3 hours ago UK politics – live: Reform level with Labour in new poll as Treasury responds to gloomy economy update

New poll by FindOutNowUK marks a fresh political blow for Sir Keir Starmer who has overseen a rocky start to his leadership of the country

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9 hours ago Musk, after months of blustering, admits DOGE wont find $2 trillion worth of cuts in federal budget

Musk has been claiming he could make $2 trillion in cuts since October

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3 hours ago Ticket touts finally facing a major government clampdown as Labour take battle huge step forward

Keir Starmer follows up on promise to legally hammer touts and sites like Viagogo, that make them rich

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3 hours ago Ticket tout clampdown is overdue to stop dodgy sites trampling over law

'The UK Government is to be commended for following up on pledges by Keir Starmer to take to profits away from the bad actors in the ticketing world.'

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15 hours ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Have I got a deal for you, Donald... forget Greenland and buy Britain instead!

Donald Trump says he wants to buy Greenland. Elon Musk wants to buy Liverpool FC, according to his dad. But why stop there, chaps? Have I got a deal for you.

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11 hours ago Free speech champ Liz Truss demands Keir Starmer stop saying she 'crashed the economy'

The 'Lettuce' sent a 'cease and desist' letter to the Prime Minister insisting he stops making the statements - but has raised eyebrows given her posturing as a free speech champion

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6 hours ago JAN MOIR: God knows why Elon Musk bothers with our grubby politics but I, for one, am grateful that he does...

What with everything going down in America, God knows why Elon Musk bothers to concern himself with grubby British politics on this grim husk of an island.

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20 hours ago Meloni says Italy is exploring deals on telecoms security, but denies private talks with Musk

Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni said her government is in talks with private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk

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13 hours ago Elon Musk 'going mad' biographer says as she warns billionaire is 'deeply unwell'

Elon Musk's biographer Seth Abramson has claimed the billionaire is "going mad" whilst managing Tesla, X, and SpaceX, and also being part of Donald Trump's transition team.

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14 hours ago Rayner: I’d meet with Musk to challenge him on factually incorrect attacks

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested the billionaire should be ‘correcting the record as soon as possible’ over information shared on his X platform.

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9 hours ago Former head of the Royal Navy and senior Labour peer urges Keir Starmer to ditch the 'irresponsible' surrender of Chagos Islands

Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord and security minister, warned that pressing ahead would put Britain and its allies' security 'in danger'.

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14 hours ago Musk trying to ‘inflame racial tensions’ with post on boy’s murder – Yousaf

Kriss Donald was abducted and killed in a racist attack by an Asian gang in 2004.

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15 hours ago Bond villain Elon Musk's influence seeps into Scottish Parliament and its 'populism' war

In the first Holyrood scrap of 2025, John Swinney and Russell Findlay clashed in a fiery FMQs inspired by Elon Musk.

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15 hours ago Fact check: How many children have been the victims of grooming gangs?

Full Fact has found a widely-shared estimate that a million children have been victims is not reliable, but the true total remains unclear.

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16 hours ago Liz Truss: cease and desist letter to Keir Starmer explained, did Prime Minister's budget 'crash' the economy?

Truss’ lawyers say claiming she crashed the economy is ‘false and misleading’ 🥬

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16 hours ago MP says she received rape threats and describes herself as ‘survivor of abuse’

Sorcha Eastwood said a member of the public ‘came up and said they wanted to rape me’.

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17 hours ago Reed apologises to farmers over decisions ‘we had to take’ to fix finances

The Environment Secretary set out reforms to boost profitability in the farming sector as the Government stands firm on agriculture property relief.

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17 hours ago ‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary lifeFilippo Tommaso Marinetti was the Elon Musk of the early 20th century, combining a joy in technological innovation with an appetite for illiberal politics. Where Musk builds rockets, Marinetti celebrated those shiny new inventions, the aeroplane and the motor car. The Futurist Manifesto, which he wrote when the movement existed only in his head, begins with a rhapsodic account of a fast drive that ends in a crash, which delights him more than the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the famous Greek sculpture in the Louvre. Machines, he believes, make all previous art irrelevant. Futurism will hymn the hard new beauty.Marinetti’s role in the making of the modern world is insufficiently recognised, presumably because he was so contentious and offensi...

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18 hours ago Trump’s rhetoric and unpredictability can be ‘destabilsing’ says Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested Donald Trump’s unpredictability was ‘one of his signatures’.

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17 hours ago Rotherham grooming gang survivor who found her rapist a mile from her house after he was released from prison blasts Keir Starmer for 'point scoring' and 'insulting the public' over the scandal

A woman who was repeatedly raped as a teenager told MailOnline how 'angry' she was after this week's comments by the Prime Minister on grooming gangs.

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18 hours ago PM will not moderate language on Truss despite cease and desist letter – No 10

Downing Street questioned whether Ms Truss would also be writing to ‘millions of people up and down the country’ who shared the Prime Minister’s view.

