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UK and EU agree deal to remove Brexit checks on food and animal products

A wider series of mini-deals expected to be sealed at a UK-EU summit on 20 November would also result in Britain once again contributing to the EU budget as the price of rejoining a single electricity market. It will…

Labour MPs pull their punches on immigration changes

When the home secretary announced her first version of changes to the settlement system last year, many Labour MPs, including the housing secretary Angela Rayner, voiced their concerns about the plans. But there was a…

Eurozone countries to nominate Lagarde replacement by Nov. 6

At their next gathering on Nov. 9, eurozone finance ministers will discuss the candidates and the process to fill all three open posts of the ECB executive board, an EU official told POLITICO. However, the ultimate…

Shabana Mahmood – her fightback kicks off

What remains from Shabana Mahmood’s original plan? And is the rest of the cabinet – including Angela Rayner – really behind her? Sam Coates – who’s been speaking to the home secretary – and Anne McElvoy examine the…

Henry Nowak ‘would have hated’ riots after his murder, says family

Nowak, who was fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa in December 2025, was handcuffed by police as he lay dying after his attacker falsely accused him of racial abuse. The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, subsequently…

From the US midterms to the hard right in Britain, empathy has become a dirty word in politics | John Harris

In his capacity as Reform's Treasury spokesman, his task was to big up its plans to cut 25% of so-called welfare spending by 2030, and thereby tackle what he called the state's "suicidal empathy". Straight away, I…

Law behind Bonfire Night among records sent from parliament to National Archives

The 1605 Thanksgiving Act was passed by James I after Guy Fawkes's failure to assassinate the king, the Lords and the Commons, at the opening of parliament that year. Celebrating the "miraculous and gracious deliverance"…

UK MPs could undergo criminal record checks to stop violence against women

The UK parliament will on Tuesday become the first legislature in the world to receive what is known as White Ribbon accreditation, a commitment to culture change which originated in Canada. After a cross-party campaign…

Halloween’s over. But we still have a zombie Government

This is the problem with changing prime ministers so regularly: you lose a year, sometimes more, due to the learning curve. The three years Burnham has before the election are just enough to pass a difficult law and get…

Peter Franklin: Is it time for Kemi to change strategy?

Let’s take a look at where the polls stand now compared to twelve months ago. The good news is that the gap between the Conservatives and Reform has narrowed to almost nothing — or indeed less than nothing. According to…