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The one way Labour can end the era of mass migration

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The Tory Flood has changed Britain forever

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Starmer’s disdain for conservatives could be his undoing

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Is Starmer really proud of this rubber dinghy crackdown?

Hold the front page. The government may have finally smashed part of a people-smuggling gang, or as word-mangling Keir Starmer put it in a piece to...

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Farage should have been allowed to lay a wreath on Sunday

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Will Trump listen to Starmer?

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Starmer’s plan to stop the boats is a comical gimmick

The shiny new Downing Street operation that has come into being since the departure of Sue Gray has decreed that this is going to be ‘small boats...

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How the Tories changed their tune on Nigel Farage – and Reform

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Britain’s lax immigration policy is making it an outlier

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The demise of the Tory party has been greatly exaggerated

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What Cleverly gets wrong about Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’

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Could Badenoch blow it?

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How the Tories can bounce back

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Keir Starmer has shown why the Tories will struggle against him

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Keir Starmer’s problems are of his own making

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How Robert Jenrick stole Kemi Badenoch’s thunder

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Keir Starmer is caving on immigration already

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