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17 hours ago 'Stop saying I crashed the economy,' says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country? | Hugh Muir

The former PM has sent a cease and desist letter to the current one. Will everyone who thinks she was useless get one next?The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of Liz Truss.She is the victim of a very special kind of injustice: people think she was a terrible prime minister, whose doings were disastrous for the economy, resulting in her defenestration by her own party – and what’s worse, people keep saying so.Hugh Muir is the Guardian’s executive editor, Opinion Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Keir Starmer skips grooming gang vote despite ordering his MPs to vote against it

Downing Street insisted the prime minister had a ‘pre-existing diary commitment’

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18 hours ago Keir Starmer refuses to stop accusing Liz Truss of 'crashing the economy' because he speaks for 'millions of voters' despite her threat to SUE PM

Lawyers acting for the former Conservative leader have written a 'cease and desist' letter to the current occupant of No10 over comments he made during the election campaign.

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19 hours ago Labour vows not to ‘cease and desist from truth’ despite Truss lawyers’ demand

Lawyers for Liz Truss have sent a letter to Sir Keir Starmer about ‘false and defamatory public statements’ made about their client.

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19 hours ago Starmer not wavering over national grooming gang inquiry, No 10 insists

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

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20 hours ago Liverpool told why Elon Musk would be exactly like Man United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

After the father of Elon Musk revealed his son would relish the chance to buy Liverpool, the Anfield fan base were given a huge warning that he could be like Sir Jim Ratcliffe

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20 hours ago Winston Churchill’s grandson warns Elon Musk to ‘come through me first’ in staunch defence of Jess Phillips

Labour safeguarding minister was described as ‘a rape genocide apologist’ by the tycoon and Donald Trump ally

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21 hours ago Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron to share their woes over dinner at Chequers TODAY as PM and French president brace for Donald Trump's return to the White House

The Prime Minister and embattled French President will meet at Chequers - Sir Keir's country residence in Buckinghamshire - for talks over dinner.

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20 hours ago Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy

‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seatUK politics live – latest updatesLiz Truss has sent a legal letter to Keir Starmer demanding he stops making “false and defamatory” claims that she crashed the economy.The former prime minister sent a six-page “cease and desist” letter accusing Starmer of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her South West Norfolk seat in the general election. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Elon Musk's relationship with dad Errol after Tesla boss didn't see him for 7 years

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has a very estranged relationship with his father, Errol Musk, as the two reportedly did not speak for many years –but just how bad is it?

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20 hours ago Elon Musk's influence on grooming gangs debate shows what chaos a hostile foreign state could cause, Government watchdog says

Jonathan Hall, the independent review of state threats legislation, said Mr Musk's recent actions presented a 'canary in the coalmine moment' for the UK.

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23 hours ago Elon Musk holds 'discussions' with allies on how to remove Sir Keir Starmer as PM

Sources claim Elon Musk is planning to take his interference into UK politics a step further as he supposedly concocts a plan to bring Keir Starmer down before the next general election

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22 hours ago Liz Truss's lawyers demand Keir Starmer stops saying she crashed the economy

Lawyers for 49-day wrecking ball Prime Minister Liz Truss have written to Keir Starmer saying that statements before the General Election were 'defamatory' and damaged her reputation

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26 hours ago Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him | Martin Kettle

The democratic order has faced down tyrants and megalomaniacs before. The name of the game for liberals for 2025 and beyond must be survivalThey can smell the fear. And they are thrilled by what they can smell. Fanned by a mesmerised media at home and abroad, the thrill excites them into fresh provocations. Donald Trump knows the US’s allies’ nerves are jangling as his second presidency approaches – and he wants to keep it that way. Elon Musk is similarly glorying in his power to provoke and misinform without suffering penalty or reprimand – least of all from most of Britain’s politicians and press.Both men are bullies. And this is what bullies do. However, there is no disputing that this is also their moment. The Trump inauguration on 20 January will be an in-your-face celebration of America First power. It will also be a requiem that consigns large parts of the rules-based postwar global settlement to the grave.Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Truss sends cease and desist to Starmer demanding he stop saying she crashed the economy

The former prime minister’s lawyers claim the frequently-made criticism is ‘false and defamatory’

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27 hours ago Jess Phillips faced ‘deluge of hate’ after Elon Musk grooming gangs comments

Mr Musk’s comments followed Labour’s decision to decline a Whitehall-led inquiry into child sexual abuse.

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27 hours ago Country over party should be approach of Anas Sarwar as he tries to halt Labour freefall

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Scottish Labour cannot go for unswerving loyalty to Keir Starmer if they want to turn around their dismal poll rating.

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29 hours ago Britain MUST take back Shamima Begum and other Isis members from Syrian prisons, Trump's terror chief says

Sebastian Gorka, a British-American, called on Sir Keir Starmer to bring the citizens home as part of his 'commitment' to the international fight against the jihadist group.

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