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“YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/22/animal-welfare-farming-labour-conservatives-latest-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-6948fc298f086a70a358cc3e
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“Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets,…
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Labour government hits out at critics, denouncing as a ‘shame’ that they are not supporting its progress in forging closer…
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The Brexit referendum was won above all on promises of taking back control and lower immigration at no economic cost.…
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Labour figures are getting bolder about discussing Brexit, with cabinet ministers talking up a customs union with the EU. Read More
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Five years on from the end of free movement, Britons living throughout Europe are still dealing with the consequences of…
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How post-Brexit Britain should approach relations with its nearest and biggest market | Leaders. Read More
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Brexit did not exactly cause the surge in immigration: Britain could have loosened visa rules for non-Europeans when it was…
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The government needs to be more like Clement Atlee – prepared for big bold thinking to recover the nation’s economy
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Nowhere exposes Britain’s homelessness crisis more clearly than Westminster – the home of British politics, but also the area with the worst rates of rough sleeping in the UK. There is cautious optimism, however, that it can be solved.
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Recent events in Tanzania threaten to undermine its reputation as an island of relative peace and stability in post-colonial Africa
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With voters heading to the polls in May for elections in England, Scotland and Wales, a cross-party group of MPs is organising to tackle the threat of deepfake artificial intelligence (AI) content to British democracy.
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War and organised crime claim record victims as 67 journalists murdered in 2025, with nearly half killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
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The government faces what one Labour MP described as a “ticking time bomb” in its bid to persuade the public to get behind its digital ID policy next year.
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Being a peer involves a whole lot more than reviewing legislation and questioning the government
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The irresponsible rich are bringing us to the very brink of economic and environmental disaster – they must be controlled
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Analysis by GoFundMe found 2025 to be the most generous year yet for MPs using the website to raise money for charitable causes.
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How to solve the deepening crisis in the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is a question that has bedevilled successive governments for years.
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This year’s special Christmas edition of The Rundown podcast comes in the form of a festive quiz, and you can play along, too.
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Look closely and the real magic of Christmas can be found everywhere, even in a shopping centre grotto
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Take the quiz, check your results, and cheat to your heart's content
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Parliament’s cricket team has been playing since 1850. Graham Stuart and Andrew Bingham tell Noah Vickers about the sport’s lasting popularity among MPs, peers and staff
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A Bylines twist on the classic Jingle Bells
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A carol, on the occasion of the usual charlatans’ attempt to bolster
their flagging fortunes by enlisting God to the cause of division
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Every attempt to limit Brexit’s damage is branded a “betrayal” – but it’s the broken promises of 2016 that still haunt Britain
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The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash.
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Dear Colleagues, As I reflect on my first full year as Chair, I am so proud of the work we have done and especially for the warm support I continue to enjoy. This supportive spirit was very much on display at our last annual conference in Liverpool, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University. The programme, […]
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A clear majority of the public backs a cap on donations to political parties, new polling shared with PoliticsHome has found.
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Brexit didn't have to mean the end of Erasmus+, and the government has now announced we will join the scheme again
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For decades, Paul Kehoe has served successive parliaments with discretion, dedication and good humour. From being kissed by Mo Mowlam to fishing a drunk out of the Ladies, he tells Zoe Crowther of a lifetime of service. Photography by Dinendra Haria
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From orchestrated bot campaigns to individuals expressing faux concern or inflaming dissent, beware of engaging with online trolls
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Getting cervical screening appointments means dealing with impersonal NHS systems: a new pilot scheme in Birmingham hopes to change that
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So often we hear that lower taxes can only benefit us, while we shy away from discussing what they might look like for the whole of our society
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If you work on the parliamentary estate and are a fan of a certain reality game show, you may have found yourself doing a double-take and wondering how you recognised a particular staffer.
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David Cameron, channelling Jim Hacker, tried to stop his ministers from using their cars in a bid to demonstrate thrift. Matilda Martin recalls how life imitated art
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The season of advent invites us to reflect on our values and on whether we are using our skills for the advancement of the common good
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Exclusive: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has said that reforms to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system must “start from a principle about nothing being taken away”.
