7 h. ago Theresa May criticises Tory policy on net zero, judges and human rights

The former prime minister’s government committed the UK to reaching net zero by 2050.

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10 h. ago Milei’s moment? Election triumph hands libertarian shot at reform

Firebrand economist must build alliances to push through structural change in Argentina, analysts say

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13 h. ago Starmer ‘angry’ over asylum accommodation ‘mess left from last government’

It comes as a report published on Monday said that billions of pounds had been ‘squandered’ on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement.

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16 h. ago Senior shadow minister fails to name Welsh Tory leader five times in interview

Chris Philp said Darren Millar's name 'escaped him' during an interview about the party's disastrous Caerphilly by-election result

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42 h. ago Reform's campaign office in Caerphilly vandalised after election loss

White spray paint on the shutters of the office reads "Now u can f*** off home."

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44 h. ago Reform UK push Scottish Labour into third place in bombshell Holyrood election poll

The poll shows the SNP heading for a fifth term and a comfortable victory in May.

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55 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Panicky Labour is now losing more votes to Zack Polanski's loony Left Greens than it is to naughty Nigel Farage

QUENTIN LETTS: Hallowe'en arrived early for Sir Keir Starmer last week when an opinion poll found the Greens to be level with Labour. Eek! No wonder the Prime Minister is looking so knackered.

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60 h. ago DAN HODGES: Senior MPs tell me divisive shadow minister Katie Lam is plotting with Dominic Cummings to replace Kemi as leader. But this is what all taxpayers need to know about her past

'She's working with Dom Cummings to bring down Kemi, and replace her as leader after the local elections next year,' one shadow minister tells me. 'They've been plotting together for months.'

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2 d. ago Plaid Cymru, Reform and Labour: Here's why the 2026 Senedd election will be the most competitive yet

The Caerphilly by-election was 'catastrophic' for Labour, 'convincing' for Plaid and signals 'a problem' for Reform. So what does this all mean ahead of next year's May polling day?

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3 d. ago KEMI BADENOCH: The Chancellor is going after your money because she can't get a grip on spending

If you tax something, you get less of it. She taxed jobs, now more people are unemployed. She taxed education, now schools are closing down. And now it looks like she's coming after people's savings.

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3 d. ago 'A level of incompetence that beggars belief': Kemi rips into PM as manhunt continues after Epping asylum hotel sex attacker is freed by mistake

A police manhunt was sparked for sex offender Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu after he was accidentally released back into the community rather than to an immigration centre.

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3 d. ago Prime Minister's spokesperson responds to Labour's Caerphilly by

Labour came third behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK in a historic by-election loss in Caerphilly

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage breaks silence on Reform's Caerphilly defeat and blames one thing

Reform UK's party leader said next year's Senedd elections were now a straight fight between Plaid and his party

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3 d. ago The full result of the Caerphilly Senedd by election as Plaid defeats Reform

Linday Whittle's historic win is a humiliating defeat for Labour who came a distant third despite dominating in the area for over a century

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3 d. ago Darts star Gerwyn Price left feeling gutted after supporting Nigel Farage's Reform party

Gerwyn Price was left disappointed after Nigel Farage's Reform party failed to win the Caerphilly by-election, with Plaid Cymru securing victory in Wales

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4 d. ago ‘Little more than photocalls’: What has Reform’s Doge team done since it was set up?

The Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting team promised big savings after Reform’s local election wins in May

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4 d. ago Badenoch declines to endorse Jenrick comments over Andrew’s living arrangements

The shadow justice secretary said on Tuesday that Andrew had ’embarrassed the royal family time and again’.

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4 d. ago Identification of migrant who returned to UK from France shows progress – Lammy

The man was detained after entering the UK a second time on October 18, a month after he was returned to France.

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5 d. ago Potential grooming gangs chair accuses Kemi Badenoch of 'weaponising' inquiry

Jim Gamble was the second candidate to chair the probe to pull out of the process - and said Ms Badenoch and others were using victims as a "political football" and using their voices to launch attacks on the government

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5 d. ago Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office

Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefitsThe Conservative MP Katie Lam was “broadly in line” with party policy when she called for very large numbers of legally settled people to be deported from the UK, Kemi Badenoch’s spokesperson has said.Setting out Tory plans to retrospectively strip the right of indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from people who claim benefits, the spokesperson said this would not be the case for people getting the state pension, but was unable to say whether someone could be deported if they received statutory maternity pay or shared parental leave. Continue reading...

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