All news on the topic: Politics

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Disgraced ex-minister Louise Haigh becomes Andy Burnham’s closest adviser despite fraud conviction
Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary, was delivering a speech at Leeds City Hall on the day it became clear that someone was trying to snuff out her career. A story about her criminal record had been leaked to two news outlets.
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Farage turned down reduced security offer as MP safety comes under scrutiny
The Reform UK leader has long been vocal about the need for MPs to be served with greater protection amid heightened threats.
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Former Foreign Office chief Sir Olly Robbins sues Starmer over Mandelson sacking
The former top Foreign Office civil servant who was sacked by Sir Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson scandal has launched a legal challenge.
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Trump ally Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after brief and sudden illness
“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” according to a statement released by his office.
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Exiled Sheikh Hasina vows return to Bangladesh despite death sentence
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around December and surrender.
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Count Binface becomes Nigel Farage’s only confirmed challenger in Clacton
Asked how he will appeal to the people of Clacton-on-Sea in the upcoming by-election, Count Binface replied quick as a flash: ‘Well, I’m not Nigel Farage’.
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen convicted in €2.8m fraud case but cleared to run in future elections
A Paris appeals court sentenced the far-right leader to house arrest and a 100,000-euro fine for a decade-long embezzlement scheme, but ruled that barring her from future elections would undermine democratic freedoms.
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Nigel Farage offers to foot £200,000 bill for by-election he triggered
Mr Farage said he had written to the council and would contact the Chancellor with an offer to cover costs.
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Nigel Farage resigns as MP to trigger by-election and seek fresh mandate
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said on Tuesday he would quit ‌as a lawmaker to trigger a by-election in his parliamentary seat and would stand for re-election in that vote.
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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner denies sexual assault allegation from former partner
A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies.
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Hungary to abolish Orbán-era foundations controlling billions in state assets
Bálint Ruff, the minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office, signed the decision, meaning that at the end of July the Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation (MCC) will cease to exist, along with all “public-interest asset management foundations performing public duties” (KEKVA).
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Starmer’s key U.S. trade adviser could leave as Britain prepares for new prime minister
Since Labour swept to power two years ago, Britain has cycled through three U.S. ambassadors, two trade secretaries and is now preparing for a second prime minister.
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Bridget Phillipson’s childhood poverty claims challenged by former neighbours
Bridget Phillipson has been accused by a former neighbour of ’exaggerating’ her claims of a poverty-stricken upbringing.
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Jordan Bardella’s romance with Italian princess Maria Carolina exposes his fake working-class far-right image
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella’s glitzy romance with an Italian princess has handed his critics an irresistible line of attack: that the National Rally’s champion of the working class is getting dangerously close to the very elite his party claims to oppose.
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Former Kyrgyz security chief Kamchybek Tashiev convicted over alleged coup plot against President Japarov
A Kyrgyz court has found former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev guilty of attempting to violently seize power from his longtime ally and friend, President Sadyr Japarov.
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Keir Starmer says forced adoptions were a "stain" on Britain’s history in landmark apology
Previously, the then-Conservative government declined to apologise, arguing that the state had not supported these practices. Starmer has now acknowledged the government’s role in forced adoptions.
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Labour accuses Nigel Farage of hiding £4m property empire from the public
Labour has accused Nigel Farage of trying to hide a "property empire" from the public and dubbed the Reform UK leader "five-homes Farage" after questions were raised about how he has declared his real estate holdings.
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Reform UK figures took Israel trip funded by foreign ministry
Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”.
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Investigation finds Elon Musk’s Grok generated rape, murder and child abuse fantasies despite safety safeguards
Grok, the large language model (LLM) developed and operated by Elon Musk’s xAI, is facing intense scrutiny following an international investigation revealing that the chatbot repeatedly bypassed its own guardrails to engage in conspiracies and violent fantasies.
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Convicted child sex abuser Jeffrey Donaldson claimed £277,000 in MP expenses after rape charges
Child sex abuser Jeffrey Donaldson claimed more than a quarter of a million pounds in MP expenses after he had been charged with rape and other historical sex offences.
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French prosecutors raid National Rally-linked contractors in EU funds investigation
The politician could be tapped to be the National Rally’s candidate for France’s 2027 presidential election next week.
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Edwin Poots denies protecting Jeffrey Donaldson as pressure mounts for him to step aside
Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots has insisted that he “would never have protected Jeffrey Donaldson in any circumstance”.
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Labour’s defence funding plan falls £14bn short of military chiefs’ demands, insiders warn
Labour’s UK defence ­investment fund is around £14billion short of what Forces chiefs insist they need to keep the nation safe.
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Plans to house 83 asylum seekers in new homes spark backlash in Shropshire village
A total of 83 asylum seekers are to be moved into £250,000 homes on an estate dubbed “Migrant Street”.
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Article 8 asylum rulings will cost UK taxpayers £4.9bn, Home Office analysis finds
Asylum seekers who invoked the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to stay in the UK last year will cost the taxpayer £4.9bn over their lifetimes, Home Office analysis has found.