Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Andy Burnham is already plotting his cabinet - and it’s a right old rogue’s gallery
Labour MPs are acting as if Andy Burnham has already won Thursday's by-election and has the keys to Number 10.
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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
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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 Politics16 Jun 2026
Anti-Burnham fake news on Makerfield Facebook accounts has surged, report finds – UK politics live
Nearly one in six pieces of news shared in local Facebook groups during the campaign is false, Social Market Foundation report finds Good morning. Andy Burnham seems to be on course to win the Makerfield byelection on Thursday. But, if he does win, it will be despite a huge increase in the amount of hostile, fake news about him circulating on local Facebook groups. This has been documented in a report out today by the Social Market Foundation thinktank that has important implications not just fo
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Treasury response to plan to double state pensioner tax allowance to £25,140
MPs called for the state pension tax threshold to be doubled from £12,570, piling pressure on Rachel Reeves
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Politics LIVE: Weakened Starmer faces showdown with Trump as 'police state' row looms
Sir Keir Starmer faces G7 allies in France today - including Donald Trump - as the US becomes increasingly at odds with Labour's policies.
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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026
Mail on Sunday attacks Restore as split right creates headache for UK papers
Some titles that once backed the Tories now ‘flirting with Farage’ as they try to gauge where readers stand It was a Mail on Sunday headline with all the ferocity usually reserved for general elections, directed squarely at a political opponent. But in this case, the traditionally Conservative-supporting title was not targeting Labour. The party in its crosshairs was Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, the vehemently rightwing outfit that regards Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as too weak on deporting migr
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Labour slammed for 'crazy' net zero decision ahead of crunch by-election
Kemi Badenoch has vowed to give North Sea oil and gas a kiss of life ahead of a neck-and-neck Aberdeen South by-election battle with the SNP on Thursday
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Starmer ramps up pressure on Putin with fresh Russia sanctions at G7 summit
PM says UK is 'choking off the revenues that fuel Putin's war'
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
The two near-death experiences that put Nigel Farage on the path to politics
EXCLUSIVE: Lord Ashcroft's compelling new biography of Britain's most successful anti-establishment politician reveals two key events that shaped his early life
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Express Politics16 Jun 2026
Another BBC show destroyed by political box-ticking, rampant ageism and diversity quotas
OPINION - MARK DOLAN: It's amazing they didn't paint a giant rainbow flag on the Tardis.
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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026
Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Kim Leadbeater
Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox Political hatred and division in the UK is probably worse now than during the Brexit referendum, when Jo Cox was murdered, says Kim Leadbeater, Cox’s sister who is now also a Labour MP. Speaking to the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast Leadbeater, who was elected to the same Yorkshire seat held by Cox in a 2021 byelection, said everyone in public life had a responsibility to try and eas
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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026
Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable
Exclusive: Commons motion calls for code of practice to be blocked amid concerns over impact on transgender people A number of Labour MPs are increasingly doubtful that the guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on sex as it applies in the Equality Act is workable in the real world, with some predicting it will unleash a wave of competing legal claims. A total of 135 MPs, 69 of them from Labour, have signed a Commons motion calling for the code of practice drafte
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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain – podcast
It’s a decade since the MP for Batley and Spen was killed by a far-right extremist. Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who took over her parliamentary seat, explains what lessons are still to be learned Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice, and the mother of two young children, aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, she was murd
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