Jessica Elgot

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Some big news this morning

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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts

Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files

A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.

It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.

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What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good

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EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal.

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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns

Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

BREAKING - Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will launch an investigation into Farage's £5m donation.

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

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No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

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A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

New - Nigel Farage has been found by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to have made 17 standards breaches, adding up to over £380,000 in late declarations.

He’s apologised, so no further investigation (which seems unusual for a breach this large)

This is one of those stories that I keep thinking will get bigger and bigger but which no-one outside of small security circles is talking about much...

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Photos of Birmingham DHL fire suggest device could have downed plane

Images consistent with fire from magnesium-based device, suspected to be part of Russian sabotage plot

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

The family of Bebe King, one of the girls killed in the Southport attack, have urged ministers to reconsider disclosing ethnicity of suspects.

They say family were failed by “despicable” actions of far right, who “tried to make political gain from our tragedy”

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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.

They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.

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Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post

Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister

You probably read this weekend the government was watering down the workers rights bill.

Having looked at the amendments, there’s no weakening of anything, in most cases it’s been toughened up.

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UK unions welcome ministers’ decision to bolster workers’ rights bill

Unions delighted that there has been no watering down of plans, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales

He was being told his own soldiers were fleeing the battlefield and he was forcing them to fight. How would it have looked back home if he had let that go unchallenged?

Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips. Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’ - exc from @ecourea.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips

Exclusive: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton.

So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

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If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.

"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."

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Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal

PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…