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Housing activist exposes truth about ‘landlords leaving the market’ over Renters’ Right Act

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

Landlord groups have claimed that many are leaving the market because of over-regulation.

Martin Mawdsley from ACORN Liverpool

Your Party to focus on backing independent candidates in the upcoming local elections

Olivia Barber
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

The new left-wing outfit won’t be fielding its own candidates

Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Your Party Conference

Reform UK candidate expresses admiration for Oswald Mosley and wants to keep migrants in slave labour

Basit Mahmood
2 April, 2026 (3 days ago)

These are the kinds of people Reform is putting up for election.

Arnold-Tabor

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Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
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‘This is the clearest evidence yet that an EU-UK Youth Mobility scheme is among the least controversial issues in the government’s relationship reset with the EU, even in places that elected a Reform UK member of parliament.’

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Wes Streeting says NHS is ‘not up for grabs’ in context of UK-U.S. trade deal

Basit Mahmood
28 February, 2025

“The NHS is not up for grabs, it’s not on the table in the context of trade, but there are a number of areas where we can and should work together to deepen the trading relationship between our two countries.”

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Anneliese Dodds resigns from cabinet over aid cuts which will ‘remove food and healthcare from desperate people’

Chris Jarvis
28 February, 2025

Dodds has said that increased defence spending can’t be achieved through ‘tactical cuts’

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