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BBC Politics27 Mar 2026

Reform candidate quits Senedd election after appearing to do Nazi salute

The photo of Corey Edwards was published after he was announced as a Reform candidate on Wednesday.

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The Guardian Politics27 Mar 2026

Ministers should ‘start doing stuff’ to help farmers and cut fuel costs, says Asda boss

Allan Leighton predicts food prices will inevitably rise, as group’s full-year profits dive by a third to £764m Asda’s executive chair has called on the government to “stand up and start doing stuff” to support farmers and ease the price of fuel as he warned that food prices would inevitably rise as a result of the conflict in the Middle East. Allan Leighton said farmers were under pressure but the supermarket had so far received “a trickle of requests not an avalanche” of cost price increases f

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The Guardian Politics27 Mar 2026

Cabinet Office to ask Mandelson to provide messages from personal phone

Exchanges about US ambassador appointment may be lost after McSweeney’s phone was stolen UK politics live – latest updates Peter Mandelson will be asked to supply messages from his personal phone as part of the investigation into his appointment as Keir Starmer’s ambassador to the US. In February, MPs forced the government to commit to publishing tens of thousands of documents after a controversy erupted over the prime minister’s awareness of the former peer’s links to the convicted child sex

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Express Politics27 Mar 2026

Ex-NATO commander claims Trump is ‘lying’ as Iran’s ‘got him by short and curlies'

As the US President extends his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and questions persist over reported negotiations, General Sir Richard Shirreff has claimed Trump "almost certainly is lying"

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Sky News Politics27 Mar 2026

Every time Trump has attacked Starmer over the Iran war - as PM vows to not 'back down'

Sir Keir Starmer says Donald Trump is seeking to "put pressure on me in different ways" - but has insisted that he won't "buckle under pressure".

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BBC Politics27 Mar 2026

Marco Rubio meets G7 counterparts amid Iran war

It is the secretary of state's first foreign trip since the conflict began last month.

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The Guardian Politics27 Mar 2026

Starmer says Iran and Ukraine wars could reshape global order and ‘define us for a generation’ – UK politics live

His remarks come as foreign secretary Yvette Cooper meets her counterparts at a G7 meeting in France The second day of the G7 meeting near Paris is under way. We heard from Yvette Cooper earlier this morning before the summit began, saying she and other foreign ministers will discuss the conflict in the Middle East “where we want to see a swift resolution that reaches regional stability and security and opens the strait of Hormuz”. The narrow waterway, one of the world’s busiest oil shipping cha

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Express Politics27 Mar 2026

Labour plunges to astonishing low in car-crash interview – UK's military is peril

ANALYSIS - LT COL STUART CRAWFORD: To say this isn't good enough would be such an understatement we might require a new word entirely.

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Conservative Home27 Mar 2026

Georgia L. Gilholy: Ministers must finally face up to facts and proscribe the IRGC as terrorists

​Leaving the IRGC somewhat to its own devices in Britain makes a mockery of our country and puts real people’s lives in danger. The government must either proscribe what they can now and legislate fast for the rest, or explain their cowardice to the public. The post Georgia L. Gilholy: Ministers must finally face up to facts and proscribe the IRGC as terrorists appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home27 Mar 2026

Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country

A tax holiday and two new bonds could turn a geopolitical crisis into the domestic investment story of a generation. It is the simplest most elegant most patriotic economic policy a government could announce. The post Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics27 Mar 2026

Russia in 'state of war' with West and democracies like Britain are 'sitting ducks'

A major warning on Russia's information war against democracies details the 'depth and intensity of hostile activity'

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Sky News Politics27 Mar 2026

Starmer thinks he is the right man for this moment - despite what Trump says

A month into the Iran war and the prime minister, on a visit to Finland with allies in the Joint Expeditionary Forces military coalition this week, left me in no doubt that he believes our lives, our country and the way we do things, is about to profoundly change.

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