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Can Farage really become PM? Why electoral chaos could mean power for Reform

Can Farage really become PM? Why electoral chaos could mean power for Reform

Reform's big poll lead suggests first past the post may flip to work to the party's advantage. But many obstacles still lie in the way

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LGBTQ+ centre offering 'safe space' could be opened in Glasgow

LGBTQ+ centre offering 'safe space' could be opened in Glasgow

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Angela Rayner's one-word verdict on whether she'll replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister

Angela Rayner's one-word verdict on whether she'll replace Keir Starmer as Prime Minister

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Defiant Kemi Badenoch skewers Nigel Farage - 'don't underestimate me'

Defiant Kemi Badenoch skewers Nigel Farage - 'don't underestimate me'

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Fears that King Charles is heading for row with Donald Trump in historic Canada visit

Fears that King Charles is heading for row with Donald Trump in historic Canada visit

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Andrew Neil accuses Keir Starmer of 'gaslighting to a deplorable level'

Andrew Neil accuses Keir Starmer of 'gaslighting to a deplorable level'

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Angela Rayner declares war on Rachel Reeves in Sky interview demanding benefit U-turns

Angela Rayner declares war on Rachel Reeves in Sky interview demanding benefit U-turns

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Texas bill requiring sheriffs to collaborate with ICE given initial approval by state House

Texas bill requiring sheriffs to collaborate with ICE given initial approval by state House

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Harris urges US against tariff hikes on pharma and microchip sectors

Evening Standard

Harris urges US against tariff hikes on pharma and microchip sectors

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Keir Starmer poised to scrap 'cruel' two child benefit cap in bid to lift kids out of poverty

Keir Starmer poised to scrap 'cruel' two child benefit cap in bid to lift kids out of poverty

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Winter fuel allowance changes should be set out in weeks, Rayner suggests

Winter fuel allowance changes should be set out in weeks, Rayner suggests

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Reeves wants you to save less in your cash ISA – here’s how she’ll do it

Reeves wants you to save less in your cash ISA – here’s how she’ll do it

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Deputy PM Angela Rayner rules out running for Labour leader - 'never'

Deputy PM Angela Rayner rules out running for Labour leader - 'never'

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'Troubling direction' or 'targeting exploitation': Gen Z debates Unbuyable bill

'Troubling direction' or 'targeting exploitation': Gen Z debates Unbuyable bill

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'Sold out once again': Anger in Peterhead as EU fishing deal proves rotten

'Sold out once again': Anger in Peterhead as EU fishing deal proves rotten

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Rachel Reeves is reversing her worst decision – here’s seven more errors she must undo NOW

Rachel Reeves is reversing her worst decision – here’s seven more errors she must undo NOW

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Keir Starmer battling Rachel Reeves over ending two-child benefit cap in new u-turn

Keir Starmer battling Rachel Reeves over ending two-child benefit cap in new u-turn

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Kemi Badenoch could be ousted by November - these are the 3 people who couple replace her

Kemi Badenoch could be ousted by November - these are the 3 people who couple replace her

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Starmer ‘wants to SCRAP child benefit cap’ in latest welfare U-turn after Angela Rayner demanded help cut for millions

Starmer ‘wants to SCRAP child benefit cap’ in latest welfare U-turn after Angela Rayner demanded help cut for millions

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Renationalisation of Britain’s train services begins

Evening Standard

Renationalisation of Britain’s train services begins

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Trump’s sledgehammer politics are wreaking havoc in every sphere both home and away

Trump’s sledgehammer politics are wreaking havoc in every sphere both home and away

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Harvie faces new Holyrood challenge as second activist launches bid to replace MSP

Harvie faces new Holyrood challenge as second activist launches bid to replace MSP

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'I'm just a wee bam from Grangemouth' How Gillian Mackay aims to lead Scottish Greens

'I'm just a wee bam from Grangemouth' How Gillian Mackay aims to lead Scottish Greens

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'Too hungry to learn': Scale of food hunger in school leads teachers to feed children

'Too hungry to learn': Scale of food hunger in school leads teachers to feed children

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SNP ministers reaction to reset 'bizarre' given independence in EU aim

SNP ministers reaction to reset 'bizarre' given independence in EU aim

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I've been the child going to school with debilitating hunger - here's what it's like

I've been the child going to school with debilitating hunger - here's what it's like

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Reform support in Hamilton should strike fear into the hearts of other parties

