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What the German elections mean for Reform

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The town that's hitting back against shoplifting

The town that's hitting back against shoplifting
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Macron and Starmer are about to go head to head on Trump

Macron and Starmer are about to go head to head on Trump
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Farage uses US speech to woo voters at home, but avoids the elephant in the room

Farage uses US speech to woo voters at home, but avoids the elephant in the room
21.02.2025 7

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Nigel Farage just made Jordan Peterson look even stranger

Nigel Farage just made Jordan Peterson look even stranger
18.02.2025 3

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Starmer must prove his mettle if he wants to take on Trump

Starmer must prove his mettle if he wants to take on Trump
17.02.2025 3

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The consequences of Trump and Putin's phone call will reverberate for years to come

The consequences of Trump and Putin's phone call will reverberate for years to come
13.02.2025 3

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PMQs was a disaster for Kemi Badenoch – Labour cannot believe its luck

PMQs was a disaster for Kemi Badenoch – Labour cannot believe its luck
12.02.2025 3

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Robert Jenrick is flirting with Reform -but Kemi Badenoch doesn't care

Robert Jenrick is flirting with Reform -but Kemi Badenoch doesn't care
11.02.2025 5

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Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs are spreading - what's next for Britain?

Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs are spreading - what's next for Britain?
10.02.2025 2

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MPs asking Farage to sign wine bottles? This is Reform’s moment

MPs asking Farage to sign wine bottles? This is Reform’s moment
06.02.2025 2

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Starmer the lawyer is at odds with Starmer the politician – it won't end well

Starmer the lawyer is at odds with Starmer the politician – it won't end well
05.02.2025 4

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Five years on, Starmer has a chance to make Brexit work

Five years on, Starmer has a chance to make Brexit work
03.02.2025 2

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The end of the state pension triple lock is coming

28.01.2025 2

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Keir Starmer's Brexit headache is about to get a whole lot more painful

23.01.2025 4

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Rachel Reeves is at risk of picking too many fights

23.01.2025 4

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Starmer has one big advantage over Musk

21.01.2025 5

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No one is brave enough to take on the triple lock - not even Kemi Badenoch

17.01.2025 5

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Rachel Reeves is quickly running out of excuses

16.01.2025 4

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Keir Starmer is doing Rachel Reeves no favours

13.01.2025 4

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Badenoch may be cynical, but she might yet win on grooming gangs

In Parliament it can be hard to get political chicanery past the other 649 MPs, all experts in the art themselves. On social media, where the last...

08.01.2025 2

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Kemi Badenoch can't win in Elon Musk's dystopian world

Amazon Prime is currently dominating adolescents’ screens with Beast Games, a glossy show where attention-seeking competitors bargain and tantrum,...

06.01.2025 2

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Forget the hype. Farage won't be Prime Minister

It’s hard to imagine the pint-swilling, fag-toting Nigel Farage as a fierce Viking invader jumping from a longship, sword in hand. But according to...

23.12.2024 6

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Giving regional mayors more power could backfire spectacularly

At first glance, the Government’s plan to devolve more powers to regional mayors and tidy up the messy multi-layered system of local authorities...

15.12.2024 4

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Next on Labour's list of new enemies: councillors

Fresh from upsetting farmers, businesses and pensioners, the Government looks set to add another category to its list: Labour councillors. In plans...

11.12.2024 3

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It's time for Rachel Reeves to justify her spending plans

Rachel Reeves is busier than most, but even she shares the frustrations of punters forced to join one of the seemingly never-ending queues at the...

10.12.2024 3

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The assisted dying debate showed the House of Commons at its best

Serious, impassioned, thoughtful and non-tribal – party politics were put aside. Parliament has taken a step towards a monumental social change in...

29.11.2024 3

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Farage is the only winner from migration numbers – yet again

Talk to MPs of all colours at Westminster and they’ll tell you that when they knock on voters’ doors, the issue of immigration always comes up. No...

28.11.2024 4

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It's starting to become clear how MPs will vote on assisted dying

Friday’s historic vote on legalising assisted dying is on a knife-edge. Backers of the bill believe they now have enough support even as their...

27.11.2024 3

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Starmer's 'gentle parenting' on benefits just won't work

Unveiling a flagship back-to-work plan to tackle joblessness today, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government declined to include a crackdown on...

