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Conservative Home2 Jun 2026

Lord Ashcroft: Labour leadership contenders, is this government better or worse than the Tories, who do people least want to see in office, and should we rejoin the EU?

Nigel Farage was thought the most likely person to be PM after the next election, with 27 per cent naming him but nearly half of all voters said Reform UK were the party they would least like to see in government after the next election. The post Lord Ashcroft: Labour leadership contenders, is this government better or worse than the Tories, who do people least want to see in office, and should we rejoin the EU? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

Despite what the UK right will tell you, appeasing bond markets has actually led to instability | Andy Beckett

Austerity has benefitted bond traders but impoverished British society and led to the rise of populism. Is it right that we carry on adhering to their interests? Should politics always be dominated by economics? Should questions about how governments and voters pay for things – whether by earnings, taxes or borrowing – be settled before we consider the wider consequences? In an anxious capitalist democracy such as Britain, with a modern history of patchy economic success and intermittent but rec

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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right – podcast

Daniel Trilling on the far-right party threatening Reform’s chances in the Makerfield byelection Does Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection? “Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for unauthori

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

Reform UK support could plateau as it relies on socially conservative views, study finds

Party could struggle to push ratings as strategy increasingly focuses on views held by minority of voters, research finds Reform UK is becoming increasingly reliant on socially conservative views for political support, and therefore could struggle to push its poll ratings much higher, a large-scale research project led by the leading psephologist John Curtice has found. A study of Nigel Farage’s party carried out as part of the British Social Attitudes report found that while Reform supporters w

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

Mandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show

Emails and WhatsApp messages reveal string of exchanges with ministers when he was president of Global Counsel Peter Mandelson, as president of his then advisory firm Global Counsel, lobbied hard for ministers to attend his events and to meet his firm’s staff in the months following Labour’s general election win, newly released documents reveal. Emails and WhatsApp exchanges show how active the Labour peer was in the wake of the election to work his contacts within government to the potential ad

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BBC Politics1 Jun 2026

Key messages between Mandelson and ministers

The 1,000 pages include criticisms of Labour MPs, No 10 and the prime minister.

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

What documents are missing from the new release of Mandelson files?

From vetting summary to declaration of interest, here are the five key papers withheld from latest disclosures UK politics live – latest updates More than 1,500 pages of documents were published by the government on Monday afternoon about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the ambassador in Washington. Despite claims this was “an unprecedented piece of government transparency”, there are still a number of significant missing documents. Some of the documents have been withheld by the government a

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

The Guardian view on the Mandelson files: the missing vetting document matters most | Editorial

A data dump exposes Labour’s courtier politics. But it still does not explain why the peer was cleared to be US ambassador The Epstein files fatally damaged Peter Mandelson. Gone was his reputation as Westminster’s great survivor: the politician who could weather any scandal and return to the centre of power. Allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the financial crash led to a criminal investigation. The peer was sacked as Brita

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Express Politics1 Jun 2026

Labour is the party of 'shirkers not workers', warns Robert Jenrick

Labour has admitted its MPs are more interested in putting up taxes to pay for benefits

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

Why have two US commentators been banned from entering the UK?

Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were supposed to address events at SXSW London before their ETAs were cancelled Free speech activists condemn UK entry ban for Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur Cenk Uygur, the host of the Young Turks online political talkshow, and Hasan Piker, who runs his own hours-long stream each day, have been banned from entering the UK by the British home secretary, Shabana Mahmood. They were supposed to address events at SXSW London, a creatives-led festival. Uygur was also planning

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BBC Politics1 Jun 2026

'Bereft and beleaguered' - Mandelson messages reveal criticism of No 10

Newly published documents show Lord Mandelson and ministers' concerns about the prime minister and Labour MPs.

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BBC Politics1 Jun 2026

'Beleaguered and bereft' - Mandelson messages reveal criticism of No 10

Newly published documents show Lord Mandelson and ministers' concerns about the prime minister and Labour MPs.

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