6 years, 8 months ago

Final Say: The misinformation that was told about Brexit during and after the referendum

'The money saved from leaving the EU will result in the NHS getting £350m a week' One of the most prominent claims made by the Leave campaign was that the UK would take back £350m a week once it had left the EU – with the sum going to the NHS. The UK Statistics Authority has since said this was a “clear misuse of official statistics” – most notably because the figure did not take into account the money the UK gets back from the EU after paying into the budget. Two years on and Theresa May has now pledged additional funding for the NHS and has said the extra money will come, in part, from a “Brexit dividend”. The Office for Budget Responsibility has however said that although there would be some savings if Britain leaves the EU, this does not take into account the potential economic impact or the money that could have to be sent to the EU as a result of the Brexit deal.

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4 months ago

Brexit: Britain sets aside £10bn for future payments to EU more than eight years after vote to leave

The Independent

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We are unnecessarily …

9 months, 2 weeks ago

Nigel Farage pledges to run for PM in 2029 as Reform manifesto slated by economists

The Independent

Nigel Farage has parked his tank firmly on Rishi Sunak’s lawn with a manifesto designed to win over disgruntled Tory supporters and an extraordinary prediction he will be prime minister after the 2029 election. open image in gallery Reform UK chairman Richard Tice and party leader Nigel Farage launch ‘Our Contract with You’ in Merthyr Tydfil on Monday IFS deputy …

1 year, 1 month ago

The Brexit bill: £100bn hit to UK exports as toy, medical kit and jewellery sales slump

The Independent

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1 year, 5 months ago

Brexit: Michael Gove claims infamous £350m a week for NHS promise ‘delivered’

The Independent

2 years, 4 months ago

Brexit: Record low now think UK was right to leave EU

The Independent

Just 32 per cent of British voters now think the UK was right to leave the EU, a new poll has found. The figure comes after “rejoin” took a record 14-point lead in a separate poll by Redfield and Wilton Strategies last month, which asked how people would vote in another EU referendum. Respected political scientist Professor Sir John Curtice …

5 years, 2 months ago

Brexit: UK public wants to remain in EU, new poll finds weeks before withdrawal date

The Independent

5 years, 4 months ago

Brexit will cost NHS additional £60m a year to recruit doctors and nurses from abroad, Liberal Democrats claim

The Independent

5 years, 10 months ago

Jean-Claude Juncker says it was a ‘mistake’ for EU to stay silent during Brexit referendum ‘lies’

The Independent

6 years, 3 months ago

Brexit: Leave ‘very likely’ won EU referendum due to illegal overspending, says Oxford professor’s evidence to High Court

The Independent

6 years, 4 months ago

NHS faces £2.3bn cost of no-deal Brexit, report warns

The Independent

6 years, 5 months ago

British public still believe Vote Leave ‘£350million a week to EU’ myth from Brexit referendum

The Independent

6 years, 6 months ago

Tory donor threatens to fund new Brexit party after Chequers ‘fiasco’

The Independent

6 years, 6 months ago

Brexit lies: The demonstrably false claims of the EU referendum campaign

The Independent

‘Once we have settled our accounts, we will take back control of roughly £350m per week’ – Boris Johnson The claim by the Leave campaign that the UK would take back control of “roughly £350m a week” was derided by the UK Statistics Authority as “a clear misuse of official statistics”. The problem with the notorious £350m figure is that …

6 years, 8 months ago

Brexit: Will the EU referendum be re-run after Vote Leave was referred to police for breaking electoral law?

The Independent

6 years, 8 months ago

U.K.'s pro-Brexit campaign broke election laws

CBS News

LONDON -- The official campaign group that succeeded in convincing Britons to vote to leave the European Union has been fined and referred to police by the country's Electoral Commission for breaking election laws during the 2016 campaign. The Commission fined the Vote Leave group almost $90,000 for exceeding the spending limit imposed by U.K. election laws, allegedly by funnelling …

6 years, 9 months ago

Theresa May refuses to say which taxes will rise to pay for £20bn NHS boost

The Independent

6 years, 10 months ago

Brexit: Police examining evidence Leave.EU chief committed crimes during referendum campaign

The Independent

7 years ago

Brexit: Vote Leave chief who created £350m NHS claim on bus admits leaving EU could be 'an error'

The Independent

7 years, 2 months ago

Boris Johnson to demand £100m for NHS after Brexit

Daily Mail

A Cabinet showdown over NHS funding looms as Boris Johnson is reportedly set to demand Theresa May commits to handing over an extra £100million a week to hospitals after Brexit. The Foreign Secretary is said to have enlisted the support of other key ministers in the Cabinet for his plan - including Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove. Boris Johnson has …

7 years, 4 months ago

Budget 2017: NHS trusts given extra £350m for entire winter, despite Brexit bus promising £350m a week

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Meanwhile, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said patients had been let down by a budget …

7 years, 4 months ago

Brexit: NHS England boss demands £350m-a-week promised to Leave voters

The Independent

7 years, 7 months ago

Brexit: UK ‘will warn EU not to demand more money for European Investment Bank’

The Independent

7 years, 7 months ago

Theresa May's office denies media reports of UK paying 40 billion pounds under Brexit divorce bill

