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Evening Standard - Politics

SNP has damaged rather than improved Scotland, says Starmer

2 hours ago

Swinney 'waiting with expectation' for UK ministers to secure whisky tariff deal

3 hours ago

Nigel Farage's comments on Glasgow schoolchildren 'simply racist' – John Swinney

4 hours ago

Number 10 rejects 'dictator' claims amid row over mayoral election delay

4 hours ago

Builders downed tools amid Reeves Budget fears in blow to London homes

7 hours ago

Military families to benefit from funding for Christmas return leave – Starmer

7 hours ago

Putin directed Novichok poisoning as 'show of Russian power' - inquiry

11 hours ago

Minister: I'll strengthen child safety after 'sickening' nursery case

8 hours ago

Prison population set to hit 100,000 a year later than projected – figures

9 hours ago

Phillipson asked to consider mandating CCTV in nurseries after paedophile case

9 hours ago

Who is Christopher Harborne? The businessman who donated £9m to Reform

10 hours ago

UK sanctions GRU after Putin found 'morally responsible' for Novichok death

9 hours ago

UK and Norway sign defence pact to hunt Russian submarines

12 hours ago

Mayoral elections delay confirmed by minister amid 'affront to democracy' claims

12 hours ago

Nigel Farage's Reform UK gifted record £9million donation

13 hours ago

Government will look at 'full details' in case of paedophile nursery worker

13 hours ago

Wes Streeting launches review into ADHD, autism and mental health services

14 hours ago

MI5 left Sergei Skripal 'alarmingly accessible' to Putin's assassins

16 hours ago

Streeting orders review of mental health diagnosis amid welfare reform drive

16 hours ago

Starmer to visit RAF base with Norwegian PM as he heads to Scotland

23 hours ago

Business minister to announce Scotland's space strategy will be refreshed

23 hours ago

Officials lost opportunities to influence US on Dunn suspect's immunity – review

1 day ago

Treasury minister: inquiry into pre-Budget leaks under way

1 day ago

Labour's neutrality on assisted dying questioned amid leaked report

1 day ago

Labour MP has whip suspended after rebelling on farming inheritance tax vote

1 day ago

Labour MPs rebel against Reeves increasing taxes on family farms

1 day ago

Parents queue for water for children in historic London commuter town

1 day ago

Chinese mega embassy could bring security advantages, No 10 claims

1 day ago

Planning for any future pandemic must include impact on economy – Diane Dodds

1 day ago

Government has spent more than £100m so far responding to Covid inquiry

1 day ago

Badenoch: Reeves could be prosecuted for market abuse over claims before Budget

1 day ago

Father of man accused of spying for Russia says arrest 'hard to take in'

1 day ago

Security concerns over new Chinese embassy addressed amid Starmer trip rumours

1 day ago

'Aggressor' Putin does not want to reach a deal, Sir Keir Starmer says

1 day ago

UK says Putin 'sabre-rattling' by saying Russia is ready for war with Europe

1 day ago

Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of overstating chess championship win

1 day ago

'Aggressor' Putin dragging feet on Ukraine peace talks, says Starmer

1 day ago

Liz Truss 'mini-Budget' torpedoed Brexit economic hopes, says expert

1 day ago

Service sector growth slows as price inflation drops to almost five-year low

1 day ago

Minister: 'Walking home at night in London I look over my shoulder'

1 day ago

Ukraine arrests British man suspected of spying for Russia

1 day ago

Zelensky 'optimism' raises hopes on talks to end Putin's Ukraine war

2 days ago

Castles outside London escape 'mansion tax' as 1-bed flats in city hit

1 day ago

Keir Starmer to face PMQs amid continued Budget questions

1 day ago

Festive welcome ready for German president from King and Queen at Windsor Castle

1 day ago

No conspiracy but 'systemic failures' in collapsed China spy case, report finds

1 day ago

Reform and Tories insist there is no plan for merger before next election

2 days ago

Cannabis cookies seized from American candy shop in central London

2 days ago

Zelensky says Ireland 'one of few countries that knows the price of freedom'

2 days ago

Government delays decision on Chinese 'super embassy' again

2 days ago

Pint of beer price to rise in London pubs hit by tax, rates and wages

3 days ago

Inquiry to be launched into disgraced Andrew's use of Royal Lodge

2 days ago

Ireland will back Ukraine 'for as long as it takes', Martin tells Zelensky

2 days ago

Zelensky thanks Ireland for its generosity amid Russian invasion

2 days ago

Jury trials to be axed for crimes with sentences less than three years

2 days ago

Crown court backlog in England and Wales: Key numbers and trends

2 days ago

Budget crisis engulfs Rachel Reeves as OBR slams Treasury briefings

2 days ago

Mobile phone thieves 'shouldn't delay rape cases with trial by jury'

2 days ago

Lammy says jury trials 'fundamental' ahead of expected reforms to limit them

2 days ago

Jails chaos: 12 more prisoners released by mistake and two on run

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