Reform support in Hamilton should strike fear into the hearts of other parties

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Fighting talk from candidates for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election race

Fighting talk from candidates for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election race

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Keir Starmer's too scared to sort 1 problem Nigel Farage won't dodge - it's not migration

Keir Starmer's too scared to sort 1 problem Nigel Farage won't dodge - it's not migration

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Campaigners demand rethink over plan to switch off television broadcasts in 2034

Campaigners demand rethink over plan to switch off television broadcasts in 2034

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Nigel Farge vows to reinstate winter fuel allowance and scrap two child benefit cap

Nigel Farge vows to reinstate winter fuel allowance and scrap two child benefit cap

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Renationalisation of Britain’s train services begins

Evening Standard

Renationalisation of Britain’s train services begins

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How a £100m funding black hole left council ‘dying by a thousand cuts’

How a £100m funding black hole left council ‘dying by a thousand cuts’

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Can Farage really become PM? Why electoral chaos could mean power for Reform

Can Farage really become PM? Why electoral chaos could mean power for Reform

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Labour's dereliction of duty as Keir Starmer failing this basic responsibility

Labour's dereliction of duty as Keir Starmer failing this basic responsibility

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Sir David Attenborough's Scots cameraman backs groundbreaking 'ecocide' law

Sir David Attenborough's Scots cameraman backs groundbreaking 'ecocide' law

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David Cameron 'lost the plot' by making PPE scandal tycoon Michelle Mone a Tory peer

David Cameron 'lost the plot' by making PPE scandal tycoon Michelle Mone a Tory peer

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Get building or lose your land: Labour propose strict new demands for developers

Get building or lose your land: Labour propose strict new demands for developers

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France impounds UK vessel accused of illegal fishing

France impounds UK vessel accused of illegal fishing

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How one woman's racist tweet sparked a free speech row

How one woman's racist tweet sparked a free speech row

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South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour

South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour

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Farage commits to reinstating winter fuel payment

Farage commits to reinstating winter fuel payment

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Defense Sec. Hegseth puts new limits on press access at the Pentagon

Defense Sec. Hegseth puts new limits on press access at the Pentagon

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Biden makes first public appearance since cancer announcement

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Biden makes first public appearance since cancer announcement

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First renationalised train service starts today - but not how you'd have hoped…

First renationalised train service starts today - but not how you'd have hoped…

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Bates attacks 'kangaroo court' Post Office scheme after 'take it or leave it' offer

Bates attacks 'kangaroo court' Post Office scheme after 'take it or leave it' offer

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PM could lift controversial benefit cap in budget - as Farage makes two big election promises

PM could lift controversial benefit cap in budget - as Farage makes two big election promises

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Heidi Alexander will 'strain every sinew for trains to be decent value for money'

Heidi Alexander will 'strain every sinew for trains to be decent value for money'

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Rubio warns court order blocking deportations to South Sudan causes 'irreparable harm' to foreign policy

Rubio warns court order blocking deportations to South Sudan causes 'irreparable harm' to foreign policy

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Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption blasts ECHR

Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption blasts ECHR

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Farage ‘backs scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payments’

Evening Standard

Farage ‘backs scrapping child benefit cap and restoring winter fuel payments’

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Bates says Post Office scandal compensation schemes are ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’

Evening Standard

Bates says Post Office scandal compensation schemes are ‘quasi-kangaroo courts’

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Angela Rayner declares war on developers who don't build promised homes with major rules change

Angela Rayner declares war on developers who don't build promised homes with major rules change

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'It's going to be ugly': Westminster braces for Spending Review

'It's going to be ugly': Westminster braces for Spending Review

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Boris and Carrie Johnson announce birth of fourth child

Boris and Carrie Johnson announce birth of fourth child

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New rules may take unfinished housing sites off developers

New rules may take unfinished housing sites off developers

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How do once fringe, right-wing theories make their to the White House?

How do once fringe, right-wing theories make their to the White House?

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Trump's massive spending bill & the GOP's priorities

Trump's massive spending bill & the GOP's priorities

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Washington Times Weekly: Debt bomb ticking?

washington times

Washington Times Weekly: Debt bomb ticking?

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Trump administration official meets with Syrian president as U.S. eases sanctions

washington times

Trump administration official meets with Syrian president as U.S. eases sanctions

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Angela Rayner issues 'radical' ultimatum in barb to blockers of new homes

Angela Rayner issues 'radical' ultimatum in barb to blockers of new homes

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