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The ex-defence secretary repeats his call for more funding in a Commons speech following his resignation.
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With Burnham predicted to win Makerfield byelection, talk is turning to who would join him if he replaced Keir StarmerUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham looks on the brink of returning to Westminster this weekend if polls showing he is heading for victory in the Makerfield byelection are to be believed. It is now clear his intention is to seek to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister as early as possible.Talk in Westminster has turned to who could be part of setting the direction of
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Winning this byelection wouldn’t make Reform disappear. Would Burnham really have the courage needed to see them off in No 10?‘Well, good,” says a middle-aged woman outside Boots about the prospect of millions of migrants being deported. “Because we want the country safe.” I point out that, even as immigration has risen sharply for the last two decades, by every measure – murder rates, or numbers of people admitted to hospitals because of knife attacks and assaults – violence has fallen steeply.
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The prime minister says the UK is working with other countries on a plan to protect vessels in the key waterway.
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At a sold-out show in its home town, Swindon, all the bombast and conviction driving this Restore-linked outlet was there to seeIf I asked you to name a popular politics podcast, what would you think of? Maybe The Rest Is Politics for centrist dads. Novara Media’s Downstream for young lefties, perhaps, or Triggernometry for conservatives.While these podcasts have achieved mainstream success and recognition, the contemporary media landscape also allows fringe political shows to gain huge audience
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Katie Kendrick, Cath Williams and Jo Darbyshire were subject to tens of thousands of pounds of hidden costs as their new-build freeholds soared in value, making their homes unsellable. Their campaign could finally end the ‘feudal’ system in England and WalesWhen a leaflet about leasehold injustice landed on Cath Williams’ doorstep in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, nearly a decade ago, she barely gave it a second thought, tossing it straight into the bin. Had she given it more than a cursory glance, s
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The prime minister said he was "very pleased for my family's sake" that two men had been convicted of the 2025 arson attacks.
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Kim Leadbeater, now an MP, and fellow politicians fear that ‘kinder, gentler politics’ after Cox’s death was an illusionTen years on from Jo Cox’s murder, Kim Leadbeater fears that the consensus around “kinder, gentler politics” in the wake of her sister’s death was short-lived.“Sadly and regrettably, over the last decade things are worse,” she says. Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen and mother of two young children, was murdered outside a library in West Yorkshire in June 2016 by an Englis
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The UK has its own progressive policies such as the second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops?In April, to mark the day on which Americans are expected to file their taxes, the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, filmed himself on Billionaires’ Row, an enclave of super-tall apartment buildings just south of Central Park. When he took office, he said, he would tax the rich, and now, outside the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238m penthouse, he was ready
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A government spokesman tells the BBC the current offer "does not do enough to protect consumers or the environment".
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Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater reflects a decade after her sister was murdered in Birstall.
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It’s a decade since the MP for Batley and Spen was killed by a far-right extremist. Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who took over her parliamentary seat, explains what lessons are still to be learnedJo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice, and the mother of two young children, aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, she was murde
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Andrea Egan tellls the BBC that Labour haven't delivered and her election demonstrated that members were desperate to have their voices heard.
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Polls open on Thursday for the Makerfield by-election with 14 candidates vying to become the constituency's MP
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Sites including Instagram, YouTube and TikTok will become inaccessible for millions of children, the prime minister has announced.
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Secretary of State for Technology Liz Kendall was addressing the Commons following the announcement of a social media ban for under-16s.
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It fell to Robert Jenrick to announce his party’s plans to lift white British people from the bottom of the pileNow is not a good time to be a white Brit born in this country. Nigel Farage is clear about this. So much so that he wrote a 6,000 word Substack piece about it at the weekend. Or rather someone did. Possibly an intern who had been told to channel their inner Nige.Or maybe, if Matt Goodwin was involved, ChatGPT helped out. “Write me an essay in the style of an even more deranged Rupert
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There is nothing left to be squeezed from disabled people or families, yet some continue to bang the same old drumWhat’s it to be, warfare or welfare, social or military spending, guns or butter? Hermann Göring coined that phrase calling for re-armament, “Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat.” In her “Britain awake” speech, Margaret Thatcher in 1976 warned that the Soviets “put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns” – though defence spending fell
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A full return will require a marathon of democratic persuasion, on the continent as much as in Britain. For one side holds most of the cardsAs Britain approaches the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the EU, the British are beginning to debate rejoining what they call Europe. But, as in most previous British debates about “Europe”, this is Europe with the Europe left out. The discussion is all about what would be best for Britain economically and the British politics of getting there. Little
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Keir Starmer has announced his social media ban for under-16s. The proposals are tougher than expected, and include a ban on major apps such as TikTok, Instagram, X, Snapchat, YouTube and Facebook. Plus, the Makerfield byelection is on Thursday. How will team Starmer be preparing for a potential Andy Burnham win? Continue reading...