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Sky News Politics16 Mar 2026

£53m for 'vulnerable' households using heating oil after Iran war price spike

"Vulnerable" households using heating oil will get £53m in immediate support funding from the government, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.

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Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

Gulf Allies Blast Starmer’s ‘Wholly Inadequate’ Response to Iran War

Gulf allies are unimpressed with Starmer’s plodding response to the Iran war, particularly with the failure to send necessary defensive resources to the region in the opening days of the conflict. The quotes from diplomatic and military sources speaking to Politico: “No. 10 was determined to downplay any risk or perception of us getting involved…

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The Guardian Politics16 Mar 2026

What's worth more: Churchill or a woke badger? Welcome to Britain's banknote culture war | Jonn Elledge

Self-appointed patriots are up in arms about a plan to replace historical figures with cute wildlife. The Bank of England shouldn’t duck this debate One day soon we may finally have an answer to a question that has stumped philosophers through the ages: which is worth more, a beaver or a robin? We might be able to place actual monetary values on barn owls or stags, too. Any one of them could even be considered worth more than Winston Churchill. That’s because the Bank of England has announced th

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Express Politics16 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves on brink as experts issue horror UK employment warning – '100,000 jobs lost'

Employers are grabbling with spiralling costs linked to tax rises and the conflict in the Middle East.

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Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

McFadden: UK Must Navigate ‘Transactional’ White House as Trump Pushes on Hormuz

McFadden on Sky News this morning, responding to Trump’s claim that NATO faces a “very bad future” if allies don’t deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz: “Well, that’s the president right there. The quote that you’ve just given has summed him up. It’s a very transactional presidency, and our job is to navigate this,…

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The Guardian Politics16 Mar 2026

Minister plays down Trump’s Nato threat, arguing US alliance strong enough to ‘outlast’ current issues – UK politics live

Pat McFadden says Trump running a ‘transactional presidency’ and that ‘our job is to navigate this’ Good morning. Keir Starmer is holding a press conference in Downing Street this morning. As Kiran Stacey reports, the PM’s main intention will be to announce support for people most hit by rising energy prices, particularly householders reliant on heating oil. The measures are expected to be worth tens of millions of pounds. But, inevitably, most of the focus likely to be on how Starmer responds t

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The Guardian Politics16 Mar 2026

UK not obliged to support every demand of ‘transactional’ US president, minister says

Donald Trump has threatened Nato allies over failure to send ships to protect strait of Hormuz, but Pat McFadden says UK relation with US remain strong Middle East crisis live Donald Trump is a “very transactional” president, whose repeated demands on Iran must be seen in this context, one of Keir Starmer’s most senior ministers has said in an unusually blunt UK assessment of relations between the countries. Asked about the US president’s threats of some sort of retaliation against allies who

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Conservative Home16 Mar 2026

David Gauke: Donald Trump is not our friend and all parties should be wary of being too close

Wanting the US action against Iran to replace an evil regime with something much better is one thing, but the odds were always that is not going to be the case.  In such circumstances, reticence in supporting the US was not a moral failure, but perfectly sensible. The post David Gauke: Donald Trump is not our friend and all parties should be wary of being too close appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics16 Mar 2026

Starmer warned over assisted dying bill by more than 100 Labour MPs

More than 100 Labour MPs warn that failing to pass the legislation would undermine trust in politics.

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BBC Politics16 Mar 2026

People turn to private health care to beat NHS waits, says watchdog

The patient watchdog warns of two-tier service as polling shows numbers paying for care is on the rise.

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BBC Politics16 Mar 2026

Fears of two-tier health system as more turn to private care, says watchdog

The patient watchdog warns of two-tier service as polling shows numbers paying for care is on the rise.

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BBC Politics15 Mar 2026

PM to set out support plan for heating oil costs

Households have faced a sharp rise in the cost of heating oil since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

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