11 h. ago Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for the little boy, who grew up to be a distinguished journalist.

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64 h. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Reform's precocious political ingenue will be back, but there is deep trouble at the heart of Farage's party

Nigel Farage hired the precocious political ingenue, a former Tory, after Zia Yusuf made a £200,000 donation to Reform.

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6 d. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Oh Kemi, you're getting too blue for the Commons

Keep an ear out for Kemi Badenoch's fruity language at this week's PMQs. I hear Commons clerks are worried that the Tory leader is pushing the limits of acceptable parliamentary language...

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2 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Is a Tory grandee toying with a jump to Reform?

At the swish Westminster launch last week of Red Prince, the unauthorised biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft, there was a strong Reform turnout. So is he ready to jump ship?

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3 w. ago The interview that will change your mind about our 'robotic' politicians: ED DAVEY opens up on becoming an orphan at 15, caring for his profoundly disabled son

The handwritten letter from a dying father to his four-year-old son could not have been more heartfelt.

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3 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: The reward for betraying your party? £600 a day

When Tory MP Natalie Elphicke defected to Labour last May, most of us assumed she would be rewarded for her treachery. How right we were!

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