3 h. ago 'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins from Tories

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

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4 h. ago 'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins party from Tories

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

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6 h. ago Nigel Farage is warned Reform risks becoming the 'Slytherin House' of British politics and a 'succession battle is looming' for the leadership after Tory defections

Nigel Farage welcomed Robert Jenrick into the fold last night, hours after he had been summarily sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting a betrayal.

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6 h. ago ‘I’m not mucky middle class,' says Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell

The former Cabinet minister spoke about her Irish roots and the ‘anti-Farage alliance’ in a wide-ranging interview with Vogue

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8 h. ago Backdoor blasphemy laws ‘will never happen’, says Cabinet minister amid row over Labour’s redefinition of Islamophobia

It comes after Reform’s candidate for London mayor Laila Cunningham suggested women in burkas should be stopped and searched by police

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9 h. ago 'Traitors' politics: Cabinet minister's warning as Farage teases high

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

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9 h. ago 'Traitors' politics: Cabinet minister seeks to brush off looming Labour defection to Reform trailed by Farage

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

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24 h. ago Everything we know about Robert Jenrick defecting to Reform UK

The former Tory cabinet minister has joined Nigel Farage's party

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32 h. ago Cabinet minister says voters WANT Labour to cancel 'pointless' local elections as Nigel Farage vows legal action

At least 30 councils - covering more than five million people - are expected to have applied to postpone elections by a deadline that expired at midnight.

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33 h. ago 'Resign today,' Cabinet minister tells Chief Constable in storm over Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban

Health Secretary Wes Streeting slams West Midlands police boss Craig Guildford

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3 d. ago Andy Burnham piles pressure on Rachel Reeves to 'rebalance' taxes on the high street after Chancellor refuses to extend rate bail out beyond pubs despite fear of mass closures

The Greater Manchester mayor, a former Cabinet minister and possible challenger to Keir Starmer, said changes were needed as part of wider reform that includes revaluing council tax.

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4 d. ago Nadhim Zahawi once warned Nigel Farage's Britain would be 'frightening' for foreign

The former cabinet minister and MP was unveiled by a beaming Mr Farage at a press conference today. But he was not a fan of his new leader when they were on opposing sides.

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4 d. ago Hit Elon Musk's X with 'full extent of the law,' Cabinet minister urges Ofcom amid Grok sexual images storm

Business Secretary Peter Kyle slammed as ‘disgusting’ that women were being digitally pictured in bikinis

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4 d. ago EU to demand a 'Farage clause' payout if Reform axes Brexit reset

Nigel Farage on Sunday warned he will not pay compensation to the EU for tearing up Labour's Brexit reset.

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage issues chilling WW3 warning as UK troops set to be deployed

The Reform leader rebuked commitments made by the Prime Minister

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7 d. ago UK ministers considering leaving X amid concern over AI tool images

Labour party chair says government having conversations about use of platform in light of sexualised Grok images UK politics live – latest updatesUK ministers are considering leaving X as a result of the controversy over the platform’s AI tool, which has been allowing users to generate digitally altered pictures of people – including children – with their clothes removed.Anna Turley, the chair of the Labour party and a minister without portfolio in the Cabinet Office, said on Friday that conversations were happening within the government and Labour about their continued use of the social media platform, which is controlled by Elon Musk. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Elon Musk's X should be ditched by Labour, former Cabinet minister demands

Louise Haigh, who was previously Transport Secretary, called on the Labour Party and the Government to ditch Elon Musk's X after its AI chatbot was used for sexualised deepfakes

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8 d. ago British soldiers sent to Ukraine on peace keeping mission would be 'legitimate combat targets,' says Russia

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden said UK troops deployed to Ukraine would be in a position to fire back if attacked by Vladimir Putin’s army

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8 d. ago Rachel Reeves brands critics of benefits splurge RACIST as Labour boasts about law scrapping two

Rachel Reeves accused Nigel Farage of only wanting white people to get welfare after he warned Labour's policy will benefit 'huge numbers of foreign-born people'.

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9 d. ago Pub chiefs demand ‘fast solution’ to easing punishing business rates hikes after government talks

PUB chiefs are demanding a “fast and meaningful” solution to easing punishing business rates hikes following talks yesterday with government. Treasury Minister Dan Tomlinson and officials are understood to be in “listening mode” after the Budget tax grab threatens the sector. The meeting comes as Cabinet Ministers are understood to be opposed to the hike....

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