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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

Ex-minister adds to UK calls for ban on political donations in cryptocurrency

Exclusive: Labour’s Rushanara Ali plans to intervene in elections bill amid warnings of foreign interference A former Labour minister has added her voice to those of a growing list of experts and senior MPs calling for a ban on political donations in cryptocurrency as concerns grow over foreign interference in British elections. Rushanara Ali, the Labour MP who helped draft the elections bill when she was a minister in the communities department, called for the government to strengthen the legis

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Conservative Home1 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Sunday 1st March 2026

Iranian regime confirms Khamenei’s death | Starmer calls for diplomatic solution | Simons resigns as Cabinet Office Minister | Farage calls for an end to non-British citizens voting in UK elections The post Newslinks for Sunday 1st March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

Shabana Mahmood’s double down on immigration ‘disappointing’, says Alf Dubs

Labour peer, who was a child refugee, criticises home secretary’s response to Gorton and Denton byelection defeat The home secretary’s decision to double down on hardline immigration reforms in light of Labour’s byelection defeat to the Green party is “disappointing”, according to the Labour peer Alf Dubs. Lord Dubs, a child refugee who fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia on the Kindertransport in 1939, had previously accused Shabana Mahmood of “pulling up the drawbridge” on child migrants. Conti

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Express Politics1 Mar 2026

Nigel Farage pledges postal voting ban and end to Commonwealth voting rights

The Reform UK leader claims postal voting has turned elections into a 'laughing stock'

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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan

London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’ Sadiq Khan: ‘Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the byelection’s lesson’ The mayor of London has said the Gorton and Denton byelection has exposed a “far-reaching change and fracturing” in UK politics and Labour must ditch its “flawed strategy” of taking liberal progressives for granted. In what appears to be an attack on Keir Starmer, Sadi

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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan

The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London Attacking Greens is ‘flawed strategy’ There’s no sugar-coating what happened in the byelection in Gorton and Denton – it’s a terrible result for Labour, coming third in a seat we had held for nearly a century. People often exaggerate the significance of byelection results, but this one does speak to a

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Express Politics28 Feb 2026

Anguish in Labour as Keir Starmer compared to Joe Biden and polls tell horror story

Nearly half of Labour supporters would consider voting Green and Sir Keir Starmer is compared to US president who paved the way for Trump's election

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The Guardian Politics28 Feb 2026

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network

Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters The Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a “pro-Kremlin” network in emails to GCHQ despite having claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” about a PR firm’s investigation into their journalism. Simons, who had been a Cabinet office minister, previously ran the thinktank Labour Together. He quit on Saturday,

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Express Politics28 Feb 2026

Starmer issued major warning over EU net-zero surrender - ‘blank cheque to Brussels’

Labour MPs have urged Sir Keir Starmer to delay negotiations on re-joining the EU scheme as the PM continues to seek closer relations with the bloc.

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BBC Politics28 Feb 2026

Burnham would probably have won by-election, Labour deputy leader says

Lucy Powell tells the BBC that Labour needs to make more use of the Greater Manchester mayor.

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BBC Politics28 Feb 2026

Burnham would probably have won by-election, Labour deputy leader says

Lucy Powell tells the BBC that Labour needs to make more use of the Greater Manchester mayor.

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The Guardian Politics28 Feb 2026

Burnham would ‘probably’ have won byelection, says Labour deputy leader

Lucy Powell calls for party to make more use of Greater Manchester mayor after Gorton and Denton defeat Andy Burnham would have won the Gorton and Denton byelection, Labour’s deputy leader said as she called for the party to make more use of the Greater Manchester mayor. Labour fell to third in the previously rock-solid seat on Thursday, with the Greens winning a fifth seat in parliament and Reform UK coming second. Continue reading...

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