65 h. ago Red meat, no lettuce: Nigel Farage and Liz Truss attend private lunch after week of Tory defections

Meal at Mayfair club took place on day Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick criticised former PM’s mini-budgetIf it was on the menu, a side helping of lettuce never made it to the table. Over blood-red steak and chips, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss came together on Monday for a discreet lunch at a swish Mayfair club, organised by a climate-denying US thinktank.Lois Perry, a former leader of the far-right Ukip party who is now Europe director of the Heartland Institute, posted photographs, now deleted, on X of Farage addressing others, including Truss, at the meal. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Eat MORE red meat and butter. Cut BACK on breakfast cereal. The radical new diet rules that turn decades of advice on its head

After decades of telling ­people to shun red meat and fear butter, the US ­government has unveiled new guidelines that turn that ­conventional nutrition advice on its head.

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7 d. ago Why nutrition experts are wary of Trump’s new protein guidelines

The guidance — including a new food pyramid — emphasizes red meat, whole milk and other animal sources of protein, while downplaying plant-based offerings

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8 d. ago London gets first Reform MP as Andrew Rosindell becomes second Tory to defect in a week

The Romford MP said he spoke to Nigel Farage on Sunday evening and agreed to join his party

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8 d. ago Andrew Rosindell becomes second Tory MP to defect to Reform in a week

He said he spoke to Nigel Farage on Sunday evening and agreed to join his party.

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9 d. ago RFK Jr’s new diet guidelines pose risks for health and the environment, experts say

US health department’s new food pyramid places red meat and cheese high in saturated fats over plant-based proteinsThe new food pyramid rolled out in US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) places animal-based proteins, including cheese and red meats high in saturated fats, above plant-based proteins, which has raised alarm bells among health and environmental experts.This rejiggered food pyramid is in line with Kennedy’s previous signals that he will recommend increasing saturated fat in US diets as part of the “Make America healthy again” movement. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dining with his Tory colleagues last week, Robert Jenrick must have felt like Judas at the Last Supper: ANDREW PIERCE takes us inside the build

There was an unmistakable frisson at the Carlton Club, the inner sanctum of the Conservative Party, last week.

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