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Tim Sansom: Running for power. Finding the mental, physical or political mindset to navigate parliamentary life

Tim Sansom works for Dr Luke Evans MP as a Senior Parliamentary Researcher and is a committed runner and advocate for running. Let me take you back to Gunnersbury Park on 22 July 2017. I had heard that London could be a lonely and tiring city if you could not find a niche or tribe […] The post Tim Sansom: Running for power. Finding the mental, physical or political mindset to navigate parliamentary life appeared first on Conservative Home.

A grim week for Starmer – but things could be about to get worse

In less than two weeks, the PM faces a crucial set of elections in Scotland, Wales and for many English councils.

A grim week for Starmer – but things could be about to get worse

In less than two weeks, the PM faces a crucial set of elections in Scotland, Wales and for many English councils.

SAS Regimental Association Asks All Labour MPs to Bin the Troubles Bill in Commons Vote

The Special Air Service Regimental Association has written to all Labour MPs imploring them to vote to ditch the hated Troubles Bill. The bill was delayed until the next parliamentary session this week by Hilary Benn, who claimed that the government would change it substantially via amendments… The SAS association – which counts the Prince…

Falklands is a pressure point for the UK – and the US knows it

This story will make greater waves in the UK than in the US, which for Donald Trump is an opportunity for leverage, Joe Inwood writes.

The assisted dying bill has failed - but the debate isn't over

In June 2025 MPs backed the legislation but now it has run out of time to become law.

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No, Minister: the week Keir Starmer had his own Sir Humphrey moment

Olly Robbins gave MPs a classic civil servant’s performance – and there are lessons from history about how ministers should respond The Whitehall satire, Yes, Minister, was said to be Margaret Thatcher’s favourite TV show due to its proximity to reality, as the programme’s loquacious top civil servant, Sir Humphrey, might have put it. The programme had a familiar groove: there would be a problem in response to which the mandarin would artfully deploy the most astonishing sophistry to avoid blame

UK position on Falklands will not change, No 10 says after leaked Pentagon memo

Internal email proposes US should reassess support for UK claim to islands because of lack of support for Iran war The UK’s position on the Falklands is resolute and unchanging, Downing Street has insisted, after a leaked Pentagon internal email proposed the US should reassess its support for Britain’s claim to the islands because of a lack of support over Iran. Keir Starmer’s spokesperson did not push back against the likely veracity of the email but insisted that the UK’s defence and security

Nigel Farage brutally skewers EU-loving ex civil servant for 'vandalising Brexit'

Reform UK leader delivers crushing six-word putdown for Philip Rycroft

M&S boss blames major change in supermarkets for huge rise in shoplifting

Retail giant Archie Norman says customers are stealing items because technology is failing

Donald Trump’s threat to the Falkland Islands is a new low - he should be ashamed

Express reporter Adam Toms argues the President's move betrays a complete lack of understanding on the issue.