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'People want us to be more ambitious': Inside a Labour party desperate to win power
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'People want us to be more ambitious': Inside a Labour party ...
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Energy price crisis: Keir Starmer's Labour must come up with bold plan to give people hope – Susan Dalgety
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'People want us to be more ambitious': Inside a Labour party desperate to win power
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'People want us to be more ambitious': Inside a Labour party ...
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Energy price crisis: Keir Starmer's Labour must come up with bold plan to give people hope – Susan Dalgety
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares: It is convenient for the Tories to have her in the public stocks
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares
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Why a Labour super-majority is unlikely: By current polls, Labour is set for a super-majority, and more than 400 seats. But will voters cool on Keir Starmer ...
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Why a Labour super-majority is unlikely
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Was it Angela Rayner who was fined millions by HMRC? No, that was a Tory: The man who reported Labour’s deputy to the police can’t even say what he was ...
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Was it Angela Rayner who was fined millions by HMRC? No, that was a Tory
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Sunak is deluded to think his bungled Rwanda scheme can save him: The Prime Minister was meant to get flights off to Rwanda this spring but has now given himself ...
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Sunak is deluded to think his bungled Rwanda scheme can save him
Quick Glance: British Parliament Approves Deportations to Rwanda
  • The controversial plan to deport refugees to Rwanda has been approved by the British Parliament.

  • Despite resistance in the upper house and multiple votes, the law was passed.

  • Prime Minister Sunak is pushing for deportations to deter refugees from dangerous crossings.

  • Experts question the effectiveness of the measure, while concerns about costs and legal implications persist.
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Mark Menzies quits Conservatives as Tories say conduct ‘fell below standard’: The Fylde MP has been accused of misusing donors’ funds.
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Mark Menzies quits Conservatives as Tories say conduct ‘fell below ...
Quick Glance: Mark Menzies: MP Accused of Campaign Fund Misuse, Party Exit, and Future Election Abstention
  • An elected official accused of mishandling campaign funds has departed from the Conservative Party and declared no intention to participate in the upcoming general election.

  • Following allegations reported in The Times, Mark Menzies revealed his decision after purportedly using political contributions to address medical costs and settle debts incurred from being confined by individuals demanding a substantial ransom for his release.

  • Upon a request for scrutiny by Labour, Lancashire Police disclosed their evaluation of 'details' concerning Mr. Menzies. An internal inquiry by the Conservative Party has been initiated to explore potential improprieties in the utilization of their financial resources.

  • Additionally, the party's internal oversight body will assess whether Mr. Menzies' conduct contravened the Nolan principles of public ethics, encompassing traits like altruism, probity, and candor. The spokesperson affirmed, 'We are prepared to collaborate with law enforcement, if they deem our insights beneficial to any inquiry they opt to conduct.'
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election: More than 60 are Conservatives and they include former prime minister Theresa May.
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election
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Does Labour really love the St George’s Cross?: Following last night’s mammoth parliamentary ping pong session, a funny thing happened early this morning ...
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Does Labour really love the St George’s Cross?
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Angela Rayner is wounded but she’s still an asset for Labour: Insiders say Keir Starmer would not be too sad to see his deputy depart. But he should be wary of ...
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Angela Rayner is wounded but she’s still an asset for Labour
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes: Peers continue standoff with MPs over legislation enabling asylum seekers to be sent to east Africa.
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes
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I don’t want to be PM again, Liz Truss insists as she refuses to apologise: Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister had previously declined to rule out ...
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I don’t want to be PM again, Liz Truss insists as she refuses to apologise
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Working for Labour is not a dig at Boris Johnson, says Marina Wheeler: The former prime minister’s ex-wife is helping the party with its policies on employment ...
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Working for Labour is not a dig at Boris Johnson, says Marina Wheeler
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' land: Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visited Europe's biggest brownfield site
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' ...
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‘Landlady’ Angela Rayner lost it over smashed window, says neighbour: The Labour deputy leader, who has been accused of breaking electoral law by giving false ...
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‘Landlady’ Angela Rayner lost it over smashed window, says neighbour
Quick Glance: Neighbor Claims Angela Rayner Lost Control Over Broken Window
  • Angela Rayner confronted neighbors, demanding £240 and identifying herself as 'the landlady' after a window was smashed at the property she claimed as her main residence.

  • An investigation by Greater Manchester police is looking into allegations that the deputy Labour leader provided inaccurate information to the electoral register while residing between two houses in Stockport during the 2010s, and they have initiated interviews with neighbors at her previous residence.

