Politics

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Tories accuse Sadiq Khan of “burying his head in the sand” over £190m fare evasion bill
The Conservatives have taken aim at Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan over fare evasion in the capital, which they say is costing Londoners a whopping £190 million in lost revenue.
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Labour MP suspended amid questions over £50,000 Covid loan
A Labour MP has been suspended from the party amid questions surrounding whether he tried to avoid repaying a taxpayer-funded Covid loan.
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Andy Burnham exchanged messages with Trump aide impersonator in security scare
Andy Burnham exchanged messages with someone impersonating one of Donald Trump’s closest aides, officials claimed today.
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Reform blames mass immigration for hosepipe bans as England and Wales face drought
Reform UK has claimed mass immigration is the reason why millions of people in England and Wales are banned from using their hoses.
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Wildfire emergency alert sparks backlash as Britons seek ways to block future warnings
The Government’s emergency alert system has backfired following the wildfire warning as thousands of Britons have begun looking into ways to block all emergency warnings.
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£209m prison project delivers just 200 places after years of delays
One of Britain’s first Net Zero prisons is set to be £150billion overbudget, 10 years’ delayed and deliver just 200 new jail places.
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Britain’s £400m super-prison leaves 344 cells empty as overcrowding crisis deepens
Nearly 350 cells at Britain’s most expensive new prison sit unused despite the UK facing a severe capacity crisis.
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Reform vows to ban foreign nationals from claiming benefits in £21bn welfare overhaul
Reform has vowed to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits in a new plan to slash the ballooning £50billion welfare bill.
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Villages revolt as Labour plans to house 1,200 asylum seekers at former military bases
Villages across England have been left up in arms after the Government confirmed it is continuing plans to house up to 1,200 asylum seekers at three former military bases in Oxfordshire, North Yorkshire and Suffolk.
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Trump and Musk repair bitter feud as Elon Musk prepares major GOP spending push
As cabinet secretaries, business executives and President Trump’s family members boarded Air Force One for a long-haul flight to China, in came Elon Musk.
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Petrol and diesel cars to be banned by 2030 as Labour provides ’unwavering’ update on phase-out
Labour has confirmed that it remains committed to banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by the end of the decade, as it considers overhauling a number of its electric car targets.
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Probe into Nigel Farage’s £5m gift from crypto billionaire is re-opened - just hours after he beat Count Binface in Clacton by-election
The parliamentary watchdog has reopened its investigation into Nigel Farage’s finances just hours after he was declared winner of the Clacton by-election.
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Yvette Cooper admits Labour has "not done government very well" under Starmer
Yvette Cooper admits Labour has “not done government very well” in the last couple of years, and accused Keir Starmer’s No 10 of sidelining her during the launch of a key immigration policy when she was home secretary.
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Farage faces Clacton test as byelection opens amid £5m gift scandal
Polls have opened in Clacton, with thousands of residents in the Essex seat to vote in a ballot featuring Nigel Farage and a range of novelty and fringe candidates led by Count Binface.
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Reform councillor suspended after posts appeared to call for Commons speaker to be hanged
A Reform councillor has been suspended after resurfaced social media posts appeared to show him calling for the Commons speaker to be hanged.
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Greenland blocks Trump-linked oil firm from drilling in Arctic territory until 2027
Greenland authorities have forced a US oil company connected to Donald Trump to postpone drilling wells in the Arctic territory, defying claims by the US president’s envoy that Americans could be extracting crude by next year.
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Nigel Farage faces Clacton by-election test as 75,000 voters head to the polls
As many as 75,000 Britons are set to make their voices heard today at the Clacton by-election - the sixth at Westminster since 2024.
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Labour asylum plan sparks fury as 1,200 men could be moved into tiny Yorkshire village
Women will be left "outnumbered six to one" if Labour floods a tiny Yorkshire village with more than a thousand "asylum seekers".
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Iraq’s anti-corruption drive targets former ministers as al-Zaidi vows no one is above the law
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declares “there are no red lines in pursuing the corrupt” after arrest warrants issued for a key leader in his political coalition.
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Nigel Farage faces bizarre Clacton ballot as voters call by-election a ’farce’
Voters seeking to re-elect Nigel Farage Thursday will have to scan past an array of comedy characters and oddballs on the longest ballot paper in British history.
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Military justice system ’cannot be trusted’ over serious sex crime investigations, expert warns
The Ministry of Defence “cannot be trusted” to investigate serious sexual offences within the Armed Forces and is continuing to fail servicewomen, an expert has warned after a leaked review found its specialist crime unit could be judged “inadequate” if held to civilian policing standards.
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Trump’s vaccine shake-up puts pregnant conservative podcaster at the centre of a White House storm
The young conservative woman who went viral this week while standing next to Donald Trump in the Oval Office has responded to the rampant rumors about Monday’s event that have exploded online.
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Democrats demand answers after Trump was secretly moved from Air Force One amid Iran threat
Democrats called on Tuesday for a congressional briefing over a stunning charade in which Donald Trump was secretly spirited to a different plane than the one the public and press believed he was travelling on.
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Farage attacks Burnham over Channel crisis as PM vows to change tactics
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused Andy Burnham of not having the balls to stop the boats.
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Yvette Cooper received almost £500,000 from businessman with NHS commercial ties
Health secretary Yvette Cooper has accepted almost £500,000 from a businessman with commercial ties to the NHS, an analysis by the BMJ has found.