Reform on course to beat Labour and the Tories in Red Wall mayoral elections as polls suggest a bad night for main parties

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 12:20 UTC

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Andrea Jenkyns, the former Tory minister, is set to romp home in Greater Lincolnshire, while in neighbouring Hull and East Yorkshire, former boxer Luke Campbell is ahead.

Starmer faces Labour revolt over plan to raid bank accounts of benefit claimants

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 11:45 UTC

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Welfare fraud bill would allow funds to be taken from bank accounts and driving licences to be cancelled

Should benefit claimants risk having their bank accounts spied upon and driving licences revoke…

Trans people 'considering fleeing Britain and claiming asylum abroad' after Supreme Court gender ruling, Labour peer claims

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 08:10 UTC

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Lord Cashman made the claim in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday saying people were looking to leave the country after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

The jaded English town where Nigel Farage could hammer Labour

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 02:05 UTC

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Westminster is champing at the bit to see if Reform UK wins a crucial by-election against Labour next week. Locals are indifferent.

A new deal with the EU is exactly what Britain needs. Here’s how Labour will achieve it | Nick Thomas-Symonds

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 11:20 UTC

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This isn’t about politics – it’s about pragmatism. Working with our allies will make British people safer, more secure and more prosperous

Labour has been determined to negotiate a new partnership wit…

UK deal with EU will not return to ‘arguments of the past’, minister says

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 11:20 UTC

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Exclusive: Nick Thomas-Symonds says growth is highest priority of talks as Keir Starmer prepares to meet EU chief

Nick Thomas-Symonds: A new deal with the EU is exactly what Britain needs. Here’s how …

Britain’s Tories brace for another electoral disaster

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 02:45 UTC

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Local elections pose a steep test for the Conservative leadership of Kemi Badenoch, despite wide disapproval of the Labour government.

Badenoch declines to criticise Jenrick over Reform coalition comments – UK politics live

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 13:40 UTC

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Spokesperson for Tory leader says she agrees with colleague that ‘we need to bring centre-right voters together’

Rosie Duffield, the independent MP who left Labour after the election in part because s…

Starmer calls for ‘lower temperature’ in gender debate as Badenoch says PM must admit he was wrong – UK politics live

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 12:55 UTC

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PM faced questions at PMQs after No 10 spokesperson said on Tuesday he does not believe transgender women are women

Rosie Duffield, the independent MP who left Labour after the election in part becaus…

Starmer calls for ‘lower temperature’ in trans debate as Badenoch says he must admit he was wrong about defining women – UK politics live

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 12:20 UTC

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PM faced questions at PMQs after No 10 spokesperson said on Tuesday he does not believe transgender women are women

Rosie Duffield, the independent MP who left Labour after the election in part becaus…