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Farage-Lowe split deepens as Reform breakaway party siphons right-wing support
Is the division on Britain’s political Right at risk of letting the Left in? This question, unsurprisingly, has arisen once more as all political parties attempt to navigate the unprecedentedly fragmented political landscape currently existing in Britain.
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Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and Rupert Lowe feud risks splitting right-wing vote in key Makerfield byelection
Nigel Farage is engaged in a dispute with Rupert Lowe and Elon Musk over accusations of vote-splitting that could cause Reform UK to lose the Makerfield byelection.
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‘Tea towel’ comment sparks hate crime probe and legal battle at UK university
Brodie Mitchell, 20, a second-year politics and international relations student at Royal Holloway.
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France refuses to extradite dictator’s daughter accused of laundering regime wealth
A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.
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UK deploys air defences and troops to Gulf as Iran threat escalates
Extra British troops and more UK air defence systems will be deployed to the Middle East for defensive action against Iranian attacks
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Why it is so difficult to track local government spending: billions lost in a maze of council accounts
For most of my adult life, I watched politics from the sidelines rather than actively engaging with it.
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Inside Epstein’s secretive lifestyle built on wealth, power and exploitation
The disgraced New York financier made a career out of connections with world leaders in politics, business titans and science’s most lauded brains.
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Anonymous No 10 leaks contradict starmer’s promise of calmer politics
They always generate friction with their colleagues, sometimes act as lightning conductors by taking the blame for the boss’s failings, and occasionally cause the kind of power surge that blows the fuse box or threatens to set the whole system on fire.
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Leaked Fox News texts reveal hosts privately rejected Trump’s 2020 claims
Leaked text messages from some of Fox News’ biggest personalities reveal how many of them really felt about Donald Trump after the president lost his first bid for reelection in 2020.
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UK drops China spying case against ex-parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash
For Christopher Cash, it was a job he loved. The young parliamentary researcher, then in his late twenties, was a China specialist who worked in turn for two influential backbenchers, Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Kearns.
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Michelle Mone-linked company fails to pay £122m for unusable Covid PPE
A firm associated with former Conservative peer Michelle Mone has yet to pay the government any of the £122m required by a High Court ruling for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during the Covid pandemic.
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Seven years of EU political ad data vanish from Google’s Transparency tool
Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer displays political online advertisements that have run on its platforms, past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible.
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Lewis’s close ties to Johnson resurface amid knighthood nomination and Washington Post turmoil
The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is facing fresh scrutiny regarding his independence after leaked files revealed he provided extensive support to Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser during Johnson’s tenure as prime minister.
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Green Party leader urges supporters to join now amid Corbyn-linked left-wing movement plans
Mr Corbyn, the former Labour leader, and Ms Sultana have indicated plans to initiate a new left-wing political movement, but it has not been officially established yet.
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Police investigate secret camera claim at Scottish Parliament
A Labour politician has been charged over allegations a secret camera was placed in toilets inside the Scottish Parliament.
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Five things we learned at Reform UK’s rowdy party conference, including whose life ’is ruined’
Reform UK has rounded off the first day of its conference with balloons and pyrotechnics, capping a rambunctious series of speeches from party bigwigs.
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Several British politicians and organizations have had their accounts hacked on X
The politicians targeted included Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood - as well as Chris Elsmore, Labour MP for Bridgend and Porthcawl
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Starmer ally Hollie Ridley has been appointed as the Labour Party’s general secretary
Party official, who ran the field operation for the general election, was the only person on the shortlist
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How Labour let Nigel Farage win
Keir Starmer’s strategists ordered campaign teams not to waste time fighting Reform UK in July’s election. It could come back to bite them.
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North Sea oil firm Neo slows investment amid windfall tax concerns
Battle ahead for Labour as it introduces higher taxes and tougher environmental rules on producers
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Jeremy Corbyn and four pro-Palestinian MPs form ’Independent Alliance’ in Commons
Jeremy Corbyn and four other pro-Palestinian MPs elected in July’s election on Monday formed a group called the Independent Alliance in a bid to exercise more influence in the Commons.
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Inside Nigel Farage’s £3m luxury property empire of four homes, all purchased since Brexit
The self-styled man of the people has amassed a property portfolio worth almost £3million since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Our disclosures come after it was revealed that the Reform leader is earning around £700,000 a year outside Parliament
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Thailand’s anti-graft body begins new probe into troubled political opposition
Thailand’s anti-graft body on Friday said it was investigating 44 members of the disbanded Move Forward party, following a complaint seeking their lifetime bans from politics for backing legislation aimed at amending a law against royal insults.
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Metropolitan Police conclude investigation into election gambling scandal with no charges filed
Force ends investigation into bets on 4 July election date and says bar to prove misconduct in public office has not been met
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The labour change: what awaits the British budget as the new PM steps in
After winning its first election in 14 years, the United Kingdom’s Labour Party has pledged to prioritize spending cuts — eliminating certain benefits while increasing taxes on the wealthy.
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