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Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

Craig Williams Pleads Guilty to Cheating at Gambling Over 2024 Election Bet

PA: Craig Williams, who was parliamentary private secretary to Rishi Sunak, has pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to cheating at gambling with bets on the date of the 2024 general election. A long-running saga…

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The Guardian Politics29 Jun 2026

Former Tory MP Craig Williams pleads guilty to cheating at gambling with election bets

Former parliamentary private secretary to Rishi Sunak admits offence relating to betting on date of 2024 election The former Conservative MP Craig Williams, who was parliamentary private secretary to Rishi Sunak, has pleaded guilty at Southwark crown court to cheating at gambling with bets on the date of the 2024 general election. More details soon … Continue reading...

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Express Politics28 Jun 2026

Sadiq Khan under fire as Met could reopen 4,000 grooming gang cases

Police chiefs have been reviewing files dating back to 2010, amid fears many rapists are still roaming freely.

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The Guardian Politics28 Jun 2026

Prince Harry may cancel UK family visit after being refused police protection

Sussexes trip to Britain in balance after government declines request for taxpayer-funded security The Duke of Sussex is understood to be reconsidering plans to bring his wife and children to the UK next month after his request for taxpayer-funded police protection was rejected. Prince Harry and Meghan were planning their first trip to Britain as a family in four years for events related to the Invictus Games, due to be held in Birmingham in July. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics27 Jun 2026

‘Not a culture war’: the council that won its case over England flags on lampposts

Leader of local authority in Oxfordshire faces backlash over injunction ‘to maintain neutral, safe space for residents’ While Londoners scurried from building to building seeking shade on another baking hot day this week, one man paused in the shadow of the Royal Courts of Justice. The leader of Oxfordshire county council, Tim Bearder, was not only satisfied in the shade of the court’s gothic towers. He had just won a landmark legal victory. Continue reading...

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Express Politics26 Jun 2026

Labour's plan to release killers and rapists early are a 'gift' for career criminals

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers are concerned about how the probation service will cope with up to 6,000 prisoners being released from September

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The Guardian Politics26 Jun 2026

Senior Trump official’s claims about UK free speech arrests rejected by No 10

Sarah B Rogers speech at conference in London included far-right memes and conspiracy theories about ‘Da Yookay’ Claims by a senior official in the Trump administration that British police were making thousands of “freedom of speech” arrests have been rejected by the UK government. Sarah B Rogers, who has become the public face of the US state department’s hostility to European liberal democracies, was accused by MPs of echoing far-right memes and conspiracy theories during a speech at an inter

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Express Politics26 Jun 2026

I'm a former police detective – I saw how politics let grooming gangs abuse children

Maggie Oliver is a detective-turned-whistleblower who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 to expose the Rochdale grooming scandal

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Sky News Politics25 Jun 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-burnham-starmer-labour-makerfield-by-election-12593360?postid=11939428#liveblog-body'>Burnham could scrap plans to merge police forces in England and Wales</a>

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Express Politics25 Jun 2026

Thousands of worst criminals including rapists and killers to be released from jail early

Rapists, killers and sex fiends are to be sprung early from jail as part of a 6,000-strong release blitz starting in September this year.

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The Guardian Politics25 Jun 2026

How the US bypasses British courts to try its military over crimes in the UK

Even sexual assault or paedophilia cases are heard by US courts martial, using an obscure 1951 agreement A US fighter pilot strangled a woman in England. Why did it end in a ‘degrading’ military trial? A little-known system in which US military personnel are tried through a court martial for alleged crimes committed in the UK is under growing scrutiny. There are more than 12,000 US personnel stationed on at least 15 US military bases and facilities in the UK. With the exception of Lossiemouth

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Express Politics24 Jun 2026

50,000 illegal migrants and foreign criminals on the loose in Britain

The revelations come as the Home Secretary prepares to introduce sweeping reforms to the immigration system.

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