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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Green Party Fails to Delete Candidate’s Videos ‘Blaming Israel’ for Bondi Beach Tragedy and Attack on RAF Base

A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday… Mark Adderley, a Green…

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Keir Starmer spends £30k of taxpayer cash on Downing Street refurb

PM also spent £4,440 on three sofas, £990 on six kitchen chairs and £1,207.50 on two dining tables in the months after the 2024 General Election

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Was it sex toy joke that got Keir Starmer not and bothered before furious PMQs bust-up?

ANALYSIS - MARTYN BROWN: The Prime Minister was spotted clashing with Speaker Lindsay Hoyle as he left the Commons

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

Reform or Plaid? Whichever way Welsh voters go, the country will be utterly transformed | Will Hayward

Each party has its own version of nationalism to offer voters in May’s Senedd election: closer ties to England or more independence for Wales It’s fair to say that the UK will change after the elections on 7 May. But few places will change as thoroughly as Wales. The polls suggest that after the vote our next Senedd will be led by either Plaid Cymru or Reform: this would make it the first time in 100 years that Welsh Labour is not the largest party in Cymru. However, Plaid and Reform’s visions f

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Our National Embarrassment Red Faced With Anger and Possibly Shame

The Sketch will always speak up for the underdog – the disparaged, the dismissed, the bullied, the vulnerable. President Tump has few supporters in Parliament these days, so in the spirit of Ofcom, let us try for some balance. Ed Davey referred to the President threatening to rip up the UK’s trade deal as a…

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Nigel Farage set for huge victory at local elections – bombshell mega poll

Reform UK could take control of half of the councils in the crunch ballots

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Government Considers Early Prorogation of Parliament

The King’s Speech – opening the new parliamentary session – is on 13 May, just days after the Local Elections on the 7th of the month. Guido hears the government is considering an early prorogation of parliament – potentially as early as Tuesday… Briefings fired at the time the State Opening of Parliament was confirmed…

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Government's list of 'key dates and deadlines' that'll affect many people across UK

The UK government has issued crucial deadlines for voter registration, postal votes and voter ID ahead of the May 2026 elections

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

Starmer rejects accusation that Labour is ‘complacent’ on defence funding

PM responds to warnings by former Nato chief George Robertson, saying defence spending is increasing rapidly UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has said he does not agree with George Robertson’s comments about the government’s “corrosive complacency” on defence funding, as the prime minister faced sustained pressure on the issue. Questioned in the Commons about the warnings by Robertson, the former Labour defence secretary and Nato chief who co-authored a defence review for the gov

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

PMQs: Speaker Scolds Starmer for Non-Answers, Badenoch Makes Sex Toy Joke

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle scolded Starmer for going on about Badenoch with pre-rehearsed lines by reminding his that “it is Prime Minister’s questions.“ Meanwhile Badenoch accused Labour MPs using sex toys of “fiddling while Rome burns”…

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Express Politics15 Apr 2026

Keir Starmer brutally slapped down by Lindsay Hoyle at PMQs: 'Concentrate!'

The Prime Minister received a telling off from the Commons Speaker.

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The Guardian Politics15 Apr 2026

Scottish Labour leader calls claim he tried to do Reform deal a ‘desperate lie’

Anas Sarwar says there have been ‘no stitch-ups, no deals, no backroom chats, no back-channel contact with Reform’ UK politics live – latest updates Anas Sarwar has dismissed as “a desperate lie from a desperate man” a claim by Reform UK’s Scotland leader, Malcolm Offord, that he offered to do a deal with the hard-right party to keep the Scottish National party out of power. Offord made the claim on Channel 4’s Scottish leaders’ debate on Tuesday evening, alleging the Scottish Labour leader ca

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