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Express Politics8 Aug 2026

Nigel Farage has set the agenda this summer – here's what comes next

ANALYSIS - JONATHAN WALKER: Andy Burnham took a summer holiday but Nigel Farage has been hard at work

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Express Politics8 Aug 2026

Nigel Farage took a massive gamble with Clacton by-election - here's why it will pay off

OPINION - The Reform UK leader has just started his campaign to become Prime Minister, writes Jonathan Walker

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Express Politics8 Aug 2026

Ann Widdecombe counter-terror police 'reopen investigation at Nigel Farage's home'

Police said they identified a line of inquiry not pursued that "may have been relevant".

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

Thetford residents remain on edge after days of ‘mob rule’ over asylum plans

People voice frustration with officials’ failure to engage with community over placement of asylum seekers in area A smashed window pane and some broken eggshells on a footpath were some of the tell-tale signs of events that took place this week on a residential street at the edge of Thetford. On Friday afternoon it was not hard to find local people with a sense of foreboding after the latest disorder in the Norfolk market town which has seen crowds attempt to break into properties believed to b

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BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Badenoch pens letter to Clacton ahead of by-election

The Tories are not standing in next week's election, triggered by Nigel Farage's resignation.

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BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Badenoch pens letter to Clacton ahead of by-election

The Tories are not standing in next week's election, triggered by Nigel Farage's resignation.

PoliticsReform
The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

Millions in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS providers plan cuts

Exclusive: Seven in 10 survey respondents expect services to be reduced or shut, while more than half anticipate job losses Millions of adults and children in England face being forced to wait longer for mental health care, with more than two-thirds of NHS providers planning to cut services and half expected to axe jobs, the Guardian can reveal. With mental health services already under extraordinary pressure amid soaring demand for support, experts warned the proposed cuts – drawn up by trusts

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BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Government criticised over plastic spill response

Volunteers call for Prime Minister Andy Burnham to intervene and declare it a "national disaster".

BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Government criticised over plastic spill response

Volunteers call for Prime Minister Andy Burnham to intervene and declare it a "national disaster".

BBC Politics7 Aug 2026

Streeting 'sickened' by sex abuse claims at Army college

The defence secretary promises to look into what went wrong at the college in North Yorkshire.

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

A ‘Keminaissance’ for the Tories is wishful thinking – Badenoch’s Reform-lite summer will only end one way | Jonathan Freedland

Hiring a convicted antisemite as an adviser; rabble rousing at a time of violent unrest. She is still in a race to the bottom and making too many mistakes The Keminaissance will be delayed. For nearly a year, Conservative optimists and a clutch of supportive pundits have been forecasting an upturn in the fortunes of Kemi Badenoch, confident that her party will emerge from the crater it fell into in 2024, overtake Reform UK to become once again the main party of the right and, who knows, maybe, w

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The Guardian Politics7 Aug 2026

It must be tricky for Nige to remember what’s what. It’s so hideously complicated | John Crace

I can’t pass up the moment the Reform leader celebrates his byelection victory against a man with a dustbin on his head You would have thought that after 35 years of writing for the Guardian I would have mastered some of the basics of holiday protocol by now. Apparently not. So while I had remembered to let the newsdesk know that I wouldn’t be writing the political sketch for two weeks, it had completely slipped my mind to inform the Saturday editor. So rather than leave her with the headache of

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