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Express Politics29 Jul 2026

Green politician gives 'murderers and rapists tips to avoid' police cameras

The Metropolitan Police uses Live Facial Recognition vans equipped with CCTV cameras and artificial intelligence to scan passers-by.

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Express Politics29 Jul 2026

I’m an expert - this is how Andy Burnham can tax UK billionaires without triggering exodus

EXCLUSIVE: The new Prime Minister has been urged to overhaul the taxation system to ensure Britain's top earners are paying their fair share.

Economy
Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

John Redwood: Nationalisation didn’t work then, and it won’t work now

Everything  Mr Burnham says is geared to polling and to his immediate political task, self defined as seeing off the voting threat from Reform. As Prime Minister he will be judged more by what he does than what he says. The post John Redwood: Nationalisation didn’t work then, and it won’t work now appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Callum McGoldrick: Failure pays well in the NHS

Fudged figures, increasing executive salaries and declining performance. This is the true legacy of Starmer’s two years presiding over the NHS. The new health secretary, Yvette Cooper, is yet to lay out any new plans to boost performance, but one thing is very clear: increasing salaries to ever new highs is not the answer. The post Callum McGoldrick: Failure pays well in the NHS appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 Jul 2026

Heena Bellara: Kensington and Chelsea has lost its last police front counter

It's about a Mayor who talks about keeping Londoners safe while removing the one form of contact with the police that many residents actually trust and doing so despite his own Assembly telling him to stop. The post Heena Bellara: Kensington and Chelsea has lost its last police front counter appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics29 Jul 2026

Suddenly the British right feels a political chill. It’s getting cold in Andy Burnham’s shadow | Rafael Behr

The Tories and Reform had it easy when Keir Starmer was self-destructing – but a new PM with ideas exposes how vacant the opposition has become Andy Burnham’s recollections of Britain in the 1970s must be pretty hazy. He was nine when the decade ended. Kemi Badenoch, born in 1980, can remember nothing. Lacking first-hand experience, the Conservative leader evokes the turmoil of a bygone era with cautionary zeal borrowed from an older generation. In a speech last week, she accused the new prime m

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Sky News Politics29 Jul 2026

Who is Ed Miliband really listening to?

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The Guardian Politics29 Jul 2026

AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger children, rights groups and children’s charities have warned. Urging ministers to reverse plans to introduce facial age-estimation technology to screen migrants, critics have warned that black children arr

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The Guardian Politics29 Jul 2026

‘Farage’s got to come clean or clear off’: what voters on Clacton beach think about their MP – and the country

Nigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s challenging him? ‘If it’s the Tin Man, then I suppose I’ll vote for Nigel,” says a Clacton resident, a retiree on a slow stroll towards the seafront, when I ask whom she will vote for in the forthcoming byelection. “I would sooner have Farage than the Tin Man!” As political slogans go, it is as good

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Sky News Politics29 Jul 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-andy-burnham-keir-starmer-labour-12593360?postid=12144216#liveblog-body'>Polanski refuses to apologise over Farage guillotine image</a>

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BBC Politics29 Jul 2026

Burnham invites Tories and Lib Dems to social care talks

In a speech, the PM is expected to say finding common ground across party lines will be key to fixing social care.

BBC Politics29 Jul 2026

Polanski says guillotine re-post was mistake but refuses to apologise

The Green leader re-posted a photo of a man wearing a guillotine t-shirt and the name Nigel.

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