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Guido Fawkes18 Mar 2026

Westminster Targeted by Scammers in Wave of X Account Hacks

Scammers are targeting the X accounts of hacks and politicians across SW1. Nadhim Zahawi is the latest victim… Esther Webber’s account was also compromised this morning. The messages are always the same, and it’s been going on for several weeks. Sometimes the account holder wrestles back control, sometimes they don’t…

Politics
BBC Politics18 Mar 2026

PM swerves questions on whether he spoke to Mandelson over Epstein friendship

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch repeatedly asks if the prime minister spoke to Peter Mandelson about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein before picking him to be a UK ambassador.

Conservative Home18 Mar 2026

Callum Murphy: Standing for election in Canary Wharf is a window on what the Conservatives must do to win back young professionals

The task for the Conservative Party is not to reinvent itself entirely. It is to reconnect those enduring principles with the realities of modern life in Britain’s cities. The post Callum Murphy: Standing for election in Canary Wharf is a window on what the Conservatives must do to win back young professionals appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics18 Mar 2026

Tory MP demands closure of Islamic charity accused of being Iran's UK 'nerve centre'

Chris Philp has demanded the Charity Commission shut the Islamic Centre of England, which he brands the hub of Iran's hostile state activity on British soil.

Guido Fawkes18 Mar 2026

Downing Street Refuses to Back Mahmood’s Migrant Reforms After Rayner Attack

Downing Street is suddenly very coy about supporting the Home Office’s proposed changes to indefinite leave to remain. Speaking at the post-PMQs Lobby huddle of political hacks, Number 10’s political spokesman refused to back Mahmood’s plan to double the time it takes to qualify for permanent residence: “We’re a proud, tolerant, generous country. Labour has…

Politics
The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

England should give over 7% of land to nature and renewables to meet environmental targets, data shows

Government’s first published land use framework maps how land is used and how it can be adapted to meet changing needs About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and renewable energy, to meet the UK’s environmental targets, new data shows. But there will still be enough land to grow the food needed, and to house a growing population, according to the government’s first “land use framework”, published on W

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Sky News Politics18 Mar 2026

Scottish Labour leader reveals he has not spoken to Starmer since calling for him to quit

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has not spoken to Sir Keir Starmer since the week he publicly said the prime minister should go - and stands by his position.

Defence
Express Politics18 Mar 2026

Campaigners vow 'valiant battle' for assisted dying in Scotland will continue

Families have reacted after Scotland's parliament held a major vote.

Politics
The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

Starmer claims Tory party has ‘problem with Muslims’ in PMQs address

PM calls on Kemi Badenoch to sack Nick Timothy after his post on X describing public prayers as ‘act of domination’ UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has claimed the Conservative party “has a problem with Muslims” after the shadow justice secretary described an event where the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, joined others to pray in Trafalgar Square as “an act of domination”. During PMQs, the prime minister urged Kemi Badenoch to sack Nick Timothy over a post on X in which he shared a c

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The Guardian Politics18 Mar 2026

Polanski positions Greens’ economic policy as radical alternative to Reeves

Offer to reform taxes, tackle ‘rip-off Britain’ and overhaul fiscal rules could tempt exasperated Labour supporters Zack Polanski says Greens would ditch GDP targets and focus on wellbeing instead The venue for Zack Polanski’s economic speech on Wednesday – a sunny north London garden centre – could hardly have been more different to the sombre City backdrop for Rachel Reeves’s Mais lecture on Tuesday. The chancellor was, as it happens, the last politician to give a major economic speech at th

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Express Politics18 Mar 2026

DWP update on state pension age change key dates as first rise begins in April

A big review is taking place on when further rises will happen with concerns life expectancy is going down in some areas

Express Politics18 Mar 2026

Starmer set for another screeching U-turn after Rayner mutiny on 'un-British' immigration

The former Deputy Prime Minister condemned the Home Secretary's plans to extend the settlement time for migrants who have already lived in the UK from five years to up to 20 years.

Immigration