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• Local elections 2025 in maps and charts

  03-05-2025 04:23 via bbc.com
  
  Find out who's winning where using our lookup tool, as the first results are declared.
  
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• The strategic dilemmas behind Britain’s defence spending mess

  12-06-2026 19:50 via ft.com
  At the heart of the debate is not just how much the UK should spend on the military, but what types of threat it faces — and ultimately, its place in the world
  
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• Personal resentments loom over Burnham’s showdown with Starmer

  12-06-2026 18:13 via ft.com
  UK prime minister and Greater Manchester mayor have mutual disdain stretching back many years
  
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• The Brexit Effect — postmortem finds neither triumph nor closure

  12-06-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  A decade after the referendum, Anthony Seldon’s anthology finds Britain still trapped between the promises and impact of splitting from the EU
  
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• The joke that deepened Starmer and Burnham’s toxic rift

  12-06-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Relations between the politicians — both suspicious towards each other — sank to new lows after PM’s mocking comment
  
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• Robert Jenrick aide met US businessman accused of illicit donation

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Emails raise further questions over Tory-turned-Reform UK politician’s knowledge of 2024 campaign contribution
  
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• Robert Jenrick aide had meeting with US businessman accused of illicit donation

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Emails raise further questions over Tory-turned-Reform UK politician’s knowledge of 2024 campaign contribution
  
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• Reform UK seeks to rebuild its ties with Maga

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Nigel Farage’s party risks being displaced by far-right rival Restore Britain
  
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• Reform courts Maga to ‘kill off’ threat from Restore Britain

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Nigel Farage’s party risks being displaced by far-right rival Restore Britain
  
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• Makerfield or bust: Burnham goes for broke

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Plus, defence secretary John Healey’s seismic resignation
  
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• Brexit at 10: What comes next? With Anand Menon

  12-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The answer to the UK’s growth problems might be on its doorstep
  
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• UK government scheme ‘causing employers to hire fewer disabled people’, say MPs

  12-06-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  Many applicants lost job offers, existing work or income as a result of processing delays
  
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• UK defence ministers resign as row over military spending escalates

  11-06-2026 22:20 via ft.com
  Concerns over budget spark flurry of resignations and criticism of Keir Starmer and Treasury
  
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• Keir Starmer weakened by John Healey’s scathing resignation

  11-06-2026 20:24 via ft.com
  Defence secretary’s exit may turn out to be the first of many in the coming weeks
  
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• Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar

  11-06-2026 17:49 via ft.com
  Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’
  
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• John Healey: the ex-trade unionist who privately battled the Treasury

  11-06-2026 14:06 via ft.com
  Previously talked of as a potential caretaker prime minister, his efforts as defence secretary could not generate the spending increase the military wanted
  
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• The business model of white victimhood

  11-06-2026 13:50 via ft.com
  Rage on the right and a narrative of disadvantage changing sides is rewarded by social media
  
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• Burnham rules out cash for Waspi women after Labour backlash

  11-06-2026 13:20 via ft.com
  Leadership hopeful’s hints at large spending commitments had raised fears over risk to UK fiscal position
  
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• UK defence secretary resigns over spending plan

  11-06-2026 13:18 via ft.com
  John Healey says Keir Starmer ‘unable’ and Treasury ‘unwilling’ to provide essential budget
  
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• Burnham faces Labour backlash over support for Waspi women

  11-06-2026 10:39 via ft.com
  Leadership hopeful’s hints at large spending commitments raise fears over risk to UK fiscal position
  
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• Burnham on Waspi women sounds rather like Starmer 2.0

  11-06-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Greater Manchester mayor vying for premiership may not get a ‘coronation’ after all if he returns to parliament
  
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• Andy Burnham on Waspi women sounds rather like Starmer 2.0

  11-06-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Greater Manchester mayor vying for premiership may not get a ‘coronation’ after all if he returns to parliament
  
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• The UK universities that require no qualifications to enrol

  11-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Six institutions admitted more than 50% of their home student intake in 2024-25 without qualifications such as A-levels or GCSEs
  
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• Rightwing MPs increase use of Musk’s X as centre-left rivals quit

  11-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Majority of Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians are on alternative social media platform Bluesky, report shows
  
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• Leftwing British MPs quit X — but rightwing rivals post more

  11-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Majority of Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians are on alternative social media platform Bluesky, report shows
  
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• John Healey: the moderate battling for higher UK military spending

  11-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Previously talked of as a potential prime minister, the defence secretary’s efforts have put him at odds with Treasury
  
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• Britain’s post-Brexit policy options

  11-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  In an unstable world, do all roads lead back to Europe?
  
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• UK to launch CO₂ supply push as pubs prepare for bumper beer sales

  10-06-2026 23:00 via ft.com
  Consultation comes as football fans look forward to start of World Cup and month of drinking
  
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• Changing visa rules for care workers is wrong, says Rayner

  10-06-2026 22:47 via bbc.com
  
  The former deputy prime minister says changing visa rules for migrants already living in the UK would be "un-British".
  
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• Starmer dithering over defence spending, says Badenoch

  10-06-2026 21:28 via bbc.com
  
  The clash at PMQs comes amid a cabinet battle over how a military investment plan will be funded.
  
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