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Mel Stride and Priti Patel replaced in major Tory reshuffle
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is shaking up her top team ahead of the party's conference in October.
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Conservative reshuffle: who’s who in Kemi Badenoch’s top team?
From a darling of the Tory right to a moderate former army officer, we profile the key playersAndrew Griffith and Tom Tugendhat join Badenoch’s top team in Tory reshuffleKemi Badenoch has kicked off t...
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More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs
Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reformAndy Burnham will drive home his pledge to bring more essential services back into publi...
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Andrew Griffith and Tom Tugendhat join Badenoch’s top team in Tory reshuffle
Conservative leader sacks shadow chancellor Mel Stride and shadow foreign secretary Priti PatelConservative reshuffle: who’s who in Kemi Badenoch’s top team?Kemi Badenoch sacked her shadow chancellor,...
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Burnham’s bumpy ride ahead: PM’s in-tray full of dilemmas as parliament returns
Labour leader faces tough decisions on issues such as North Sea drilling, electoral reform and defence spendingAfter a relatively cheery summer in which he announced a range of eye-catching cost of li...
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UK social mobility watchdog could be axed as ministers plan shake-up
Exclusive: Labour MPs believe Gordon Brown-era SMC has become ineffective and its work ‘should be a core function of government’Ministers are considering a shake-up of the government’s social mobility...
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Can Reform UK recover from its summer horribilis?
Clacton, funding, internal divisions – party prepares for annual conference next week after a season of misstepsSenior Reform UK figures like to boast that the summer time – and parliament’s longest r...
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The London office, the empty boxes and the £1bn tax loophole
Exclusive: How a court case over an unoccupied office block could end a widely used tax avoidance schemeFrom the outside, the seven-storey building at 2 America Square looks like any other office bloc...
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Cross-party talks needed to tackle climate crisis, say Lib Dems
Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’Andy Burnham should call a cross-party meeting to discuss the UK’s response to worsening extreme weath...
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NHS to offer free high-street cholesterol tests in England
Checks at pharmacies for people aged 40 to 84 are aimed at identifying those at risk of heart attack or strokeThe NHS in England is to offer free finger-p**** blood tests for cholesterol on the high s...
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Rejoining the EU, Burnham’s donors and the bedroom tax: Politics Weekly answers your questions – podcast
Will the UK ever rejoin the EU? Who is funding Andy Burnham? And will the bedroom tax be scrapped? In a special episode, Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker answer some of your questionsPlease keep sending...
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‘GB News wouldn’t touch him’: Milo Yiannopoulos will struggle to fit in with UK right wing
‘Alt-right’ agitator and former Trump backer deported from US is said also to be too extreme for ReformAs he arrives back in the UK after being deported from the US by the Trump administration, the fa...
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Loyle Carner takes aim at J.K. Rowling, “toxic masculinity b*******” and the far right during Reading 2026 set
The rapper also called on the crowd to “make some noise for the NHS” The post Loyle Carner takes aim at J.K. Rowling, “toxic masculinity b*******” and the far right during Reading 2026 set appeared f...
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Cleverly avoids culture war issues in pitch to be next London mayor
Conservative hopeful says Sadiq Khan has ‘lost passion for the job’ and Andy Burnham is ‘very anti-London’ James Cleverly has pledged to run a “classically Conservative” campaign to become the mayor...
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Andy Burnham pledge to end indefinite prison terms ‘a step towards healing’
Campaigners welcome plan to bring IPP sentences to a close but say the move is long overdueCampaigners have hailed Andy Burnham’s pledge to bring an end to indefinite jail terms as “a day that thousan...
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UK asks banks for feelgood stories about keeping out dirty money
City firms tapped for case studies to try to convince global watchdog that London has cleaned up its actThe government is asking bankers and lawyers to provide feelgood stories about how they blocked...
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PC Andrew Harper’s killers will stay in prison as Burnham changes early release scheme
PM says anyone convicted of unlawful killing, including all forms of manslaughter, will be excluded from the schemePC Andrew Harper’s killers will remain behind bars after Andy Burnham announced chang...
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Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire
Reform UK denies donor and crypto-billionaire’s global interests in arms and military could present a conflict of interest over its defence spending policyAs he struggles with questions about the mill...
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Giorgia on their minds: Farage and Badenoch scrap to be mates with Meloni
Tories accuse Reform of ‘peddling conspiracy theories’ as row erupts in wake of Conservative leader’s trip to Rome Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have spent years trading barbs and fighting for the ri...
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James Cleverly resigns from shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London
Shadow minister for housing, communities and local government to resign with immediate effectJames Cleverly has resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London.The Tory heavyweight, who wa...
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