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Sky News Politics10 Aug 2026

<a href='https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-andy-burnham-labour-kemi-badenoch-tories-nigel-farage-reform-12593360?postid=12204310#liveblog-body'>'Not possible' to block early release of PC Andrew Harper's killers, No 10 says</a>

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Treasury ‘materially contributed’ to suicide of personal assistant, coroner finds

Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself after disciplinary proceedings which coroner found be to be flawed The Treasury “materially contributed” to the death of Chloe Moffat, a 26-year-old personal assistant who took her own life after facing disciplinary proceedings, a coroner has found. Anna Crawford also found there was a risk of future deaths within the civil service from flawed handling of disciplinary proceedings. She said she would send a prevention of future deaths report to the head of the civ

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

EXC: Government-Funded Research Institute Run by New Science Minister Goes Bust

The government-funded research institute run until recently by science minister Chris McDonald has entered insolvency proceedings. Doesn’t bode well… The Materials Processing Institute, the Teesside research centre run by Labour minister Chris McDonald for a decade, has begun proceedings under the Insolvency Act. McDonald was chief executive of the institute from 2014 to 2024, having…

The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Record 230 people cross Channel to UK as smugglers turn to ‘mega-dinghies’

Crossing in larger vessel highlights changing tactics despite increased enforcement on French coast UK politics live – latest updates Europe live – latest updates A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday. It is the clearest indication yet that people smugglers in northern France are adapting their business model and escalating their so-called taxi boat strategy to evade enforcement by UK and French authorities. Contin

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

LIVE: Farage & Yusuf Announce Plan to Free Up Prison Places

Farage and Zia Yusuf are live to announce their plan to free up 10,000 prison places by deporting foreign criminals who are in prison in the UK. If they can’t be repatriated securely, they will be put in rented prisons abroad in places like El Salvador… Read the policy in full here:

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

A TikTok PM may seem laughable – but reaching young people like me might just keep Labour in office | Lucy O’Brien

Andy Burnham and his social media team know how to connect with us. We’re no fools, though – this has to be backed by serious policies Strapped up in his navy suit, blue tie and charmingly nerdy glasses, Andy Burnham entered No 10 newly appointed as our fifth prime minister in four years. I didn’t watch this historic scene live on BBC News. Instead, I saw a 10-second clip on TikTok, with a viral Love Island soundbite: “A hot new bombshell has entered the villa.” Not exactly the introduction you

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Conservative Home10 Aug 2026

Calum Davies: Star Wars in Welsh? Love it, but Welsh language policy has been a dramatic saga

The only time Welsh languiage the numbers went up, in 1991 and 2001, was after Conservative governments established S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, and the Welsh Language Act, putting Welsh on an equal footing in public business and justice administration. The post Calum Davies: Star Wars in Welsh? Love it, but Welsh language policy has been a dramatic saga appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics10 Aug 2026

Ban on 'subscription traps' brought forward by three months

The prime minister is embarking on a UK tour with a series of announcements aimed at easing living costs.

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Express Politics10 Aug 2026

Mega dinghy with record 230 migrants spotted in Channel

First time more than 200 people have been crammed into a boat launched by people smugglers from France

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Thames Water faces row over £1m payment to finance chief

Campaign group says firm is ‘taking the mickey’ by paying fee and Andy Burnham should nationalise it Business live – latest updates Thames Water has paid its chief financial officer, Steve Buck, a £1m signing fee despite intense scrutiny of Britain’s biggest water company’s finances as it tries to avoid being taken into public control. The utility revealed that it made the payment last month, in a letter sent last week by Adrian Montague, its chair, to MPs on the environment, food and rural af

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The Guardian Politics10 Aug 2026

Labour says Farage has ‘no serious answers’ to prisons crisis – UK politics live

Reform says it will free up space in jails in England and Wales by rapidly deporting all foreign offenders Good morning. Andy Burnham has said Middlemarch is his favourite novel, but he may not remember George Eliot’s line about the genial businessman Mr Vincy who “blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister”. Burnham only took over in No 10 three weeks ago today. But already he is learning that Eliot had a point about the constraints of office. As PM, B

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Express Politics10 Aug 2026

John Healey’s next tax grab is pure madness – even Rachel Reeves wasn’t this unhinged

Chancellor John Healey desperately needs to hike taxes to fund Andy Burnham's spending pledges.

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