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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin will not face sanctions over byelection leaflet error

High court judge accepts material distributed without legally required imprint due to inadvertent printing mistake UK politics live – latest updates Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, will not face a sanction for leaflets that omitted the party’s imprint, after a high court judge accepted this was due to an inadvertent printing error. Reform admitted that it sent about 81,000 leaflets to the constituency’s voters from a “concerned neighbour”, which did not

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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

WATCH: Labour Insists It ‘Will Continue to Work With United States’ on Paused Chagos Deal

FCDO minister Hamish Falconer provided the government’s response to an urgent question from Nigel Farage on the Chagos Islands: “I can assure this house nothing in the treaty has changed since the US administration gave their original endorsement of the deal, and we continue to work with Mauritius and the United States. The UK Government…

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Express Politics25 Feb 2026

Kemi Badenoch skewers Rachel Reeves with brutal jibe at Chancellor's CV

Rachel Reeves was seen looking miserable next to Keir Starmer at PMQs

Conservative Home25 Feb 2026

Jerome Mayhew: The Government’s Railways Bill is coming down, and potentially off, the tracks

There is still time for genuine change to this bill, both in the Commons and then in the Lords. But the Government needs to stop and listen to the concerns of the industry. So far, we have seen no sign that they are listening at all. The post Jerome Mayhew: The Government’s Railways Bill is coming down, and potentially off, the tracks appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics25 Feb 2026

Commons uproar as Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer Labour is 'paedo defenders party'

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle had to interrupt PMQs and threatened to throw an MP out

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

The ‘golden age of America’? Trump delivers the State of the Union address – podcast

Donald Trump made history again on Tuesday evening, delivering the longest State of the Union address on record. But while the president declared the ‘golden age of America’, many Democrats boycotted the event, telling the country Republicans are ‘making your life harder’. The Guardian’s Jenna Amatulli talks to Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramírez about Trump’s claims, the Democrats’ rebuttal, and how the speech will land with a divided nation Continue reading...

BBC Politics25 Feb 2026

Fourth Tory councillor defects to Reform

Carl Edwards says he has watched "promise after promise broken" by his former party.

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Guido Fawkes25 Feb 2026

Badenoch: Starmer’s Own MPs Call Labour the ‘Paedo Defenders Party’

The Labour benches didn’t like that one…

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Express Politics25 Feb 2026

Keir Starmer set for yet another u-turn as he's humiliated by Kemi Badenoch at PMQs

The Prime Minister is understood to be looking at a u-turn over student tuition fees

Express Politics25 Feb 2026

Rachel Reeves is creating Black Market Britain with disastrous economic policies

LEE ANDERSON MP: The Chancellor won't want you to hear this, but it's true.

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BBC Politics25 Feb 2026

Andrew 'rude and entitled', says MP

Sir Chris Bryant made the comments at the despatch box of the House of Commons.

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The Guardian Politics25 Feb 2026

How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour | George Monbiot

This byelection should have been a stroll for Keir Starmer’s party. Instead, all hope of defeating Matt Goodwin now seems to lie with the Greens Every barb Labour has directed at the Greens can now be returned with interest. “It’s a wasted vote.” “Do you want to see Reform in power?” New polling ahead of the crucial Gorton and Denton byelection this week, while by no means decisive, puts the Greens first on 22%, followed by Reform UK (20%), then Labour (18%), with 31% undecided. But still Keir S

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