MHCLG and the Treasury are promising more powers to the devolved regions through a series of reforms. But for all the progress, regional mayors remain frustrated at a ‘begging bowl’ culture forced on them by an untrusting Whitehall. Benedict Cooper r...
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Keir Starmer will not face an investigation into whether he misled Parliament over the appointment of Lord Mandelson after MPs voted down a Conservative Party motion to refer the matter to the Privileges Committee.
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Shadow housing secretary James Cleverly speaks to Noah Vickers about Keir Starmer’s ‘blatant’ misogyny, scrapping Labour’s mansion tax, and considering a run for London mayor
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Local councillors united across party lines to reject harmful gas drilling near Scarborough showing why local democracy remains vital
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Through MHCLG, Labour has begun a programme, like many plans before it, to regenerate hundreds of the most deprived places in Britain. Pride in Place has high and worthy ambitions. Will it succeed where others did not? Benedict Cooper reports
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Keir Starmer's former chief of staff has described the moment when he realised the depth of Lord Mandelson's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein as having “a knife through my soul”.
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An inspirational memoir of a man who refused to compromise his belief in a better Russia - a true 'patriot'
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The former head civil servant in the Foreign Office has told MPs that Downing Street showed an "uninterested" attitude towards the security vetting of Lord Mandelson.
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Exclusive: Donations to political parties made by people in the UK would be capped at £1m under plans being drawn up by a Labour MP.
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Exclusive: A pressure group focused on who Muslims should vote for will endorse Plaid Cymru and the Green Party ahead of next month's Senedd elections.
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Kateryna Suprun In the increasingly turbulent economic environment facing many European higher education institutions (HEIs) (Pruvot et al., 2025), performance-based funding (PBF) remains a popular instrument for allocating at least part of core public funding (European Commission, 2023). Traditionally, PBF involves governments rewarding HEIs for meeting specific objectives – an approach often assumed to improve […]
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A decisive York council vote underscores cross-party action as the key route to drive national electoral reform
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Former cabinet minister Robert Buckland, a SEND campaigner and parent to an autistic child, speaks to Matilda Martin about why the government’s approach could fail those with the most complex needs, and what lessons can be learned from mistakes made ...
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The Government has released several transport policy documents recently but do its plans for climate adaptation and road use go far enough?
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Young people in Britain are often described as disengaged and distrustful of politics. Zoe Crowther speaks to a new generation of civic leaders who believe they can help close that gap
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AI hasn’t suddenly become dangerous. Built to be exploitable, profitable and someone else’s problem, vulnerability is a feature, not a bug
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Those tell-tale signs of spring mean it must be time to look forward to the return of the north of England’s biggest flower show
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Downing Street has created a “very bad relationship” with Whitehall, which is making government “dysfunctional”, according to a former cabinet secretary.
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The Greens are so optimistic about their prospects in the upcoming local elections that they are now diverting campaigning resources to outer London, where senior sources believe the party could make gains for the first time, PoliticsHome can reveal.
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Yorkshire and the Humber is still used in official language –but the region it describes no longer exists in any meaningful sense
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Exports from Glasgow shipping company Seapeak contributed £2.3bn (and counting) in revenue for the Kremlin, according to Kpler analysis
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On how the labels we use to define each other can be used to justify false answers to complex truths
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The removal of senior civil servant Sir Olly Robbins highlights much deeper failures in vetting, timing, and political accountability
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The government could bring in stipulations for companies that receive public money to house vulnerable people, like Travelodge, PoliticsHome understands.
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Conservative MP James Cleverly has revealed that he is being forced out of his rented home in his constituency, blaming government reforms to the rental sector that will take effect next month.
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Behind the stirring, ostensibly patriotic headlines how much power do the UK’s right-wing press wield, and how much do the public know about it?
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Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly has confirmed he is mulling a run to be Mayor of London, arguing that Labour’s Sadiq Khan could be more vulnerable to defeat than ever before.
