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"Farage should be straight with the public."

Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately emphasises the need for Farage to directly address the racism allegations. Asked if there's any chance of a Tory ...
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PMQs Badenoch grills Starmer over “broken Budget” fallout

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Alexander confirms rail fare freeze but refuses to ‘speculate’ about fuel duty

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says the government is freezing rail fares for the ‘first time in 30 years’, but won’t ...
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Rachel Wolf: I co-wrote this Conservative manifesto. And so can say that its focus was on neither the rich nor the poor.

Rachel Wolf is a partner in Public First. She had co-charge of the 2019 Conservative Manifesto. She was an education and innovation adviser at Number 10 during David Cameron’s premiership and was ...
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Daniel Hannan: No, the pound isn't crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It's because the markets are terrified of Starmer. | Conservative Home

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is a Conservative peer, writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. You really think this is ...
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Iain Dale’s Top 100 Most Influential People on the Conservative Right

Iain Dale is an LBC presenter, a commentator with CNN and the author/editor of over 30 books. Each year for the last 11 years, I have convened panels to compile lists of the Top 50 Liberal Democrats, ...
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It’s a slur to label these grooming gangs “Asian” – they’re Pakistani and Muslim

There is a specific problem in Pakistan, especially where the majority of the Christians and Hindus respectively live, about non-Muslims being viewed as inferior.
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Tory leadership elections. A brief history.Tory leadership elections. A brief history.Tory leadership elections. A brief history.

A confidence ballot in Boris Johnson may or may not be triggered this week. While we wait to find out, here is a potted history of Conservative leadership elections The only point I would stress is ...
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People we elect must take back control from people we don’t. Who include the judges

Suella Braverman is a former Brexit Minister and is MP for Fareham. Restoring sovereignty to Parliament after Brexit is one of the greatest prizes that awaits us. But not just from the EU. As we start ...
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Rachel Wolf: My verdict on Levelling Up? Very good in parts. But even Gove cannot paper over the cracks.Rachel Wolf: My verdict on Levelling Up? Very good in parts. But even ...

Only Michael Gove could take a departmental White Paper and turn it into a government’s manifesto. The paper demonstrates both his abilities and the limits of his persuasive power across government.
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David Snoxell: British stubbornness over the Chagos Islands is undermining us at the UN

David Snoxell is Co-ordinator of the Chagos Islands (BIOT) All-Party Parliamentary Group. During nine years and 65 meetings the Chagos Islands (BIOT) All-Party Parliamentary Group, which has members ...
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It’s unlikely the backstop will be scrapped. But supplementing it can win what we want.

Henry Newman is Director of Open Europe. Guglielmo Verdirame is Professor of International Law at King’s College London and practises at 20 Essex Street Chambers. Last week, the EU managed to ...