Health Secretary Wes Streeting has resigned from the Cabinet, saying it is "now clear" that Keir Starmer will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election.
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Mu Sochua is on an international mission to rid Cambodia of its industrial-scale ‘scam centres’. Noah Vickers speaks to her as she brings her message to Westminster
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Wes Streeting is set to leave government today, according to allies, and launch a campaign for Number 10 as the Labour Party plunges into civil war.
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Uptake of Palantir’s Federated Data Platform has been limited, and it faces continuing strong opposition from patients and NHS staff
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The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is turning its galleries into a dancefloor for a new exhibition this summer.
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Exclusive: A junior minister called for Keir Starmer to step down as Prime Minister and set out a departure timetable in a private meeting on Wednesday afternoon, PoliticsHome understands.
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Ed Miliband has the numbers to stand in a leadership contest if Andy Burnham is unable, his allies say.
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Labour's 'soft left' including senior members of the influential Tribune group of MPs will push the party's ruling body to allow for Andy Burnham's inclusion in a leadership race if one is triggered imminently, PoliticsHome understands.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing a formal inquiry over whether he breached parliamentary rules by failing to declare a £5m gift.
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A poem from one of our regular contributors which almost certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with recent events…
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Speakers at Gloucestershire event trace Sudan’s descent from Darfur to today’s humanitarian catastrophe
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On Wednesday, Charles III will deliver the King's Speech in Parliament, setting out the government’s plans for policies and legislation for the coming parliamentary session.
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Zubir Ahmed, a junior minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, has resigned from government saying he has "irrevocably" lost confidence in the Prime Minister.
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After a drubbing in local elections, Labour must make bold policy changes and implementing electoral reform is a top priority
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The UACES Annual Conference is widely recognised for its academic quality, but it also stands out for the value it offers to delegates. At a time when conference costs are rising across the sector, UACES has taken a deliberate approach to ensuring that high quality academic exchange remains accessible, inclusive and affordable. You can discover […]
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Exclusive: Labour mayor Helen Godwin has told PoliticsHome that Manchester mayor Andy Burnham "should not be blocked" from returning to Westminster and that she "wouldn't dislike the idea" of Burnham being Prime Minister.
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Jess Phillips has resigned as a minister, claiming she has “given up” believing the prime minister was doing enough to clamp down on violence against women and girls.
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Exclusive: Manchester mayor and Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham will meet Labour MPs in London today ahead of plans to announce a potential seat that will give him a route to No 10.
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Exclusive: Chief secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones has sparked suspicion among colleagues that he is quietly sounding out support for a future leadership bid of his own, PoliticsHome understands.
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Faith and communities minister Miatta Fahnbulleh is the first minister to resign and call for the Prime Minister to quit.
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Britain is well-positioned to benefit from the AI revolution, but its workforce may be more exposed than many others. Rishi Sunak tells Francis Elliott how he wishes he had done more to help voters prepare for what is about to come
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A look at the York-born actor who played Doyle’s great detective 45 times, as new BFI restorations of three silent films are launched
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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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Labour MP Catherine West will no longer launch a bid for her leadership on Monday afternoon and will instead canvass support for a timetable for Keir Starmer's resignation and the election of a new leader in September.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has attempted to shore up his leadership of the Labour Party and of the country by saying Labour needs to go beyond just “incremental change” and be the party of a “stronger and fairer” Britain.
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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
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Britain has now made clear that it wants AI sovereignty, of a kind. But there are numerous hurdles in the way, reports Matilda Martin. For a seat at the table with the US and China, say experts, we’re going to need a bigger stick
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to deliver a key speech tomorrow which he is widely expected to use as an attempt to push back against calls for his resignation from a growing number of Labour MPs.
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Former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has backed away from challenging Keir Starmer for the leadership herself – but called for Andy Burnham to be allowed back into the parliamentary party.
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The SNP has decisively won the Scottish Parliament election, securing another five years in office.
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Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to step down following disastrous election results for Labour in Thursday's local elections, but there are concerns among the party's MPs around who would run in a leadership contest that is called ...
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Labour’s grip on two-thirds of councils in London came to an end on Thursday, with the number of red councils falling from 21 to just nine. London Labour MPs are angry, after the city, long seen as safe Labour territory, suffered heavy losses on Thur...
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Plaid Cymru will aim to form the next Welsh government as a minority administration, ending Labour’s generational rule in Wales.
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A backbench Labour MP has said that if a cabinet minister does not put themselves forward to challenge Keir Starmer as party leader by Monday, she will attempt to trigger a leadership contest herself.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been put on notice by Labour MPs after a dismal set of local election results.
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An hilarious story of Sayle's childhood in Liverpool coloured by his parents’ struggle for socialism from the start of the 20th Century
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Local campaigners celebrate Labour’s plans to close loopholes in 2004 Hunting Act, and encourage wider participation in public consultation
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By Karolina Borońska-Hryniewiecka (Polish Academy of Science & Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne) & Jan Kotýnek Krotký (Masaryk University) On 9 May 2026, we celebrate Europe Day and the fourth anniversary of the closing event of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) hailed as a landmark transnational democratic experiment. During CoFoE hundreds of […]
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that the Labour Party faces an "existential" threat nationwide, and described London's results as "bitterly disappointing".
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The SNP is on course to become the largest party in Holyrood once again – but without a parliamentary majority.
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Reform's dominant victory in Essex will likely be one of the local election results most worrying Kemi Badenoch.
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Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan has lost her seat as Labour faces a historic collapse in Wales.
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A 50-minute film brings home the immediacy of the need to address the climate crisis and how it is already impacting on our daily lives
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Laurel and Hardy once paid a call on Bristol’s popular speedway team, the Bulldogs
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Human invention has let us see our planet from its own moon, but do we really appreciate the true costs and responsibility that brings?
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The 2026 pay award to nurses fails to take account of rising inflation, resulting in real term pay cuts for nurses
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We sometimes undervalue the role of trust in politics and the vital contribution of those who make it possible. How we could do with it now!
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The Iranian regime’s policy of harsh repression is a symptom of weakness and fear – the people of Iran need action now from the UK and EU
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Attempts to gerrymander and manipulate eligible voters in the US mid-terms in November reflect Trump’s unpopularity and need for control
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It is surely time for progressive politics to grow a new ideological anchor
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Britain dithers on the sidelines instead of seizing the opportunity to address a century-old injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people
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Ask any academic about how they have come to their present station in their careers and they will talk at some point about the role of chance. The conversation in a queue at a coffee break at a conference, the sitting in on a departmental seminar series, the email on a disciplinary mailing list: the […]
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Ofsted praises West Wycombe School’s inclusive, kind culture and strong progress, with ‘Expected standard’ achieved across all key areas
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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 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 EU's much-delayed Entry/Exit System will change the way UK passengers travel to 29 countries.
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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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Chancellor Rachel Reeves says closer partnership with the EU is beneficial for economy and security.
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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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