1 hour ago It's Nigel Cabbage! Reform's Nigel Farage tipped to become the next Lettuce Liz Truss

Everyone remember Liz Truss, or, the answer to a pub quiz question in a decade's time of 'who was the Prime Minister between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak'... well, she's got a successor

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7 h. ago Swinney warns of ‘critical economic threat’ of UK Government immigration policy

The Prime Minister released a White Paper on immigration earlier this month.

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7 h. ago Do you think Nigel Farage could be Prime Minister? Take our poll and have your say

Keir Starmer has launched a ferocious attack on Nigel Farage shortly after a poll revealed the Reform UK leader is British voters' last choice to be Prime Minister

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8 h. ago Voices: Keir Starmer has found Nigel Farage’s weak spot – and it is Trussonomics

The prime minister looks as if he is being pushed around by five-MP Reform, but at least he is taking the fight to them on issues that matter to the voters, writes John Rentoul

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8 h. ago Brown bears to become legal source of meat in bid to stop attacks on humans

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico approved plans to shoot 350 of the country's 1,300 brown bears in response to some fatal attacks. The meat will be sold for human consumption

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9 h. ago Man United told 'don't get relegated' in savage message from Malaysian Prime Minister

Manchester United were beaten 1-0 by an ASEAN All-Stars side in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, with the Red Devils' players and manager booed by a large section of the 72,000 crowd

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10 h. ago Nigel Farage ‘introducing poison into politics’, says PM Starmer amid row over 'blatantly racist' Reform advert

Prime Minister says Reform UK is creating ‘toxic divide’ with campaign video it produced ahead of crunch Holyrood by-election

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11 h. ago Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger

Nigel Farage’s tax and spend plans are ‘Liz Truss all over again’, prime minister tells workers in MerseysideThe Conservatives are “sliding into the abyss”, Keir Starmer has said, as he described Nigel Farage and Reform as the main challengers to his Labour government.During a hastily arranged visit to a glass factory in St Helens, the prime minister castigated Farage as a fake defender of working people and compared him to Liz Truss as someone whose fiscal plans would crash the economy. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Starmer says he does not need ‘lessons’ from Farage on working people

The Prime Minister has been scathing in his criticism of the Reform leader.

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11 h. ago Keir Starmer launches attack on Nigel Farage saying 'he can't be trusted'

The Prime Minister accused the Reform UK leader of 'introducing poison into politics'

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11 h. ago Keir Starmer blasts Nigel Farage for bringing 'poison' to Hamilton by

The Prime Minister said Reform was "trying to divide people with a toxic divide, and to poison our politics".

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11 h. ago Farage ‘introducing poison into politics’, warns Starmer amid row over Reform ad

The Prime Minister suggested Reform UK is creating a ‘toxic divide’ with a campaign video it produced ahead of a Holyrood by-election.

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12 h. ago Rachel Reeves could axe up to 50,000 civil service jobs in summer spending review as Chancellor prepares to put squeeze on Whitehall

Officials suggested about 10 per cent of roles would be scrapped by 2030 as Ms Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer look to shrink the size of the state.

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage is ‘Liz Truss all over again’ – UK politics live

Prime minister says ‘you cannot trust Farage with your future and your jobs’ as he gives speech in north-west EnglandStarmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause Truss-style meltdownWhen “something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true”, water minister Emma Hardy has said, reports the PA news agency.Asked about the “threat” which Reform UK poses to Labour, Hardy told GB News:I think it’s really important that any political party is held to account for the promises that they’ve made and we know – gosh, don’t we just know – what happened when [former prime minister] Liz Truss made her £45bn of unfunded tax cuts: the economy tanked, mortgages went up, rents went up, bills went up.When something sounds too good to be true, it’s because it is too good to be true. If [Farage] wants to be taken seriously as a political party, then he needs to come up with some serious policies and he needs to be held to account.Now, had I come on your programme and said, ...

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12 h. ago Where's the cash coming from, Nige? Keir Starmer challenges Farage over Reform's £85bn spending plans

The Prime Minister joined the Tories in taking aim at Mr Farage's economic literacy today after he unveiled plans for an £85billion spending splurge if Reform wins power.

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12 h. ago Malaysian prime minister rubs salt into Man Utd wounds after watching them hit new low

Manchester United’s woeful campaign got even worse during their post-season tour over in Malaysia and the prime minister of the nation has fired a brutal message towards the Red Devils

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13 h. ago 'Political incompetence': Labour veteran John McDonnell calls for grassroots challenge to Keir Starmer's government

John McDonnell, who was suspended from the party last year for voting to scrap the two child benefit cap, accused the Prime Minister of ‘callousness and political incompetence’

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14 h. ago Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker join 300 other celebrities calling for Keir Starmer to stop all arms sales to Israel

The open letter urges the prime minister to "use all available means" to get humanitarian aid into the area

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15 h. ago Gary Lineker and Dua Lipa among stars calling on Keir Starmer to 'end UK’s complicity in horrors of Gaza'

Some 300 actors, musicians, activists and others used an open letter to call on the Prime Minister to ‘take immediate action’

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17 h. ago Dua Lipa and Gary Lineker join stars calling PM to halt all arms sales to Israel

Some 300 actors, musicians, activists and others used an open letter to call on the Prime Minister to ‘take immediate action’.

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