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Conservative Home29 May 2026

Sarah Ingham: The National Conversation on defence must answer some awkward questions

A national conversation implies the nation supports defence. What nation? The SNP opposes nuclear submarines at Faslane, Sinn Fein is against the £50 million Defence Growth Deal in Northern Ireland and Plaid Cymru backs rural resiliance [sic] but ducks defence.  The post Sarah Ingham: The National Conversation on defence must answer some awkward questions appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home29 May 2026

Phil King: Harborough’s warning to Westminster

You cannot concrete over productive farmland in one location while removing farmland from production elsewhere, all while arguing that viability is marginal and infrastructure funding uncertain. The post Phil King: Harborough’s warning to Westminster appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics29 May 2026

Britain's armed forces battle fraud crisis as 'culture change' demanded

The 'normalisation of fraud' is condemned as the Ministry of Defence is condemned for lacking a strategy to stamp out this crime ahead of new investment

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The Guardian Politics29 May 2026

Why are our homes and cities all so hot? – podcast

In the week when the hottest May days were recorded, environment editor Fiona Harvey examines a new Climate Change Committee report on how the UK can better withstand extreme heat Temperatures across the UK and Europe this week have shattered May heat records. As the environment editor Fiona Harvey points out: we might expect heatwaves in July and August – but 30C in spring? Fiona talks to Nosheen Iqbal about a report from the Climate Change Committee warning that the UK is unprepared for extrem

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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026

The Guardian view on energy shocks: winter is coming – and Labour needs a plan | Editorial

Clean power remains essential. But until it arrives, Britain must stop LNG made scarce by the Iran war setting gas and electricity prices The US-Israel war on Iran will drive household energy costs in Britain to their highest level in two years over the summer. This has given fresh impetus to calls for the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, to change course. The cabinet minister is vulnerable because he promised cheaper bills if Britain embraced his clean, green power plan. Critics, including Labou

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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026

‘Lost generation’: why can’t young people get jobs? – The Latest

A landmark report has warned that the UK risks a ‘lost generation’ of young people, as new figures show that more than 1 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK were not in education, employment or training. The former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn said youth disengagement was a mounting economic risk to the country, and urged a fundamental reset of policy covering schools, the health service and the welfare state. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard

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Express Politics28 May 2026

Labour's big beasts are fighting a nasty civil war while the rest of us suffer

Voters are waiting for answers to the problems hitting their wallets, jobs and futures - all while Labour is distracted by infighting, writes Steph Spyro

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Express Politics28 May 2026

Keir Starmer hits back at Tony Blair as Labour civil war explodes

The Prime Minister has reacted to his predecessor's attack on his record in office.

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BBC Politics28 May 2026

Greens can bring 'hope and joy' says Makerfield by-election candidate

Makerfield by-election Green candidate Saraf Wakefield pledfdaction on two" big buckets of issues"

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Conservative Home28 May 2026

Fredrik Ostlund: Four reasons why Sweden’s reckoning is Britain’s warning

Conservatives in the UK and Sweden can learn from each other. We are united by a common belief in individual freedom, order and responsibility, and the beneficial power of free markets. As so often it falls to us to clear up the mess left by flawed leftwing doctrine. The post Fredrik Ostlund: Four reasons why Sweden’s reckoning is Britain’s warning appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics28 May 2026

Labour jobs tsar Alan Milburn warns social media 'doomscrolling' is destroying young lives

Job tsar Alan Milburn has warned young people should be kicked off social media and made to do national service to get them back into work and off their phones.

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The Guardian Politics28 May 2026

The Campaign Diary of Robert Kenyon Aged 41 and Three-Quarters (as imagined by John Crace)

What’s Carol Vorderman moaning about? All I said was how fit she was online … must be going through the menopause Another sweltering sub-Saharan summer’s day in late spring. If this is global warming, I say: “Bring it on.” I go outside to the van, turn on the engine and leave it running. This is the kind of day you want to burn as many fossil fuels as possible. Back indoors, I turn on the radio where Tony Blair is talking. There’s a politician who talks sense. Bollocks to net zero. That’s what

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