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Brexit deal is not good enough for British public, says Andy Burnham

The prime minister said Britain had ended up with a "harder Brexit than was proposed in the referendum campaign" and it had not helped to control the small boats crisis. Backing the home secretary's tougher immigration…

Cyberangriffe kommen nicht nur zu Bürozeiten

Genauer gesagt auf das Ergebnis eines Cyberangriffs, den sie selbst in Auftrag gegeben hat: Ein Penetrationstest soll zeigen, wie gut die Systeme des Kosmetikherstellers geschützt sind. Denn die Bedrohungslage verändert…

Hang on to your hats everyone, because Burnham’s going to risk it, and go early

Let’s look at the evidence, and the first point I want to make is Burnham will try it, because he has said he won’t. It’s odd given the lengths he’s gone to since becoming Mayor of Britain that our new Prime Minister has…

UK poised to miss reduced aid spending target of 0.3% of national income

Calculations from the Center for Global Development (CGD) found the UK was on course for a large shortfall in promised official development assistance at the end of 2027. The researchers said the central forecast from…

Trump on Norway: ‘Shithouse country’

Norway has become a shithouse country, actually,” the U.S. president mused during a campaign rally speech in Port Huron, Michigan. Trump was railing about immigration to the U.S. when he segued into the criticism of…

David Gauke: Those Brits who supported Trump and Ukraine must now see the former was their mistake

What were they thinking of? All those British right-of-centre politicians who had wholeheartedly backed the Ukrainians in their brave resistance to Russian aggression, who then declared their support for Donald Trump’s…

Holly Whitbread: ITV’s exposé of Reform UK rings true of our experience in Epping Forest

Sadly, much of what was revealed drew uncomfortable parallels with our own experiences here in Epping Forest. Reform promised to change British politics for the better, offering an alternative to the political…

Inside the Fabian Society: ‘Ideas matter and change is possible’

While primarily serving as a think tank, the Fabian Society has been a hugely influential organisation for most of Labour’s history – having been one of the organisations to help found the party in the early 1900s.…

‘Procurement must be at the heart of our growth agenda’

But the reality is that it should be on all of our lips, because it touches all areas of public spending and therefore everything that those of us in the political sphere are passionate about. Government is the biggest…

We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too | Sadiq Khan

Today, after decades of discussions and deliberations, the action we've taken means almost one kilometre of Oxford Street is now officially traffic-free – just in time for Christmas. But this is only the start of a much…