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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Keir Starmer's finished – PM has shown he'll even leave Labour loyalists in the cold

OPINION - ESTHER MCVEY: The list of things he's made a pig's ear of is so long he's in danger of running out of paper.

Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Keir Starmer's tried to look tough for Putin - now he needs to prove it's not a PR stunt

OPINION - JAMES KNUCKEY: The PM only has one option to dispel the notion that the interception of the Smyrtos was a clever PR ploy.

Express Politics16 Jun 2026

The absolutely terrifying new plan the Left could be plotting to unleash on the UK

OPINION - MIEKA SMILES: Daily Express columnist and Conservative councillor Mieka Smiles gives her take on a bizarre new blueprint for the world.

Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Another BBC show destroyed by political box-ticking, rampant ageism and diversity quotas

OPINION - MARK DOLAN: It's amazing they didn't paint a giant rainbow flag on the Tardis.

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Conservative Home16 Jun 2026

Hannah Campbell: A million youngsters with out of work with no prospects is not just a social tragedy it’s an economic one

We need a skills system that values routes into work as highly as routes into education. The test of government is not how often ministers talk about opportunity. It is how many opportunities they help create. The post Hannah Campbell: A million youngsters with out of work with no prospects is not just a social tragedy it’s an economic one appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister Al Carns

Exclusive: Carns, who quit last week, says he was angered by unwillingness to confront sunk costs of legacy programmes There is “unbelievable” waste and inefficiency at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the former armed forces minister Al Carns has said, adding that every time he would “turn a stone over” he would get another shock. Carns said that during his time as a defence minister he had been angered by the unwillingness to confront the sunk costs of legacy programmes – and suggested mismanage

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Conservative Home16 Jun 2026

John Moss: Reform cannot win London, but the Conservatives can.

The only prospect of a Reform win in the Mayoral race was to edge the Conservatives out of second place in the first round, then take Conservative second preference votes to overtake Labour. That is a mountain they are not going to be able to climb based on the numbers from last month. The post John Moss: Reform cannot win London, but the Conservatives can. appeared first on Conservative Home.

The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Kim Leadbeater

Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox Political hatred and division in the UK is probably worse now than during the Brexit referendum, when Jo Cox was murdered, says Kim Leadbeater, Cox’s sister who is now also a Labour MP. Speaking to the Guardian’s Today in Focus podcast Leadbeater, who was elected to the same Yorkshire seat held by Cox in a 2021 byelection, said everyone in public life had a responsibility to try and eas

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

The old ‘warfare v welfare’ arguments are back – but it’s Britain’s real duty to spend on both | Frances Ryan

While we need protecting from foreign enemies, slashing benefits in favour of defence will make millions less, not more, safe As the row over the military budget grows, Keir Starmer has spent much of the past few days insisting he’s spending huge sums of taxpayer money on defence. Every single government department has made cuts to fund next month’s defence investment plan (Dip), the prime minister promised, resulting in “the biggest sustained increase since the cold war”. On Sunday, the culture

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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

1.3 million pensioners are missing out on a DWP benefit worth £46-a-week

Thousands of pensioners could escape poverty

The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable

Exclusive: Commons motion calls for code of practice to be blocked amid concerns over impact on transgender people A number of Labour MPs are increasingly doubtful that the guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on sex as it applies in the Equality Act is workable in the real world, with some predicting it will unleash a wave of competing legal claims. A total of 135 MPs, 69 of them from Labour, have signed a Commons motion calling for the code of practice drafte

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain – podcast

It’s a decade since the MP for Batley and Spen was killed by a far-right extremist. Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who took over her parliamentary seat, explains what lessons are still to be learned Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice, and the mother of two young children, aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, she was murd

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