All news on the topic: Politics

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Labour peer Lord Alan Haworth dies aged 75 during holiday in Iceland with wife
He was a secretary of the parliamentary Labour Party from 1992 to 2004, then became a member of the House of Lords
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'Closing train ticket offices would be unforgiveable and hit disabled & elderly'
Our revelations today strengthen the case for keeping open facilities that are used and valued instead of axing what is clearly a vital cog in the public transport service
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'Staggering' Tory failure anger as Suella Braverman demands more crimes solved
Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it is 'unacceptable' that crimes like phone and car theft are viewed as 'less important' - but Labour has shot back, blaming 'abysmal Tory mismanagement'
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Patients left stranded as ageing ambulances break down on way to hospital
There were 7,060 ambulance breakdowns in England last year. The Lib Dems said the figures were 'yet more evidence that the Conservatives have left our NHS to crumble'
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Third of councils in poor areas on verge of bankruptcy in threat to services
A survey of 47 local authorities found 14 are concerned they will not be able to balance their books and are considering a freeze on all non-essential spending
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MP hits back at cruel jibes from online trolls about past job as a pole dancer
Victorian Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell, 31, has pushed for an end to duck hunting in Australia, which has caught the attention of vile trolls online
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'Labour must offer hope and not rely on bitter Tory infighting to win election'
Nadine Dorries continues to hammer nails into Rishi Sunak and the Tory coffin, but Labour must themselves offer hope if they stand a chance of winning the next election
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6 brutal digs at Rishi Sunak in Nadine Dorries' resignation letter - in full
The 1,778-word parting shot delivered a savage verdict on Rishi Sunak's first year in office as Nadine Dorries stuck the boot into the PM who she blames for being denied a peerage
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UFO 'splits in two' before mysteriously vanishing in eerie resurfaced video
Mesmerising footage of a UFO splitting in two has gone viral on YouTube. The craft may be linked to the 2004 Phoenix Lights, another case of the 1997 incident that rocked the nation
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Police swarm ice cream van charging £7 for Flake 99 - as woman charged £28 for 4
Customers said they felt "ripped off" after the London-based van was caught selling the ice creams for £7 a pop - with one woman charged nearly £30 for four ice creams
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Most dangerous murderers to face mandatory whole-life sentences under new law
Steve Reed, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary said: “No one will take any lessons from this soft-on-crime Tory government."
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'Alternatives to carbon capture technology are deeply unsexy but they work'
Experts say the 'carbon capture' technology touted by Rishi Sunak as a route to net zero while still burning oil and gas would prove to be a costly, risky white elephant
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Sadiq Khan hails ULEZ expansion as 'landmark day' for London
The zone will grow to include all London boroughs from Tuesday, which the London Mayor said would “ensure every Londoner breathes cleaner air.”
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Rapist Met cop will still get £10,000 annual police pension due to 'loophole'
The former PC attacked a 16-year-old girl and repeatedly raped a female colleague, while bragging he was 'untouchable' - now the Mayor's office wants his pension stopped
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Britain faces 'cost of dipping' crisis as price of popular sauces soars by 50%
Heinz Tomato Ketchup and Sabra Houmous have seen their costs soar by 95% and 67% respectively
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Rishi Sunak donated to LA University offering courses on ghosts and the fandango
Among the courses open to attendees at Claremont McKenna is 'Ghosts and the Machines’, taught at nearby Harvey Mudd College, which is advertised as an “exploration of the interrelations between occult mediumship, modern media, and technology”
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Tory Liam Fox has pocketed £30k from controversial PR firm for doing 'no work'
The firm, registered in Panama, has worked with the family of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Morgan Tsvangirai, the late Zimbabwean opposition leader
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Britain 'won't hit climate targets' while Tories cosy up to fossil firms
Experts say Britain continuing to pump millions of pounds into 'white elephant' carbon capture projects is "likely the result of significant lobbying by the gas industry"
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'Rishi Sunak has failed to solve migrant crisis - it is a shameful record'
As we report today from Calais, traffickers still ply their evil trade despite repeated Government promises to put them out of business
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Donald Trump hopes his furious mugshot wins election - and keeps him out of jail
Within hours of the booking shot being taken, Suspect No. P01135809, as he is known in the Georgia court system, had used it to return to Twitter after a two-year absence
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'The rich fill their boots as the rest of us get kicked further into poverty'
The masonic mafia that greases the wheels that turn the UK economy has never felt more untouchable, to the extent that I find myself agreeing with Nigel Farage, of all people
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Conservative MPs 'airbrush' Rishi Sunak and Tory brand from Blue Wall leaflets
Campaign material for MPs in seats in the Conservatives' Blue Wall heartlands refers to the Government's priorities but fails to explicitly namecheck Rishi Sunak
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Former mayor mistaken for DA charging Trump as fanatics scream at her
Predictably the area around the Fulton County Jail, Georgia, was swarming with supporters of the former-President as well as counter protestors. But both groups were outnumbered by the media chronicling this historic event
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Former Ye publicist booked at Fulton jail in connection to Trump fraud case
A celebrity stylist and former Kanye West publicist is among 19 individuals indicted with former President Donald Trump for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election
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Donald Trump scowls in mugshot as he moans he did 'nothing wrong' - updates
Donald Trump has been booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has had a mugshot taken along with fingerprints and personal details before being released on bond