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The Guardian Politics4 Mar 2026

60% of Welsh voters unaware of how new system will work in May elections

Voters remain unsure about which policy decisions sit with Cardiff Bay and which with Westminster UK politics live – latest updates Almost 60% of Welsh voters are unaware of how the new system will work in May’s Senedd elections and there is confusion over devolution powers, a report has found. Polling research released on Wednesday by Cardiff University and YouGov suggested that 26 years since devolution began, many voters remain unsure about which policy decisions sit with Cardiff Bay, and w

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Guido Fawkes4 Mar 2026

Labour Launches Review Into School-Based Antisemitism

Labour has today launched an “independent review into antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges.” It is to be led by David Bell, former permanent secretary at the DfE. Another review… The DfE says it is responding to a rise in school-related antisemitic incidents which doubled in 2025 compared to pre-2023 levels. It adds: “Over a…

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BBC Politics3 Mar 2026

Parents of nursery abuse victims to meet minister

Parents of Vincent Chan's victims will meet the education secretary to press her on safeguarding.

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BBC Politics3 Mar 2026

Parents of nursery abuse victims to meet minister

Parents of Vincent Chan's victims will meet the education secretary to press her on safeguarding.

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The Guardian Politics2 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on schools: Send reforms aside, the government’s white paper lacks focus | Editorial

Plans to resurrect the children’s services decimated by austerity are appealing. But schools also need attention Heavily trailed reforms to special educational needs and disabilities (Send) education dominated coverage of last week’s schools white paper. But Bridget Phillipson’s policy of in-sourcing special provision, creating a new tier of support and making mainstream settings more inclusive, is the centrepiece of a broader agenda that also requires scrutiny. All schools in future will have t

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Guido Fawkes2 Mar 2026

EXC: Henry Jackson Society Writes to UCL and DfE After Students Mourn ‘Unimaginable Loss’ of Ayatollah

The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) has written to University College London and the Department of Education to raise the red flag after a UCL student society mourned the death of Ayatollah Khamenei on social media. The post, shared by UCL’s Ahlul-Bayt Islamic Society, called Khamenei’s death an “unimaginable loss” and claimed his demise is “not…

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Conservative Home2 Mar 2026

Laura Trott: Labour love to think of themselves as ‘fair’ but they are failing our young people

The real injustice today is not that the old consensus around higher education and future employment is being questioned. It is that a generation is living with its consequences long after the whole system stopped working for them. The post Laura Trott: Labour love to think of themselves as ‘fair’ but they are failing our young people appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics28 Feb 2026

It’s been decreed: something must be done about student loans in England

The education secretary wants a fairer system and the Tories have leapt in with their own plan – but why now? For anyone who attended university in England in the last 15 or so years, the idea of student loans feeling like some sort of debt trap is hardly news. But three weeks ago, when the journalist Oli Dugmore discussed this on the BBC’s Question Time, it felt like a moment. It was less the size of the initial debt, he explained, than the way above-inflation interest rates meant the interest

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BBC Politics27 Feb 2026

Private schools lose legal challenge over VAT changes

A group of low-fee paying private schools have challenged the government's removal of the VAT exemption.

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BBC Politics27 Feb 2026

Private schools lose legal challenge over VAT changes

A group of low-fee paying private schools have challenged the government's removal of the VAT exemption.

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The Guardian Politics27 Feb 2026

Appeal court rejects latest challenge to adding VAT to UK private school fees

Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools The court of appeal has rejected the latest challenge to the addition of VAT to private school fees, telling parents they have the option to home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools. The appeal was launched by families and leaders of four independent Christian faith schools, aiming to overturn a high court ruling last year by arguing that the decision

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The Guardian Politics27 Feb 2026

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations

Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and ‘rest of us’ UK politics live – latest updates Above the college workbench where Hannah Spencer has been training to be a plasterer, her fellow students recently added a sign: “Ministry of Plastering and Plumbing – Hannah Spencer MP”. Four weeks ago, the title might have felt faintly ridiculous to a 34-year-old plumber who only entered politics in 2023. Now, it is very real after Spencer was e

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