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Bin strike deal 'gets done when it gets done'

MP Jess Phillips on the 14-month bin dispute in Birmingham ahead of next week's local elections.

Pro-Palestinian marches have been hijacked, says minister

But Alex Davies-Jones says further restrictions must be balanced against the "fundamental right" to protest.

Pro-Palestinian marches have been hijacked, says minister

But Alex Davies-Jones says further restrictions must be balanced against the "fundamental right" to protest.

Andy Burnham ‘Offering Job-Swap’ to MPs in Commons Putsch

Guido hears Andy Burnham is exploring a few creative ways to get into the Commons. Anyone want to be the mayor of Manchester for two years? Labour sources say the PM-hopeful is offering ‘job-swaps’ to MPs in exchange for them standing down. He’d support their ascension to his mayoralty… Jim McMahon’s name has cropped up.…

Nightmare for Angela Rayner as Labour MPs launch 'anyone but Ange' plot

The Labour firebrand is at the centre of fevered leadership speculation.

Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why

Given the old adage that your opponents are in other parties but your real enemies are in your own, such brutal intra party warfare is the norm rather than the exception in modern British political history. The post Nigel Jones: Seven struggles for the Premiership – who won and why appeared first on Conservative Home.

If I could vote in next week’s Senedd election, I’d choose Plaid Cymru. Here’s why | Simon Jenkins

Wales could be richer than any other area of the UK. I just wish Plaid’s leader would be more confident about independence If I were living in Wales, next week I would vote Welsh nationalist, for Plaid Cymru. But I would do so for what its leader claims to support but doesn’t talk about enough: independence. Wales is where I have spent a fifth of each year for almost all of my life. Its natural beauty, the charm of (most of) its towns and the talents of its people should render it the richest pl

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Keir Starmer faces fresh demand to abandon 'disgraceful' Chagos deal

The Tories are calling for the money to be diverted to boost the Royal Navy.

SNP Admits Using AI for Picture of John Swinney With Crowd

The Scottish National Party has admitted using AI for an image of its leader John Swinney in Edinburgh. Online disinformation is rampant on the left… Eagle-eyed observers spotted that the signs held by Swinney’s activist friends have classic AI signs. Not being legible chiefly among them… An SNP spokesman said: “In order to highlight the…

Private Sector Sickness Rate Falls Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels

New figures released by the Office for National Statistics show Britain lost 148.8 million working days to sickness absence. That is 9.8 million more than 2019… The ONS reports: “The sickness absence rate was 2.9% for public sector employees and 1.7% for those working in the private sector. Compared with 2024, the sickness absence rate…

Too good to be true: on the road with Nigel Farage – photo essay

Guardian photojournalist Sean Smith has been following the Reform UK leader as he criss-crosses the country on a busy schedule of walkabouts and meet-ups with prospective councillors and supporters before the May elections Nigel Farage and Reform are campaigning around the country in the local elections and consistently polling higher than the other parties. Reform’s campaign started with a series of rallies for supporters and candidates, where they asked attenders who were not already members t