BBC Politics9 Apr 2026
UK says Russia ran submarine operation over cables and pipelines
Defence Secretary John Healey says there is "no evidence" of any damage to UK infrastructure in the Atlantic.
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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.
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Troubling Evidence Of Corruption
The attacks continue as Restore Britain's popularity is causing panic at Reform
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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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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026
Sarwar Says “This Is Not Over” as Polling Shows Labour Heading for Holyrood Wipeout
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted it is “all to play for” in Holyrood next month despite fresh polling from STV putting Labour a whopping 24 points behind the SNP. Labour is on track for its worst-ever defeat north of the border… Party Vote Share ■ SNP 39% ■ LAB 15% ■ REF 15%…
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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026
Downing Street Meets With AI Firm Representatives Amid Cybersecurity Scare
Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning. Along with other AI specialists… Anthropic’s latest AI model Mythos can identify critical vulnerabilities in a vast array of security systems (including national ones). It can do so with software that is more than 30 years old. Anthropic is keeping the model…
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The Guardian Politics9 Apr 2026
UK navy foiled Russian submarines surveying undersea cables, defence minister says
John Healey says warship and aircraft forced Russia to abandon activity in North Sea in month-long operation A British warship and aircraft tracked and monitored Russian submarines attempting to survey vital undersea infrastructure in the North Atlantic, ensuring they abandoned their mission, the defence secretary, John Healey, has announced. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, Healey said the UK operation lasted more than a month and saw a Royal Navy warship and P8 marine patrol airc
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Express Politics9 Apr 2026
Angela Rayner’s new worker's agency dubbed 'jobs police' as given powers to arrest
Officials within the body can conduct surprise inspections and enter premises without consent by obtaining warrants.
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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026
Disaster for Miliband as OpenAI Pauses Huge UK Project Over Energy Costs & Regulation
Gargantuan Silicon Valley tech firm OpenAI has paused a major UK infrastructure. Blaming energy costs and regulations… Stargate is being paused: “We see huge potential for the UK‘s AI future… AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation…
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The Guardian Politics9 Apr 2026
It shouldn’t take a war for Britain to wake up to the need for food security | Tim Lang
Everyone has a part to play in reducing our reliance on imported foods, but ministers must provide incentives Tim Lang is professor emeritus of food policy at the Centre for Food Policy, City St George’s, University of London The British state has form on food security. It ignores it until there’s a crisis – and then it’s forced to do rapidly what could have been done better, if only food had been taken more seriously in the first place. We’re revisiting this truth today as the food system’s o
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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026
LIVE: John Healey Gives ‘Operational Update’
John Healey is in Downing Street to give an update on the UK’s defence operations regarding Iran. Watch along – he’s equipped with a map… Healey says Russian subs were attempting to spy on the seabed in order to take out British cables and pipelines before scarpering on the arrival of the Navy. Chilling…
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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026
Labour-Green Local Election War Breaks Out Over Housing
Housing is the central nib of Labour’s battle against the Green Party in the upcoming local elections. Both sides think they have gains to make targeting the issue… Zack Polanski has trailed comments for his local election campaign launch today in London: “Look at how Labour councils treat their own tenants… One of Keir Starmer’s…
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The Guardian Politics9 Apr 2026
‘They will not get my vote this year’: Birmingham focus group shows shift from Labour support
Previous Labour voters in Yardley discuss issues including cost of living, public services and the Iran war Almost two years into Keir Starmer’s government, the polls suggest that many swing voters, including some of those who voted Labour, are unimpressed with how the country is being run. In the constituency of Birmingham Yardley, a focus group of eight previous Labour voters last week found support was now splintering in different directions, with one person considering going to Reform and se
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Express Politics9 Apr 2026
'Spineless' Starmer savaged as he flies to Middle East - 'all talk and no trousers'
Sir Keir has pledged to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP, but divisions within Labour over how to fund that ambition have slowed progress.
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Conservative Home9 Apr 2026
Starmer has no idea how to deploy or rebuild the Royal Navy, or to deal with Trump
The test for Starmer is whether his government resolve that the humiliation of not having a single deployable Navy ship is not repeated. We must start spending on defence. By starting a war for which we were pitifully unprepared, Trump has at least taught us that lesson. The post Starmer has no idea how to deploy or rebuild the Royal Navy, or to deal with Trump appeared first on Conservative Home.
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