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Guido Fawkes1 Apr 2026

Blair and Brown Back in the Room Again as Ministers Line Up for Talks

The latest transparency data shows Gordon Brown met four ministers across two departments in the space of just 48 hours in December. He met David Lammy in the MoJ to discuss “devolution“, and then had a chat with prisons minister James Timpson. At the Cabinet Office, he met Darren Jones and Nick Thomas-Symonds, the latter…

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Conservative Home1 Apr 2026

Charlotte Cadden: It’s part of Conservative policing policy that you stay safe on the campaign trail

Operation Bridger is the Policing that supports the safety and security of MPs, when MPs are back in their constituencies. It was set up after the horrific murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016 and further enhanced after the murder of Sir David Amess MP in 2021.  The post Charlotte Cadden: It’s part of Conservative policing policy that you stay safe on the campaign trail  appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes1 Apr 2026

NEW: Footage Taken Moments Before McSweeney’s ‘Phone Theft’!

Huge!

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The Guardian Politics1 Apr 2026

Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza | Owen Jones

The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from him The left, claims Tony Blair, has forged an “alliance with Islamists”. He goes further: this is simply the latest mutation of antisemitism. Extraordinary accusations require extraordinary evidence. Yet unlike with his illegal war on Iraq, our former prime minister has not even troubled himself to assemble a dodgy dossier. This latest tirade was p

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The Guardian Politics1 Apr 2026

Police chiefs failed to tackle racism due to lack of leadership, watchdog finds

Review finds no ‘meaningful impact’ five years after race action plan launched, amid calls for government to step in Promises by police chiefs to tackle racial bias failed owing to “a lack of clear national leadership”, an independent police report has found. The promises were made five years ago in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and led police bosses in England and Wales to launch a race action plan promising to tackle the “stigmatising and humiliating” experiences of Black people

Crime
Conservative Home1 Apr 2026

Katie Lam: We will not fix our problems by telling people to stop talking about them

Failure to acknowledge the truth, and a desire to prevent other people from doing so, allowed people to get away with the some of the very worst crimes committed in this country in living memory. The post Katie Lam: We will not fix our problems by telling people to stop talking about them appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Sky News Politics31 Mar 2026

Police given stronger powers to combat public sexual harassment

Police will be given stronger powers to combat public sexual harassment.

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The Guardian Politics31 Mar 2026

UK to pay France extra £16m in stopgap deal to patrol Channel beaches

Two-month arrangement aimed at preventing small-boat crossings comes as existing deal expires The UK will pay France an extra £16.2m to keep police patrolling Channel beaches and prevent a surge in small-boat crossings after negotiators failed to agree a permanent deal before a midnight deadline. The stopgap arrangement, which will last for two months, comes after French negotiators refused to give in to UK demands for further interventions and patrols to stop asylum seekers from reaching the UK

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Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

Starmer-Critic Labour Backbencher Karl Turner Has Whip Suspended

Karl Turner is a frequent critic of Starmer and was leading the charge against the Jury trial abolition. He recently accused Morgan McSweeney of telling mistruths when it came to his phone theft. The whips have snapped…

Crime
The Guardian Politics31 Mar 2026

The UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it | Susanna Rustin

The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? Susanna Rustin is the author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism Once you stop to think about it, the need for a law to ensure that participants have consented to appear in online pornography is obvious. Egregious past failures have been well documented. They range from the New York Times’s investigation of Pornhub, which concluded that one of th

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Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

Chagossians Win Right to Remain on Chagos

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court has ruled that Chagossians hold a lawful Right of Abode in the Chagos Archipelago. In a huge blow to Starmer… This causes issues for the treaty signed but not ratified with Mauritius, which operates on the assumption that there is no resident population on the island. Newsflash…

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Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

Three Quarters of Brits Think McSweeney Faked His Phone Theft

Polling from More in Common released overnight: Do you think that the following is true or false? Morgan McSweeney faked the theft of his phone in order to hide the messages between him and Peter Mandelson. Definitely true Probably true Probably false Definitely false 2024 vote Def. true Prob. true Total true Prob. false Def.…

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