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Watch: John Swinney’s comments come back to haunt him

What comes around goes around. John Swinney has this afternoon become Scotland’s seventh First Minister after being appointed, unopposed, as SNP...

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First night flop / Rufus Wainwright blames Brexit for his failed musical

These days it seems there’s little you can’t blame on Brexit. From low ratings to school bullying, Britain’s departure from the European...

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Milei asks: who is Liz Truss?

Since coming to office in December, Javier Milei has won right-wing fans across the world for his bombastic rhetoric and fervent championing of...

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Greens embroiled in anti-Semitism row

Oh dear. The Green party is in hot water after it emerged that one of its newly-elected councillors labelled a rabbi a ‘creep’ and a ‘kind of...

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John Swinney’s three worst moments in office

And so we have it: a nationalist coronation, as yet another First Minister resigns. John Swinney, formerly Nicola Sturgeon’s deputy FM and onetime...

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West Midlands election / Watch: Galloway hangs up on LBC

The fall-out from the local elections continue. In the West Midlands, Labour pulled off a shock upset to unseat Andy Street by 1,500 votes. The...

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Election fallout / Suella Braverman: we will be lucky to have any Tory MPs soon

So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing in this week’s...

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Sadiq Khan’s five worst moments as London mayor

Back to London for the city’s mayoral elections – and the verdict is in. In a win for Labour, Sadiq Khan has been hailed as victor for an...

04.05.2024 10

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Reform comes fourth in Anderson’s backyard

The fighting talk continues over at Reform HQ as local election results continue to drip out. The Farage-founded party’s right-wing campaign has...

03.05.2024 20

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Could George Galloway topple Angela Rayner?

It’s not been a good night for the Tories – but Labour has not emerged unscathed either. Sir Keir Starmer’s party suffered the surprise loss of...

03.05.2024 20

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Jenkyns calls for Boris return amid election losses

The council election results are coming in thick and fast — and as is the bad news for Rishi Sunak. While Labour has gained over 50 seats at the...

03.05.2024 10

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Labour pains / Labour keeps the spirit of Karl Marx alive

Purging the left has been one of Keir Starmer’s main goals since his election as leader four years ago. His team has taken the whip off Jeremy...

03.05.2024 10

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‘You’d be toast’: Ashworth taunts Gullis over elections

Oh dear. As local election results start to trickle in, it’s not looking good for the Conservatives. Rishi Sunak’s party has, at the time of...

03.05.2024 20

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Watch: Tories are ‘socialists’, claims Tice

It’s only the beginning of a long weekend of election results, but so far so bad for Rishi Sunak’s Tory party. Even the veteran Tory commentator...

03.05.2024 20

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Boris Johnson forgets his ID to vote

With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems, is,...

02.05.2024 20

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Top Republican: Lammy ‘far preferable’ to Cameron

There’s a certain type of Tory who goes a bit gooey-eyed whenever David Cameron speaks. Since his Lordship’s return to the frontline of British...

02.05.2024 8

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Swinney announces SNP leadership bid

Back to Scotland, where the SNP remains in a state of disarray. After hapless Humza Yousaf rather badly mishandled the ditching of the Greens from...

02.05.2024 7

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Tory members prefer Farage to Sunak

Happy local elections day, one and all. As voters head to the polls across the country, the talk in Westminster is how bad the result is going to be...

02.05.2024 10

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Scotland’s Crown Office still hasn’t received Murrell’s charge sheet

News just in: Scotland’s Crown Office has still not received a report from Police Scotland about the SNP’s former chief executive Peter Murrell...

01.05.2024 40

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Scots favour a Kate Forbes premiership

Back to Scotland, where it’s set to be another turbulent day. The SNP continues its slow-motion implosion while leadership frontrunners Kate Forbes...

01.05.2024 10

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Watch: Monty Panesar stumped on George Galloway’s Nato pledge

If you thought the last you’d hear of George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain would be the Rochdale by-election, you were sadly mistaken....

01.05.2024 10

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First illegal migrant paid to go to Rwanda

In what seems like a watershed moment for the government’s Rwanda plan, the first migrant has been sent to the country from the UK. Only, um, it’s...

01.05.2024 8

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When will the Telegraph sale be concluded?

To the Commons, where Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer this afternoon gave a ministerial statement on the future of the Telegraph Media Group. It...

30.04.2024 7

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Watch / Starmer U-turns over Rosie Duffield

Starmer Chameleon does it again. The publication of the Cass review brought about a period of reckoning for politicians previously willing to live in...

30.04.2024 10

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Watch: Deputy FM accidentally announces leadership bid

It’s a gaffe a day with the SNP. Even with hapless Humza stepping down, the Nats are still slipping up. This time the deputy first minister Shona...

30.04.2024 10

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Will Vaughan Gething be the next First Minister to go?

