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Evening Standard - Politics

PM vows new powers to rid London highstreets of betting and vape shops

1 hour ago

Police investigating Widdecombe murder suspect over Farage arson

2 hours ago

Pc Harper's mother asks Andy Burnham to meet with her about early release scheme

2 hours ago

'Horrified' Green MSP Q Manivannan apologises over rape comments

6 hours ago

SNP lacks 'vision' under Swinney and needs 'sea change' – former MP Cherry

5 hours ago

Farage faces Count Binface 'trashing' unless he wins big in Clacton

8 hours ago

Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry says she is 'not obsessed' with Nicola Sturgeon

7 hours ago

Record 230-migrant boat was buckling and nearly led to tragedy, rescuers say

10 hours ago

No 10 failure to block Pc Harper killers' early release 'indefensible'

8 hours ago

Jess Phillips: Government minister role felt like being in a 'straitjacket'

8 hours ago

No 10 says 'not possible' to block 'one or two' killers from early release

9 hours ago

Stormont Finance Minister seeking 'urgent meeting' with Chancellor

9 hours ago

Rape crisis centres condemn Green MSP's rape 'spectrum' comments

10 hours ago

Farage slams police as probe into attack on London home reopened

11 hours ago

Thames Water gives finance chief £1million extra payment

13 hours ago

Westminster hits back at London mayor in furious pub licensing row

13 hours ago

Minister denies wealth taxes to fund cost-of-living help

14 hours ago

Israel rejects Trump's Board of Peace plan for Gaza

21 hours ago

Andy Burnham faces choice on drilling as North Sea consultation closes

23 hours ago

UK Government urged to copy SNP support worth thousands for young people

23 hours ago

Scottish Labour leadership is hardest job in UK politics – Sarwar

1 day ago

Invest in climate defence rather than heed Trump on military spend – Polanski

1 day ago

Burnham to kick off national tour to hear cost-of-living concerns

2 days ago

Nicola Sturgeon feels like a 'mug' over Murrell and will not visit him in prison

1 day ago

Ten key pledges by Count Binface as he fights Nigel Farage in Clacton

12 days ago

When is the Clacton by-election?

11 days ago

Scottish Labour leadership race about finding 'party's missing soul' – Lennon

1 day ago

University opens government-funded lab to help train biomedical scientists

1 day ago

Farage and Tice sue NCA over alleged leaks of financial information

2 days ago

JK Rowling seems to be obsessed with me, says Nicola Sturgeon

2 days ago

Badenoch demands 'rigorous enforcement' after 'litany of failures' in Levy case

2 days ago

I'm SNP to my core, says Sturgeon as she rules out joining Greens

2 days ago

Burnham 'prepared to explore options to block release of Pc Harper's killers'

2 days ago

Why plan to limit 'vertical drinking' only tip of the iceberg for Soho

3 days ago

The bizarre reasons Westminster venues have faced restrictions

2 days ago

Edinburgh festivals 'send clear message Scotland is a welcoming country'

2 days ago

Cambridge must not mark own homework with review in plagiarism row – academic

3 days ago

Glasgow University to review its past appointment of Jason Arday

3 days ago

Meta paying price for 'cavalier approach' to online safety, say UK campaigners

3 days ago

Tory and Reform councillors under fire over 'climate hoax' posts

3 days ago

Burnham: It is 'insane' UK has not hosted World Cup since 1966

3 days ago

Fact check: Small boat deaths and fake image of Andy Burnham running

3 days ago

Unison backs Monica Lennon to become Scottish Labour leader

3 days ago

Pc Harper's mother visits scene of son's death as 675,000 sign petition

3 days ago

Cambridge to continue probe into professor at centre of plagiarism row

3 days ago

Scottish Labour has turned to rubble, claims leadership hopeful

3 days ago

Council slams 'ludicrous' claims of West End standing ban in pubs

3 days ago

Tory plans to end foreign nationals' right to social housing slammed

3 days ago

No10 slams plans to clamp down on drinkers standing at Soho pubs

3 days ago

Teenagers overwhelmingly likely to turn off optional social media curfews – poll

3 days ago

'It'll kill Soho': Pubs slam proposals to curb standing drinkers

4 days ago

Grooming cases to be 'urgently' identified ahead of early release scheme

4 days ago

Taoiseach urges 'political maturity' at Stormont amid DUP and Sinn Féin row

4 days ago

Locations of 31 new mental health centres revealed for London

4 days ago

Two arrested over £200k benefits scam during raids on London homes

4 days ago

£3m support for businesses impacted by Cairngorms wildfire announced

4 days ago

SNP writes off value of Peter Murrell motorhome and will not repay him £60k loan

4 days ago

'Deliveroo Law': Reform vows to jail CEOs that hire illegal workers

4 days ago

Badenoch rules out pact with 'woke' Reform UK

4 days ago