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Farage resigns as Clacton MP, triggering by-election he vows to fight
The Reform UK leader steps down in Essex to force a contest he intends to fight, pausing a standards inquiry into an undeclared five million pound gift. Rival parties line up to boycott the vote.
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Andy Burnham accused of 'doing anything but confronting the truth' on Britain's migrant crisis

Keir Starmer donates biography about himself to Downing Street library... written by ex-PM's pal

Labour's 'disgusting' asylum seeker rape guidance blasted by Tory MP: 'This is NOT the solution!'

Labour's £662million French migrant deal torn apart as staggering cost per boat stopped revealed
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Just Stop Oil 'eco-zealots' are writing Starmer's energy policy says Sunak
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to ban new licences for oil and gas production in the UK

Rachel Reeves signs £2.26bn loan deal with Ukraine with plan to pay it back with frozen Russian assets
Starmer said Zelensky had his 'full backing'

Starmer has taken a major strategic gamble. We'll know in a matter of months if it's backfired - Analysis by Katherine Forster
GB News Political Correspondent Katherine Forster shares her insight from the Prime Minister's trip to Estonia

‘We’re ready!’ Inside the woke left’s plot to bring down ‘Far-Right’ Reform UK
Hope Not Hate distributed a 24-page pamphlet on the left’s plan to combat Reform UK

Assisted dying FAILS to become law after controversial bill runs out of time in Parliament
Over 1,200 amendments to the Bill had been suggested in the Upper House

Tony Blair's secret bid to move Premier League club to Belfast
It was described as something that would be a 'significant breakthrough if Belfast had a football team playing in the English Premier League'