A First Minister on the ropes, facing questions about his judgement? No, it’s not hapless Hamza Yousaf this time. Instead, the latest legislator in...

29.04.2024 10

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Runners and riders for next SNP leader

It’s a day that ends in ‘y’ which means hapless Humza Yousaf is once again having a tough time of it. After ditching the Green coalition and...

29.04.2024 20

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Truss book becomes a bestseller

Much has been made of Liz Truss’s book since its publication a fortnight ago. Jeering critics were quick to mock but Mr S was among the first to...

28.04.2024 30

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Tory MPs savage Poulter in the group chat

So. Farewell then Dan Poulter. The Central Suffolk MP has today switched from the Conservatives to join the Starmer army, firing off a...

27.04.2024 10

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Humza Yousaf’s five worst moments as First Minister

Cometh the hour, cometh the Humza. Scotland’s beleaguered First Minister could have only days left as First Minister, despite insisting on Friday...

27.04.2024 40

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Listen: Scottish Green MSP sobs on radio over coalition collapse

If the Scottish Greens are good at anything, it’s making every issue about themselves. While the First Minister of Scotland faces two votes of no...

26.04.2024 5

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Khan grovels for Chief Rabbi jibe

Dogs bark, cows moo and Sadiq Khan puts his foot in it again. With a week to go until polling day in the capital, you might have thought that the...

26.04.2024 9

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Immigration / Watch: minister asks if Rwanda and Congo are different countries

Oh dear. Poor Chris Philp has done it again. Fronting up the broadcast brief last night, the policing minister was wheeled out on Question Time to...

26.04.2024 10

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Now even GB News viewers prefer Starmer

Oh dear. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is no stranger to poor poll outcomes – but a new survey may cut a little closer to the bone. Over 500 GB News...

25.04.2024 10

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Humza Yousaf faces no confidence vote

If last week wasn’t bad enough for hapless Humza Yousaf, this week has brought him even more turbulence. Now the Scottish government’s SNP-Green...

25.04.2024 20

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When will the BBC apologise to Toby Young?

More bad times at the BBC. The Corporation is in hot water yet again following last week’s episode of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. During a...

25.04.2024 40

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Watch: Cameron squirms over Rwanda questions

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill might have got through parliament, but are his own ministers convinced it will work? Among the skeptics appears to be Lord...

24.04.2024 7

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Watch: Greens grilled on ‘zero murders’ pledge

To the fantasy land of the Greens, where no promises are off the table — no matter how surreal. If there wasn’t already enough incredulity...

24.04.2024 10

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Yousaf faces mini rebellion from Forbes backers

Will Humza Yousaf ever catch a break? The short answer is: not anytime soon. Last week was dubbed the First Minister’s worst in the job – which is...

24.04.2024 20

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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. As various members of HM Press Gallery...

23.04.2024 20

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Why is Labour so ‘angry’ about our next man in Washington?

Civil service appointments rarely generate much excitement in Westminster. But it’s not every day that Britain’s most senior diplomatic posting...

23.04.2024 20

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Nicola Sturgeon dodges scrutiny, again

If there was ever an immutable truth in Scottish politics, it is that Nicola Sturgeon never misses an opportunity to talk about the joys of...

23.04.2024 6

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Watch: Lights go off in the Lords in Rwanda showdown 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is one step closer to stopping the boats — or so he hopes. After months of back and forth on the Prime Minister’s...

23.04.2024 10

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Jon Sopel’s Rwanda Bill blunder

It’s hard these days being a teller of truths. So many of the leading lights in British broadcasting have found in recent years that they’re...

22.04.2024 30

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Why won’t the Scottish Greens accept the Cass report?

There are many words to describe Patrick Harvie but ‘clinician’ certainly isn’t one of them. Yet his trademark arrogance was out on display this...

22.04.2024 10

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Scotland’s surprising new free speech champion

Has Nicola Sturgeon discovered a sudden enthusiasm for free speech? The former SNP leader has today reviewed Salman Rushdie’s latest book Knife for...

20.04.2024 10

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Watch: Sturgeon reacts after husband charged in police probe

Might this be the worst week of 2024 for the Nats so far? Hapless Humza Yousaf demonstrated extraordinary indecision over the Cass review, Patrick...

19.04.2024 5

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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. As the curious case of Angela Rayner’s tax...

19.04.2024 10

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The SNP’s net zero hypocrisy

The Scottish nationalists are no stranger to hypocrisy, as their latest U-turn shows. For on Thursday afternoon the Yousaf regime — the only...

19.04.2024 6

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SNP police probe / Now Nicola Sturgeon’s husband is arrested (again)

There have been months of near-radio silence on the status of the SNP police probe — until now. Peter Murrell, former chief executive and husband of...

18.04.2024 10

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