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BBC Politics14 Mar 2026

Chancellor to offer support over rising heating oil costs

Rachel Reeves says the Treasury is also looking at "different options" to help households most vulnerable to soaring energy bills.

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BBC Politics14 Mar 2026

Chancellor to offer support over rising heating oil costs

Rachel Reeves says the Treasury is also looking at "different options" to help households most vulnerable to soaring energy bills.

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs

Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit. Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) annual conference, Phillipson said the special educational needs overhaul outlined last month would “move t

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The Guardian Politics13 Mar 2026

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes will not have UK benefits cut

Campaigners welcome Keir Starmer’s backing of ‘Philomena’s law’ to protect payments for those who accept compensation Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes can continue to receive benefits in the UK after Downing Street agreed to protect payments. Keir Starmer bowed to pressure from campaigners to back a bill known as Philomena’s law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefits if they accepted compensation from Dublin. Continue reading...

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

Neil Garratt and Luke Robert Black: Stop building affordable housing – build subsidised instead

If developers make a profit, they are more incentivised to build communities and, importantly, increase their risk appetite. By ensuring stronger returns, we are more likely to see more diversity, more beauty and, chiefly, higher quality homes for Londoners. The post Neil Garratt and Luke Robert Black: Stop building affordable housing – build subsidised instead appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes13 Mar 2026

Labour Boasts About “A Growing Economy” Twelve Hours Before Achieving 0% Growth

There is a whole section in the latest ‘The Labour Rosette’ newsletter to party members, published at 6.31pm last night, dedicated to the government’s ‘right economic plan’. Apparently Labour has “restored stability to our public finances” and the economy is “resilient”.  It even reheats the closer to Reeves’ snooze-fest of a Spring Statement: “My plan is…

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

George Beglan: Britain’s political class has confused legal performance with strategic thinking – again

International law in military matters has always been more facade than framework: it lacks enforcement mechanisms, it derives its apparent authority from hegemonic sponsorship, and appealing to it not only fails to constrain great power behaviour but obscures the real debate The post George Beglan: Britain’s political class has confused legal performance with strategic thinking – again appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home13 Mar 2026

Joshua Guillen: Enfield may see a Conservative revival

When I hear on the doors that residents feel let down by consecutive Labour administrations, the Conservative principles upon which we campaign become more apparent. The post Joshua Guillen: Enfield may see a Conservative revival appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics13 Mar 2026

MPs 'deeply troubled' by BBC World Service funding uncertainty

The current funding agreement between the BBC and the government expires at the end of this month.

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Sky News Politics12 Mar 2026

Labour's left unite behind 'major reset' call in fresh challenge to Starmer

Labour's left-wing factions have united behind a call for a "major reset" – warning the party will "only survive if it chooses a different path".

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Express Politics12 Mar 2026

Britain spending a fifth of foreign aid budget on housing migrants

A large chunk of the overseas aid budget is going on hotels and other accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK.

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The Guardian Politics11 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking | Editorial

The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism Britain is one of many countries that would benefit from the replacement of brutal theocracy with democratic government in Tehran. The Iranian people would be the biggest beneficiaries. It does not follow that British interests are served by the current US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, which claims regime change as a goal but includes no credible strategy for achieving

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