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Martin Griffiths brings us a poem of light for the winter solstice
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By Francesco Duina (Bates College, USA) For decades, the EU has projected its internal legal frameworks onto the world. It has done so indirectly through the Brussels Effect, whereby countries and trading blocs in other parts of the world pre-emptively adopt EU internal standards in order to facilitate trade with the EU. And it has […]
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This blog challenges statements made by The Daily Telegraph by quoting other sources and giving our own editorial view
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Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated November 2025
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With Rachel Reeves announcing that drivers of electric cars will face a pay-per-mile charge from 2028, Tom Scotson reports that road pricing has been a ‘third rail’ issue in politics for decades
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Labour MPs are urging the government to extend a scheme allowing Palestinian students to come and study in the UK.
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A row over a free bus pass exposes how 14 years of austerity have warped public trust in universal welfare and the idea of shared public goods
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The Trump administration intends to make visitors provide five years of social media, a decade of email addresses and DNA, where will this all end?
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Who better to build a Christmas hamper than the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee? Settle down with spiced rum, cured mutton soup, smoked eel paté, some vegan chocolate and an onion for a memorable festive meal
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Startling, absurd and even touching, the V&A’s exhibition is opulent and imaginatively displayed – but it fails in its attempt to reframe Marie Antoinette as an early celebrity style icon
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Populism is a threat we all need to turn away from
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Keir Starmer’s most reliable ally among trade union leaders, Christina McAnea, is being ousted as Unison general secretary after a single term following a historic result.
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Labour MPs have demanded that Conservative MP and chair of the 1922 Committee Bob Blackman apologise after he shared a tweet that claimed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s “loyalty is to Islam”.
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Keir Starmer critic Andrea Egan has won the race to be general secretary of Unison, Britain's biggest trade union and a key Labour Party affiliate, in a fresh blow to No 10.
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RMT union general secretary Eddie Dempsey talks to Sienna Rodgers about the potential for disputes under Great British Railways, the value of ‘militant strike action’, and why he won’t be leaving his council home
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Labour MP Karl Turner is organising a backbench letter to protest the government’s proposals to scale back jury trials for less serious offences.
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By Sebastian Heidebrecht (Centre for European Integration Research, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna) On 30 October 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the next preparatory phase and its readiness to introduce a digital euro in 2029. Unlike private forms of electronic money created by private banks, the digital euro will be a […]
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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander tells Noah Vickers about nationalising Britain’s railways, expanding Heathrow Airport and what kind of car she drives
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that resident doctors in England have “lost the sympathy” of the public and their colleagues in the healthcare system, after members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to continue strike action this we...
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The Women’s Safety Initiative claims to be protecting women and girls, but deeper investigation points to another agenda altogether
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Labour’s long-delayed plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail have left MPs and mayors frustrated. What’s the hold up? Noah Vickers reports
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The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
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A scientist and mother gives an account of the Trump administration’s devastating impact on research, academic freedom, and America's future
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Parents of pre-school children in London are delighted: thanks to our collapsing birth rate, it seems the catchment areas of good local state schools keep getting bigger.
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Illegal waste dumping is a growing criminal enterprise in the UK. Sophie Church explores what government can do to combat it
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Growing evidence suggests that the AMOC system of ocean currents may be heading towards collapse
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Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support
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Alina Felder-Stindt The European Union’s ambition to become a knowledge-based economy has transformed the role of higher education institutions (HEIs). My new book, The Territorial Dimension of EU Knowledge Policies: Higher Education Institutions for Europe (Routledge, 2025), explores how universities are not only shaped by European integration but also actively shape it, particularly through their […]
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The continuing conflict in Gaza has prompted the West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign to raise awareness and provide support
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Community leaders in East Staffordshire have called for two county councillors to resign following allegations of racist social media posts
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A plan for Keir Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright concerns.
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A former senior member of the Conservative Party's digital operation has defected to Reform UK.
