BBC Politics23 Mar 2026
Plan to scrap most short jail terms comes into effect
The government hopes it will ease the population crisis in prisons.
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Exclusive Interview: "Rising Star" Switches to Restore Britain — "I Want a Political Home That Respects Me"
Kieran Mishchuk, 19, who won his seat for Reform UK aged 18, tells Restore News why he made the switch and why he hasn't looked back.
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Troubling Evidence Of Corruption
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Young Bob Assaulted By Muslim Gang
Prominent remigration activist Young Bob was assaulted and robbed in Whitechapel on Tuesday evening by a gang of muslims gathered for a debate outside a mosque.
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The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future
Ben Habib's proposed merger with Restore Britain collapses after Rupert Lowe refuses to hand over the keys. The reaction from Advance UK's inner circle reveals more about their motivations than they intended.
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The Guardian Politics23 Mar 2026
Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds
Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP More than £170m was given to MPs, political parties, media organisations and thinktanks aligned with the UK’s populist right over the past five years, new research from the Labour MP Liam Byrne has found. Byrne, a former cabinet minister who chairs parliament’s business committee, said he had identified a “media-political complex” funded largely by a handful of billi
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Express Politics23 Mar 2026
Trump shares skit mocking Keir Starmer as PM 'hangs up' on US President
US President Donald Trump has taken another swipe at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer by sharing a Saturday Night Live UK skit depicting the PM hanging up on him
BBC Politics22 Mar 2026
Potential sites for Labour's 'new towns' cut to seven
Six sites have been deprioritised from the flagship scheme to build a wave of new settlements.
The Guardian Politics22 Mar 2026
Ministers confirm locations for seven new towns in England
Programme is being billed as the most ambitious housebuilding project in England for half a century Ministers have confirmed the locations for seven new towns, which include under-developed inner-city land, a historic village and an existing new town. The programme is being billed by the housing and communities department as the most ambitious housebuilding project in England for half a century, with the planned construction of between 15,000 and 40,000 homes in each new town. Continue reading.
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BBC Politics22 Mar 2026
Starmer and Trump discuss need to reopen Hormuz Strait
No 10 says the leaders agree reopening the shipping lane is key to ensuring energy market stability.
Express Politics22 Mar 2026
Ex-border force chief reveals Starmer’s ‘biggest mistake’ on migrant crisis
The former Border Force boss described the scrapped plan as 'our best hope'.
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Express Politics22 Mar 2026
Labour urged to launch mass vaccination plan for 1 group amid meningitis outbreak
Wes Streeting has been urged to 'act over and above' scientific advice.
Sky News Politics22 Mar 2026
The cost of war becomes Reeves’ nightmare
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BBC Politics22 Mar 2026
No assessment Iran could strike London, UK minister says
Steve Reed says there is "no specific assessment" Iran is capable of hitting the UK, after Israel claimed it now could.
The Guardian Politics22 Mar 2026
The Guardian view on aid cuts: Britain championed development funding – its meanness is shortsighted | Editorial
The steep reductions are a grave error, both morally and pragmatically. But a better case needs to be made for spending Progress is possible. Over two decades, global child mortality plummeted. There were many reasons for a 39% reduction in deaths in lower and middle income countries between 2001 and 2021, but a significant one was overseas development aid, which supported everything from sanitation to vaccination programmes to food security. That shift has slowed, and – like similar advances –
The Guardian Politics22 Mar 2026
The Guardian view on prisons: sentencing reform has not eased the sense of crisis | Editorial
The increased use of tags makes sense if done right. But years of accumulated problems include a depleted probation workforce Given the frayed and depleted state of the public sector, it is not surprising that prisons in England and Wales are struggling to escape from a sense of perpetual crisis. Recent days saw the latest in a series of urgent notifications. These put a prison in special measures, and require ministers to produce an action plan within a month. Inspectors found that Woodhill in
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