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Security guard who protected Nigel Farage on campaign trail was facing rape charge

Dinnage was seen beside Farage on walkabouts on at least four occasions on Reform's local election campaign trail this spring: in Llandudno, Conwy County; Waterlooville, Hampshire, Worthing, West Sussex, and Downham…

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

While commentators picked apart John Healey’s first Budget, there was plenty in it to make a tangible difference to people’s lives. Here are the seven most exciting breakthroughs and announcements this week that you can…

‘Put local voices at the heart of decisions about buses’

This law deregulated publicly owned and controlled bus services across the country except in London. Thatcher told her critics to judge the policy by its successes. 40 years on we can confidently say that by every…

British Council’s £197m debt should mostly be written off, MPs say

The Commons public accounts committee said the government lacked a "positive vision" for the council, whose soft power value to the UK is put at £1bn a year. The MPs called on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development…

Elif Eralp und der Palästina-Sumpf

Drohen in Deutschland bald französische Verhältnisse? Im 200-Sekunden-Interview warnt der hessische Innenminister Roman Poseck vor einer Eskalation der bundesweiten „Gen Z regelt“-Proteste am Wochenende. Er erklärt, wie…

5 things Westminster doesn’t know about the UK economy (but probably should)

“In recent years, falling response rates have significantly affected the quality of the LFS, making it more difficult to estimate reliably the number of workers and the hours they work,” the watchdog said. Gilbert says…

How Ireland plans to beat the data center backlash

“You're giving one industry permission to expand at a very significant rate, saying it’s no problem because you need to build renewables, but that actually will reduce the share of renewables on the system as a whole.”…

Inside America’s midterm election battle

With the outcome set to have consequences far beyond Washington, from trade to defense, we’re bringing you a special episode of The Conversation , hosted by POLITICO’s Dasha Burns. Dasha sits down with two political…

Burnham tries to avoid a slavery reparations ‘disaster’

Judah suggested this would improve attendance at CHOGM, which is often patchy; India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not plan to attend next week’s summit, for example, though there will be a delegation led by…

Britain by numbers: everything we don’t know about the country

So this week on Westminster Insider , Sascha and Pat look into the numbers behind Britain’s economy — and just how much government policy is really made up of guesswork, rather than solid measurements. Sascha talks to Dr…