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For years the pro EU side has been fragmented. Different groups protected their own branding, their own messages, their own direction. But no single organisation can deliver Rejoin. Not the European Movement, not any party, not any individual campaigner. If we want to rejoin a union of European countries, our first task is to become […]
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This year the European Movement UK held its AGM in Oxford. Good choice!
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told MPs she was frustrated by the number of leaks in the run-up to her Budget last month, and said an inquiry is ongoing to find out how they happened.
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By Nicola Nones (Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto) and Melle Scholten (Department of Public Administration at the University of Twente) The Eurozone crisis and the subsequent implementation of austerity measures in various member states of the union was in many ways a watershed moment for contemporary populism. […]
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The antidote to lies is the truth. Britain left the EU because the public were systematically misled. Many now recognise this, but millions still do not. When the truth becomes widely understood, the UK can reset its view of the EU. A fresh start. A chance to see Europe not through myths, but through facts. […]
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Will Reform UK’s policies benefit the consumer and the environment, or are they just a collection of right-wing talking points?
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Introduction In her State of the Union address in 2021, EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that ‘we have started to develop a European defence ecosystem’ (von der Leyen 2021). Beyond a mere mention within her speech, the concept was never elaborated on from a policymaking point of view. In essence, while this […]
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Author: Philip Ryan recently defended his PhD – Bureaucracy Mapping: Inclusive Design for Institutional Navigation – at University College Dublin. His research interests include inclusive design, bureaucracy, sociology, technology, user experience, trust, privacy, and migration. Regulating technology can be difficult, and the current explosion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left even the companies producing […]
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The warning was clear over a decade ago, but Britain failed to listen. Back in 2014, on the BBC’s Sunday Politics London programme, Andrew Neil was discussing David Cameron’s plan to curb EU migration, a plan driven more by fear than common sense. Nick Watt, then of The Guardian and now of BBC Newsnight, offered a […]
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The border for such goods will not be dismantled until 2027, the UK government is expected to confirm.
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Sandeels are a vital source of food for seabirds that live along the UK coastline.
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DUP leader Gavin Robinson says he's disappointed but that the government are now taking action over unionist concerns.
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The Northern Ireland Assembly spent six hours debating controversial post-Brexit trading arrangements.
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Stormont will vote on whether NI's Brexit deal should continue to operate for another four years.
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The UK government has provided its advice ahead of a vote at Stormont next week.
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Events this week show that Brexit will keep rearing its head, writes economics editor John Campbell.
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Ministers have set out new trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and the EU.
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BBC economics and business editor John Campbell looks at the in and outs of the 2023 Brexit deal.
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As talks resume on its future, the British overseas territory fears for its sovereignty and border.
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These are the most important aspects of the UK-EU deal, and what they mean for people's lives and businesses.
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It's been more than three years since the UK voted to leave the European Union but how did we get here?
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When the history of Brexit is written, the Lib Dems’ decision to let Johnson hold this election will be seen as a key strategic error.
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We can kick Johnson out. So brave the elements and vote for the candidates with the best chance of beating the Tories.
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Relying on the WTO for our trade was always a terrible idea. Now that the US president has ripped a hole in it, it’s economic suicide.
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Good news from YouGov poll is Tory lead is shrinking. Bad news is they are still ahead because too many pro-European votes are being wasted.
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A Tory victory means more chaos. The only way to end the arguments over Brexit and fix our real problems is to vote them out.
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Johnson yesterday hinted he would axe the licence fee. This had two purposes: cover up his NHS blunder and pummel the BBC into submission.
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PM rips off Love Actually in his video but misses out the punch line: “Just because it’s Christmas and at Christmas you tell the truth.”
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Right-wing press has branded Corbyn unelectable. They are right - he is. Not for the reasons they suggest, but because of simple maths.
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To cover up Johnson’s NHS disaster, Tories fabricate story about Labour activist punching Hancock aide.
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Not only is Johnson lying about surrendering to the EU demand for an internal UK border, he isn’t ready to deliver a deal by December 2020.
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