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President Trump, one-time gameshow host, has turned the world into his personal theatre – but it’s looking ever more like a disaster movie
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The government turned down private sector experts being seconded to Whitehall to help create a new targeted energy bill support scheme.
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Andy Burnham is set to campaign in London ahead of the local elections as Labour tries to avoid major losses in the capital.
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In 1920s Bristol, a woman with many names led the authorities a merry dance
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Ed Miliband has said he will “double down, not back down” on the government’s clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course.
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Former Foreign Office permanent secretary Olly Robbins has said No 10 had a "dismissive approach" to Lord Peter Mandelson's vetting.
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Lifelong Learning experts seek to design sustainable programmes that better support students
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Keir Starmer has said it “beggars belief” the Foreign Office withheld information over Peter Mandelson's vetting failure.
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A data investigation by The House has revealed that those with the greatest needs are being forced to wait years for social housing, leaving families in a miserable limbo. Chaminda Jayanetti reports
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Giving a talk as part of The Friends of Cusworth Hall’s celebrations provides a chance to reminisce on happy times and heritage recipes
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It has been four decades since Leeds United came this close to an FA Cup Final. Is this finally going to be their year?
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Winning back Reform voters starts with introspection - progressives must face their own role in Britain’s divide
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A pressure group focused on who Muslims should support at the ballot box has held hustings events in Scotland and Wales ahead of nationwide elections on 7 May.
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A Labour backbencher has called for the pension triple lock to be reformed to help fund a rise in defence spending.
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Keir Starmer has said he is "absolutely furious" that he wasn't told that Lord Mandelson failed security vetting before being appointed US ambassador.
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An MP who recently lost the Labour whip has said that Keir Starmer's leadership is “now beyond the point of no return” and that he expects Andy Burnham to take over soon.
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A small meeting room in the European External Action Service is an unlikely place to get goosebumps. Yet, this happened time and time again as I spoke to European Union (EU) officials about the ground-breaking decision to deploy the European Peace Facility (EPF) to support Ukraine’s military response against Russia’s full-scale invasion during a cold […]
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The Building Safety Regulator is under new leadership. Will it succeed in fixing a broken system? Noah Vickers reports
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Can cycles be useful as a mobility aid for disabled people?
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The most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office is leaving his role over the Lord Mandelson vetting row.
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Former submarine commander turned independent chief inspector of borders and immigration John Tuckett tells Sienna Rodgers he is resetting the watchdog’s relationship with the Home Office after years of tension
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Fuel and energy are not the only essentials impacted by the Iran war, with experts warning that grocery prices could rise sharply in the next 12 months.
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The long wait in Leeds for a tram network was recently extended yet again. Noah Vickers uncovers the real reasons for the latest delay
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West England Bylines will be on tour at the Bristol Radical History Festival on 25 April, the M Shed
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The EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
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The three authors talked to Philip Lymbery, author and CEO of Compassion in World Farming on 21 March in the Sheldonian Theatre
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Although I am currently immersed in the London local elections — speaking with residents, listening to concerns, and experiencing democracy at its most immediate level — I didn’t want to miss the chance to reflect on Hungary’s 12 April vote. I have analysed Hungarian politics for many years, and this election is among the most […]
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Cristina Pinna Over the past decade, research security has moved from a technical concern discussed among specialists to a central issue in European research policy. What began as a debate about protecting sensitive technologies has expanded into a broader question about how knowledge should be governed in a changing geopolitical environment. Today, it shapes funding […]
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Downing Street has repeatedly said the government will not rejoin the single market or customs union.
