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BBC Politics10 Mar 2026

Royal Navy preparing support ship to deploy to eastern Mediterranean

RFA Lyme Bay is placed on "heightened readiness" as a precaution, the Ministry of Defence says.

Defence
BBC Politics10 Mar 2026

Rape victims to get specialised legal advice in courts

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy says the changes are part of "rebalancing the system to put victims first".

Crime
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

LIVE: Reform Pledges to Cut Fuel Bills

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick are “cutting fuel prices for the day at a petrol station in Derbyshire.” They’ve branded up a petrol station for it…

Reform
BBC Politics10 Mar 2026

Youngest council leader faces no confidence vote

Warwickshire County Council's George Finch is accused of bringing the authority "into disrepute".

Defence
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Bridget Phillipson Celebrates Commons Vote That Never Happened

Bridget Phillipson stuck out a post last night attacking the Tories and Reform for not voting with Labour on free school meals: Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. The Tories and Reform UK voted against. Only Labour will give children…

PoliticsReform
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.

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

Economy
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

PoliticsEconomy
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".

ImmigrationCrime
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.

PoliticsReform
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…

Housing