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The winter fuel row is a painful wake up call for new Labour MPs

For Labour’s new MPs, a controversial vote to scrap the universal pensioners’ Winter Fuel Payment is a brutal wake-up call to the realities of...

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Tory leader candidates are already politicising assisted dying

It’s one of Westminster’s more flamboyant rituals. Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani donned white silk gloves and read out the numbers written on balls...

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Grenfell is a tragic reminder to the Tories that regulation is not a dirty word

Even if David Cameron is not personally responsible for the harrowing deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower inferno, his administration’s...

04.09.2024 7

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Starmer's visit to Macron is a relief to a beleaguered president

In France they take September’s la rentrée properly. Shops advertise back-to-school clothes while adults open their inboxes after August at the...

30.08.2024 10

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Starmer will give into the EU - just not yet

For all Sir Keir Starmer’s repeated insistence that the UK won’t make any concessions on a European Union youth mobility scheme, he knows it is...

28.08.2024 6

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Starmer's hypocrisy over cronyism will come back to haunt him

Sir Keir Starmer deliberately chose Downing Street’s rose garden as the venue of his back-to-school speech to remind voters that it was the site of...

27.08.2024 4

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Let's stop this sanctimonious sniping about MPs taking a holiday

Sir Keir Starmer’s holiday plans have been put on hold as rioting sweeps the country. Fair enough. But there are some who are extremely eager to...

05.08.2024 4

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How an unimaginable tragedy led to rioting on the streets of Britain

At 11:50am on Monday, Axel Rudakubana is alleged to have began his rampage with a knife in Southport. By 1pm the news had broken on mainstream news...

03.08.2024 4

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Reeves has less time than she thinks before Labour MPs get restless

In politics, like history, the victors write their own version of events. Rachel Reeves will almost certainly convince voters that Jeremy Hunt spent...

31.07.2024 3

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Yvette Cooper must be the politician to get knives off the streets

“Rest in peace, little angels,” read the card on the sunflowers left in Southport on Tuesday morning in tribute to the pre-teen Taylor Swift fans...

31.07.2024 4

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Rachel Reeves has pensioners in her sight for the Budget

Labour MP Liam Byrne’s note telling his successor at the Treasury “I’m afraid there is no money left” almost never saw the light of day. When...

29.07.2024 3

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Is Starmer ruthless enough to squash the rebels?

Most Labour MPs are prepared to give Keir Starmer the benefit of the doubt that he will eventually scrap the two-child limit on benefits. Some are...

23.07.2024 4

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Labour is now learning how much a political success story actually costs

When Rishi Sunak first saw the demand from junior doctors for a 35 per cent pay rise, he thought it was a typo. Now Keir Starmer must be rubbing his...

22.07.2024 3

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Starmer the interventionist: the Labour leader's intentions are now crystal clear

Voters often complain they don’t understand what Keir Starmer stands for. Now they should be in no doubt: interventionism is a means to grow the...

17.07.2024 4

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David Lammy called Trump a 'sociopath'. It doesn't matter any more

If Donald Trump can forgive his pick for Vice President, JD Vance, for originally calling him an “idiot” and “reprehensible”, Foreign...

16.07.2024 4

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Biden wants the UK closer to Brussels - and Starmer's already doing it

In Washington, amid jokes about how Sir Keir Starmer was about to bring football home, Joe Biden delivered a serious message to the new Prime...

11.07.2024 4

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Starmer's Nimby problem may erupt from his own back benches

Keir Starmer is clear that he’s “prepared to make enemies” to see through his vision to build 1.5 million extra homes in five years and to open...

08.07.2024 8

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A vicious Tory leadership battle has already broken out in the shadows

Vultures picking over the carrion of the Conservatives’ defeat had started their gruesome meal long before Thursday’s ballots had been cast. A...

07.07.2024 4

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Truss is gone. The Tories are defeated. But only Nigel Farage will be truly happy

Labour won because the Conservatives lost. After 14 years, the “natural party of government” forfeit its right to rule. It wasn’t just their...

05.07.2024 7

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How Sunak and Starmer turned this into the 'regret election'

Depending on which political party you speak to, either the end is in sight, or the end is nigh. With just three sleeps until polling day, both...

01.07.2024 9

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Betting farce response reveals more about Starmer than he'd care to admit

Keir Starmer may come to regret suspending Labour candidate Kevin Craig for the second-tier misdemeanour of betting against himself in the coming...

29.06.2024 10

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Who won the TV debate? Sunak rattled by Tory betting farce as Starmer plays safe

A fight for TV remotes around the UK on Thursday night as the Spain vs Italy match was pitted against four middle-aged men on the BBC’s election...

21.06.2024 10

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Rishi Sunak is losing his Cabinet - he's the only Tory who thinks he can win

Rishi Sunak is touring an apprentices’ classroom at Sizewell B Power station in Suffolk. The Prime Minister is learning how to use nuclear power...

19.06.2024 7

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Labour's growth plan could quickly turn into a tax plan

When Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth stood on stage on Monday and pushed the Conservative manifesto through a shredder, “the most almighty cheer”...

18.06.2024 10

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Starmer is finally showing us his true colours – and they're still quite beige

Keir Starmer bet the house on economic growth as he launched his Labour manifesto, promising £8.5bn in tax rises, but none that affect ordinary...

13.06.2024 3

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Who won the TV debate? Starmer struggled on tax but hangdog Sunak looks defeated

Keir Starmer won Sky News’s Battle for No 10, but questions remain from a sceptical public, angry with a political class so out of touch with...

12.06.2024 2

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Sunak has completely failed to convince the Tory right

Rishi Sunak tried to convince wavering voters with a pledge to cut tax by £1,300 a year to “the average worker” when he launched a...

11.06.2024 5

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There is space for Farage or Johnson in the Tory party – but not both

When Rishi Sunak stands up at a racing circuit on Tuesday to unveil his Conservative Party’s 76-page manifesto, his pit crew will want voters to...

10.06.2024 9

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What 20mph speed limits tell us about Starmer's post election battle

Knocking on doors in Wales on Thursday, the Labour candidate pauses to check their step count. “Another street means I can have an extra glass of...

06.06.2024 6

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Shouting ‘liar’ at Sunak won’t stop voters fearing Labour tax hikes

Bleary-eyed, confused and with a bad taste in their mouth, viewers of Tuesday night’s ITV debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer no doubt woke...

05.06.2024 8

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Who won the debate? Sunak hurt Starmer – but audience laughter shows danger lurks

Trailing 20 points in the opinion polls, Rishi Sunak had little to lose in the first TV leaders’ debate. Unexpectedly aggressive, he put Labour...

05.06.2024 10

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