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Channel migrant crisis could become like the Mediterranean, Nigel Farage rages

Reform UK leader issues warning after huge small boat crosses Channel

Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalists

Industry body says use of private investigators against reporters is ‘attack on our democracy’ after apparent admission by Reform donor The businessman and Reform UK donor Arron Banks is facing calls to lay out the extent of his surveillance of journalists, described by an industry body as an “attack on our democracy”. The News Media Association (NMA), which represents regional and national media, raised concerns after Banks appeared to admit over the weekend to hiring private investigators to s

I was in room when Nigel Farage announced bombshell new policy - 1 thing convinced me

OPINION: Whitehall Editor Jonathan Walker was in the room as Reform showed why they will be different to any other Government

From ticket booking fees to shrinkflation, six other ways Burnham could cut cost of living

The prime minister is promising to crack down on ‘rip-off’ business practices Andy Burnham has announced he will ban fake discounts and make it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions in an effort to improve life for UK consumers. In the long run, these so-called “everyday fixes” may not make as much difference to your wealth as increasing mandatory contributions on pensions or capping rents, but they will get rid of some day-to-day frustrations. Here are six other things he could fix while he i

Find a way to stop early release of cop's killers, Burnham tells minister

Andy Burnham has asked his justice secretary to find a way to keep two of PC Andrew Harper's killers behind bars when the early release scheme comes into effect in October.

Sumption Takes Aim at Burnham’s Constitutional Reform Plans

The latest pronouncement from No10 North is that Britain needs major constitutional reform as part of Burnham’s ‘circuit breaker’ philosophy. Trying to style himself as the new Blair… Enter former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption who took no prisoners in the Telegraph over the weekend: “A written constitution… would have to deal with the whole…

Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe in fresh row over Reform UK deal with Restore Britain

The pair's ongoing argument about a pact between their two parties rumbles on

MoJ Advised Exempting Early Releases Based on Length of Sentences, Not Offence Type

Burnham’s Downing Street is in no good mood with officials from the MoJ over exemptions in the early release scheme. It’s falling apart… Guido understands there is fury at Ministry of Justice officials, who have been accused of incompetence for coming up with changing capacity numbers in the prison estate. They are concerned that the…

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LIVE: Farage & Yusuf Announce Plan to Free Up Prison Places

Farage and Zia Yusuf are live to announce their plan to free up 10,000 prison places by deporting foreign criminals who are in prison in the UK. If they can’t be repatriated securely, they will be put in rented prisons abroad in places like El Salvador… Read the policy in full here:

Calum Davies: Star Wars in Welsh? Love it, but Welsh language policy has been a dramatic saga

The only time Welsh languiage the numbers went up, in 1991 and 2001, was after Conservative governments established S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, and the Welsh Language Act, putting Welsh on an equal footing in public business and justice administration. The post Calum Davies: Star Wars in Welsh? Love it, but Welsh language policy has been a dramatic saga appeared first on Conservative Home.

Labour says Farage has ‘no serious answers’ to prisons crisis – UK politics live

Reform says it will free up space in jails in England and Wales by rapidly deporting all foreign offenders Good morning. Andy Burnham has said Middlemarch is his favourite novel, but he may not remember George Eliot’s line about the genial businessman Mr Vincy who “blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister”. Burnham only took over in No 10 three weeks ago today. But already he is learning that Eliot had a point about the constraints of office. As PM, B