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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
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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
Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage, calls on him to quit as Reform party leader
Musk has repeatedly posted on X about UK politics since Labour was elected in July. Now the billionaire thinks Nigel Farage should step down.
- Rob Harris
Musk ready to offer up to $158m to help Nigel Farage become a political force in Britain
Nigel Farage has acknowledged rumours that the tech billionaire is considering a multimillion-pound donation to his populist Reform UK party.
- Tony Diver
Two million Brits already want another election. Even the PM says he’s not surprised
Keir Starmer, who won July’s general election in a landslide, has suffered the biggest fall in approval ratings of any prime minister in the modern era.
- Rob Harris
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