4 h. ago Reform campaigning 'to seize control of London doughnut' reveals assembly member

London Assembly member, Alex Wilson, said the party was “seriously campaigning” to take control of councils in the outskirts of the city

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8 h. ago All Blacks survive brutal Springboks battle to seize control of Rugby Championship

New Zealand 24-17 South Africa: The All Blacks extended their unbeaten run at their Auckland stronghold to 51 matches as they held off the world champions

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24 h. ago Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf praises Tommy Robinson for grooming gang campaigning

Mr Yusuf said Mr Robinson deserves ‘some credit’ for comments on grooming gangs but repeated that he will not be allowed to join Reform UK.

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25 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: By the time she reached the lectern, Dame Andrea

On a day of dizzying politics, nothing quite topped Dame Andrea Jenkyns's arrival on stage at Reform's party conference.

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35 h. ago Nigel Farage welcomes Nadine Dorries as a 'big signing' after she sensationally defected to Reform and declared Tories 'dead'

Former Conservative Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is joining forces with the Reform UK leader as he plots a path to Downing Street, it was revealed yesterday.

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42 h. ago Nigel Farage welcomes Nadine Dorries as a 'big signing' after long

Former Conservative Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is joining forces with the Reform UK leader as he plots a path to Downing Street, it was revealed yesterday.

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48 h. ago Nadine Dorries sensationally defects to Nigel Farage's Reform party and declares: 'The Tory Party is dead'

After months of secret negotiations, the former Conservative Culture Secretary is joining forces with the Reform leader as he plots a path to Downing Street.

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48 h. ago NADINE DORRIES: How being raised in a Liverpool terrace made me a Conservative. And why I've made the agonising decision to leave and join Reform

My core beliefs are the same today as they were the day I joined the Conservatives back in 1995. It was the Conservative Party that had changed, not me.

Politics

49 h. ago DC sues Trump over National Guard as Republicans in Congress weigh seizing more control over capital

GOP is lining up proposals that include letting the president appoint the capital’s attorney general, a position that is currently locally elected

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4 d. ago Starmer crushes bid to sing him happy birthday at Cabinet meeting after desperate reshuffle 'sidelining' Reeves sent markets into a frenzy

Keir Starmer stepped in to stop his new-look top team from marking the occasion as they assembled in Downing Street.

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4 d. ago Now, about those tax rises Starmer gathers Cabinet for first meeting after humiliating Rachel Reeves and drafting in left

Keir Starmer's new-look top team will assemble in Downing Street amid fears the ground is being laid for another brutal tax raid at the Autumn Budget.

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4 d. ago Now council launches legal action to shut THREE migrant hotels: After saga over Bell hotel in Epping, Reform

West Northamptonshire Council said that by accommodating asylum seekers, the three sites may have breached planning rules.

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5 d. ago Reform UK councillor, 22, is accused of electoral malpractice after 'giving away free ice creams outside polling station on local election day'

Video footage allegedly showed Councillor Joseph Boam, former deputy leader of Leicestershire County Council, allegedly passing out free ice creams on Reform UK's local election campaign.

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6 d. ago Labour minister insists the rights of Bell hotel asylum seekers are more important than families in Epping

Sir Keir Starmer could soon bleed voters after the Government won a controversial court victory allowing asylum seekers to stay at The Bell Hotel in Epping.

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6 d. ago More woe for Starmer as plan for votes aged 16 'will benefit Corbyn's party and Nigel Farage'

A poll has found the as-yet unnamed left-wing outfit launched by Jeremy Corbyn could suck up more than a fifth of support among 16 and 17-year olds.

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6 d. ago Time for a major reshuffle, Sir Keir Starmer urged... as PM looks to combat the rise of Reform UK

The Prime Minister is said to be planning to ring the changes in his front bench team in a bid to combat the rise of Nigel Farage's Reform over the summer recess.

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6 d. ago Angela Rayner accused of plotting 'chicken run' to safer seat in the south amid Reform's surge

Recent polling suggests the Deputy Prime Minister's seat of Ashton, which she has held since 2015, could fall to Nigel Farage 's party in the next election.

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7 d. ago Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves?No one in their right mind thinks accommodating asylum seekers in hotels is a good idea. No one in their right mind thinks we should just live with undocumented, life-threatening migration routes into the UK. And no one in their right mind thinks the experiences endured by most migrants could be a rational choice for anyone. Forget for a moment the ludicrous, inflammatory posturing of many who should know better; we ought to be able to begin from these shared acknowledgments.Using hotels for housing vulnerable migrants is the equivalent of what prison reform campaigners have long called warehousing – make sure a problematic group is simply corralled somewhere more or less secure, and hope their issues will somehow sort themselves out. The chaos and under-resourcing of the legal processes involved and the shocking levels of delay mean that the con...

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8 d. ago 'Hijacker' arrested after 'trying to steal plane', but motive remains a mystery

Australian police arrested a suspected hijacker who allegedly tried to seize control of an Australian passenger jet and take it to the Middle East - with investigations into the motive ongoing

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9 d. ago Minneapolis school shooting latest: Suspect’s manifesto reveals plan to target ‘large group of kids in big assembly’

Police say 23-year-old Robin Westman fired indiscriminately through the stained-glass windows of a church next to Annunciation Catholic School

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