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Express Politics13 Mar 2026

Reform UK wins crunch by-election in latest boost for Nigel Farage

Insurgent party scores crucial victory as it gears up for polls across the country in May

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

So long, hereditary peers – but the Lords is still full of absurd anachronisms | Polly Toynbee

Two-thirds of voters want an elected second chamber. The government needs a radical legacy: it should use its rare majority for this Goodbye (almost) to the hereditary peers, voted out on Tuesday night. But they didn’t go without a vicious tooth-and-nail fight. Labour should be making much more noise about how the Tories blackmailed and threatened to the very last to hold on to the hereditary peerage (almost all Tories), despite 66% of voters wanting a democratically elected second chamber. Tori

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

Politics doesn’t need saints, or sinners, it needs more ‘honest’ and ‘normal’

If we can all find a way to choose candidates and foster MPs who are skeleton and even closet free, and just a bit more 'normal' to a majority of the electorate, we wouldn’t be doing ourselves a favour. We’d be doing everyone a favour. The post Politics doesn’t need saints, or sinners, it needs more ‘honest’ and ‘normal’ appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

George Beglan: Britain’s political class has confused legal performance with strategic thinking – again

International law in military matters has always been more facade than framework: it lacks enforcement mechanisms, it derives its apparent authority from hegemonic sponsorship, and appealing to it not only fails to constrain great power behaviour but obscures the real debate The post George Beglan: Britain’s political class has confused legal performance with strategic thinking – again appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

Olivier Guitta and Hollie McKay: Iran’s attacks on gulf states are a reminder that we ignore geopolitics at our own risk

Many businesses assumed the UAE was going to remain immune to Iranian aggression. They confused diplomatic agility with strategic invulnerability. That assumption has been explosively disproven. The post Olivier Guitta and Hollie McKay: Iran’s attacks on gulf states are a reminder that we ignore geopolitics at our own risk  appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics13 Mar 2026

Post Office scandal 'taken 21 years of my life'

Seema Misra calls for accountability as a report by MPs raises concerns about ongoing delays.

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BBC Politics13 Mar 2026

Post Office scandal 'taken 21 years of my life'

Seema Misra calls for accountability as a report by MPs raises concerns about ongoing delays.

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BBC Politics13 Mar 2026

MPs 'deeply troubled' by BBC World Service funding uncertainty

The current funding agreement between the BBC and the government expires at the end of this month.

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

BBC World Service funding freeze risks ‘opening door to hostile states’, MPs say

Cross-party committee says service is ‘jewel in crown of UK’s soft power’ but is diminished by poor governance Ministers risk “opening the door to propaganda from hostile states” and diminishing international trust in the BBC World Service by allowing its funding to be frozen at a crucial time, parliament’s spending watchdog has said. The cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) said it was deeply troubled by the fact the service was still unclear about its funding just weeks before its curre

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The Guardian Politics12 Mar 2026

New Green MP calls for tolerance and inclusivity in first Commons speech

Former plumber Hannah Spencer, who won Gorton and Denton byelection, also says more MPs from manual working backgrounds are needed Hannah Spencer, the Green MP who won last month’s Gorton and Denton byelection, has used her first speech in the Commons to call for tolerance and inclusivity, and to argue for more people from manual working backgrounds to be elected to parliament. Saying she wanted to “make hope normal again”, Spencer used a speech in a debate about International Women’s Day to say

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The Guardian Politics12 Mar 2026

Threats against female MPs having ‘chilling effect’ on women in public life, minister says

Security minister Dan Jarvis has announced new security measures ahead of May’s local elections Threats against female MPs are having a “chilling effect” on talented women thinking of going into public life but deciding not to, security minister Dan Jarvis has said. Warning that there was an “unprecedented” volume of threats against elected representatives – including assaults, vandalism, stalking and a “blizzard of online abuse” – Jarvis announced new security measures ahead of the local electi

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The Guardian Politics12 Mar 2026

Why the hell did Starmer pick Mandelson? The latest mug on the media round had no idea | John Crace

Nick Thomas-Symonds unravelled under barrage of questions – as PM instead bored some mothers and babies in Belfast You could smell the fear among senior ministers on Wednesday night. No one wanted to be “that person”. The mug who would be sent out on the Thursday morning media round to answer the inevitable barrage of questions about Peter Mandelson. The equivalent to a two-hour-long walk of shame, and one entirely of the prime minister’s making. The Cabinet Office minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds,

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