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PoliticsReformRestore26/02/2026

Exclusive Interview: "Rising Star" Switches to Restore Britain — "I Want a Political Home That Respects Me"

Kieran Mishchuk, 19, who won his seat for Reform UK aged 18, tells Restore News why he made the switch and why he hasn't looked back.

ReformRestoreRupert Lowe25/02/2026

Troubling Evidence Of Corruption

The attacks continue as Restore Britain's popularity is causing panic at Reform

RestoreRemigration24/02/2026

Young Bob Assaulted By Muslim Gang

Prominent remigration activist Young Bob was assaulted and robbed in Whitechapel on Tuesday evening by a gang of muslims gathered for a debate outside a mosque.

PoliticsReformRestore23/02/2026

The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future

Ben Habib's proposed merger with Restore Britain collapses after Rupert Lowe refuses to hand over the keys. The reaction from Advance UK's inner circle reveals more about their motivations than they intended.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Briefing wars: how Labour ministers tried, and failed, to get into Burnham’s cabinet

Choice of John Healey for chancellor shocks insiders after weeks of fierce lobbying on behalf of party big hitters UK politics live – latest updates For weeks, as ministers jostled, lobbied and positioned themselves for big jobs in an Andy Burnham government, the incoming prime minister remained sphinxlike. He told an interviewer on Monday that he had a black box containing his ministerial picks and major policy announcements, adding that even as he prepared to enter Downing Street: “The black

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

‘We need to be careful’: Andy Burnham’s team keenly aware of fiscal tightrope

Chancellor appointment and early policies avoid market meltdown but next week remains ‘moment of real peril’ UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham has not quite gone for Keir Starmer’s extreme caution in the run-up to entering No 10 – but he is certainly aware that any early wrong moves would cost him. Back in 2024, Starmer was criticised for his “Ming vase” strategy, where the leader treads very carefully so as not to drop a valuable metaphorical piece of china being carried across t

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BBC Politics20 Jul 2026

Who is new chancellor John Healey? Labour veteran who quit as defence secretary

The former defence secretary is seen as a safe pair of hands - and is now in charge of the government's finances.

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BBC Politics20 Jul 2026

Who is new chancellor John Healey? Labour veteran who quit as defence secretary

The former defence secretary is seen as a safe pair of hands - and is now in charge of the government's finances.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

The Guardian view on Andy Burnham’s first day: the right vision, but time is of the essence | Editorial

Outside Downing Street, Britain’s new prime minister struck the right notes. Now he and his cabinet need to be brave A 1970s adage attributed to the former Tory chancellor Reginald Maudling maintained that Britain was essentially a Conservative country that sometimes voted Labour. That was always a questionable assertion, given the defining postwar role of Labour in shaping a fairer social settlement. But the trauma of successive election victories by Margaret Thatcher from 1979 onwards meant th

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham’s first Labour cabinet: who’s in and who’s out?

From the Treasury to the Home Office, we look at who is heading up key departments in new PM’s government UK politics live – latest updates Burnham vows his arrival in power will be ‘circuit breaker’ moment for UK Six highlights from Andy Burnham’s first Downing Street speech Andy Burnham has appointed his first cabinet, with the new prime minister rewarding those who have been loyal to his takeover efforts. He had promised to pick his top team from all wings of the party in an effort to sho

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BBC Politics20 Jul 2026

John Healey becomes chancellor weeks after shock resignation from defence job

The former defence secretary is seen as a safe pair of hands - and is now in charge of the government's finances.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

With PM Burnham, we’ll get warmth, audacity and knowhow. For everything else, cling to hope | Polly Toynbee

He looks the part, with a rise as impressive as his speeches, but is that enough? You cannot know if someone is up to the job until they have to do it Only vaulting ambition takes anyone to No 10, but Andy Burnham’s ambition reaches phenomenal heights. Can he really make the biggest changes in 40 years? Can he build a new economy? The new prime minister lashes himself to the mast of those mighty aspirations, but adds in something even riskier – an end to rough sleeping, ordered immediately. That

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Conservative Home20 Jul 2026

‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh

If Andy Burnham and Louise Haigh really do think Britain's current problems started because of the Thatcher years, I'm very much afraid he will try to borrow solutions from the past which will not tackle our profound and monumental challenges as a country but make our future a darned sight worse. The post ‘A new day has dawned, has it not?’ And now we’ll go ‘forward’ to the past with vague and Haigh appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Why has Britain’s oldest political magazine become such a rabid cheerleader for Islamophobia? | Nesrine Malik

A report on the Spectator’s coverage of Muslims makes for grim reading. Conservatism is now focused on this minority to the exclusion of everything else I start this column already resigned to the tune out, to the glaze over, the click away. This is not to say that I do not have faith in you, dear reader, to keep reading and caring. But I am aware, and this is central to the problem, that it is now normal, when it comes to a certain minority in this country, to speak of them as if they were some

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The Guardian Politics20 Jul 2026

Retired UK civil servants failed by pension outsourcing, government says

Chaos of Capita-run scheme has left some people waiting up to a year for payments and in financial hardship Retired civil servants have been failed by the decision to outsource their pension scheme, the government has admitted, and the maladministration meant some were left waiting up to a year for payments. Multiple members of the civil service pension scheme, run by the private company Capita since December, have come forward to say they are unable to afford rent and have been forced to use fo

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Express Politics20 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham ripped apart on Labour's 'coronation day' over 'tax rises'

The Conservative leader has issued a blunt warning to the UK's new Prime Minister.

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