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Find out how to share your own views here . Editors note: due to all staff being at Labour Party Conference next week, there will be no ‘Letters to the editor’ feature on Sunday 27th September. However, expect a bumper…
Over the last decade, the number of foreign minors in the country has fallen by 4.5%, ISMU found. Meloni did not elaborate on what her cabinet’s proposed cap on foreign students might entail. The Italian leader came to…
Asked whether Sir Ed was the right leader for the party, Brazil said "I wish he was" but "all the evidence is no". A Lib Dem spokesperson said the party was in "an incredibly strong position" under Sir Ed's leadership…
Shocking to hear that There are over 176,000 children living in temporary accommodation across England, and that Since 2019, 104 children have died with temporary accommodation listed as a contributing factor to their…
Part one looked at the inheritance , Part two at the ‘machine’. The social movements that built and defined Labour have thinned. The machine is set up for a politics that no longer exists. Both of those can be worked on…
Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon said too much power was currently in the hands of elected mayors and a Yorkshire parliament would better reflect the region. Burnham has recently set out plans to give elected…
And how gorgeous is this stage set? When I saw the purple, I wondered at first if our Jennie Rigg had had a hand in it. But, seriously, if she had, it would have had a lot more purple and Libby would have been turned…
“Our long-range responses had a very significant impact in the Moscow region last night. One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit,” he said on X . Russian voters have…
In 1982 there were about 100 Royal Marines at Port Stanley to protect the islands and the Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance was facing withdrawal. After the Falklands War the government decided that deterrence was…
The independent judge-led inquiry is scrutinising how officers, who spied on tens of thousands of political activists over more than four decades, carried out abuses such as deceiving women into sexual relationships and…