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Holscher, a state senator, overcame a more well-known Republican who had Trump's endorsement in the state that has gone to the GOP in most other statewide races.
Read moreThe proposed radical overhaul of the welfare system would move under-25s off the main sickness benefits.
Read moreHome Office sign-off also needed for site that would house 1,200 asylum seekers near Oxfordshire village that voted to leave UK The communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has approved full planning permission for an asylum centre at a Ministry of Defence site near the village of Piddington in Oxfordshire. The decision approves plans to go ahead with the refurbishment and redevelopment of the former barracks. The Home Office insists that final approval is still to be determined. Continue reading...
Read morePrime minister says reset could be a deal ‘like the Brexit people thought they were voting for in 2016’ Andy Burnham has said he believes a “win-win” deal could be done with the EU that could be “more like the Brexit that people thought they were voting for in 2016”. The prime minister was meeting fellow leaders at the European Political Community summit in Dublin, ahead of a keenly anticipated EU-UK summit next week, where he hopes to bring Britain closer to Europe. Continue reading...
Read moreThe shooting began Thursday morning local time at a gym in an apartment building about a mile (1.6km) north of the White House.
Read moreHigher returns for backers do not guarantee national prosperity. Public investment should develop domestic capabilities and meet urgent social needs Britain keeps selling its most valuable companies. The Financial Times calculates that 300 went to foreign buyers, mostly American, over the past decade. What if innovation were scaled up to serve social needs here rather than US investors’ profits? That is the provocation issued by the thinktank Common Wealth in a paper titled We Aren’t the Champions, which takes aim at the UK’s venture capital (VC) industry. The authors say that as long as the U
Read moreIt’s not been a good week for Farage. Aside from that interview and disrespect from the BBC, he’s lost another senior Reform official It’s a day late, but please observe a two-minute silence for Nigel Farage. Lest we forget. Sad to say, but Nige just hasn’t been quite the same since Sunday’s Remembrance service at the Cenotaph. Like me, you might have thought that he had been in Whitehall to honour those who had died in two world wars and subsequent armed conflicts. Only it turns out he was really there to commemorate himself. Through his personal valet, Richard Tice, Nige has let it be known
Read more"People are alive today due to their heroism yesterday," Mamdani tells reporters at a news conference.
Read moreAny revolt among MPs is likely to be smaller than the one that badly damaged Keir Starmer's government.
Read moreThis blog is now closed On the Today programme this morning, the Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, a prominent leftwinger, indicated she might vote against legislation to implement the Alan Milburn proposals. She said she was concerned by the idea that the cuts would apply to people already getting sickness and disability benefits, and she said it appeared to be a breach of a promise given last year that people already getting Pip (the personal independence payment) would not lose it. She said: I just don’t think that you get a disabled young person into work by taking away the money that helps the
Read moreAndy Burnham’s newly appointed climate adviser used report to warn of national security risk from collapsing ecosystems The UK government still has no plans to publish an explosive report showing the national security risk from the collapse of ecosystems around the world – even after handing the key official behind the report a new advisory role. Andy Burnham addressed the Cop31 climate summit in Turkey on Thursday and said the UK was determined to reach net zero by 2050 and work with its partners to build a clean energy future. Continue reading...
Read moreThe proposals would change how crimes committed by children are disclosed to bosses in England and Wales.
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