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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Rape gangs inquiry finds establishment hid 'unspeakable' crimes for decades

Previous governments hid evidence of "unspeakable" rape gang crimes for decades, an inquiry has claimed.

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Makerfield voters are giving Burnham the benefit of the doubt. If he fails, the consequences will be grave | Owen Jones

Winning this byelection wouldn’t make Reform disappear. Would Burnham really have the courage needed to see them off in No 10? ‘Well, good,” says a middle-aged woman outside Boots about the prospect of millions of migrants being deported. “Because we want the country safe.” I point out that, even as immigration has risen sharply for the last two decades, by every measure – murder rates, or numbers of people admitted to hospitals because of knife attacks and assaults – violence has fallen steeply

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Palestine Action ban will be overturned, group’s co-founder vows

Speaking after appeal court ruled ban lawful, Huda Ammori says fight will be won in the courts or ‘on the streets’ The co-founder of Palestine Action has said the battle to overturn the terrorism ban on the direct action group will be won – in the courts or “on the streets”. On Monday, five court of appeal judges ruled that a ban on the organisation was lawful, reversing the high court’s February judgment, which they said had wrongly limited the home secretary’s discretion on national security.

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Conservative Home16 Jun 2026

Brandon To: As an immigrant I’d say Britain’s policing isn’t “two-tier” – it’s too terrified

By reforming the guidance that currently paralyses our frontline, we can restore the confidence of our police officers. True anti-racism in policing should not be hesitation, but confidence that when the police act, they do so with the full, unbiased weight of the law behind them. The post Brandon To: As an immigrant I’d say Britain’s policing isn’t “two-tier” – it’s too terrified appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

‘Sadly, things are worse,’ says sister of MP Jo Cox 10 years after her murder

Kim Leadbeater, now an MP, and fellow politicians fear that ‘kinder, gentler politics’ after Cox’s death was an illusion Ten years on from Jo Cox’s murder, Kim Leadbeater fears that the consensus around “kinder, gentler politics” in the wake of her sister’s death was short-lived. “Sadly and regrettably, over the last decade things are worse,” she says. Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen and mother of two young children, was murdered outside a library in West Yorkshire in June 2016 by an Engl

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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Politics LIVE: Weakened Starmer faces showdown with Trump as 'police state' row looms

Sir Keir Starmer faces G7 allies in France today - including Donald Trump - as the US becomes increasingly at odds with Labour's policies.

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BBC Politics16 Jun 2026

Sister of Jo Cox urges 'common ground' 10 years after her murder

Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater reflects a decade after her sister was murdered in Birstall.

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BBC Politics16 Jun 2026

Sister of Jo Cox urges 'common ground' 10 years after her murder

Spen Valley MP Kim Leadbeater reflects a decade after her sister was murdered in Birstall.

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Kim Leadbeater

Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox Political hatred and division in the UK is probably worse now than during the Brexit referendum, when Jo Cox was murdered, says Kim Leadbeater, Cox’s sister who is now also a Labour MP. Speaking to the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast Leadbeater, who was elected to the same Yorkshire seat held by Cox in a 2021 byelection, said everyone in public life had a responsibility to try and eas

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable

Exclusive: Commons motion calls for code of practice to be blocked amid concerns over impact on transgender people A number of Labour MPs are increasingly doubtful that the guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on sex as it applies in the Equality Act is workable in the real world, with some predicting it will unleash a wave of competing legal claims. A total of 135 MPs, 69 of them from Labour, have signed a Commons motion calling for the code of practice drafte

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain – podcast

It’s a decade since the MP for Batley and Spen was killed by a far-right extremist. Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who took over her parliamentary seat, explains what lessons are still to be learned Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice, and the mother of two young children, aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, she was murd

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Sky News Politics15 Jun 2026

Jo Cox's sister warns against people being pushed 'towards the extremes'

The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has warned against people being pushed "towards the extremes", as she marks the 10th anniversary of her death.

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