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‘Gotcha moments’ and ‘digital lynch mobs’: Political mastermind issues warning for democracy
He steered David Cameron and John Howard to victory, but Lynton Crosby wonders if even Winston Churchill would survive the age of online pile-ons.
- Rob Harris
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Loss of tiny island with key defence post plunges British Empire into darkness
A Union Jack once always caught the sun somewhere around the globe. But now that will no longer be the case, after a court ruling about an island that is critical to the Five Eyes alliance.
- Rob Harris
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- Immigration
Starmer’s sharp pivot on borders isn’t just about policy – it’s about political survival
Will the British PM’s immigration gambit work, or is he simply playing catch-up to the far-right’s anti-immigration agenda?
- Rob Harris
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‘We’ve had Labour for lunch’: Farage’s Reform UK party delivers political earthquake
Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He’s now got a foot inside — and he’s brought the cannon.
- Rob Harris
Sex, spies and a stalker: The campaign to pardon the woman at heart of infamous scandal
Christine Keeler’s story is so notorious it featured in the Netflix hit The Crown and helped usher the Swinging Sixties into Britain. Her son just wants to clear her name.
- Rob Harris
‘National security on the line’: Starmer pulls off extraordinary move to save British steel
The UK parliament was recalled for just the fifth time since WWII to vote on emergency legislation, and passed the bill in less than 24 hours.
- Rob Harris
UK health minister sacked after wishing for elderly constituent’s death
The Labour MP from England’s north-west also shared racist and antisemitic comments in a WhatsApp group called “Trigger Me Timbers”.
- Rob Harris
Starmer in the middle: Trump wedges British PM
Keir Starmer is stuck between a rock and a hard place in the growing transatlantic spat between the US and the European Union.
- Joe Barnes and Ben Riley-Smith
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How Elon Musk put a decades-old UK sex abuse scandal back on agenda
In a series of vitriolic posts, the tech mogul has falsely accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other Labour MPs of enabling Britain’s grooming gangs, a decade-old scandal involving a series of child sex abuse cases.
- Rob Harris
Liz Truss threatens Keir Starmer with legal action over claims she ‘crashed the economy’
The letter states that the request “is made in the context of the basic levels of civility which is due between senior politicians”.
- Rob Harris
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