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James Heale

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Who exactly is a working person?

yesterday 7

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Who’s telling the truth: Unite or Rayner?

11.07.2025 1

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It’s crunch time for Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal

10.07.2025 4

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What Jake Berry’s defection to Reform means

10.07.2025 10

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Wales is looking ripe for a Reform surge

08.07.2025 3

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Norman Tebbit: Thatcherite icon

08.07.2025 3

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Corbyn allies blindsided by Zarah Sultana

04.07.2025 5

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Farage claims the mantle of Thatcher’s revolution

03.07.2025 5

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How many Labour welfare rebels are left?

01.07.2025 10

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Can these Farage rivals’ start-ups hurt Reform?

01.07.2025 10

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Politics / How big will the Labour welfare rebellion be?

30.06.2025 9

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Why Keir Starmer is worried about Wales

28.06.2025 9

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The knives are out after Labour’s welfare debacle

27.06.2025 4

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Keir Starmer climbs down on welfare cuts

26.06.2025 5

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Can Keir Starmer save his Welfare Bill?

26.06.2025 4

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Politics / Small boats are causing Labour big problems

26.06.2025 5

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Starmer stands by his welfare bill

25.06.2025 5

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Angela Rayner had a bad PMQs

25.06.2025 3

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Benefits / Labour rebels declare war over Starmer’s welfare cuts

24.06.2025 4

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Conservatives / Badenoch: Tories are ‘the adults in the room’

23.06.2025 5

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Reform / Farage makes his pitch to non-doms

23.06.2025 5

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Farage’s latest hero? Benjamin Disraeli

22.06.2025 8

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Keir Starmer is not having a good war

22.06.2025 10

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America hits Iran’s nuclear sites

22.06.2025 10

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Tories will remember this assisted dying vote

21.06.2025 8

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Commons passes the assisted dying bill

20.06.2025 2

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The understudied importance of political slogans

19.06.2025 10

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Assisted dying risks being Labour’s Brexit

18.06.2025 20

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Kemi Badenoch defends the Tories’ record on grooming gangs

17.06.2025 20

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The British right is embracing direct action

14.06.2025 6

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Politics / Rachel Reeves, the Iron Chancer

12.06.2025 20

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David Bull is Reform UK’s new chairman

10.06.2025 5

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Reeves cannot afford more episodes like the winter fuel U-turn

09.06.2025 8

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Party time / Why Zia Yusuf changed his mind about quitting Reform

08.06.2025 10

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Why Zia Yusuf changed his mind about quitting Reform

07.06.2025 6

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The Tories are edging towards ECHR exit

06.06.2025 7

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Zia Yusuf resigns as Reform chairman

05.06.2025 5

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Mel Stride’s ‘mea culpa’ for Liz Truss

05.06.2025 5

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Nigel’s army: Reform’s plans for victory

05.06.2025 20

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Kemi has a new favourite word: chaos

04.06.2025 5

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Starmer tries to sell the Strategic Defence Review

02.06.2025 9

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What is Robert Jenrick up to?

01.06.2025 8

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Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ shows his naivety

30.05.2025 40

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The rise of the Red Queen

30.05.2025 10

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Senior Tories plan candidate overhaul

29.05.2025 3

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This won’t be the last time Starmer attacks ‘fantasy’ Farage

29.05.2025 9

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Rape investigation into Crispin Blunt dropped

29.05.2025 20

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Politics / The rise of the Red Queen

29.05.2025 20

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