big lead in the Saxony-Anhalt vote.
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Vital accountability mechanisms have withered as English devolution has evolved. The government should take note Andy Burnham has criticised Britain’s “unaccountable state” that is at once too powerful and too distant from everyday life. He has made English devolution the central idea of his premiership, but his plan to give England’s mayors unprecedented power and money will have to confront a number of tricky realities, not least a landscape in which scrutiny of local government is vastly dimi
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They were transferred onto two lifeboats and taken to shore in the UK.
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Georgia Gould says moving system towards inclusion will mean parents ‘don’t need to fight’ for support in futurePupils with Send plans in England likely to double in rush for supportGeorgia Gould is in a race against time. And the minister responsible for overhauling England’s special educational needs provision is hoping that a state school in Colchester will help her beat the clock.Gould visited Thomas Lord Audley secondary school last week to see the secrets of its success in persuading local
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Has Farage’s brain been hacked? Has he started talking in his sleep? There’s no shortage of explanations for this scandalWe’ve all been there. It’s a lovely summer’s day and you just want a bit of me time. A quiet lunch of champagne and oysters. As you do. Anything to get away from having to pretend you are interested in the people of Clacton. Hell, it’s bad enough being expected to actually visit Clacton – who in their right mind would want to do that? – let alone having to talk to the little p
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It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like oursGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDepending on your politics, the monsters are everywhere. Perhaps you see them in the form of tech billionaires and the artificial intelligence they’re developing. Perhaps you see them in the bin fire of social media they bequeathed us before that, or the legacy media that refuse to tell you “the truth”. You mig
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Woking Borough Council's leader says it is "important progress" but there is "still much work to do".
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Mothin Ali, is linked to two rental properties via his company, but does not appear to profit from them.
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Plans are in motion to cut Scotland's mainland health boards from 14 to two, but questions remain about how they would work in practice.
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The "exceptionally well organised" protest "caught several agencies on the hoof", the leader says.
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Business secretary says masked anti-immigration protest was ‘not something we would want’ on British streetsA cabinet minister has condemned the blocking of Dover roads by dozens of masked and black-clad people on Saturday.Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, said that although peaceful protest was an “essential part of British life”, this differed from “dressing up in costumes like this and disrupting people’s lives”. Continue reading...
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The company is struggling with the impact of tariffs as well as the fallout from a major cyber attack last year.
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Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson has faced criticism within party after post about Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugeeLabour has accused Reform’s Zia Yusuf of “straightforward racism” after he suggested the party’s frontrunner to replace Keir Starmer in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection was not British.Sagal Abdi-Wali, a former child refugee from Somalia and the leader of Camden council, has been tipped as an early favourite to contest the London seat for Labour after the former pri
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Tories and Reform hope to unseat the incumbent by tempting some Labour voters to shift to the right The bicycles have been brought out and eager fists are getting ready to knock on hundreds of doors as the race for one of the most sought-after jobs in British politics springs into action.Sadiq Khan has had a vice-like grip on London, but a range of candidates hoping to unseat him in 2028 have announced themselves. The three-time mayor has been coy about whether he will stand again, and said he w
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What challenges face assembly members and ministers as Stormont returns after the summer recess?
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Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, says that for the first time in his career his family he doesn't have his family's support,
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Like France, the UK has always been centralised – and imposing a new political structure brings huge risksDevolution in England is going to be messy and slow, and brings with it huge risks that Andy Burnham ignores at his peril.The prime minister’s devolution push will be messy because Whitehall’s ingrained anxiety about handing over money and power will lead to piecemeal deals, starting with a deal for Cornwall that will lack the much-promised driving force of a newly minted mayor. Continue rea
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The Reform leader also told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his family are "begging" him to leave his job.
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A look at the key allegations concerning foreign donations and where they sit with the law.