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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Taxpayer Spent £10,000 on Every ‘Soft Power Council’ Meeting Skived Off by Cabinet Ministers

A useless government council which was skived off by Cabinet ministers cost £10,000 every time it met, new figures reveal. Cheap by Civil Service standards… The ‘Soft Power Council’ launched under the last Starmer government to co-ordinate between the Foreign Office and DCMS on projecting British influence. It was skived off by Lisa Nandy and…

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The Guardian Politics30 Jul 2026

Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football

Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition? When you’ve lost the trust of GB News, when you’re too deranged, too extreme and too outright mendacious for your biggest fan, then you know you are in trouble. You can almost sense the panic beginning to set in at Reform HQ. No longer topping the opinion polls. A new prime minister resetting the dial, the public increasingly choosing optimism over grievance. A party mired

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Sky News Politics30 Jul 2026

Harriet Harman: Ban men from running for next Labour leader

Labour grandee Harriet Harman has said Labour should ban men from running in its next leadership election.

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Burnham’s ‘Right-Hand’ Cabinet Minister in Charge of National Security Repeatedly Backed Total UK Nuclear Disarmament

Burnham’s right-hand woman and the Cabinet minister in with responsibility for national security has repeatedly opposed Trident and backed full unilateral nuclear disarmament. While Burnham re-announces a £8.4 billion investment in the UK’s nuclear deterrent… Oversight of national security policy coordination belongs to Louise Haigh, who will be running the new Office for the Prime…

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Conservative Home30 Jul 2026

Mark Brolin: Burnham may be a weather vane – but weather vanes can win

Burnham may be a full-on weather vane. But politics is full of weather vanes who win because the wind changes. If he rides a better phase, he will be hard to beat unless the Conservatives sound as if they understand the next phase better than he does. The post Mark Brolin: Burnham may be a weather vane – but weather vanes can win appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Owen Jones Declares Farage Will Win Decisively in Clacton

Owen Jones has declared that Nigel Farage is certain to win in Clacton. But can Count Binface’s appearance on The Rest Is Politics turn his fortunes around? Jones went to Clacton and reports that the Reform leader has huge support, which he attempts to unpack in his Guardian column. He says “pessimism and exhaustion” are…

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Express Politics30 Jul 2026

Zack Polanski just crashed and burned - and sent a dire warning to Andy Burnham

What goes up must come down. It's an iron law of life and politics. Just ask Zack Polanski.

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Defence Committee Finds £850 Million Secret Afghan Resettlement Failure Was Preventable

The Commons’ Defence Select Committee has published its findings into the Afghan resettlement and data breach which led to the secret resettlement of 7,355 people in the UK. The total cost for that: £850 million… The committee found: The MoD has refused to verify that £850 million figure, and journalists who saw the closed court…

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The Guardian Politics30 Jul 2026

Reform UK to hold press conference after Met rules out investigating Polanski over anti-Farage message – UK politics live

Green party said it was ‘obvious from the start’ that Polanski had not committed an offence Good morning. Reform UK are holding a press conference this morning. It is going to feature Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesperson, and he wants to talk about Andy Burnham’s speech yesterday about social care reform. But we already know what Jenrick thinks about that, and there are plenty of other stories that reporters might want to ask about. For a start, there is Anna Isaac’s latest Guardia

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Express Politics30 Jul 2026

Politics LIVE: Andy Burnham savaged over latest announcement

A top Tory warned there is still "no detail at all" in Mr Burnham's latest plans, as critics slammed him for failing to confirm his wider defence strategy.

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BBC Politics30 Jul 2026

Polling stations open for Greater Manchester mayoral election

Polling stations are open across Greater Manchester as voters elect the region's next mayor.

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The Guardian Politics30 Jul 2026

Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics

Labour’s Bev Craig expected to win contest that lost column inches to Andy Burnham’s ascent and Reform UK leader’s self-imposed Clacton vote Voting has begun in the biggest byelection in British political history, with more than 2 million people eligible to choose Andy Burnham’s successor as Greater Manchester mayor. In normal times, such a large and politically significant byelection would have dominated the headlines for weeks, particularly as senior Labour figures only weeks ago feared losing

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