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Evening Standard - Politics

Cleverly announces resignation from shadow cabinet to run for London mayor

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James Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor

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Reform UK council to spend £150k on security guards in areas near asylum base

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Flooding death toll tops 600 as UK rapid response team heads to Nepal

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Navy tracks Russian warships in English Channel during 'intense' operation

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Andy Burnham must focus on London to deliver growth, says top adviser

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Reform UK council to hire security over 'daily gatherings of asylum seekers'

7 hours ago

Sixth London borough in talks to impose huge council tax hike

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Victims' families call for all manslaughter to be excluded from early release

17 hours ago

Prime Minister Andy Burnham to abstain in assisted dying vote next month

20 hours ago

UK deploys rapid response team to Nepal to support Britons affected by floods

20 hours ago

Sadiq 'flouting environmental rules' over Oxford St pedestrianisation

23 hours ago

Holidaymakers 'disenfranchise themselves', says Reform MP over postal vote plans

23 hours ago

Russia not seeking direct confrontation with Nato – Western officials

23 hours ago

Trump must be pressed to hand over interceptor designs to Ukraine, Brown says

1 day ago

John Swinney's BBC journalist wife Elizabeth Quigley resigns on health grounds

1 day ago

Hundreds of migrants cross Channel after hiatus

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Fact check: Benefits spending and elephant floods video

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Scottish Government publishes draft Bill for second independence referendum

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Sir Ed Davey's attempt to give blood scuppered by summer holiday to France

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Labour new star Miatta Fahnbulleh: Who is Burnham's Energy Secretary?

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Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh defends sending children to private school

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Labour wins by-election in borough facing huge council tax rises

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Met restrict London anti-Islam protest over 'serious disorder' fears

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Al Fayed survivors tackle Met Police on investigation after submission to CPS

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Andy Burnham's plans to revive high street are 'delusional' – Mike Ashley

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Burnham sparks political row as he says Irish unity poll 'off the table'

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Irish border poll 'off the table', says Andy Burnham

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Commissioner takes FOI appeal rejection over Salmond case files to Supreme Court

2 days ago

Number of asylum seekers living in hotels halved

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Huge drop in skilled worker visas as Britain spends £4.3bn on asylum

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Abbott slams attacks on first openly gay Defence Secretary Streeting

2 days ago

Wales and Scotland should consider mayoral devolution, Burnham suggests

2 days ago

Government expects Meta's new protections for teenagers in US to apply in UK

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Full list of seats Labour 'may lose in London' to rival parties' surge

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Central London council flat cheat ordered to repay almost £500k

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Government to take 'significant measures' to protect women and girls – Swinney

3 days ago

Jobs crisis London: Young 'excel in education but struggle for work'

2 days ago

Labour 'to lose up to 18 MPs' in London as rival parties surge

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Millions of Scots 'paying the price' for tax allowance freeze – SNP

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Pc Harper's killers to be excluded from early release scheme – reports

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Ferry passport rule change should include Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin says

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Boroughs to challenge cuts as UK's biggest council tax rises loom

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Burnham faces calls from Left to hit London with home tax up to £7.5bn

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Former council chief convicted of deleting email subject to FOI Act

2 days ago

Business owners would get £30 for HMRC phone delays, Jenrick announces

3 days ago

'Death trap' London: City's residents 'most at risk of dying in heat'

3 days ago

Swinney 'surprised' Burnham not coming to Scotland on listening tour

3 days ago

PM says Britain will not stop supporting Ukraine, amid CIA chief's Russia visit

3 days ago

Burnham defends calling Trump 'poisonous' as he prepares for meeting

3 days ago

Revealed: The surprise Londoners backing Nigel Farage's Reform

3 days ago

London income tax bill hits record £80bn as PM may impose new levies

3 days ago

Inquest into death of Professor Jason Arday to be opened

3 days ago

Prue Leith hails 'revolution' in school food and suggests banning lunchboxes

3 days ago

Reform UK pledges to scrap GDPR for 'light-touch' laws

3 days ago

First Minister 'deeply saddened' by Dolly Parton death

3 days ago

Khan may face Cunningham in London mayor run-off, shock poll reveals

4 days ago

King hails bond between Ukraine and UK to mark country's independence day

4 days ago

French police ran over woman amid rising migrant violence, charity says

4 days ago

Minister signals Thames Water still faces Government takeover

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