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Lucy Dunn

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Can the Treasury get the public onside with its spending cuts?

Can the Treasury get the public onside with its spending cuts?
23.01.2025 8

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Lucy Dunn

What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?

What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?
20.01.2025 10

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Lucy Dunn

Scotland / What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?

Scotland /					 													 						What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?
19.01.2025 10

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Lucy Dunn

Scotland / What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?

Scotland /					 													 						What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?
19.01.2025 6

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Lucy Dunn

The PMQs question that should really worry Keir Starmer

The PMQs question that should really worry Keir Starmer
16.01.2025 5

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Will Ireland’s fed-up voters punish the Taoiseach in the snap election?

Will the elections taking place across Ireland today result in a whole new government? Not really, is the conclusion most Irish citizens seem to be...

29.11.2024 3

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Now the SNP must prove it can govern

In the history of devolution, no Westminster government has ever given Scotland as large a block grant settlement as the one announced by Labour on...

31.10.2024 2

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This is a ten-year plan, says Labour health minister

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has made a lot of noise about the perilous state of the NHS, insisting the institution must ‘reform or...

23.09.2024 3

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Stop calling us ‘junior’, demand doctors

Junior doctors made headlines this week after begrudgingly accepted the government’s pay deal. Two thirds of British Medical Association (BMA)...

18.09.2024 2

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Will Priti Patel’s ‘unity’ pitch succeed?

Priti Patel’s Tory leadership launch in Westminster this afternoon was an upbeat affair, featuring mango lassi and a tonne of merchandise. With...

30.08.2024 1

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Scotland’s poorest students are being failed by the SNP

Scotland’s exam results day has been something of a disaster this year. An already stressful time for anxious pupils has been made worse after...

06.08.2024 3

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Is Robert Jenrick emerging as a leadership frontrunner?

Robert Jenrick chose a swelteringly hot day in sunny Newark to stage his official leadership campaign launch. ‘I’m in politics for you,’ he told...

02.08.2024 3

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England’s GPs vote to take industrial action

Just days after junior doctors in England were offered a cumulative pay rise of 22 per cent, general practitioners across the country have voted in...

01.08.2024 1

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Will Labour give in to Sinn Féin’s demands?

It’s not often that Irish republican party Sinn Féin hosts events in London, but the group included the UK capital in its post-election victory...

21.07.2024 3

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Every bill announced in Labour’s King’s Speech

King Charles has now finished taking part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The purpose of today’s King’s Speech...

17.07.2024 2

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Vaughan Gething gone after just 118 days

It’s been a turbulent morning in Wales. First, four ministers from the Labour group quit over growing frustration at their scandal-ridden party...

16.07.2024 3

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Lucy Dunn