26.11.2024 7

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Clean energy is cold comfort to shivering pensioners

In Parliament’s freezing colonnades, the sideways sleet made only a feeble effort to settle. But even as MPs blew on their fingers after the sudden...

22.11.2024 5

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'Clarkson and Dyson aren’t our people': What Labour MPs really think about farmers

Outside Parliament Richard Angood, 72, pulled his flat cap down further over his nose to keep the freezing rain out of his eyes. The Cambridgeshire...

19.11.2024 3

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Starmer needs to tell us how his jet-setting diplomacy benefits Brits at home

Since Parliament returned from its summer break in September, Sir Keir Starmer has totted up three working weeks of time spent abroad and voters...

18.11.2024 5

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NHS reforms show Labour is in thrall to Blairism

Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s plan to revive NHS league tables is being attacked as reheated Blairism. The critics mean it as an insult; he’s...

13.11.2024 3

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Zelensky is on borrowed time – and so is European security

President Joe Biden, the subject of so much criticism for his contribution to the Democrats’ wipeout, could still make a significant difference to...

11.11.2024 3

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Tories are praying Kemi can be their Trump

For Labour MPs, Kemi Badenoch is a pantomime villain. While they’d been prepared to give geeky, inoffensive Rishi Sunak the benefit of the doubt,...

08.11.2024 2

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Nigel Farage is plotting to become Trump's secret UK ambassador

A beaming Nigel Farage raised a clenched fist as Donald Trump gave him a shout-out at a pre-election rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. “He’s always...

06.11.2024 5

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Labour is preparing for its worst nightmare: A Trump-Musk administration

As the months to go until America’s polling day have turned to weeks and then days, British diplomats have spent the election period trying to map...

04.11.2024 4

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Now victor Badenoch needs to figure out what to do with Jenrick

Even after a bruising and non-stop leadership campaign, new Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch knows the hard work is just beginning. She needs to...

02.11.2024 5

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The unintended consequences of Reeves's Budget are about to play out

Rachel Reeves, with her customary glass of red wine in hand, celebrated her first Budget alongside Treasury civil servants in a Westminster pub....

31.10.2024 4

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Rachel Reeves has revealed Labour’s villians: rich people

Budgets are all about choices and here were some proper old-skool, class-conscious choices. As Rachel Reeves set out her Budget blockbuster, she...

30.10.2024 2

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Has Labour broken pledge to help working people? i writers give their verdict

Rachel Reeves may have stuck to the letter of Labour’s manifesto pledges, but she hasn’t stuck to the spirit of them. After repeatedly promising to...

30.10.2024 2

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The tax rise Labour MPs are growing increasingly worried about

For a Prime Minister pitch-rolling a Budget that will define the UK political landscape for the next decade, Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in...

28.10.2024 3

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The Tories are in a weird place - detached from reality and obsessed with the ECHR

Donald Trump had built his campaign strategy around beating Joe Biden and had to pivot when he was pushed out. Here in the small corner of the UK...

16.10.2024 2

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Why nobody wants to be Rachel Reeves right now

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s colleagues don’t envy her right now. At a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday morning to discuss the Budget, several...

15.10.2024 3

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The Tories have got the right-wing face-off they really wanted

Conservative MPs gave the party membership what they wanted – a battle between two right-wing contenders. Kemi Badenoch becomes the front-runner in...

09.10.2024 2

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The Tory hopefuls' final pitches ignored one thing: they are irrelevant

Kemi Badenoch needed a barnstorming leadership speech to pull her campaign back from the brink on the final day of the Conservative conference....

02.10.2024 3

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Robert Jenrick inches ahead, but Kemi Badenoch isn't out of the race yet

Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick is aiming for an aura of invincibility at Conservative conference. At parties and rallies, a herald comes...

01.10.2024 4

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Any reasonable Tory now just wants Boris Johnson to go away

Ruby, a damaged cargo ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of potentially explosive fertiliser, is currently moored off the British coast, with nobody quite...

29.09.2024 2

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Keir Starmer offers reassurance to Labour in policy-light speech

Keir Starmer joked that the “glitter” of populism would be brushed off his shirt cuff as he sought to reset the gloomy political narrative the has...

24.09.2024 3

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