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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

LIVE: Farage & Yusuf Announce Plan to Free Up Prison Places

Farage and Zia Yusuf are live to announce their plan to free up 10,000 prison places by deporting foreign criminals who are in prison in the UK. If they can’t be repatriated securely, they will be put in rented prisons abroad in places like El Salvador… Read the policy in full here:

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The Guardian Politics9 Aug 2026

Cut £175 from energy bills for low-income homes, says thinktank

Resolution Foundation proposes £2bn emergency scheme to help people facing higher costs this winter Labour should draw up an emergency plan to cut energy prices for low-income families by up to £175 this winter, the Resolution Foundation has said. One of Andy Burnham’s first policy announcements as prime minister was to remove VAT temporarily from electricity bills, saving households about £45 a year. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics9 Aug 2026

Pilot pulls off Count Binface stunt for Clacton byelection

Plane spends 30 minutes off the Essex coast marking out shape of a bin in apparent tribute to Nigel Farage’s rival A pilot has traced the shape of a bin with their flight path near Clacton before Count Binface challenges Nigel Farage in a byelection on Thursday. The light aircraft spent around half an hour between 2,100ft and 4,150ft above the sea near the Essex coastal town zigzagging to mark out the shape of a bin, according to data from Flightradar24. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

It must be tricky for Nige to remember what’s what. It’s so hideously complicated | John Crace

I can’t pass up the moment the Reform leader celebrates his byelection victory against a man with a dustbin on his head You would have thought that after 35 years of writing for the Guardian I would have mastered some of the basics of holiday protocol by now. Apparently not. So while I had remembered to let the newsdesk know that I wouldn’t be writing the political sketch for two weeks, it had completely slipped my mind to inform the Saturday editor. So rather than leave her with the headache of

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

Tory plan to ban foreign nationals from social housing condemned as ‘divisive’

Housing charity says move would drive up homelessness, while Labour dismisses proposal as ‘unworkable’ Plans to ban foreign nationals from social housing under a Conservative government have been condemned as “divisive”. Under proposals revealed on Friday, the party said about 230,000 homes would become available if foreign nationals were prevented from accessing social housing. Continue reading...

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BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Conservatives pledge to ban foreign nationals from social housing

They claim around 230,000 homes would become available under their plan to limit social housing entitlements.

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Express Politics7 Aug 2026

Politics LIVE: Kemi Badenoch vows to end 'cash machine Britain' in crackdown on foreigners

Conservatives plan to end a housing scandal but their policy was called 'divisive'

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

What can Dublin teach us? Milburn goes on a quest to solve youth jobs crisis

The former UK minister discovers how apprenticeships and support networks helped slash Ireland’s Neet rate English primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment Alan Milburn is guiding a metal loop along the serpentine wire of an electrical buzzer game as he explains the challenge of Britain’s youth jobs crisis. “We have got more than a million young people not in education, employment or training (Neet). Crisis is an over-used word – but this is a crisis.” On

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Conservative Home7 Aug 2026

Phil King: Council candidate selections must have the same integrity requirements as Parliamentary ones

The Crewkerne episode is not an argument for weakening the candidate approval process. It is an argument for making it more intelligent, transparent and accountable. The post Phil King: Council candidate selections must have the same integrity requirements as Parliamentary ones appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics7 Aug 2026

Kemi Badenoch announces dramatic restrictions for foreigners in the UK

Kemi Badenoch has announced that a future Conservative government would ban foreigners from social housing.

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Sky News Politics6 Aug 2026

'It is British life': No 10 enters 'vertical drinking' row

Downing Street has urged Westminster City Council to "work with" pub landlords amid a row over restricting standing-up drinking in London, insisting "it is British life".

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BBC Politics6 Aug 2026

Conservatives pledge to ban foreign nationals from social housing

They claim around 230,000 homes would become available under their plan to limit social housing entitlements.

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