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Russian incursions into UK defences risk crossing a line, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton tells the BBC.
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Andy Burnham takes round one of the big byelection bout while Reform’s Rob Kenyon takes aim at himselfSeconds out … Round one. In the left corner we have the middleweight King of the North … Andy Burnham. In the far-right corner we have the total lightweight … Rob “The Plumber” Kenyon. On the undercard, we have three nonentities we can barely bring ourselves to mention. Mike “The Tory” Winstanley, Sarah “The Green” Wakefield and Jake “The Lib Dem” Austin. And if you think these three are dopey,
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It said it was "unacceptable" the Home Office could not keep track of all whose asylum claims had failed.
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Ben Goldsborough says Karl Catchpole's posts are "unacceptable".
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The prime minister's future has been called into question following poor election results for Labour.
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In an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, England's Identity Crisis, the Conservative leader warned of rising tensions as groups on the left and the right.
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The Greater Manchester Mayor would need to win the by-election in Makerfield to be a possible candidate.
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Some Labour MPs want Sir Keir Starmer to step down following last month's poor election results.
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Exclusive: Greater Lincolnshire mayor walks out on cabinet minister after row over social media role in community tensionsAndrea Jenkyns walked out of a meeting on Thursday with a cabinet minister and several other metropolitan mayors after a heated discussion about the murder of Henry Nowak and the civil unrest that has followed.The Reform mayor of Greater Lincolnshire walked out of the meeting with the communities secretary, Steve Reed, and other regional leaders after a row over the role soci
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While huge donations are nothing new in UK politics, some fear electoral finance is distorting democracy itselfKeir Starmer may be relaxed about allowing millions from cryptocurrency billionaires to flow into Reform UK’s coffers but Labour MPs are tearing their hair out every time the quarterly data on electoral finance drops.“I look at it through my fingers,” says one MP, as the latest figures show a further £7m went to Reform UK from just two men – Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo. Continue r
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer mets the family of Henry Nowak at 10 Downing Street.
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Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor sets out his priorities before Makerfield byelection – and what might happen after the voteAndy Burnham has signalled he would begin transforming the broken social care system this year if he became prime minister, accusing Westminster of “flinching away” from tackling difficult policy problems.The Greater Manchester mayor said politicians must be willing to take on “the weight of the system” that stands in the way of radical change, as he began to set out his
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The cancellation of Cenk Uygur’s and Hasan Piker’s visas tells us that the home secretary’s powers to police speech are too broadIn August 1967, the activist Stokely Carmichael was banned from entering Britain. An ally of Martin Luther King Jr and head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael was banned because that July he had visited London and given a rousing, militant speech about racism and black power at a leftwing festival in Camden alongside counterculture figures inc
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Sr Keir Starmer urges regional mayors to use their powers to move projects forward.
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The party received £7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires earlier this year, figures show
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BBC News NI looks at the messy split between current UUP Leader Jon Burrows and former leader, Doug Beattie.
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Robert Kenyon says even if he fails to get elected he would have "given two fingers to the establishment".
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X-owner Musk has posted several times on the site criticising the police treatment of Henry Nowak.
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The head of the National Black Police Association says proposed changes to racism guidance are "not well thought-out".