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Conservative Home8 Jul 2026

Katie Lam: The shabby Government ambiguity that lets Shabir, a child rapist, free to stay in the UK

The Home Secretary, for example, has the power to change the rules. Between Parliament’s absolute power, and the broad powers delegated to ministers – a Government has the ability to act very quickly and very decisively. But will it? The post Katie Lam: The shabby Government ambiguity that lets Shabir, a child rapist, free to stay in the UK appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home8 Jul 2026

Andrew Murrison: No Sir, THIS is your country!

Britain does not need more sensitive foreign policy. It needs a robust and serious one. We can acknowledge our history without being imprisoned by it. We can act ethically without surrendering strategically. But we cannot continue with a diplomatic service that seeks absolution where it should be seeking advantage. The post Andrew Murrison: No Sir, THIS is your country! appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home8 Jul 2026

Liam Bones: We need to welcome back any Reform voters who left us but shut the door hard on defectors

Conservative voters who lent Reform their support can and should be won back. We need millions of them if we are to form a government again. But voters are one thing. Political opportunists are another. Rebuilding requires more than bigger numbers. It requires better people. The post Liam Bones: We need to welcome back any Reform voters who left us but shut the door hard on defectors appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Farage is likely to win in Clacton but can his credibility survive? | Peter Walker

While the Reform leader casts himself as the victim questions about his finances are unlikely to disappear Farage quits as an MP amid scrutiny of his finances For Nigel Farage, a year that was progressing quite nicely started to go wrong when the Guardian revealed he had received an undeclared gift of £5m from a crypto billionaire. Just 10 weeks later, he has been pushed into perhaps one of the biggest gambles of his political career. That gamble is seemingly not with his role as an MP. Farage

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

What is the Timms review into Pip and what is it likely to conclude?

Campaigners fear report into disability benefits will seek to make cuts despite assurances that would not be its aim Disability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to find A government review of the personal independence payment (Pip) disability benefit, ordered after ministers were forced to abandon proposed £5bn cuts to the payment last year, is due to be published this week. This is what we know so far. Continue reading...

The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Disability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to find

Exclusive: Landmark review by disability minister will call for ‘dehumanising’ assessment system to be redrawn What is the Timms review into Pip and what is it likely to conclude? Disability benefits in England and Wales are “not fit for purpose” and the entire assessment system must be redrawn as part of a radical welfare overhaul, the government’s landmark review of personal independence payments will say. The Guardian understands the review will conclude that the points-based system of asse

The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Almost no progress made on UK regional household income divide in 30 years, report finds

Despite promises of successive governments, gap between richest and poorest areas consistent since 1997 Britain’s deep regional income divide has barely changed in 30 years despite the promises of successive governments to narrow the gap, according to a report showing the challenge for Andy Burnham. As the prime minister-in-waiting prepares for government, the Resolution Foundation said almost no progress had been made since 1997 to tackle stark divisions in household income, before housing cost

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Asylum seeker in UK as part of ‘one in, one out’ scheme says it is unfair on those deported

Man flown from France as part of legal entry programme decries effect on others ‘who may have a similar case’ An asylum seeker brought to the UK by the Home Office has said it feels unjust that he was allowed into the country only because someone else was deported. The individual benefited from the “one in” part of the controversial “one in, one out” scheme, where one asylum seeker who reached the UK on a small boat is forcibly returned to France in exchange for another being brought legally to

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

‘More public control’: what will Burnham do about water and energy?

In the fifth of a series on nationalisation, we look at utilities – including the cost of ending private ownership Will Burnham ‘go big’ in expanding the role of the state? Atlee: the postwar blueprint that inspires Burnham How council housebuilding is central to Burnham’s vision How Burnham aims to shake up UK transport When the former Undertones frontman turned campaigner Feargal Sharkey backed Keir Starmer for prime minister in 2024, he hoped that the Labour leader would be the man to cl

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BBC Politics7 Jul 2026

Reform asks NCA to investigate leaks of private financial information

The party's deputy leader Richard Tice says he found out payments to his company had been flagged to the agency, after questions from the media.

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BBC Politics7 Jul 2026

Reform asks NCA to investigate leaks of private financial information

The party's deputy leader Richard Tice says he found out payments to his company had been flagged to the agency, after questions from the media.

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BBC Politics7 Jul 2026

Why replacing leasehold may be easier said than done

The government wants to abolish leasehold, but replacing it could prove far more complicated