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Express Politics19 Mar 2026

Keir Starmer faces humiliation as Cyprus suggests it could demand removal of RAF bases

Cypriot President Christodoulides demanded 'open and frank' talks on the future of UK military bases after Britain was apparently unable to defend them

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Guido Fawkes19 Mar 2026

Consultants Sell £150 Zoom Course on ‘Engaging’ Reform “Without Losing Integrity”

Businesses struggling with the ethics of engaging with the party currently leading in the polls are in luck. The ‘Leading on the Line’ strategy course is now available, for the small sum of £150 per person, to coach anyone afraid of losing their integrity by ‘engaging’ with Reform UK. Apparently Reform’s plan isn’t just about…

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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Edward Davies: Solving the birth rate crisis is a moral and fiscal imperative

The CSJ’s analysis shows that on current population estimates children in school today could face working until their mid-70s before receiving a state pension. The post Edward Davies: Solving the birth rate crisis is a moral and fiscal imperative appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics19 Mar 2026

Perverts and thugs to be monitored 24-hours-a-day - and face arrest if they do one thing

Justice chiefs will be able to monitor perverts and thugs if they come within a certain distance of their victims or their homes.

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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Bob Seely: What’s wrong with the Foreign Office – and how to put it right

Dr Robert Seely MBE is author of ‘The New Total War’, ConservativeHome’s foreign affairs columnist and a former Conservative MP.  As the worn cliché had it, within living memory the British civil service was a Rolls-Royce machine—so smooth and effective was its operation. The Foreign Office (currently called the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO), […] The post Bob Seely: What’s wrong with the Foreign Office – and how to put it right appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home19 Mar 2026

Elizabeth Campbell: The Government’s sly plans for a Mansion Tax must be vigorously resisted

Here in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 per cent of homes will be liable for this charge, many of them modest flats, far from so-called mansions. Close to a quarter of our residents will now face bills of up to £7,000 a year. The post Elizabeth Campbell: The Government’s sly plans for a Mansion Tax must be vigorously resisted appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

Angela Rayner’s allies say HMRC inquiry set to be resolved before May elections

Exclusive: Resolution could pave way for full return to frontline politics, but allies stress she has no plans to directly challenge Keir Starmer For months there has been an apparently insurmountable obstacle to Angela Rayner going for the Labour leadership, should Keir Starmer find himself facing a contest. The investigation by HMRC into the former deputy prime minister’s tax affairs has hung heavily over her since she was forced to resign last September over underpayment of stamp duty on her

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Guido Fawkes18 Mar 2026

NIMBY Tories Buy Facebook Ads to Block Building Homes on Car Park

West Oxfordshire Conservatives are paying for Facebook ads to campaign against building flats on a car park in Witney. It happens to be a brownfield site… If you open a dictionary and look for the definition of ‘NIMBY’, you’ll probably find that advert…

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The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

Polanski positions Greens’ economic policy as radical alternative to Reeves

Offer to reform taxes, tackle ‘rip-off Britain’ and overhaul fiscal rules could tempt exasperated Labour supporters Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead The venue for Zack Polanski’s economic speech on Wednesday – a sunny north London garden centre – could hardly have been more different to the sombre City backdrop for Rachel Reeves’s Mais lecture on Tuesday. The chancellor was, as it happens, the last politician to give a major economic speech at th

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The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski

Exclusive: England and Wales Greens leader outlines economic policy including help to meet rising energy costs and water re-nationalisation Successive governments have turned the UK from a manufacturing economy to one where the basics of life have been privatised and are rented back to people at a crushing cost, Zack Polanski will say. In a speech billed as the Green leader’s biggest policy intervention since he took over as leader six months ago, Polanski will argue that decades of gradual econ

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The Guardian Politics17 Mar 2026

Reform UK may breach data laws with free energy bills competition

Experts say Nigel Farage’s party is not being transparent about how it will use data it collects on people’s voting habits Reform UK risks breaching data protection laws with its competition to win free energy bills for a year, lawyers and data experts have warned. Nigel Farage announced the lottery on Tuesday as a way to advertise his latest policy to cut energy bills. The Reform leader encouraged British people to sign up via a website, nigelcutmybills.com, for a chance to have their energy bi

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Express Politics17 Mar 2026

Bombshell leak shows Greens' secret plans to make UK kids 'accept migrants'

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Green plans would teach children they have a 'moral obligation' to hand illegal immigrants voting rights, free housing and passports.

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