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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".
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Messages were expected to appear in the batch of Mandelson files, published earlier this week, but did not.
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Tony Blair’s departure as PM should have prompted a fresh start for Labour. But Starmer’s sad, backward-looking government remains in his thrall Now half term is over, let’s have a quick quiz. Reading these lines, can you spot the common theme? Westminster has been mesmerised this week by the messages of a famous Blairite, Peter Mandelson, especially his damning exchanges with fellow carrier of the Blair torch, Pat McFadden. Last week’s big news was an essay written by Tony Blair himself. That w
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Protest over killing of Nowak and his treatment by police was attended by several far-right leaders, anti-immigrant influencers and known fascistsSome of those who attended a protest in Southampton on Tuesday night were ordinary members of the public, appalled at the killing of Henry Nowak and his treatment at the hands of the police – who handcuffed him after a false accusation of racism by his killer, Vickrum Digwa.But the protest, which turned violent, was also attended by several far-right l
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The leftwing American commentator Cenk Uygur talks about the ban on him and his nephew, Hasan Piker, entering the UK this week. With reporting from Kiran Stacey“We’re not allowed to put you on the plane,” said the woman at the terminal. “You can’t board because the British government has withdrawn your ETA.” This is how, at LAX airport, the leftwing commentator Cenk Uygur learned he had been banned from the UK.As he tells Lucy Hough, he and his nephew Hasan Piker, a hugely popular streamer, had
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The recommendation is one of several from Lord Mann, whose review examined antisemitism within the organisation.
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Undercover agents are posing as fake job recruiters to try and identify useful targets, MI5 warns.