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‘Politically realistic’ for UK to make financial contribution so it can access European single market, Irish minister saysThe UK must pay into the EU budget for future participation in the European single market, it has been confirmed, in what could become a major...
‘Out of touch’ peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights
Trade union leaders and senior Labour figures say the Lords looks ‘undemocratic and firmly against the interest of working people’Dozens of hereditary peers - including the Duke of Wellington, landed aristocrats and millionaire business chiefs – have been criticised...
Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – as it happened
Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliament. This live blog is closedBack at the Reform UK press conference, Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, has just finished outlining his plan...
Tories and Reform spout imaginary numbers as they fight for attention | John Crace
Back-of-an envelope calculations by Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Nigel Farage are nothing but political fever dreams You would think we were in the final three months of a general election campaign, not three and a half years out. Everywhere you look there’s a party...