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Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Labour faces dilemma as bone deaths mount up and Britons miss out on life-saving help

Champions of a simple measure which would save thousands of lives will attempt to change the law to force Labour to deliver on its pre-election promise.

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Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Rolls-Royce in race to perfect engine which will slash cost of air travel

Britain has the chance to create a new jet engine which could transform aviation and see ticket prices slashed through unprecedented fuel efficiency.

Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Andy Burnham just unleashed a hard-left coup - and look who’s back to lead it

The Labour Party is getting excited. Everybody else should be terrified.

Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Lee Anderson says Labour has 'killed the Saturday job' and betrayed Britain's youth

The Reform UK chairman is outraged visa licences for foreign workers have been granted to vape shops, barbershops and car washes.

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The Guardian Politics20 Jun 2026

Bedtime blues: London ‘killing off nightlife’ as UK city with strictest licensing rules

Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds are experiencing after-hours boom as a result of more lenient rules London has the earliest council-mandated bedtime of any other city in the UK as a result of policies in nightlife districts that oppose any new bar or restaurant opening past 11pm. These strict restrictions on pubs and bars are “killing off nightlife” in the capital, experts have said, while other cities including Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds are experiencing an after-hours boom because they

Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Horror price tag of Ed Miliband's doomed Net Zero crusade revealed

The cost of updating the UK's energy infrastructure runs into the hundreds of billions

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Guido Fawkes20 Jun 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 1,012,242 visitors visited 953,224 times viewing 933,501 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: John Healey Savages Reeves in Resignation Speech ‘Voters HATE Starmer Here!’ Who Will Win the Makerfield By-Election? Transport Secretary Flunks Basic Maths in Letter on British Buses Cambridge Deletes Men’s College Rowing Category Labour…

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The Guardian Politics20 Jun 2026

‘Within 10 mins, Andy had nicked it’: illustrator on his ubiquitous image of Andy Burnham

With its light scowl and dark attire, Stanley Chow’s creation has become visual shorthand for the politician’s anti-establishment sentiment It was shortly after Andy Burnham’s famously rousing speech outside the Manchester Central Library in October 2020 that Stanley Chow decided to draw him. Or rather his wife did. “It was the pandemic and we were all so down in the dumps at that point,” says the illustrator, speaking from his home in the city this week. But I remember looking around and he had

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The Guardian Politics20 Jun 2026

Andy Burnham has shown that he can win. But can he govern Britain? | Gaby Hinsliff

Having literally campaigned in poetry, the new Makerfield MP needs a summer of knuckling down to the small print By the end, it had become less a byelection, more a mythical quest. Whoever could draw the sword from Makerfield’s stone – or more prosaically, beat Reform in a seat where it practically swept the board in last month’s local elections – would claim the divine right to rule the Labour party. And lo, on Friday morning, Andy Burnham became the chosen one. He carries the magic shield of n

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The Guardian Politics20 Jun 2026

Tory byelection victory gives Badenoch vital evidence to justify abandoning net zero

While the SNP’s recent issues put off some voters, the Tories’ support for North Sea oil drilling proved more decisive For the first time in 50 years, the Conservatives have won a byelection in Scotland, taking Aberdeen South from the Scottish National party and giving Kemi Badenoch one of her most significant achievements as party leader. The win for Douglas Lumsden, which was secured with a 15% swing, giving the Tories a majority of 6,050, provides the party leader with an important piece of e

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Express Politics20 Jun 2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg on how livid Remainers came 'perilously close' to wrecking Brexit

Exclusive: 'We stopped campaigning once we won, which was a mistake, and they started campaigning once they'd lost'

Express Politics20 Jun 2026

I spent the day with Nigel Farage - from a Greek restaurant to £3 pints it blew me away

ANALYSIS - MARTYN BROWN: Chatting Brexit over a beer in his Clacton constituency earlier this week, the Reform UK leader couldn't have been more relaxed

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