BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
MSPs prepare for final amendments to assisted dying bill
Holyrood members will wade through about 300 proposed changes to the law before a final vote.
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Exclusive Interview: "Rising Star" Switches to Restore Britain — "I Want a Political Home That Respects Me"
Kieran Mishchuk, 19, who won his seat for Reform UK aged 18, tells Restore News why he made the switch and why he hasn't looked back.
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Troubling Evidence Of Corruption
The attacks continue as Restore Britain's popularity is causing panic at Reform
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Young Bob Assaulted By Muslim Gang
Prominent remigration activist Young Bob was assaulted and robbed in Whitechapel on Tuesday evening by a gang of muslims gathered for a debate outside a mosque.
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The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future
Ben Habib's proposed merger with Restore Britain collapses after Rupert Lowe refuses to hand over the keys. The reaction from Advance UK's inner circle reveals more about their motivations than they intended.
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
Scrapping North Sea windfall tax would not reduce UK energy bills, say experts
Rachel Reeves said to be considering levy cuts for oil and gas firms, but economists say this would just fatten profits Easing the windfall tax on the North Sea would do nothing for hard-pressed consumers, and merely fatten the profits of oil and gas companies, economists and experts have told the Guardian. Rachel Reeves, the UK chancellor, is understood to be considering reductions to the energy profits levy, or potentially scrapping it and replacing it with a lower duty. Oil prices rose to $10
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
Reeves to face MPs’ grilling over cost-of-living pressures – UK politics live
Chancellor to take Treasury questions amid market turbulence linked to Middle East conflict As we mentioned in the opening post, Rachel Reeves is under pressure to cancel the planned increase in fuel duty due in September which will cause drivers to pay more for petrol and diesel as the government rolls back a temporary cut that was introduced in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At her budget last year, Reeves said the 5p cut would be unwound between September 2026 an
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BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
Legal costs in asylum seeker hotel case hit £566k
The council that took action against The Bell Hotel says court costs were "completely unfair".
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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
Labour Inadvertently Hands Bankers New Path to Multi-Million Tribunal Payouts
In what must be the perfect case study in the law of unintended consequences, Labour’s new Employment Rights Act (ERA) gives top bankers the chance to rake in millions in dismissal payouts with the scrapping of the compensation cap. Chants of “thank you Angie!” can be heard emanating from the City for the first time…
Express Politics10 Mar 2026
Keir Starmer has three angry men gunning for him now - and none are Nigel Farage
The PM is holding crisis talks this morning as the Labour Party braces for annihilation at local elections in May.
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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
Britain Deploys Auxiliary Support Ship to Eastern Mediterranean
Reports are emerging that the RFA Lyme Bay – part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – has now been routed to the Eastern Mediterranean. HMS Dragon has still not left port… Lyme Bay is currently in Gibraltar. It is a sealift ship capable of transporting a variety of assets – and people – and is…
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials
Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales Plans to curtail the number of jury trials in England and Wales have been described as “unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced” by thousands of lawyers who have written to the prime minister. The letter to Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, from 3,200 lawyers, including 300 senior barristers, comes as his government faces the prospect of one of its most serious backbench r
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
Reform Vows to Axe Reeves’ 5p Fuel Duty Hike By Scrapping Net Zero Billions
Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have told the Sun they’d scrap £13.5 billion in net zero spending to reverse Reeves’ hike to fuel duty due September: “Reform would cut £13.5billion in bonkers green schemes. And we’d use that money to do what Reeves should but won’t — cut your bills. That starts with scrapping this…
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BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
MPs reject call for under-16s social media ban, backing more flexible powers
The House of Lords had backed a move to ban under-16s in the UK from social media platforms in January.
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
The blistering speech that tells me Britain’s social care deadlock can finally be broken | Polly Toynbee
If anyone can convince politicians and public of the need to pay for a national care service, it’s Louise Casey. With her involved, I now have hope No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond market freaked out by Liz Truss and then stricken by the arrival of Trump 2.0 with his bully-tariffs. Now Britain’s ally is setting the Middle East on fire in a murderous war, exploding oil and gas prices.
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Conservative Home10 Mar 2026
We are already getting a glimpse of what Miliband would be like in No. 11
The failed Labour leader, now Energy Secretary, is increasingly tipped as a possible Chancellor in a post–Keir Starmer world. But we may not need to speculate about what he would be like in No11. In many ways, the Miliband chancellorship is already on display. The post We are already getting a glimpse of what Miliband would be like in No. 11 appeared first on Conservative Home.
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