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Guido Fawkes27 Feb 2026

Man Arrested After Churchill Statue Defaced

The Met Police has just announced a 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage after graffiti was sprayed on the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.

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The Guardian Politics27 Feb 2026

Dirty Business, The Lady, Mandelson’s arrest – are they truth, ‘faction’ or just more drama? | Simon Jenkins

The latest rush of docudramas seems to suggest that anyone in the public eye must expect a degree of intrusion. But where does that end? Was that really Peter Mandelson getting into a police car on Monday? Was it really the same Mandelson who had supposedly been about to flee to the British Virgin Islands, the man called “a traitor” to his country and the buddy of a sex trafficker of girls? Was he really to be questioned for nine hours by the police over “misconduct in public office”, an offence

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The Guardian Politics26 Feb 2026

Bangladesh court requests Interpol red notice for Labour MP Tulip Siddiq

Action relates to corruption case over allocation of government land in Dhaka to a private company A court in Bangladesh has ordered officials to request an Interpol red notice for the British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq over a corruption case linked to the allocation of government land in Dhaka. Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission has alleged Siddiq used her relationship with her aunt, the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, to influence the allocation of a plot of state-owned land in Dhaka’s G

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Express Politics26 Feb 2026

Decision announced on 'preposterous' fly-tipping law in blow to Labour

House of Lords votes to change a law that forces farmers to pay when criminals dump rubbish on their land

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The Guardian Politics26 Feb 2026

Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’ Metropolitan police officers are to start scanning citizens’ faces using automated facial recognition technology to check their identities, in a move backed by the mayor of London but described as “alarming” by opponents. The pilot was revealed on Thursday when Sadiq Khan said 100 officers would use the roaming technology – commonly deployed on smartphones – for six months. The mayor

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The Guardian Politics26 Feb 2026

Home Office urged to make it easier for mosques to apply for protection

British Muslim Trust says fund announced last week falls short as it requires mosques to prove they have been targeted Ministers are being urged to drop the requirement for mosques to prove they have faced a hate crime before they can apply for protective security. Last week, the Home Office announced up to £40m in funding for security staff, CCTV, fencing, alarms and floodlights for mosques, Muslim schools and community centres through the Protective Security for Mosques Scheme. Continue readi

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Guido Fawkes26 Feb 2026

Legal Win for Chagossians as Settlement Protected by New Injunction in the Courts

A hearing at the British Indian Ocean Territory court today has extended an injunction preventing the removal of the Chagossian settlers on the archipelago. A win… The injunction will go on until 13 March at the earliest – a two week reprieve. The only restriction from the court is that “passengers” can’t be transported to/from…

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Sky News Politics26 Feb 2026

Police apologise to second parliamentary Speaker in two days over Mandelson arrest leak

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to a second parliamentary Speaker in two days after he was incorrectly named as the person who passed on information about Lord Mandelson, which led to his arrest.

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Sky News Politics26 Feb 2026

Views sought on criminalising deepfake creation in bid to tackle violence against women and girls

A new law on the creation of deepfake intimate images is being considered by the Scottish government as part of a series of reforms aimed at tackling violence against women and girls.

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BBC Politics26 Feb 2026

Met apologises to Lord Speaker after Mandelson tip-off error

Lord Mandelson's lawyers said police arrested the peer because of a "baseless" suggestion he was planning to move abroad.

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BBC Politics26 Feb 2026

Met apologises to Lord Speaker after Mandelson tip-off error

Lord Mandelson's lawyers said police arrested the peer because of a "baseless" suggestion he was planning to move abroad.

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Guido Fawkes26 Feb 2026

Met Police Apologises to Lord Speaker After Mistakenly Naming Him as Mandelson Arrest Tipster

The Met has supplied a formal apology to both parliamentary speakers now. Good to see everything operating at normal in the capital’s police force… Police detectives told lawyers acting for Peter Mandelson that Lord Forsyth – the Speaker of the House of Lords – and Lindsay Hoyle dobbed him in by reporting his intentions to…

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