Rupert Matthews: The College of Policing is ripe for reform

A few months ago a shopkeeper in Wrexham got so fed up with the amount of shoplifting he was suffering – and the lack of police action on his reports – that he decided to secure his more prized items in locked display…

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Delivering in Government: your weekly round up of good news Labour stories

While conference season rolled on, there was plenty of tangible progress across government departments. Here are the seven most exciting breakthroughs and announcements this week that you can use, whether you’re on the…

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Labour members willing to accept Green defections, but not Tories or Reform – poll

Polling, conducted by Survation, found that two-thirds (68 percent) of Labour members would welcome a high-profile Green politician defecting to Labour, compared to just 17 percent opposed. However, when asked about a…

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‘From the Co-operative Party to Labour’s centre: Joe Fortune’s election matters’

Fortune moves to Labour after seven years as General Secretary of the Co-operative Party – Labour’s sister party and political partner for more than a century. During his leadership, the Party’s membership and income…

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‘Social care – and how we pay for it – is everybody’s issue’

It has become the issue nobody has wanted to grasp. And while it stayed in the too difficult box, the number of victims of that inertia grew. This understated crisis is playing out against a demographic reality we can…

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EU faces gas supply shortage as winter looms

Part of that pressure comes from a looming EU-wide ban on long-term supply contracts for Russian LNG, due to take effect in January, which will reduce European gas imports by an additional 7 billion cubic meters…

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Elif Eralp und Friedrich Merz’ neues Berlin-Problem

Welche radikalen Forderungen im Raum stehen und warum der Antisemitismus-Streit in der Linken die Regierungsbildung zur Zerreißprobe macht, analysiert Maximilian Heimerzheim. Beim Dauerbrenner Rentenreform verhärten sich…

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Is the EU ready for the next pandemic?

They look at what became of Brussels’ post-Covid ambitions — from the EU’s HERA health-emergency authority to better coordination of research — and at Donald Trump’s push to bring down US drug prices by putting pressure…

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Green Leader Polanski vows to fight on after Westminster gamble fails

He told broadcasters: “As I say, the displacement of the Palestinian people, the genocide, is clearly racist.” The dispute spilled out onto the airwaves Friday morning as the party reflected on its defeat. Labour Party…

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Labour defeats Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras by-election

Camden council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 45.2 percent of the vote, with the Greens placing second with 32.8 percent. The Conservatives came a distant third with 7.1 percent…

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