38 m. ago Traces of cocaine found in toilets at Labour Party conference event attended by MPs

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star Sunday used special detection wipes in the toilets at the event which revealed the Class A drug was present

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1 hour ago Mel Stride issues warning to Tory leadership plotters on eve of conference

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride has spoken to The Independent ahead of the Tory conference in Manchester

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5 h. ago Top London Tory defects to Reform and 'charismatic' Nigel Farage in blow to Kemi Badenoch on eve of party conference

London Assembly member Keith Prince says Reform ‘has a vision’ - while the Conservative party ‘is not the party I joined 49 years ago’

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7 h. ago Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot | Simon Jenkins

They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about StarmerParty conference time is when British politics goes berserk. Leaders soar and crash in a morass of cliches. Polls go mad and cataclysm always delivers the best copy.Thus, back in 1981, Margaret Thatcher was at her Blackpool conference, two years into office. Brixton was rioting, inflation was 11% and the Tories were polling at 23%. The Labour opposition was faring as badly, also at 23%. Meanwhile, a third force, the Social Democratic party (SDP), in alliance with the Liberals, was running at more than 50% and dominating the news. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Green leader warns of authoritarian ‘alarm bells’ in conference speech

Zack Polanski, the newly elected leader of the Green Party, criticised Labour and Reform in conference speech on Friday.

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26 h. ago Zack Polanski warns Keir Starmer’s Britain is descending into authoritarianism

The politician is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters

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27 h. ago Green Party leader calls for all drugs to be legalised and blasts Farage 'dark forces'

Zack Polanski told the BBC that a 'public health approach' is needed to drugs, including cocaine and heroin, and in his party conference speech he had a strong message to Nigel Farage

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27 h. ago Keir Starmer a ‘handmaiden’ to the rise of Reform UK, Green Party’s Polanski warns

Zack Polanski is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters

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33 h. ago 'Starmer accused me of being racist': Joyce who became centre point of PM's conference speech reveals what REALLY happened

Keir Starmer's anecdote about meeting retiree Joyce Todd became the centrepiece of his leader's speech at the Labour Party conference.

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43 h. ago Labour are ‘handmaidens’ to Reform, Green Party leader to tell conference

Zack Polanski will also insist that migrants and refugees ‘are part of what makes Britain great’.

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48 h. ago Badenoch says Robert Jenrick’s thoughts are ‘my thoughts repackaged’ in withering putdown

The Tory leader took a swipe at her shadow justice secretary ahead of the party’s conference in Manchester this weekend

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49 h. ago Robert Jenrick’s thoughts are ‘my thoughts repackaged’, says Kemi Badenoch

The Tory leader took a swipe at her shadow justice secretary ahead of the party’s conference in Manchester this weekend

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50 h. ago Baroness Mone accuses Chancellor of ‘inflammatory’ language in letter to PM

Rachel Reeves is reported to have joked that the Government had a vendetta against peer Lady Mone during a fringe event at Labour’s party conference.

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56 h. ago 'I'm the woman Keir Starmer used to prove he understands people's concerns about migration... now I don't believe a word he says': Life

Earlier this week Sir Keir told his party's conference he twigged 'the Left had got it wrong on illegal immigration' when he visited the town of Oldham ten years ago and spoke to a pensioner.

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3 d. ago Forget Andy Burnham – these are the five people who could actually be the next prime minister

Political editor David Maddox looks at the five contenders who have emerged this week at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool as potential leadership candidates

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3 d. ago London tax bombshell: 170,000 would be hit by stealth income threshold freeze extension

Rachel Reeves admitted during the Labour Party Conference that she no longer stands by her pledge last year not to raise taxes

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3 d. ago Ignore the naysayers, Lady Starmer... Your Labour conference wardrobe was quietly clever

Keir Starmer may have had a tricky time at party conference in Liverpool but Lady Starmer has breezed through it looking like a Prime Minister's wife for serious times that require hard choices.

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3 d. ago Just 29,000 criminals cost public purse £5billion a year through prolific shoplifting, theft and violence

A study presented at the Labour Party conference found that tens of thousands of repeat offenders were responsible for 130,000 crimes a year, ranging from burglary to assault

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3 d. ago Biggest ever Palestine Action protest to take place this weekend with 1,500 expected to descend on London

Saturday's demonstration is part of a week of mass protests that has seen 66 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for supporting the group

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3 d. ago Watch Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy sing Oasis at Mirror's Labour conference party

Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy took to the stage alongside former shadow cabinet member Jonathan Ashworth at the Mirror's famous conference party

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