13 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should juries be told whether defendants are asylum seekers?

Pakistani national Sheraz Malik, 28, was found guilty of raping a 'vulnerable' teenage girl whom he and a friend pounced on in a park in the constituency of Reform MP Lee Anderson.

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13 h. ago M&G says it will take £230million hit from Government ground rent reforms

The institutional investment industry has hit back at the change and wider leasehold reform, as it will reduce firms' income and the value of their assets.

Economics

37 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Is Keir Starmer running scared by blocking Andy Burnham's bid to become an MP?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is being warned that the by-election block on Andy Burnham has made it more likely he will face a leadership challenge.

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64 h. ago Night shift workers see just 29 minutes of daylight on a working day, new study finds

THE average night shift worker sees just 29 minutes of daylight on a working day during January. A poll of 2,000 workers, including 500 who work night shifts, found 24 per cent of these have felt cut off from the outside world as a result. With four in 10 late night workers going at least...

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4 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Have Reform already hit peak popularity, as polls expert suggests?

Support for Nigel Farage's party has cooled in recent weeks, with 29 per cent of voters saying they would back it at the next election. This is a drop from 32 per cent at Reform's polling peak.

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5 d. ago Reform may have already hit peak popularity, polls expert suggests

Leading pollster Sir John Curtice has said he imagines 32 per cent is 'the height of what Reform can achieve' because its vote is a 'very, very niche market'

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5 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Starmer take credit for Trump dropping his Greenland tariffs threat?

Sir Keir said the 'hard yards' of bolstering Arctic security can begin as he welcomed Donald Trump dropping tariff threats against European nations opposed to his ambitions to annex Greenland.

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6 d. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Will 2026 be the 'year that Britain turns a corner', as Rachel Reeves claims?

The Chancellor pledged today that 2026 will be the 'year that Britain turns a corner' after the rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation rose to 3.4 per cent in December from 3.2 per cent in November.

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8 d. ago Expert shares top tips as Brits losing sleep due to money troubles

A money expert tackles top cash concerns as poll reveals nation’s biggest financial fears

Economics

9 d. ago Why America needs a new antiwar movement – and how it can win | Jeremy Varon

Demonstrations against the Iraq war proved protest works. Now we must halt destruction before it more powerfully startsIn spring 2004, Gen Anthony Zinni uttered about Iraq the dreaded words in US politics: “I spent two years in Vietnam, and I’ve seen this movie before.” A year after George W Bush’s declaration of “mission accomplished” – when the war had hit its peak popularity at 74% – the invasion had descended into quagmire, marked by a raging insurgency, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal and US casualties nearing 1,000. For the first time, a majority of Americans judged the war a “mistake”. In this, they echoed what millions of Americans, predicting fiasco, had been saying since before its start.By the summer of 2005, with Iraq exploding in civil war, public support further eroded. Vietnam comparisons abounded. Running against the war, Democrats had blowout wins in the 2006 midterms. The new Congress empaneled the bipartisan Iraq study group, which concluded that the war had to end...

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1 week ago POLL OF THE DAY: Are Brits 'tired of political psychodrama', as Kemi Badenoch said after sacking Robert Jenrick?

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she has sacked Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary and kicked him out of the party due to 'irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect'.

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1 week ago POLL OF THE DAY: Are Brits 'tired of political psychodrama', as Kemi Badenoch said after sacking Robert Jenrick?

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says she has sacked Robert Jenrick as shadow justice secretary and kicked him out of the party due to 'irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect'.

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1 week ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Labour scrap digital IDs entirely, after axing mandatory plan for workers in latest U

Keir Starmer had vowed to crack down on illegal immigration by making digital ID compulsory to verify a person's right to work in the UK, but he was forced into a 13th U-turn since becoming PM.

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain get involved in military action against the Iranian regime?

Donald Trump is weighing up whether to order military action in support of protesters against the Iranian regime as mass demonstrations continue despite a crackdown by security services.

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Britain send troops to Ukraine if Russia ceasefire is agreed?

Sir Keir Starmer has agreed - with France and Germany - to send a peacekeeping force of Army, RAF and Royal Navy personnel to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia.

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Was the US 'morally right' to capture Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, as Kemi Badenoch claims?

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch cited her upbringing in military-ruled Nigeria as she backed the raid by the US to snatch Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

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2 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Was the US 'morally right' to capture Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro, as Kemi Badenoch claims?

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch cited her upbringing in military-ruled Nigeria as she backed the raid by the US to snatch Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should Nato intervene if Donald Trump tries to seize Greenland?

Donald Trump has been warned that any attempt to seize Greenland would spell the end of Nato, after he hinted that the island could be next on his hit list following a dramatic raid on Venezuela.

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3 w. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Is the US right to take over running Venezuela after removing leader Nicolas Maduro?

Donald Trumphas declared the US will run Venezuela after an operation over the weekend saw the capture of its president Nicolas Maduro.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game

This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections - by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbookZack Polanski finally decided to stand as the Greens’ leader, he says, after witnessing the party being eclipsed by Reform in last May’s local elections across England, and realising that British politics had changed for good.While the Greens made yet more steady gains, Reform won nearly 700 councillors from a standing start. As deputy leader, it was Polanski’s job to speak to losing candidates to both offer consolation and ask what lessons could be learned. Continue reading...

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