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BBC Politics6 Aug 2026

What will Devon's four new councils mean for you?

The shake-up will need to consider everything from leisure centres and planning to recycling.

The Guardian Politics6 Aug 2026

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality ‘To be honest with you, I thought you’d just believe me.” That was the breathtaking response of Prof Jason Arday when the Guardian interrogated the details he provided of an alleged racist campaign of intimidation against him, which involved a severed pig’s head, a masked man wielding a knife and bullets in the post. Arday had been unable to

BBC Politics6 Aug 2026

Car washes and vape shops can still sponsor skilled foreign workers despite visa changes

The rules were tightened in July 2025 to restrict the scheme mostly to graduate-level employees who would be earning at least £41,700.

Immigration
BBC Politics6 Aug 2026

Miliband says reopening Strait of Hormuz 'essential' as he meets Rubio

The move is required "to ease cost-of-living pressures", Miliband says, as he meets his US counterpart in Washington.

BBC Politics5 Aug 2026

Reform UK pledges to jail bosses employing illegal workers

The party says its aim is to stop companies profiting from illegal workers "without consequences".

Reform
Express Politics5 Aug 2026

Ed Miliband's reaction when asked if Trump is an 'idiot, a racist and a misogynist'

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was invited to Washington by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss US-UK relations.

BBC Politics5 Aug 2026

Walk-in mental health centres to open in banks and libraries across England

Government plans network of nearly 200 specialist services to help those facing mental health crises.

Healthcare
BBC Politics5 Aug 2026

Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.

Politics
The Guardian Politics5 Aug 2026

NHS must prepare for annual summer heat pressures, says Yvette Cooper

Health secretary says global heating means UK hospitals and GPs will have to prepare for summer as well as winter peaks of demand Adapting to global heating: which UK public services are struggling in hot weather? The NHS has been warned to prepare for potential annual summer crises caused by extreme heat with the same pressures as winter, as heatwaves caused by the climate crisis become routine in the UK. The health secretary, Yvette Cooper, said NHS staff were feeling A&E pressures that would

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The Guardian Politics5 Aug 2026

Threat of legal action if PC Andrew Harper’s killers are released early

Thames Valley chief says he may join Police Federation in court if Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers are freed from prison The chief constable of Thames Valley police has said he will consider joining legal action against the government if it fails to block the early release of two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers. The Police Federation is contemplating going to court in its attempts to keep Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers in prison. Continue reading...

Crime
BBC Politics5 Aug 2026

Student loan repayment rates an 'unsustainable burden', chancellor told

More than 120 MPs and peers have asked John Healey to carry out an "urgent review" of repayments.

Politics
Express Politics5 Aug 2026

Fury as Keir Starmer 'misled' MPs over defence spending - 'Labour lies!'

Sir Keir's comments to the UKSA committee had been "incorrect and misleading".

PoliticsDefence