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Mothin Ali’s by-election day blunder

Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of defeat. Zack Polanski has put his leadership on the...

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Watch: Jenrick confronts brazen London shoplifter

Robert Jenrick is back out on the mean streets of London, taking shoplifters to task while the Met appears nowhere to be seen. In a new video,...

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Pro-Gaza MP casts doubt on Flydubai terror attack

I am genuinely shocked as to the speed of this enquiry by the Israeli spokespeople!!! Normally it takes them months if not years. I think i smell a...

01.10.2026 20

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Burnham’s bizarre Man City defence

Oh dear. It seems that Andy Burnham, riding high off his successful conference speech, has now scored something of an own goal. The Prime Minister,...

01.10.2026 20

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Burnham’s EU rejoining U-turn

The Makerfield test was meant to be at the heart of Andy Burnham’s government. When Burnham was elected as an MP back in June, he said: ‘A...

30.09.2026 20

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Tories’ triple lock trouble

‘Andy Burnham wants to scrap the triple lock. Help us fight him.’ So reads the Tory party’s new ‘protect pensioners’ survey. But it just so...

30.09.2026 20

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‘Far-left and Islamist’ group hails Red Ed

The ‘far-left and Islamist’ organisation Friends of al-Aqsa lavished praise on Red Ed Miliband on the sidelines of Labour conference today. The...

29.09.2026 10

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Labour peer: ECHR critics are xenophobic

Another day at Labour conference, another chance for the brightest sparks of the left to descend on Liverpool and make claims spectacularly out of...

29.09.2026 20

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Labour PPS floats billions in NHS recruitment reparations

A Labour government aide has suggested that Britain should spend billions of pounds compensating developing countries whose citizens come to work in...

28.09.2026 20

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Labour’s applause diktat

You know things are going well at a party conference when you have to order your members to clap. In Liverpool today, a diktat went out to applaud at...

28.09.2026 20

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The bizarre plan to get Britain’s NEETs working

Ministers are being lobbied by the chief executive of a major British business to solve the NEETs crisis – by imposing a four-day week on top...

28.09.2026 20

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Watch: Gaza activists accost Miliband at Pizza Express

Red Ed Miliband has wasted no time at Labour conference, gallivanting around and boasting about his pro-Palestine credentials. The Foreign Secretary...

28.09.2026 10

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Labour’s KFC-sponsored class war begins

The Labour Party loves a bogeyman: Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu. But at conference this year, the capitalist enemy du...

28.09.2026 20

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Burnham: Brexit is to blame for illegal migration

Ahead of Labour conference, Andy Burnham took to the regional airwaves today for a shameless exercise in pandering to the party faithful. Kicking off...

25.09.2026 40

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Red Ed slammed for cosy talks with Iran

Red Ed Miliband was today slammed by the Tories over his cosy sit-down with Iran’s foreign minister on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly....

25.09.2026 20

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Watch: Iran’s UN envoy blanks Israel’s Starlink offer

This year’s UN General Assembly was a hotbed of dissent and disagreement. World leaders tore into their enemies from the podium, while pious...

25.09.2026 20

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Watch: Polanski heckled at Jewish by-election hustings

Zack Polanski was heckled by furious residents of Holborn and St Pancras at a Jewish community hustings this evening. The former breast-enhancer was...

25.09.2026 30

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Lucy Powell: We can’t stop the boats

Lucy Powell said the quiet bit out loud this morning as she all but admitted that Labour has given up – if, indeed, it was ever really trying – on...

24.09.2026 30

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Watch: Muslim activists attempt to cancel Cleese

Muslim activists in Birmingham have set their sights on national treasure John Cleese, demanding the comedian be cancelled over so-called...

21.09.2026 40

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Former teacher takes charge of Reform Wales

Nigel Farage has turned to former English teacher Helen Jenner to restore order in Reform’s Welsh ranks. Jenner was today crowned the party’s new...

21.09.2026 20

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Commons / MPs to investigate Britain’s Eurovision humiliation

As if MPs haven’t wasted enough time on Gaza, a select committee has found another pressing national crisis to investigate: why Britain is so crap...

19.09.2026 20

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MPs to investigate Britain’s Eurovision humiliation

As if MPs haven’t wasted enough time on Gaza, a select committee has found another pressing national crisis to investigate: why Britain is so crap...

18.09.2026 30

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Watch: Lord Khan addresses Polanski in Urdu

Zack Polanski was left red-faced at City Hall this morning after Lord Khan of Tooting answered a question from the Green leader in Urdu. In a...

17.09.2026 30

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The Bank of England’s karaoke comrade

The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress appears to be a man of many talents – at least in his own estimation. Paul Nowak yesterday...

17.09.2026 30

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Watch: Polanski butchers his French

Ooh là là, Zack Polanski is at it again. Two days after his Urdu campaign video landed with a thud, the Green leader has returned with a sequel,...

