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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Wealth Tax Campaigner Gary Stevenson: I’m Quitting

Gary Stevenson has only been doing this for five years. A surprising way to go for someone who declared just last week that he was “one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world.” Unless of course this is another grift for Gary’s Egonomics…

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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

REPORT: Leave ECHR and Introduce Comprehensive Free Speech Bill

Britain is in a “free speech recession” according to a new paper from the Prosperity Institute written by barrister Jon Holbrook. He contends that the Race Relations Act 1965, which first criminalised “stirring up racial hatred,” and the Public Order Act 1986 – which criminalised words “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress” without any link…

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BBC Politics9 Jul 2026

How a rise in ADHD benefits claims is adding to welfare spending challenge

More than 100,000 people with ADHD as their main condition receive Pip, latest figures show, an increase of 40% since Labour came to power.

The Guardian Politics9 Jul 2026

Burnham calls for ‘more open’ public debate about defence spending – UK politics live

Next Labour leader, who is set to be elected unopposed, sets out foreign policy principles largely in line with Starmer Burnham promises he will not use party discipline to stifle debate Good morning. Andy Burnham is due to become Labour leader a week tomorrow and, as nominations open for a leadership election that will not happen because Burnham is set to be elected unopposed, we are learning a bit more about how he intends to lead his party and his country. Yesterday, in a letter to Labour M

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Nightmare for Andy Burnham as Labour told 'broken' benefits system must change

The soaring benefits bill is a headache for prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham.

Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Bryant: ‘Refreshing’ Burnham Should Force Ministers to Meet With Every MP All the Time

As nominations open in the leadership race today – with Burnham unopposed – the leader in waiting has produced a Times article and a note to the PLP to set out more details of how he would govern. Here they are: Cabinet will be expected to “prioritise PLP engagement” The Whips office will now be…

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham to be handed list of Parliament's 30 worst bullies and sex pests

Senior Labour MPs and advisers are preparing to hand the list to Andy Burnham's team in a bid to end the 'Westminster boys club' in his incoming government.

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham finally unites the nation - we're all saying the same thing about Ed Miliband

Britain is a country divided. But it turns out we can still agree on something, writes Harvey Jones.

The Guardian Politics9 Jul 2026

Britain’s dysfunctional dynamic: the public wants change, but those in power always tell them it’s not possible | Andy Beckett

Whenever major reform is proposed the media, big business and Westminster quickly conclude it’s too expensive and disruptive. This doesn’t bode well for Andy Burnham In an old, often anxious and conservative country, the perception of risk is a potent political weapon. If a policy or a project for reforming the UK seems too risky, or can be made to seem so by its opponents, then it can usually be quickly killed off. It can be added to the pile of possible futures that never occurred. In politics

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Politics LIVE: Disaster for Burnham as new poll suggest he's no better than Starmer

This is a live blog, follow for more updates.

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Conservative Home9 Jul 2026

Ridicule, Reform, and Recall – the dangerous political power of laughter

If Farage does beat a bin, and a fox, in an odd mirror of the count at Makerfield just to get his old job back - the result will be rubbish, if the Standards Committee simply carries on the investigation, suspends him, a recall ballot is held, and we end up doing it all over again. The post Ridicule, Reform, and Recall – the dangerous political power of laughter appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Farage explodes at Labour and Tories after they refuse to stand against him in Clacton

Nigel Farage announced on Tuesday that he will resign as MP for Clacton and fight a "people versus the establishment" by-election.

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