6 h. ago Angela Rayner should come clean on her house scandal in memoir, says Lord Ashcroft

The former deputy Prime Minister confirmed last week that she has signed a deal to write an 'authentic' book about her rise from working class roots to the Cabinet - and then her resignation

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10 h. ago LORD ASHCROFT: Pollsters ask daft questions at Christmas... but the answers speak volumes about the state of our Government

LORD ASHCROFT: My first poll of 2025 put Labour comfortably in first place. This month we find it in a sportsmanlike fourth position, behind Reform, the Conservatives and the Greens.

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7 d. ago The secret burning of the bones of 42 lions: LORD ASHCROFT on why he'll never stop fighting the monsters who breed these majestic animals solely to be shot by wealthy tourists

Amid great secrecy, in the presence of just a few others, I witnessed a scene that's never occurred here or anywhere else in the world before: the burning of dozens of lion bones.

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2 w. ago The 'Grumpy Trumpers' could ignore all the mad stuff if he made them feel better off. Perilously for him, he doesn't, writes LORD ASHCROFT

Has the red-hot glow of the MAGA movement in America given way to a new and less enthusiastic band of devotees to The Donald: the 'Grumpy Trumpers'?

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2 w. ago The 'Grumpy Trumpers' could ignore the craziness if he made them feel better off: LORD ASHCROFT

Has the red-hot glow of the MAGA movement in America given way to a new and less enthusiastic band of devotees to The Donald: the 'Grumpy Trumpers'?

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2 w. ago Victoria Cross awarded to WWI hero who took on 100 Germans armed with machine guns sells for £320,000

His medals had resided in Lord Ashcroft's VC Gallery at the Imperial War Museum until its recent controversial closure. His family decided to sell it through London-based auctioneers Spink & Son.

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