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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

Tories accuse Starmer of not revealing all his Mandelson messages – UK politics live

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart says it ‘beggars belief’ there were not more exchanges between Mandelson and the PM Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing cabinet today as Labour MPs mull over the coverage of the Peter Mandelson files. In terms of revelations relating to Mandelson himself, the impact is probably not as bad as many MPs feared; Politico quotes one official as saying the mood last night was at the “top end” of expectations. Here is our main story about the data release

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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future | Polly Toynbee

Finally, Labour is talking policy, thanks to the leadership contest and Tony Blair’s intervention – and the centre-right is making a much-needed fightback too “Wouldn’t it be great if Tony Blair kept his mouth shut about the Labour party?” Readers may have cheered that Guardian letter-writer’s response to yet another infuriating assault by Blair from the outer-stratosphere of nowhere. Isn’t Labour in enough trouble with a life-or-death byelection against the forces of darkness without incoming f

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Express Politics2 Jun 2026

Starmer LIVE: PM braces for crunch Cabinet meeting after bruising Mandelson files release

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Conservative Home2 Jun 2026

Our survey says Tories don’t do tactical voting – that might matter in Makerfield

With just 16 days to go until the Makerfield by-election, the nation's focus is trained on the three-way fight between Reform, Restore, and Labour. But the impact this by-election will have on the Tory Party brand has seemingly been swept under the rug. The post Our survey says Tories don’t do tactical voting – that might matter in Makerfield appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home2 Jun 2026

Peter Franklin: With Macron going – French politics has a terrible warning for British Conservatives

Without an offering that responds to the causes of the populist revolt, Les Républicains have become a niche party for well-to-do retirees. For a movement that started with Charles de Gaulle, it’s a sad story and a dire warning — one to which I hope that our own party pays heed. The post Peter Franklin: With Macron going – French politics has a terrible warning for British Conservatives appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home2 Jun 2026

Lord Ashcroft: Labour leadership contenders, is this government better or worse than the Tories, who do people least want to see in office, and should we rejoin the EU?

Nigel Farage was thought the most likely person to be PM after the next election, with 27 per cent naming him but nearly half of all voters said Reform UK were the party they would least like to see in government after the next election. The post Lord Ashcroft: Labour leadership contenders, is this government better or worse than the Tories, who do people least want to see in office, and should we rejoin the EU? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

Despite what the UK right will tell you, appeasing bond markets has actually led to instability | Andy Beckett

Austerity has benefitted bond traders but impoverished British society and led to the rise of populism. Is it right that we carry on adhering to their interests? Should politics always be dominated by economics? Should questions about how governments and voters pay for things – whether by earnings, taxes or borrowing – be settled before we consider the wider consequences? In an anxious capitalist democracy such as Britain, with a modern history of patchy economic success and intermittent but rec

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The Guardian Politics2 Jun 2026

The party dragging Nigel Farage further to the right – podcast

Daniel Trilling on the far-right party threatening Reform’s chances in the Makerfield byelection Does Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain threaten to erode the Reform UK vote share in the Makerfield byelection? “Restore [Britain] have positioned themselves as a harder-line alternative to Reform,” says Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable. “They’re pushing for an even more extreme policy of deportations for unauthori

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

Reform UK support could plateau as it relies on socially conservative views, study finds

Party could struggle to push ratings as strategy increasingly focuses on views held by minority of voters, research finds Reform UK is becoming increasingly reliant on socially conservative views for political support, and therefore could struggle to push its poll ratings much higher, a large-scale research project led by the leading psephologist John Curtice has found. A study of Nigel Farage’s party carried out as part of the British Social Attitudes report found that while Reform supporters w

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

Mandelson lobbied hard for advisory firm after Labour victory, papers show

Emails and WhatsApp messages reveal string of exchanges with ministers when he was president of Global Counsel Peter Mandelson, as president of his then advisory firm Global Counsel, lobbied hard for ministers to attend his events and to meet his firm’s staff in the months following Labour’s general election win, newly released documents reveal. Emails and WhatsApp exchanges show how active the Labour peer was in the wake of the election to work his contacts within government to the potential ad

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BBC Politics1 Jun 2026

Key messages between Mandelson and ministers

The 1,000 pages include criticisms of Labour MPs, No 10 and the prime minister.

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The Guardian Politics1 Jun 2026

What documents are missing from the new release of Mandelson files?

From vetting summary to declaration of interest, here are the five key papers withheld from latest disclosures UK politics live – latest updates More than 1,500 pages of documents were published by the government on Monday afternoon about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the ambassador in Washington. Despite claims this was “an unprecedented piece of government transparency”, there are still a number of significant missing documents. Some of the documents have been withheld by the government a

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