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The 18-year-old's murder has sparked debate among politicians over attitudes in policing.
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The second tranche of documents related to the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador have been released. The documents, running at more than 1,000 pages, were supposed to reveal what ministers knew about Mandelson’s links to Epstein and the security process to approve his appointment, but instead have revealed government infighting and early doubts about Keir Starmer’s premiership. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s head of national news, Archie Bland – watch on YouTube Continue readi
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Mark Nowak had asked for his son’s murder not to be used to spread division. But Nige is just not the kind of guy to miss outThe email invitation arrived shortly after 7am. Nigel Farage would be making an “address to the nation” an hour later. The grandiosity. The self-importance. An address to the nation is something usually delivered by the monarch or the prime minister during an emergency. Not from a leader of a political party with just eight MPs.There again, pomposity is now Nige’s last res
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Spokesperson says function is in line with official guidance as scrutiny of papers relating to Peter Mandelson continuesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s WhatsApp messages automatically delete from his smartphone, Downing Street has confirmed, calling into question how full a picture emerged of his role in the appointment of Peter Mandelson from a recently released tranche of government documents.Asked at a briefing whether Starmer uses the function on his WhatsApp messages, the pr
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Student groups tell inquiry about ballooning debt and ‘sneaky changes’ to loan terms while likening system to finance scandalsGraduates saddled with ballooning student loan debts feel they are being unfairly used as “cash cows” to finance measures benefiting older people such as the state pension triple lock, MPs have been told.Student representatives told an official inquiry about the “harrowing” plight of many young people, while the man who led the 2019 government review into post-18 educatio
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After the conviction of Henry Nowak’s killer, the right is embracing racialised language. This tragedy is now just part of a political tussleJoe Mulhall is director of research at the anti-fascism organisation Hope Not HateThe video of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak at the hands of Vickrum Digwa in Southampton is horrifying. But Nigel Farage’s decision to respond to these events by calling for “pure cold rage” and insisting we recognise that “white lives matter” is a worrying sign of an i
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I’m not sure any other first world nation would have this problem. Keir Starmer’s promise of growth, growth, growth appears to have shrivelledWe are in the TL;DR days of Keir Starmer’s government. The latest Mandelson files stimulate nothing so much as an old and now immortally memed response to an online screed: “I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.” In any case, to save you the bother, I can report that there are only two hideously iconic moments in the lates
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A second batch of files relating to Lord Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador has been released.
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Emily Thornberry criticises Israel’s ‘staggering’ sense of impunity and rebukes Donald Trump for abandoning GazaThe UK government has let the Palestinian people down and failed to make it economically impossible for Israel to continue to act with impunity in the West Bank and Gaza, the Labour chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Emily Thornberry, has said.She accused her own government of lacking ambition and wringing its hands on the Palestinian crisis, and she also chastised Donald T
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Finally, Labour is talking policy, thanks to the leadership contest and Tony Blair’s intervention – and the centre-right is making a much-needed fightback too“Wouldn’t it be great if Tony Blair kept his mouth shut about the Labour party?” Readers may have cheered that Guardian letter-writer’s response to yet another infuriating assault by Blair from the outer-stratosphere of nowhere. Isn’t Labour in enough trouble with a life-or-death byelection against the forces of darkness without incoming fi
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Austerity has benefitted bond traders but impoverished British society and led to the rise of populism. Is it right that we carry on adhering to their interests?Should politics always be dominated by economics? Should questions about how governments and voters pay for things – whether by earnings, taxes or borrowing – be settled before we consider the wider consequences?In an anxious capitalist democracy such as Britain, with a modern history of patchy economic success and intermittent but recur
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Daniel Trilling on the far-right party threatening Reform’s chances in the Makerfield byelectionDoes Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection?“Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for unauthorise
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More than 1,000 pages of emails and WhatsApp messages have been released relating to Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US. The documents show Mandelson’s criticism of Keir Starmer, and his desperation to become the Oxford University chancellor – but the controversial vetting file from when he was appointed ambassador is missing. Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey explain what these files show us Continue reading...
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The government has published more than 1,000 pages of documents about the former US ambassador's appointment.
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The Prince of Darkness appears in his element bad-mouthing colleagues and allies behind their backPeter Mandelson *** Red Dispatch Box *** Please contact *** and ask her to talk to *** about *** . It is ridiculous that *** cannot do *** in time for the *** . In the meantime, please also get *** to vote for me as Oxford Chancellor. It’s the least I deserve. My bank account details are *** . Feel free to send to ***. Probably best to discreetly delete all correspondence on these matters. This mess
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From vetting summary to declaration of interest, here are the five key papers withheld from latest disclosuresUK politics live – latest updatesMore than 1,500 pages of documents were published by the government on Monday afternoon about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the ambassador in Washington. Despite claims this was “an unprecedented piece of government transparency”, there are still a number of significant missing documents.Some of the documents have been withheld by the government at the
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A data dump exposes Labour’s courtier politics. But it still does not explain why the peer was cleared to be US ambassadorThe Epstein files fatally damaged Peter Mandelson. Gone was his reputation as Westminster’s great survivor: the politician who could weather any scandal and return to the centre of power. Allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the financial crash led to a criminal investigation. The peer was sacked as Britai
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When Sir Keir Starmer looks back on his time at No10, his decision to send Lord Mandelson to Washington will be a central part of the critique of his tenure.
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Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were supposed to address events at SXSW London before their ETAs were cancelledFree speech activists condemn UK entry ban for Hasan Piker and Cenk UygurCenk Uygur, the host of the Young Turks online political talkshow, and Hasan Piker, who runs his own hours-long stream each day, have been banned from entering the UK by the British home secretary, Shabana Mahmood. They were supposed to address events at SXSW London, a creatives-led festival. Uygur was also planning to
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Newly published documents show Lord Mandelson and ministers' concerns about the prime minister and Labour MPs.