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Conservative Home29 May 2026

Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests

There was only one contest yesterday. The Lib Dems gained a seat from the Conservatives in Swansea. The post Council by-election result from yesterday and forthcoming contests appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes29 May 2026

“Banging Our Heads Against the Wall!” Will Britain Benefit From the Crypto Boom?

Guido’s Ross Kempsell sits down with Solana Policy Institute founder and CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine to hear why America’s stablecoins are coming for the pound, and why he thinks the Bank of England is flirting with a huge mistake. Subscribe to the Guido Fawkes YouTube channel to get all our videos sent straight to your inbox.…

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Conservative Home29 May 2026

Peter Fortune: London’s political system is not reflecting the people elected to operate in it

This is not political, the very make-up of the GLA means that these changes would return power to Assembly members of all parties, as well as empowering London boroughs and local councillors to do the job they were elected to do. The post Peter Fortune: London’s political system is not reflecting the people elected to operate in it appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics29 May 2026

Labour seeks inquiry into Farage’s claim of Russia-linked phone hack

Request follows claims actors linked to Moscow accessed Reform UK leader’s data and leaked information over £5m donation UK politics live – latest updates Business live – latest updates Labour has reported the alleged hacking of Nigel Farage’s phone to police and government cybersecurity officials after the Reform UK leader failed to do so himself. The Labour chair, Anna Turley, has asked the Metropolitan police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to investigate Farage’s claims that

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Guido Fawkes29 May 2026

Nicola Sturgeon Pulls Out of Book Launch Event Titled: “We Know What You Did”

Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of an event with commentator Kirsty Lockwood to talk about her debut book “We Know What You Did.” How drole… Lockwood, a columnist and political commentator based out of Glasgow, is publishing the murder mystery novel this year. Dear wee krankie was set to talk about it with her at…

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Conservative Home29 May 2026

James Weston: The Long Read – Did Brexit restore Parliamentary Sovereignty in the United Kingdom?

ultimately, the EU is no longer able to exercise legal power in the UK or constrain Parliament’s decisions. In the constitutional sense, Parliamentary sovereignty and its legal supremacy has been restored, even if in practice it remains shaped by the ongoing political realities facing the UK. The post James Weston: The Long Read – Did Brexit restore Parliamentary Sovereignty in the United Kingdom? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics29 May 2026

Council remains leaderless after 2nd failed election

Neither the Reform UK leader or Green Party leader gained enough votes to be elected council leader.

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Sky News Politics29 May 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-tories-criticise-delay-in-publishing-defence-funding-plan-12593360?postid=11777167#liveblog-body'>AI to be used to check age of asylum seekers posing as children</a>

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Guido Fawkes29 May 2026

EXC: Civil Servants to Use AI in Response to Official Questions From MPs

Guido hears that the Cabinet Office will be using artificial intelligence to draft answers to official questions tabled by MPs and Lords from next week. When recess ends on 1st June… Parliamentary questions are tabled by MPs and answered by ministers twenty days later or so. They are basically an expedited and public FOI service…

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The Guardian Politics29 May 2026

‘This is so pathetic’: Reform and Restore Britain lock horns in Makerfield byelection buildup

Spurred on by Elon Musk, the two rightwing parties spent the week taking potshots at each other. We look back at who hurled which insult at whom UK politics live – latest updates It’s been a week of rudeness, rows and revelations in the Makerfield byelection. Not between Andy Burnham and his challengers for the seat – but between Reform UK and its even more rightwing rival, Restore Britain. Here are the key moments in a week in which the populist right turned on each other: Continue reading..

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Conservative Home29 May 2026

Tomas Roberto: We must shut down Hong Kong’s office for intimidation and repression in Britain

Britain has, quite rightly, offered refuge to Hong Kongers fleeing political persecution. It cannot simultaneously allow the apparatus of that persecution to operate, unchecked, within its own borders.  The post Tomas Roberto: We must shut down Hong Kong’s office for intimidation and repression in Britain appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics29 May 2026

Minister insists Labour will not apply national living wage to all over-18s before election – UK politics live

Torsten Bell says Labour manifesto ‘did not set out the timeline’ for changes to living wage after scale of youth unemployment crisis revealed in Milburn report Good morning. Last night Alan Milburn suggested that he would like the government to drop its commitment to pay all people over the age of 18 the national living wage. The former Labour health secretary was speaking after he published a major report on the rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet)

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