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Keir Starmer mocked by Kemi Badenoch over stolen 'Mandelson files' phone

Prime Minister left reeling as he came under fire in PMQs in Parliament

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Political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked in blow to Reform UK

Government review also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year UK politics live – latest updates Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended. The findings by Philip Rycroft, a former permanent secretary at the Home Office, will be a blow to Reform UK, which has received about £12m in the last year from the

Ed Miliband given brutal verdict over North Sea gas drilling

Readers have their say on whether the Energy Secretary should ditch 'huffing and puffing about net zero'

Met Police publishes bombshell 999 call transcript from Morgan McSweeney phone theft

The device may have contained messages relating to Mr McSweeney's role in the former Labour minister's appointment as ambassador to the US.

Council tax bills in England to rise in April - see how yours compares

It will rise by 4.9% on average across England from next month, new figures show.

Labour braced for utter disaster – this is the one thing they must do stop annihilation

Total humiliation looms for Sir Keir Starmer in Wales, unless he can show voters Britain's best days are ahead

Reform UK are about to exert massive pressure on Keir Starmer's Labour

Nigel Farage shows no signs of slowing down the insurgent party's all-out assault on the two-party system.

Streeting queries police dropping McSweeney phone theft inquiry

Sir Keir Starmer's former chief of staff Morgan McSweeney quit last month over his role in vetting.

Suzanne's Law parole board changes come into force in Scotland

Scotland's parole board will now have to consider if killers have refused to reveal the whereabouts of their victims' remains, thanks to a change in the law.

Former Labour MP's aide admits possessing over 500 indecent images of children

The former aide wiped his brow as he entered his pleas in court.

Major curbs to party donations from overseas proposed in blow for Reform

A government-commissioned report has proposed significant curbs to political donations, in a move likely to hit Reform UK's funding the hardest.