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Miriam Cates reminded why British conservatives remain wary of Viktor Orbán

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

The criticism wasn’t confined to social media pile-ons.

Miriam Cates official portrait

Two pints and a packet of populism: How the establishment is switching to Reform

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

So much for “anti-establishment.” Reform’s high-profile recruitment drive, hoovering up failed Conservative politicians whom the public roundly rejected, reeks of old-era Conservatism.

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UKIP’s new logo sparks mockery (and concern!)

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
Today

“This is not a parody.”

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‘Another law that criminalises homelessness will be another broken promise from the Tory government’

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Keir Starmer’s condemnation of ‘terror’ in Gaza is a step forward: but just the beginning

Nafeez Ahmed
31 March, 2024

Starmer’s language at the Concordia event which I attended as part of the organising team represents a seismic shift in the Labour Party’s approach both to the Middle East conflict

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Laurence Fox barred from standing in London mayoral election after nomination forms error

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2024

Fox took to X, formerly Twitter, to put his exclusion from the mayoral contest down to ‘political corruption’ in posts which have since been deleted.

A placard reading smash racism
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We must campaign for a Wales which has the powers it needs to create true equality for all

Sioned Williams
28 March, 2024

We cannot gamble with people’s lives on waiting for a more progressive government in Westminster – for our action plan to have teeth, we must set out the steps for taking the power to enact it.

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MUST WATCH: Gordon Brown perfectly sums up why the two-child benefit cap is unfair

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2024

Ending the two-child benefit cap would lift 250,000 children out of poverty, and lessen the effects of poverty on a further 850,000, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.

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News

Angela Rayner says she will not slow down the rollout of Labour’s New Deal for Working People

Basit Mahmood
28 March, 2024

“What we won’t have is people working regular hours who are given a zero hour contract and no security”

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How the Tories failure to tackle the housing crisis fuels UK poverty 

Hannah Davenport
27 March, 2024

A recent report found UK housing the ‘worse value for money’ of any advanced economy

Keir Starmer
Opinion

Labour must talk about the day-to-day lack of control that so many feel  

Eloise Sacares
27 March, 2024

Labour will need to connect with voters’ deep sense of lacking control and demonstrate how a Labour government will allow them to ‘take back control’ of their everyday lives.   

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Lee Anderson gets schooled in Net Zero row with green energy boss

Hannah Davenport
27 March, 2024

The Tory defector took aim at ‘net zero nonsense’, before being challenged in the community notes

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‘Heartbreaking’: Shocking decline in public satisfaction with NHS under Tories

Hannah Davenport
27 March, 2024

‘The NHS isn’t failing, it’s being failed. What an appalling act of state vandalism’

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