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The Guardian Politics16 Apr 2026

CEO of bitcoin firm championed by Nigel Farage leaves company

Resignation announced of Jai Patel, whose liquidated crypto firm was relaunched as Stack BTC this year The chief executive of a bitcoin company promoted by Nigel Farage has left his role as the venture attempts to convince investors that it is going to deliver “long-term value” for shareholders. Stack BTC was launched to much fanfare in March this year, with Farage and former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng becoming some of its first shareholders. The company says its founder is Paul Withers, a friend

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The Guardian Politics16 Apr 2026

Is Keir Starmer ‘complacent’ on defence? – podcast

Keir Starmer has hit back at Labour peer George Robertson’s criticisms about defence funding. Why has the government been slow to prioritise defence and what trade-offs is Keir Starmer willing to make in order to increase spending? Guardian Live: Can Labour come back from the brink? With a difficult set of May elections approaching, Labour under threat from the Green party and Reform UK, and Keir Starmer’s popularity in freefall, can he survive as leader of the Labour party? The Guardian’s Gaby

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

David Lammy still plays an important role in UK foreign policy – but he is not the only one

Keir Starmer conducts much of Britain’s diplomacy himself, but beneath him is a team of trusted advisers The first foreign official JD Vance met with after he returned from peace talks with Iran in Islamabad this week was not a diplomat or foreign policy official – it was David Lammy, the UK’s justice secretary and deputy prime minister. Lammy will follow his trip to Washington, where he saw the vice-president and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, with another to Barcelona, where he will repr

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Staggering number of prisoners let out by mistake revealed in new justice blunder

The revelations will further humiliate justice secretary David Lammy

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Nigel Farage set for huge victory at local elections – bombshell mega poll

Reform UK could take control of half of the councils in the crunch ballots

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Nigel Farage's Reform UK faces its greatest chance for glory – and its biggest danger

Insurgent force can stake a claim to be Britain's 'national' party, but only then will its biggest test yet will begin

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

Scottish Labour leader calls claim he tried to do Reform deal a ‘desperate lie’

Anas Sarwar says there have been ‘no stitch-ups, no deals, no backroom chats, no back-channel contact with Reform’ UK politics live – latest updates Anas Sarwar has dismissed as “a desperate lie from a desperate man” a claim by Reform UK’s Scotland leader, Malcolm Offord, that he offered to do a deal with the hard-right party to keep the Scottish National party out of power. Offord made the claim on Channel 4’s Scottish leaders’ debate on Tuesday evening, alleging the Scottish Labour leader ca

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Conservative Home15 Apr 2026

Rafe Fletcher: The prism for policy decisions should be fairness not group justice

Britain must make policy based on fairness, within a framework of trade-offs, rather than on abstract moral claims to justice. An easy diagnosis. A harder cure. The post Rafe Fletcher: The prism for policy decisions should be fairness not group justice appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Bombshell poll shows Tories catching up with Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Massive boost for Kemi Badenoch as Conservatives begin fightback after disastrous defeat

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

Labour claims Reform UK won’t protect women, as poll suggests Farage’s party heading for ‘seismic’ wins in May – UK politics live

Poll projects major political earthquake across Britain with Labour losing Wales and England’s Red Wall Good morning. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, is publishing a revised women’s health strategy for England today. As Andrew Gregory reports, the strategy implicitly accepts that women have been let down by a (largely male) medical establishment which has not always taken their health concerns seriously. But, for Labour, this is not just a health announcement. The English local elections ar

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

How a £2m bitcoin order made Nigel Farage the political face of UK crypto

Promotion of ‘bitcoin treasury’ firm with Kwasi Kwarteng draws new attention to Reform leader’s relations with industry A thumping electronic beat provides the soundtrack to the video as Nigel Farage appears in front of a bank of screens. At first glance, it could be yet another of the Reform UK leader’s “second jobs” – whether promoting gold as a pension fallback or recording Cameo videos. And in a sense, it is: Farage is promoting a £2m cryptocurrency purchase by a company in which he has £215

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Express Politics14 Apr 2026

Nigel Farage laughs off 'utterly deluded' protesters as they brand him 'scrounger'

Reform UK's leader was accused of being a 'scrounger' by an angry protester.

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