  • Police intervention occurred following accusations by prominent Conservatives, including James Daly, the Conservative deputy chairman, of electoral law violations and questioning whether she owed up to £3,500 in capital gains tax on proceeds from the sale of her former council house in 2015.

  • Rayner asserted that the residence on Vicarage Road was her primary domicile.
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more: Liz Truss bore the brunt at prime minister’s questions
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela Rayner facing ‘multiple’ allegations
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela ...
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Disability benefits face cut as Sunak bets election on welfare blitz: Sunak set out plans for changes to disability benefits and tougher rules for people on ...
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Disability benefits face cut as Sunak bets election on welfare blitz
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The dangers of political prosecution: At the start of January, Donald Trump offered up a cheery new year message for Americans. ‘If I don’t get immunity ...
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The dangers of political prosecution
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Rayner’s eldest child was registered at husband’s home: It’s been a busy time for police investigations across the country and Manchester is no exception ...
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Rayner’s eldest child was registered at husband’s home
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We: A new play at the National Theatre celebrates Nye Bevan’s titanic struggle to create the NHS — a fight we must ...
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We
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Watch: Tetchy Starmer wriggles over Rayner’s tax affairs: Angela Rayner appears unable to shake off questions about her tax affairs — literally ...
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Watch: Tetchy Starmer wriggles over Rayner’s tax affairs
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Three charged after Gaza protest at Keir Starmer's home: Children's shoes were placed in the Labour leader's front garden in protest at the party's position on ...
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Three charged after Gaza protest at Keir Starmer's home
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Could a kitchen renovation come to Angela Rayner’s rescue? : If you’ve struggled to keep up with the saga over the deputy Labour leader’s council house ...
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Could a kitchen renovation come to Angela Rayner’s rescue?
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Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be brave – and revitalise it
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Sure Start could have changed everything for my family. Labour must be ...
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British youth smoking ban advances: A pioneering tobacco ban aimed at creating Britain's "first smoke-free generation" cleared a key hurdle in ...
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British youth smoking ban advances
Quick Glance: UK Lawmakers Support Groundbreaking 'Smoke-Free Generation' Bill
  • The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban to prevent young people from ever smoking passed its first hurdle in Parliament despite opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

  • The bill, announced by Sunak, would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009, creating one of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world to establish the 'first smoke-free generation' in modern Britain.

  • The bill also includes measures to crack down on youth vaping, such as banning the sale of cheap disposable vapes and restricting their flavors to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine.

