7 h. ago Motorists living in affluent London street accuse Labour of installing 'socialist speed bumps' that only scrape expensive cars

Residents in Lewisham claim the new traffic calming measures breach the council's own recommended height limit.

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47 h. ago Nigel Farage accuses Labour of betraying Brexit as he launches Reform's campaign in London

The Reform UK leader was speaking at a rally at the Excel centre in London

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57 h. ago Greens could join pact with Labour to stop Farage – but only if Starmer is replaced as leader, Polanski says

Exclusive: Zack Polanski tells The Independent that doing a deal with a Starmer-led Labour Party would ‘lead to a worse version of Nigel Farage’

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58 h. ago Princess Kate says she is ‘deeply grateful’ as she celebrates her 44th birthday

The royals dropped in on NHS workers on a tea break in West London to offer support amid the challenging winter period, which has seen a surge in flu cases

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59 h. ago Princess Kate celebrates her 44th birthday a day after surprise NHS visit

The royals dropped in on NHS workers on a tea break in West London to offer support amid the challenging winter period, which has seen a surge in flu cases

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3 d. ago Labour in pole position to win 2028 race for Mayor of London, new survey reveals

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Sadiq Khan’s party is on 32%, the Conservatives 20%, Reform 19%, the Greens 13% and Liberal Democrats 11%

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3 d. ago Labour in pole position to win 2028 race for London Mayor, new survey reveals

Labour in pole position to win 2028 race for London Mayor, new survey reveals  London Evening Standard

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4 d. ago Major changes to Troubles laws would need UK and Irish approval, says minister

Ireland’s Foreign Affairs minister was commenting after Sir Keir Starmer suggested new veterans’ protections may be added to draft legislation.

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4 d. ago Labour 'ally' of Sadiq Khan drops bombshell at Oxford Street quango launch: 'I wish this didn't exist'

‘We would rather this body didn’t exist and we weren’t here’ says Westminster council leader

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4 d. ago Nigel Farage launches bid to ‘get rid of Sadiq Khan’ as Reform UK unveils candidate to target Labour’s London

Nigel Farage launches bid to ‘get rid of Sadiq Khan’ as Reform UK unveils candidate to target Labour’s London  GB News

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5 d. ago Labour hits record low in London with Tories 4th behind Greens and Reform, new poll

Labour hits record low in London with Tories 4th behind Greens and Reform, new poll  London Evening Standard

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5 d. ago Labour hits new record low in London with Tories pushed into fourth place behind Greens and Reform, poll finds

EXCLUSIVE: Just 31% of Londoners now say they would vote for Sir Keir Starmer’s party, according to a Savanta survey, down from 43% at the 2024 General Election

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage’s Reform UK to win eight seats in London at next General Election as Labour implodes

Full list of constituencies in the capital set to change hands in 2029, according to new survey

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9 d. ago ‘We were missing in the conversation’: how Zack Polanski hit on plan to beat Reform at their own game

This time last year Polanski was barely known outside the party. Now he’s hoping for success at May’s local elections - by taking a page from Nigel Farage’s playbookZack Polanski finally decided to stand as the Greens’ leader, he says, after witnessing the party being eclipsed by Reform in last May’s local elections across England, and realising that British politics had changed for good.While the Greens made yet more steady gains, Reform won nearly 700 councillors from a standing start. As deputy leader, it was Polanski’s job to speak to losing candidates to both offer consolation and ask what lessons could be learned. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sadiq Khan brands Donald Trump a bully and vows to stand up to his ‘hatred and bile’

Labour London mayor hits out at the US President’s ‘pathetic name-calling’ and suggests warm meeting with Zohran Mamdani was just the New York mayor’s ‘diplomacy’

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1 week ago Gary Lineker opens up about BBC and claims it can 'never be impartial'

In a new interview with Green Party leader Zack Polanski, the footballing legend claimed the Beeb couldn’t always stay neutral on everything, saying 'it's impossible'

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1 week ago Gary Lineker says BBC needs to look at how people are brought in at the top

Lineker is appearing on Green Party leader Zack Polanski’s podcast on New Year’s Eve where he said he would ‘never’ go into politics himself.

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1 week ago Celeb hairdresser bans Labour MPs from his west London salon in protest over Budget

Michael Van Clarke has joined hundreds of other businesses in the protest

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2 w. ago Florida man sues steakhouse after suffering ‘severe bodily injury’ when toilet he was using ‘shattered’ beneath him, suit says

Michael Green claims that he has ‘significant and permanent loss of an important bodily function’ after the toilet collapsed beneath him

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2 w. ago US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims

New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of livingMost Americans now connect the worsening climate crisis with their cost of living pressures, with clear majorities also disagreeing with moves by the Trump administration to gut climate research and halt windfarms, new polling has found.About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University. Continue reading...

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