6 h. ago 'Just ignore Farage': Boris Johnson tells Tories how to counter the rise of Reform

The former prime minister, who led the Tories when the Brexit Party, now known as Reform, was polling at 'zero per cent,' believes that attacking them head-on is a waste of energy.

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22 h. ago Jeremy Corbyn’s new party is not something Starmer – or Farage – can afford to ignore

The damage done by pro-Gaza Independents at the general election last year shows what a threat to Labour a new party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana could be, says David Maddox

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44 h. ago Boris Johnson's wife Carrie opens up about 'struggles' and 'tears' of motherhood

Carrie Johnson has opened up about her "real rollercoaster" since she and former prime minister Boris Johnson welcomed their fourth child, a baby girl named Poppy

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6 d. ago Boris Johnson's wife Carrie gives mums urgent warning from hospital bed as temperatures climb

'This week has honestly been brutal'

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6 d. ago Carrie Johnson warns mothers about dehydration from hospital bed

Mrs Johnson, the wife of former prime minister Boris Johnson, gave birth to her fourth child in May.

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6 d. ago Boris Johnson's wife in hospital after birth of fourth child as she issues warning to new mums

Carrie and Boris Johnson welcomed baby Poppy on May 21 but the mum was back in hospital this week after a string of health problems.

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7 d. ago Carrie Johnson rushed to hospital 'suffering from dehydration'

Boris Johnson's wife spent two nights in hospitaland has issued a warning to new mums

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson's wife issues urgent warning to new mums after being rushed to hospital

Boris and Carrie Johnson's fourth child was born was born last month and now she has given a message to new mums from hospital after suffering from severe dehydration

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson’s wife rushed to hospital after 'brutal' week months after giving birth

Carrie Johnson has issued a warning to fellow mums after she was rushed to hospital and spent two nights under medical care for dehydration, a little over a month since welcoming her fourth child

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie rushed to hospital just a month after giving birth to fourth child

Carrie Johnson, wife to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has been rushed to hospital amid soaring temperatures this week. The mum-of-four has sent a warning to fellow parents from her hospital bed

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7 d. ago Boris Johnson's wife Carrie is hospitalised with severe dehydration as she issues warning to breastfeeding mothers

The wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who last month gave birth to her fourth child, Poppy, was admitted for two nights this week.

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9 d. ago Campaigners welcome vaccine cash pledge but fear cut will see fewer lives saved

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the funds at Gavi’s global summit in Brussels.

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2 w. ago Nine years on from Brexit, most Brits want to see the UK return to the EU

Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the Conservative Party all blamed by voters who think the UK’s departure from the European Union has been a failure

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3 w. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Starmer's leading the most abject and craven British government of the past 100 years. They are so weak they make Neville Chamberlain look positively robust

As they pounded the Iranian nuclear ­facilities yesterday, the Israelis were finally doing what so many Western leaders had expected they would do for years, if not decades.

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3 w. ago Rant about trans children and Boris Johnson betrays warped mind of radicalised young man who tried to kill police officers

Police station attacker Alexander Dighton gave an insight into his twisted journey to radicalisation as he spoke in the Old Bailey

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3 w. ago Man who attacked officers outside police station had been referred to Prevent

Andrew Dighton had been referred to the Prevent anti-terrorism programme a year before his attack on officers in Talbot Green in South Wales.

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4 w. ago ‘Lots of bumps in the road’: Keir Starmer faces testing month before one

From spending review to China audit to assisted dying vote, June’s events have potential to lift or darken Labour moodAs Keir Starmer approaches his first anniversary in Downing Street, there will be several things he wishes he had done differently. But before he can contemplate that July milestone, he faces a busy month strewn with political bear traps.June has proven a difficult time for successive prime ministers: Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak all had to contend with deeply unhappy parliamentary parties reeling from heavy local and European election losses. Continue reading...

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last month Why is defence such a hard sell? The same reason Starmer is struggling in the polls | Martin Kettle

Decades of failures have left liberal democratic governments unable to command public confidence when it really mattersDefence reviews and foreign policy resets seem to turn up almost as often as the Sussexes’ lifestyle brand relaunches these days. Labour’s strategic defence review this week comes less than two years after the Conservatives’ hardly less detailed defence white paper in July 2023, which in turn was a “refresh” of Boris Johnson’s ambitious integrated review of defence and foreign policy of March 2021. By this measure, it must be doubtful if, come the 2030s, analysts will look back on Keir Starmer and John Healey’s review and say it broke the mould.The Labour government was entitled to try to put its own stamp on defence policy, of course, and its review team of George Robertson, Richard Barrons and Fiona Hill did a good, reasonably independent job. Yet this 2020s pattern of repeated strategic adaptation and refocus feels like the new normal now. It is also true that gr...

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