  • The number of people who smoke in the U.K. has declined by two-thirds since the 1970s, but approximately 6.4 million people in the country still smoke, accounting for about 13% of the population. Smoking remains the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and poor health.
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside: Try as she might to duck questions on her tax affairs, the issue just keeps following Angela Rayner around ...
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time: In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is ...
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer: Labour leader was responding to a question from the BBC about Vivienne Groom ...
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer
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As a black woman, I feel politically homeless: I’ve started to question whether the Labour Party still represents me
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As a black woman, I feel politically homeless
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Everything seems to be going wrong for Rishi Sunak: With just two weeks until local elections that will likely go badly for his governing Conservative Party ...
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Everything seems to be going wrong for Rishi Sunak
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour: Oh dear. Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, received a rather humiliating dressing ...
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal: The Labour PM had a relationship with his deputy press secretary, two of his closest aides say.
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal
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Don’t blame the Lords for Rwanda delays. It’s the Tories’ own fault: I know for a fact that many Tories are very unhappy about the Safety of Rwanda Bill
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Don’t blame the Lords for Rwanda delays. It’s the Tories’ own fault
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Row over East Park gates plans continue amid disabled access claims: Labour has also raised about the impact of the reopening on running groups but a Liberal ...
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Row over East Park gates plans continue amid disabled access claims
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy: The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to ...
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics: Scores of MPs are seeking to carry out a rapid repositioning on gender politics in the wake of the ...
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics
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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare: From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest ...
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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare
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Sheffield local elections: ‘Everyone wants to claim green policies now’ – The Green Party’s influence in Sheffield
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Sheffield local elections: ‘Everyone wants to claim green policies now’ – ...
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Watch: Labour MPs mock NatCon shutdown: It’s a sad day for lovers of personal freedom. Not only is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pressing on with his smoking ban — ...
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Watch: Labour MPs mock NatCon shutdown
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UK's Labour Party aims to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP: Britain's opposition Labour Party would aim to raise defence spending to 2 ...
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UK's Labour Party aims to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP
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What is there left to say about the Tories?: Spare a thought for us political commentators. We stare into the void between now and a (presumed) decisive Labour ...
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What is there left to say about the Tories?
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Election candidate says she is being 'boycotted' over LGBTQ campaign: Natasha Shah is standing in the Mill Hill and Moorgate ward in the upcoming Blackburn with ...
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Election candidate says she is being 'boycotted' over LGBTQ campaign
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Keir Starmer’s team confident public will back Angela Rayner over tax probe: Labour is using the local elections campaign to try out the party's messaging ...
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Keir Starmer’s team confident public will back Angela Rayner over tax ...
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The candidates running for Police and Crime Commissioner and what they stand for: Voters will have a choice of a Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat when ...
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The candidates running for Police and Crime Commissioner and what they ...
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Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election, says ex Tory chancellor Philip Hammond
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Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election ...
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Tax gap in Great Britain: Labor wants to grab rich foreigners' wallets: With the controversial “non-dom” status, wealthy foreigners have so far been able to save ...
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Tax gap in Great Britain: Labor wants to grab rich foreigners' wallets
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Labour candidate apologises for calling Queen a 'jumped up old wh*re': They also accused King Charles of being an 'adulterer' who 'abandoned his ...
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Labour candidate apologises for calling Queen a 'jumped up old wh*re'
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Assault of shop workers to be made specific criminal offence: The PM says shops must be able to trade free from abuse but Labour argues ministers have been slow ...
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Assault of shop workers to be made specific criminal offence
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Nuclear weapons: Stop asking Keir Starmer the stupid nuclear question: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer secretary of state for defence. Grant Shapps was out ...
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Nuclear weapons: Stop asking Keir Starmer the stupid nuclear question
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Liberals shouldn’t jeer Liz Truss: In 1980, at the infamous Labour Party conference of that year, Tony Benn, only a year before Jim Callaghan’s energy secretary ...
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Liberals shouldn’t jeer Liz Truss
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Inside the fight to get Waspi compensation into election manifestos: Campaigners say pension issue could decide marginal contests across UK ...
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Inside the fight to get Waspi compensation into election manifestos
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UK speed limit rule could be axed as soon as next week: Speed limits could be dramatically changed in one part of the UK from next week as opposition politicians ...
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UK speed limit rule could be axed as soon as next week
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WASPI compensation delayed again as Parliament postpones bill: The proposed legislation was first presented by SNP MP Alan Brown and has cross-party support ...
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WASPI compensation delayed again as Parliament postpones bill
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Quick Glance: Tory Donor's Racist Comments on Diane Abbott
  • Comments made by a Tory donor about Diane Abbott deemed racist

  • Frank Hester apologizes for his remarks, Downing Street labels them unacceptable

  • Cabinet Minister Kemi Badenoch described the comments as racist and called for space for forgiveness

  • Labour and the Liberal Democrats call for the Conservatives to return donations from Hester
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Pensions triple lock future unclear as Starmer won’t commit to it being in manifesto
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Pensions triple lock future unclear as Starmer won’t commit to it being in ...
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What is Sadiq Khan’s manifesto for the London mayoral election 2024?: As the Labour Party candidate stands for re-election, what are the policies you may be ...
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What is Sadiq Khan’s manifesto for the London mayoral election 2024?
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Starmer says Labour has had no contact with Trump, but is ‘close’ to Biden: In a wide-ranging interview with i ahead of the local elections next month ...
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Starmer says Labour has had no contact with Trump, but is ‘close’ to Biden
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Should Labour fear the Greens?: Bristol is not a city that disguises its radicalism. The walls are festooned with street art and graffiti (Banksy is a former ...
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Should Labour fear the Greens?
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Waspi women could sway election chances in some constituencies: The group has warned politicians could be punished at the polls if they do not deliver ...
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Waspi women could sway election chances in some constituencies
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I'll vote Labour after making Post Office drama, says Paula Vennells actor: The former Post Office exec had her CBE revoked in February
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I'll vote Labour after making Post Office drama, says Paula Vennells actor
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Ukrainians who fled war for the UK were sent to live with 'gangsters': Under the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, vulnerable refugees were placed in homes ...
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Ukrainians who fled war for the UK were sent to live with 'gangsters'
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Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour: How does Labour’s political culture help the party judge what its governments have done in the past? It does think with ...
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Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour
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Keir Starmer must go further than the Tories on defence spending, says ex-Navy chief
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Keir Starmer must go further than the Tories on defence spending ...
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Labour’s waste-finder general: Sooner or later the Palace of Westminster will have to close. Someone will be injured (or worse) by falling masonry ...
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Labour’s waste-finder general