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By Dimitris Bouris (University of Amsterdam), Saul Kenny (Article 109), Hanna L. Mühlenhoff (University of Amsterdam) In our recent article for JCMS we set out to queer the European Union Foreign and Security Policy. But what does this mean? Queer, once a slur, is now a popular term that captures the variety of sexual orientations […]
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By Agnese Pacciardi (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex) In June 2026, the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum will enter into force. The Pact explicitly recognises the role of civil society organisations and NGOs in EU migration management, acknowledging their practical expertise, especially in working in contexts that are outside the EU. […]
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Government data shows a rise in trucks failing to turn up at Sevington after arrival in Kent.
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On 24 February 2026 3-4.30pm GMT, EUHealthGov hosted the launch of a Symposium entitled ‘Public Health, Markets, and Law’ published recently in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and guest-edited by Dr Mina Hosseini and Professor Imelda Maher (both UCD). The role of markets in […]
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Arrivals at the Rock's airport would have to show their passport twice under a new UK-EU treaty.
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I am honored to have received the UACES scholarship to support my fieldwork in Brussels. As a doctoral candidate at KCL, my research focuses on how tech companies contest securitization processes after being labelled as national security threats. Exploring tech companies’ contestation of these security claims aims to ask a bigger question of how tech […]
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves says closer partnership with the EU is beneficial for economy and security.
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Zahra Jafarova In the shifting landscape of European higher education, neoliberal reforms used to be celebrated as tools for financial efficiency and institutional autonomy. But how does such a market-oriented framework function when it is instrumentalized by a regime drifting away from democracy towards authoritarianism? In Hungary, the transformation of the university system stands out […]
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This piece was originally published on the UK in a Changing Europe site. It’s something of a truism to say that Brexit is a process, not an event, but nowhere is this more evident than in the UK’s continuing difficulties in managing the pieces of legislation it adopted during its time as a member […]
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The photo accompanying this article shows the memorial stone at the site of the Nazi extermination camp based in Treblinka, Poland. It was one of over 40,000 death camps and incarceration centres purposely built to mass-murder or enslave millions of people during Hitler’s regime. I drove to Treblinka in 1991. It was one of the […]
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It is the clearest indication yet the PM wants to pursue a closer relationship with Europe in a broader number of areas.
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Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the "closest possible" economic relationship with the EU.
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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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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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This week, the PM was trying to set the scene for what is to come on the UK-EU relationship, sources say.
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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 first time Europe had free movement of people, a single market, and a single currency was under the Roman Empire. The Itiner-E project, created with Google’s support, has digitally recreated the enormous 186,000-mile road network that once connected Rome’s dominion from Britain to the Balkans. People, goods, and ideas travelled freely across a continent ruled […]
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It was 85 years ago, on 31 October 1940, that Britain finally crushed the relentless Nazi air assault on our country that had lasted for over three gruelling months. Without brave Polish pilots it’s unlikely that the Battle of Britain would have resulted in the first major defeat against Hitler. The Poles were extremely skilled […]
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My poster in October 2024 said the black hole in Britain’s finances was Brexit. Now the Chancellor agrees: Brexit is the cause of many of Britain’s economic problems. Rachel Reeves has finally drawn a straight line from leaving the EU to the choices in her budget. In an interview with The Guardian, she admitted that […]
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Britain depends on migrants – yet our leaders and some newspapers still scapegoat them for the nation’s ills. The truth is the very opposite: without migrants, Britain would struggle to survive, let alone thrive. Ten years ago, in October 2015, I gave a speech about how UK newspapers were publishing shocking lies about migrants and […]
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In May 1948 Winston Churchill declared at the launch of the Congress of Europe: “We cannot aim at anything less than the union of Europe as a whole.” Churchill’s dream has nearly come true. Today, almost every European country is either in the EU or has applied to join. The outsiders? Russia, Belarus, and Britain. On […]
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Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, kept a secret diary of the talks. Published in 2021, it revealed in painful detail why Britain lost so badly at the negotiating table. Jonathan Powell, former Downing Street chief of staff, summed it up. Britain was left with: “a flawed withdrawal agreement and a deeply disadvantageous future […]
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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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Ministers have set out new trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and the EU.
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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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