43 h. ago None of the above: Democrats were asked to name who the real leader of their party is – and most don’t know

‘Ugh no one,’ a 26-year-old white woman in Arizona who voted for Harris told Politico when asked who the leader of the party was, while a 49-year-old white man in Maryland added: ‘I do not believe there is a leader right now’

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48 h. ago Labour deputy leader’s views on party policy are ‘irritating’, says Labour peer

Thangam Debbonaire accused Lucy Powell of ‘giving a running commentary and undermining’ the government

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68 h. ago Deputy Labour leader says party must stand by income tax pledge

Lucy Powell says ‘trust in politics is essential’ amid signs the chancellor plans to break manifesto promise

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68 h. ago Deputy Labour leader says party must keep its promises on tax

Lucy Powell says ‘trust in politics is essential’ amid signs the chancellor plans to break manifesto pledge

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68 h. ago Labour's new deputy leader warns party not to break tax manifesto promise

Former Cabinet minister Lucy Powell says it is important for Keir Starmer's government to stand by the promises made before Labour's landslide election victory

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3 d. ago Reform council leader claims party is ‘stronger’ after suspensions

Reform UK won 57 of the 81 seats at Kent County Council in May, and now have 48 party members following nine suspensions and removals.

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4 d. ago Badenoch warns of ‘oil and gas emergency’ in call for new drilling

The Conservative leader travelled to the north-east of Scotland to launch her party’s new campaign to end the moratorium on new oil and gas licences.

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4 d. ago Greta Thunberg backs UK university student who fears for his safety after visa sponsorship revoked

Pro-Palestinian activist Usama Ghanem has been indefinitely suspended from King’s College London. Jeremy Corbyn, Your Party co-leader, labelled the move ‘deeply disturbing’

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5 d. ago UK lawyers warn of ‘race to the bottom’ after Tory MP issues deportation threat

Top lawyers call for change in rhetoric that has left minority ethnic Britons fearful as politicians target migrantsUK politics live – latest updatesLeading British lawyers have warned of a political “race to the bottom”, after a Conservative MP tipped as future party leader said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported.Katie Lam, a shadow Home Office minister and a Tory whip, said people with legal status in the UK should have their right to stay revoked, to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, rowed back on Lam’s statement last Thursday, weeks later. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Judges doing politics’: can Spanish PM survive corruption cases against family and allies?

Facing allegations he insists are politically motivated, Pedro Sánchez has cast doubt on independence of some members of judiciaryDespite spending the past 18 months variously defending his wife, his brother, his party, his attorney general and his government against a relentless slew of corruption allegations, Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has not entirely lost his sense of humour.Three weeks ago, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the leader of the opposition conservative People’s party (PP), rattled off the familiar litany of accusations and concluded by suggesting the man sitting opposite him in congress was neither “a decent or worthy prime minister” but rather a seasoned enabler of corruption. After the giddy applause that greeted Feijóo’s speech from the PP benches had died down, Sánchez rose to his feet and uttered two words. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Valencia president Carlos Mazón resigns over botched handling of deadly floods

Leader of Spanish region’s People’s party had clung to power despite calls for him to stand down over 2024 disaster‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after deadly floodsCarlos Mazón, the embattled president of the eastern Spanish region of Valencia, has bowed to public fury and political pressure by resigning over his botched handling of the deadly floods that killed 229 people in the area just over a year ago.Mazón, a member of the conservative People’s party (PP), had hung on despite calls for him to stand down after it emerged that he spent more than three hours having lunch with a journalist as the floods hit and people were drowning in their homes, garages and cars. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago George Clooney says it was ‘mistake’ to replace Biden with Harris in US election

The Democrat also said he is ‘saddened’ by the ‘real attack’ on US institutions that ‘hold truth to power’.

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6 d. ago The Guardian view on the Dutch election: an uplifting victory for the politics of hope not hate | Editorial

Targeting the negativity of the far right, the big winner of last week’s poll was able to cut through with votersOne of the tightest elections in Dutch history produced an outcome so close that first steps in negotiating a new coalition government have yet to begin. But at a time when the forward march of the far right across Europe is dominating headlines, sapping the confidence of mainstream parties, one uplifting takeaway was immediately clear: a less divisive kind of politics can still cut through with the public, if it is prosecuted with conviction and panache.The big and unexpected winner of last week’s poll was 38-year-old Rob Jetten, the charismatic leader of the centrist liberal party D66, which almost tripled its vote and is set to top the polls by a whisker. Basing his campaign on the Obama-style slogan “Yes we can”, Mr Jetten presented himself as an optimistic unifier to an electorate exhausted by the polarising politics of Geert Wilders, whose anti-i...

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7 d. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was JewishRepublican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were Jewish.She made those bizarre remarks as a guest on Friday on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after winning some fans among Democrats who once loathed her – yet had come to appreciate how the far-right Georgia representative had recently broken with Republicans on various issues. Those include healthcare, Gaza, the federal government shutdown that began on 1 October and the handling of documents pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was friends with Donald Trump before the latter man won two presidencies. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Kemi Badenoch has six months to save the Tories – and her leadership, MPs warn

There is consternation among MPs that support for the Conservative Party has dropped seven points in the year since she became leader, with no signs of recovery

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9 d. ago Police investigate racial abuse of Green deputy leader at London station

Mothin Ali says thug threatened to ‘smash his head in’ during row on Wednesday

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9 d. ago Party leader’s spouse visits Evelina London Children’s Hospital

Party leader’s spouse visits Evelina London Children’s Hospital  vietnamnews.vn

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1 week ago Netherlands could have its youngest leader ever as centrist party wins big in election

The result instead seems to open a path for D66 leader Rob Jetten to form a government

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1 week ago Nigel Farage reveals why he's 'pretty bloomin' happy with Caerphilly by

The Reform UK leader insisted his party's second-place result was not a disappointment

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2 w. ago Top Tory fails SIX times to name his party's leader in Wales in humiliating TV clash

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp was left floundering when GB News presenter Chris Hope asked him the simple question of who leads the Conservative party in Wales

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