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PoliticsReformRestore26/02/2026

Exclusive Interview: "Rising Star" Switches to Restore Britain — "I Want a Political Home That Respects Me"

Kieran Mishchuk, 19, who won his seat for Reform UK aged 18, tells Restore News why he made the switch and why he hasn't looked back.

ReformRestoreRupert Lowe25/02/2026

Troubling Evidence Of Corruption

The attacks continue as Restore Britain's popularity is causing panic at Reform

RestoreRemigration24/02/2026

Young Bob Assaulted By Muslim Gang

Prominent remigration activist Young Bob was assaulted and robbed in Whitechapel on Tuesday evening by a gang of muslims gathered for a debate outside a mosque.

PoliticsReformRestore23/02/2026

The Advance UK Merger Collapse: Ego, Entitlement, and the Fight for Britain's Future

Ben Habib's proposed merger with Restore Britain collapses after Rupert Lowe refuses to hand over the keys. The reaction from Advance UK's inner circle reveals more about their motivations than they intended.

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The Guardian Politics4 Mar 2026

Ex-Nato commander defends Starmer after Trump’s ‘no Winston Churchill’ jibe

Gen Sir Richard Shirreff says US president has launched war of choice in Iran with no clear grasp of how it will end UK politics live – latest updates Middle East crisis – live updates Britain cannot become embroiled in a war “without a clear end point”, a former senior Nato commander has said, as he defended Keir Starmer after Donald Trump’s jibes that he was “not Winston Churchill”. Trump was “another American president who had launched a war of choice,” said Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, as a

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

State pensioners given £12,570 warning as 600,000 hit as Rachel Reeves freeze confirmed

The Office for Budget Responsibility has published its forecast for Chancellor Rachel Reeves's spring statement

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

Donald Trump lights a fire under Ed Miliband - now Starmer has a huge decision to make

As war rages in Iran, Ed Miliband is in the firing line too. And it's his own stupid fault.

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Guido Fawkes4 Mar 2026

Royal Navy Warship Sent to Defend Cyprus Base Hit by Delay

HMS Dragon, the Type 45 air defence destroyer vessel the government has deployed to protect RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, won’t even arrive on its shores for an entire week. British personnel in the area could be exposed for almost 14 days… According to GB News’ Charlie Peters, the MoD expects at least a 24-hour delay…

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence

Churchill fought a war having argued for years that Britain was economically and militarily unprepared. Starmer is trying not to fight a war arguing via his Chancellor that never before has so much been promised for defence. For so little return when it matters, it seems. The post The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

Cowardly Keir's betrayal is no surprise - Starmer's now got a track record for this

OPINION - TIM NEWARK: Our Prime Minister is giving succour to tyrants while whining about international law.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Katie Lam: We can make Keir Starmer U-turn yet again, but we need your help

Any public inquiry must conduct itself according to its ‘terms of reference’. Unfortunately, the draft terms of reference produced by the Government for the grooming gangs inquiry are fatally flawed. The post Katie Lam: We can make Keir Starmer U-turn yet again, but we need your help appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics4 Mar 2026

Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee

The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live At home and abroad, Labour and its leader are under siege. Though the Gorton and Denton result is history now, the repercussions roil his party and underpin the fight for its future. Abroad, the policy rift within the Labour tribe is just as bad, with the fear that the party will be dragged backwards into the wreckage of another illegal war in the Middle East. Yet ag

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BBC Politics3 Mar 2026

Trump says Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' over Iran strikes

Sir Keir Starmer had refused to grant the US permission to use the Diego Garcia military base.

Defence

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

Shadow of Iraq war lies over Westminster as MPs consider US-Israeli attack on Iran

Despite rebukes from Donald Trump, many MPs back Keir Starmer’s stance so far, and say lessons from conflict in Iraq must not be forgotten Calvin Bailey keeps his Iraq medal, issued to members of the British armed forces who served as part of Operation Telic, safe in a drawer in his home. It features a clasp, given to personnel who were part of the very first wave of flights to leave British bases to invade Iraq in March 2003. So when the Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead spoke at a meeting bet

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spring statement: stability cannot mean sacrificing living standards | Editorial

An energy shock from war in the Gulf will expose the limits of rigid fiscal rules. The real question is who absorbs the loss: the state, firms or households? The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring – and Britain remains deeply exposed to global energy markets. If the shocks persist they will feed directly into household bills, business costs and inflation. On Tuesday, the Office for Budget Responsibility released projections that were finalised before the US-Israeli strike

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

What will Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast mean for household finances?

The chancellor promised more money in people’s pockets, but the Iran crisis makes steeper inflation a pressing worry Rachel Reeves used her spring statement to insist her economic policies are working and things are looking up for household finances after the cost of living crisis. The chancellor trumpeted that by the next general election “people will be over £1,000 a year better off”. But against the backdrop of war in the Middle East, financial experts warned that the new economic forecasts p

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