16.09.2026 20

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Watch: Labour MP calls for war against Israel

🚨 Labour MP calls for UK ‘military action’ against IsraelTahir Ali, who represents Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, used a parliamentary...

16.09.2026 30

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Reform’s Wales leader stands down following arrest

Reform’s leader in Wales has stood down after being arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour. Dan...

15.09.2026 30

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Rory Stewart: send small boat migrants back to France

Who is tougher on immigration: Boris Johnson or Rory Stewart? It seems to be the former Tory MP turned podcaster (that’s Stewart, not Johnson –...

15.09.2026 20

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Watch: Polanski campaigns in Urdu for London seat

After securing the Green party nomination to stand in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, Zac Polanski’s campaign is already in full swing....

14.09.2026 30

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MPs kill the assisted dying bill

The moment MPs voted against the assisted dying bill, with 286 votes against and 270 in favourFollow live reaction: https://t.co/y3s7rZGAOs...

11.09.2026 20

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Watch: Terminally ill Labour MP rails against assisted dying

Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill."I have been terrorised with tales of...

11.09.2026 20

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Boob-whisperer Polanski picked for Holborn bust-up

Tit-whisperer Zack Polanski has officially secured the Green nomination for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Despite an internal row over...

11.09.2026 20

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Met launches criminal probe into Reform donations

Nigel Farage faces yet another headache after the Met confirmed today that it will launch a criminal investigation into allegations that Reform...

09.09.2026 30

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Watch: Burnham puts benefits before national security

Andy Burnham said the quiet part out loud today, suggesting that he values benefits more than national security. In an absolute gift to the Tories and...

09.09.2026 20

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Ed Miliband: The Chief Rabbi is wrong

“I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi.” Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband responds to Ephraim Mirvis’ comments that it’s "a dark day for...

09.09.2026 20

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Stella Creasy’s gender double standard on parade

Today in Walthamstow we held the 46th Milad Al Nabi march – it’s a noisy annual celebration for our local Muslim community of the prophet...

07.09.2026 20

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St Paul’s swaps the divine for drum and bass

Lord Khan of Tooting today stepped up his mission to profane the capital, announcing that St Paul’s Cathedral will host a series of...

07.09.2026 20

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Inside Badenoch’s economic unit

Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle promised a revitalised economic team. Now Mr S can reveal how it is being staffed. A missive from the new shadow...

05.09.2026 20

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Watch: Farage’s conference speech disrupted by hecklers

Nigel Farage has just come off stage here at Reform conference, after a speech marred by disruptions. It started almost an hour late for security...

04.09.2026 20

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Farage calls his aides ‘injudicious’ after signing boats pact with Bardella

Twenty minutes before Nigel Farage was saying he hadn’t done anything wrong, he must have felt, really, like there was little wrong he could ever...

04.09.2026 20

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Polanski confirms run for Starmer’s seat

The Green party’s resident tit-whisperer, Zack Polanski – formerly Dave Paulden – looks set to take on Labour in the race to succeed Sir Keir...

03.09.2026 20

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No. 10 refuses to condemn Diane Abbott’s Nato conspiracy rant

The imminent threat from Russia is a NATO fiction to justify their complete capitulation to Trump's demands for more military spending.The...

02.09.2026 20

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Burnham says yes, yes, yes to Labour’s Summer of Sex

One of the biggest criticisms levelled at Andy Burnham is that he simply cannot say no. Every campaign, every demand and every heartstring-tugging...

02.09.2026 30

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Sir Keir Starmer resigns from parliament

The great and principled man of the people, Sir Keir Starmer, is to stand down as an MP. Despite repeatedly insisting that he would remain on the back...

01.09.2026 20

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Will the shadow chancellor scrap inheritance tax?

In Toryworld, big changes are afoot. Kemi Badenoch has started with the personnel: out goes Priti Patel, replaced as foreign secretary by Tom...

31.08.2026 30

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Labour MP defends her kids’ private schools

It’s been a tough old time for private schools. Amid endless self-aggrandising, Keir Starmer’s ministers took great pleasure in whacking VAT on...

28.08.2026 40

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Politics / Andy Burnham can’t get enough of reviews and consultations

They’re always tough, the first weeks back at work after a holiday, but the Prime Minister really has been off the ball since returning to the job...

23.08.2026 30

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Andy Burnham can’t get enough of reviews and consultations

They’re always tough, the first weeks back at work after a holiday, but the Prime Minister really has been off the ball since returning to the job...

22.08.2026 30

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Labour MP rewrites the laws of economics

It is no secret that Labour MPs struggle to understand how wealth is created – hardly surprising when just one member of the Cabinet has a business...

21.08.2026 30

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Lucy Powell: There’s nothing wrong with migrant rape pamphlet

“What does this say about the people entering our country?” @NickFerrariLBC asks Education Secretary Lucy Powell why it’s necessary to give...

20.08.2026 30

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