76 m. ago The Conservative party needs to pull its socks up, says leading Tory mayor

The Conservative leader has launched a policy blitz this week to coincide with her party's annual conference.

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90 m. ago Tory plans to further cut foreign aid would be ‘epic act of self

Bond chief executive Romilly Greenhill said she is ‘deeply concerned’ to hear the Conservatives plan to further cut aid.

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1 hour ago Warning that Trump scrapping diversity orders could hurt global economic growth

Mariella Frostrup says Trump’s policies mark a major backwards step

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1 hour ago Labour is ‘complicit’ in abuse towards Jewish community, says Priti Patel

The shadow foreign secretary told Conservative Party members on Sunday evening that Labour has lost ‘any moral purpose’.

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2 h. ago Tories pledge to make £47bn of savings with major cut to welfare

Shadow chancellor set to announce raft of cuts across welfare and foreign aid

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2 h. ago Kevin Maguire: 'Kemi Badenoch's Nigel Farage tribute act will crash Tory party'

Kevin Maguire argues that the Conservative Party veering further to the right, and into Reform UK territory, is an act of blind panic that could cost the Conversative Party even more votes

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2 h. ago Calls for Welsh Government to pause windfarm applications in Powys

The motion will be put forward by Cllr Glyn Preston (Liberal Democrat - Llanidloes) and will be seconded by Cllr Jonathan Wilkinson (Conservative - Llangyniew and Meifod)

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3 h. ago Ange Postecoglou facing Nottingham Forest sack pressure as he hits out after latest loss

Ange Postecoglou is set for talks with Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis during the international break as he faces mounting pressure after a 2-0 defeat to Newcastle

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3 h. ago Tories to set out plans to cut £47bn from government spending

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride will unveil proposals at the Tory party conference.

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3 h. ago Eddie Howe admits Newcastle United made major mistake with £35million transfer

Newcastle United face Nottingham Forest on Sunday at St James' Park, with former Toon midfielder Elliot Anderson, now a fully-fledged England international, set to return to face his boyhood side

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3 h. ago 'Same old Tories' unveil plan to cut benefits for 'low level' mental health conditions

The Conservatives were accused of coming back with reheated policies to cut benefits, foreign aid and civil service numbers - and failing to apologise for their dire record

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4 h. ago Lib Dems will ‘almost undoubtedly’ win more votes than Tories, says top pollster John Curtice

Sir John Curtice made the stark warning at a fringe event at the Conservative party conference

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5 h. ago Guardiola hails ‘incredible’ Haaland and Donnarumma after City’s win at Brentford

‘I have an incredible striker and keeper’ says managerPep ‘honoured’ to gain 250th Premier League winPep Guardiola was thankful his Manchester City team has Erling Haaland scoring goals and Gianluigi Donnarumma stopping them after victory at Brentford came at the cost of another Rodri injury.“I have an incredible striker and keeper,” Guardiola said, the Norwegian’s ninth-minute goal proving the winner. Haaland’s form is reaching the levels of City’s 2022-23 treble season, the No 9 scoring in a ninth consecutive game. “He’s the best,” said his manager. “The year of the treble, he scored – what? – 50 million goals? I think he’s part of the club now, he’s settled. He feels now that it’s mine.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Badenoch warned plans to ditch ECHR is ‘death wish’ for Tory party

Conservative leader has taken her party to the hard right with the announcement they would leave the European Convention on Human Rights and deport 150,000 illegal immigrants a year

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6 h. ago It is Thatcher – not Badenoch – who looms largest over the Tory party conference

The merchandise stall is selling mugs, Christmas baubles and bottles of whisky bearing their former leader’s face as the party celebrates what would have been her 100th birthday, write Millie Cooke and Archie Mitchell

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6 h. ago Ange Postecoglou reveals Nottingham Forest owner talks as pressure builds

Ange Postecoglou is under mounting pressure at Nottingham Forest, less than a month after taking charge, after his winless run reached seven matches with defeat at Newcastle

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6 h. ago Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti

Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of demonstrations as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’Civil liberty groups have expressed concern over government plans to hand police greater powers to restrict protests as organisers of mass demonstrations against the banning of Palestine Action pledged a “major escalation” of their campaign.Shabana Mahmood said on Sunday that repeated large-scale demonstrations over Gaza had caused “considerable fear” for the Jewish community in the wake of a fatal terror attack on a synagogue last week. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Postecoglou enters talks intent on keeping job at Nottingham Forest

Defeat at Newcastle is his seventh match without a win‘You have to be up for the fight and the struggle’Ange Postecoglou is determined to convince Nottingham Forest’s board to retain faith in his ­managerial ­philosophy when he holds talks with the club’s owner, Evangelos ­Marinakis, this week.The Australian was in defiant, almost jocular form after Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at Newcastle. It extended the manager’s winless run to seven games since he succeeded Nuno Espírito Santo last month. Yet Postecoglou, who unusually started with a back five, detected signs of progress as he prepared for vital talks with directors to discuss the future. “Yes, it’s a lost cause,” he said, sarcastically. “I see it as an exciting opportunity. You have to be up for the fight and the struggle. I’d be silly to be sitting here at the age of 60 if I lacked self-belief or fight. Even in the schoolyard I picked fights with people that beat me up.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Ange Postecoglou battles to avoid record set by 'worst manager of all time' as Nottingham Forest 'consider sacking'

The Australian could be the new holder of the most unwanted of record

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7 h. ago Badenoch says Tories open to quitting more treaties to increase deportations

Party leader uses conference speech to outline proposal for UK to exit ECHR as part of wider bonfire of protectionsA future Tory government would be open to dismantling more treaties as a means to deport people from the UK, Kemi Badenoch has said at the start of a Conservative party conference focused almost exclusively on immigration policy.Making the first of two addresses to the gathering in Manchester, the Tory leader formally set out her proposal for the UK to quit the European convention on human rights (ECHR) as part of a wider bonfire of protections including an end to legal aid in immigration and asylum cases and the right to take migration decisions to tribunals or judicial review. Continue reading...

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