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Former Barnet Council leader Dan Thomas denies any wrongdoing after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour

There’s been a huge backlash against Reform UK after the party received £72m from two crypto billionaires over the weekend. Paul Nowak, the TUC leader, said the money showed democracy was ‘in crisis’. Labour is pushing…

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Patrick Stillman is the Liberal Democrats' candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Amid renewed speculation – first reported by Guido – that Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith might pledge to abolish Inheritance Tax at conference in a few weeks, Guido has compiled some essential facts about the…

Key questions surrounding the huge sums donated by crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo Reform UK announced over the weekend the two biggest single political donations in British history: £36m from the…

Angela Rayner says manifesto pledge is not being dropped but focus is now on building council houses UK politics live – latest updates The government is unlikely to meet its target of building 1.5m homes, Angela…

Employers will have to hold face-to-face meetings with staff who ask about shift changes under government reforms Company bosses will have to sit down with workers who request flexible working and justify their reasons…

13 people have been injured overnight in the latest escalation of the Houthis’ attacks on Saudi Arabia. Plus: A delve into the economic realities that Burnham’s agenda will have to contend with, the Celtic nations of…

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The government could legislate to force firms to act if there is not a drop in phone thefts, the policing minister says.

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Recent instances of Nigel Farage’s party trying to gain sympathetic coverage leads to debate over reporting practices The Telegraph and Reform UK are facing claims of undermining public interest journalism and eroding…

MPs took to Westminster Hall yesterday to debate a petition demanding a “binding national referendum” on renationalising water. The real debate is happening at the Treasury, where someone needs to explain how the…

The Guido Fawkes Show LIVE launches tomorrow at 5pm. CLICK HERE to subscribe to Guido on YouTube… Expect all the rumours, gossip, and tittle-tattle Westminster doesn’t want you to hear. Join Adam Cherry, Ross Kempsell,…

AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its misery We can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has declared that fears…

One voter in the symbolic referendum in Piddington, Oxfordshire, calls it the "Battle of Britain".

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to create city-run grocery stores to help New Yorkers struggling with the cost of living is being challenged in court by supermarkets, who say they won’t be able to compete with the stores’ low…

The UK government has been urged to go further on sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with senior lawyers warning that current measures “fall far short” of Britain’s obligations under international…

Burnham’s deputy is speaking at the TUC Congress in his absence.

I don’t pretend to speak for every 15-year-old, but I do think there are other young people like me who are listening, thinking seriously about politics and asking what is worth preserving. I’m 15. I can’t vote for the…

£73,068.97 of taxpayers’ money was spent on the bus used to promote Andy Burnham’s £2 bus fare cap. Burnham stood in front of the bus for a few hours… The bus branded “Funded by UK Government” and used to promote the £2…

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Surely that’s the lesson the Reform polling furore should teach us. Politics should be about actually helping people, not mastering the line on a graph Solemn faces all round. We will listen. We will learn. We will hone…

In a joint statement, unions say donations totalling £72m to Reform UK threaten the "integrity of democracy".

The gap I see from my consulting room runs through the whole process, recognising what is really keeping someone from work, accurately assessing what they can do and, where they can work, creating a practical route…

HMRC is now testing the nation’s wastewater to work out how much tobacco is being smoked illegally. At a huge cost to taxpayers compared to easier methods like high street enforcement or surveying empty illegal…

The government has revealed that it has invited a Labour-linked censorship organisation into the culture department to discuss the Online Safety Act. Sends shivers down the spine… The deplatforming organisation the…

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It comes after Reform received donations totalling £72m from two British crypto-billionaires who have both recently lived abroad.