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The Guardian Politics16 Mar 2026

Inquiry launched into HMRC anti-fraud scheme that wrongly cut child benefits

Flawed Home Office travel records identified thousands of parents suspected of claiming while living abroad The UK’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into a controversial government anti-fraud scheme that resulted in thousands of families being wrongly stripped of their child benefit payments. The National Audit Office (NAO) will examine how HM Revenue and Customs designed and implemented a scheme that used flawed Home Office travel records to identify parents suspected of

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The Guardian Politics15 Mar 2026

UK needs nuclear deterrent independent from US, Ed Davey to say

Lib Dem leader will tell spring conference Britain can no longer rely on US while Donald Trump is president Britain should have a completely independent nuclear deterrent as it can no longer rely on the US, Ed Davey is expected to say on Sunday. In a speech at the Liberal Democrats spring conference, the party leader will argue that the UK should manufacture and maintain its nuclear weapons in Britain, a move that Davey acknowledges will cost billions. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics14 Mar 2026

Reform UK government would replace top civil servants with policy ‘believers’

Exclusive: Senior party figures conclude outsiders or existing senior staff deemed more suitable should take over from current permanent secretaries A Reform UK government would expect to dismiss the top civil servant in every government department and replace them with people seen as more likely to implement the party’s priorities, the Guardian has learned. Senior Reform figures have concluded that the current crop of permanent secretaries, the lead civil servant in each department, are not up

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The Guardian Politics14 Mar 2026

‘We are a completely different political party’: inside the Greens’ membership boom

With membership soaring, the Green party is grappling with logistics, culture shifts and a flood of new activists It is, as one Green activist put it, a never-ending series of “constantly good problems to have”. But how does a party adapt to the sudden trebling of its membership? And when a majority of people in an organisation are new, is it even the same thing anymore? The basic facts alone are startling. Before Zack Polanski took over as leader last September, the Greens in England and Wales

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs

Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit. Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) annual conference, Phillipson said the special educational needs overhaul outlined last month would “move t

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes will not have UK benefits cut

Campaigners welcome Keir Starmer’s backing of ‘Philomena’s law’ to protect payments for those who accept compensation Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes can continue to receive benefits in the UK after Downing Street agreed to protect payments. Keir Starmer bowed to pressure from campaigners to back a bill known as Philomena’s law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefits if they accepted compensation from Dublin. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking | Editorial

The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism Britain is one of many countries that would benefit from the replacement of brutal theocracy with democratic government in Tehran. The Iranian people would be the biggest beneficiaries. It does not follow that British interests are served by the current US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, which claims regime change as a goal but includes no credible strategy for achieving

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Adam Smith: he deserves rescuing from the free-market myth | Editorial

On the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, the Scottish philospher is still invoked by the right. Yet he worried about inequality, monopoly and the power of wealth This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and invented economics. The anniversary has been marked by opinion columns, new books and academic conferences. How different it was 50 years ago. The 1976 bicentenary produced the definitive scholarly edition and hel

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

Starmer warned cabinet against ‘overly deferential’ relations with devolved governments

Leak of memo comes after a third of Labour Senedd members raise alarm devolution is being rolled back UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer warned his cabinet against an “overly deferential” approach to the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish governments, according to a leaked memo. In the document from December, obtained and published on Tuesday by Plaid Cymru, Starmer said ministers should be prepared to make spending decisions “even when devolved governments may oppose this”. It cam

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage | Rafael Behr

The US president’s doctrine of lawless military adventures harms American interests and boosts Vladimir Putin Waging war with no fixed purpose means victory can be declared at any point. Donald Trump’s motives for launching Operation Epic Fury against Iran were incoherent at the start. They are no clearer now that he has declared it “very complete, pretty much”. US and Israeli bombs have caused death and destruction, shaking but not toppling the government in Tehran. Among the targets was the su

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

Shabana Mahmood approves police request to ban Al Quds march in London

Metropolitan police sought prohibition of demonstration planned for Sunday Shabana Mahmood has approved a request from the Metropolitan police to ban a pro-Palestinian march planned for Sunday “to prevent serious public disorder”. The annual Al Quds Day march in London had drawn criticism over apparent support for the Iranian regime after its organisers expressed support for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics9 Mar 2026

So Badenoch, Farage and Blair think the Iran war is a great idea? Hmm … | John Crace

Kemi may be all in favour, but at least economic realpolitik is forcing her to take a slightly different tack There have been any number of opportunities for people to decide they wanted no part of America’s war with Iran. The first was after the US had launched its first wave of strikes. To be fair, this was the moment Keir Starmer and most of the UK reckoned enough was enough and that our involvement would be limited to defensive strikes only. You couldn’t really fault the logic. Did the UK re

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