Firstpost

British prime minister Theresa May’s office on Monday denied weekend media claims that the UK government was reconciled to paying the European Union nearly 40 billion euros as part of a so-called Brexit divorce bill. London: British prime minister Theresa May’s office on Monday denied weekend media claims that the UK government was reconciled to paying the European Union nearly …

7 years, 11 months ago

Brexit campaign was largely funded by five of UK's richest businessmen

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The campaign to leave the European Union was mostly funded by …

8 years, 2 months ago

Brexit to cost Britain more than 5% of GDP by 2030, say City economists

The Independent

8 years, 2 months ago

Claim that hard Brexit will save £24bn is 'total junk', leading economist says

The Independent

8 years, 3 months ago

Brexit: Theresa May hints Britain will still pay into the EU budget, despite being told it would be 'betraying' voters

The Independent

8 years, 5 months ago

More than half of donations to EU referendum campaigns came from just ten wealthy donors

The Independent

8 years, 6 months ago

Vote Leave's £350m for the NHS pledge was ‘just an example’, says group's chair

The Independent

8 years, 6 months ago

Brexit: Vote Leave camp abandon £350m-a-week NHS vow in Change Britain plans

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

Douglas Carswell challenged by Leave voter over broken NHS pledge

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

Brexit: Vote Leave wipes NHS £350m claim and rest of its website after EU referendum

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

Nigel Farage backtracks on Leave campaign's '£350m for the NHS' pledge hours after result

The Independent

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8 years, 9 months ago

Rob Delaney suggests Vote Leave change Twitter banner after Nigel Farage dismisses '£350million' NHS pledge

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

EU referendum: Will Brexit save taxpayers money and mean more money for the NHS?

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

A voter's guide to the EU referendum

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

EU referendum: David Cameron and Nigel Farage face questions on sovereignty and the economy during live TV event

The Independent

8 years, 9 months ago

EU referendum: MPs may push to keep UK in European single market despite Brexit vote

The Independent

8 years, 10 months ago

EU referendum: Not all of Britain’s EU spending would be redirected to NHS in event of Brexit, Vote Leave admits

The Independent

8 years, 10 months ago

EU Referendum: Both sides of the debate are 'misleading', MPs say

The Independent

8 years, 10 months ago

EU Referendum: Statistics regulator loses patience with Leave campaign over '£350m a week' EU cost figure

The Independent

8 years, 10 months ago

Eurosceptic Tory MP Dr Sarah Wollaston refuses to hand out 'misleading' Vote Leave NHS leaflets

The Independent

8 years, 11 months ago

Families losing £150 a month is a price worth paying for Brexit, Leave.EU campaign chief says

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The millionaire businessman and former Tory-turned-Ukip donor was asked by Labour MP Rachel Reeves whether …

8 years, 11 months ago

EU Referendum: Vote to leave Europe would make British households £4,300 worse off, according to Treasury report

The Independent

8 years, 11 months ago

David Cameron faces furious Tory backlash over £10m EU 'propaganda' mailshot

Daily Mail

David Cameron has flatly dismissed Eurosceptic fury over his decision to spend nearly £10 million on a pro-EU 'propaganda' mailshot to every household in the country. It states: 'Prime Minister David Cameron plans to spend British taxpayers' money on a pro-EU document to be sent to every household in the United Kingdom in the run up to the EU referendum. …

8 years, 11 months ago

EU referendum: Government to spend £9m of taxpayers' money on leaflets warning of 'damage' Brexit would cause

The Independent

8 years, 11 months ago

EU referendum: £9m cost of taxpayer-funded leaflet warning about the 'damage' of Brexit angers Eurosceptics

The Telegraph

It goes on to warn that British voters would lose access to cheap flights and face higher mobile roaming charges when travelling if they back a Brexit. "It's crazy to use quite so much taxpayers' money on stuff that is basically intended to scare people and to stampede people in one direction. "I think what we want is a proper, …

9 years ago

NHS officials deny they were pressured to downgrade estimates of how extra much cash health service needed

The Independent

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4 days, 9 hours ago

KEMI BADENOCH: Just take a look at Birmingham - vote Labour, and you get rubbish... and rats!

Daily Mail

Next week, the true cost of Rachel Reeves will really hit home with a vicious cocktail of bill increases and price rises. At the same time, millions of pensioners have had their winter fuel payments snatched away, and the jobs tax is hitting every sector of the economy – pushing up prices and bills. But next week council tax will …

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6 days, 12 hours ago

Stamp duty on shares to rake in £24bn over next five years - despite criticism it stifles investing in UK-listed firms

Daily Mail

Stamp duty on shares is set to rake in nearly £24billion over the next five years – despite criticism it is ‘a tax on investing in UK-listed companies’ and deters savers. Chris Beckett, head of equity research at investment management firm Quilter Cheviot, said because the tax is only paid when buying shares in UK-registered companies, it ‘puts them at …

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Nigel Farage is 'paid an unspecified sum' to settle with NatWest in debanking scandal

Daily Mail

Nigel Farage has been paid an 'unspecified sum' by NatWest to settle the debanking scandal almost two years after the bank closed his accounts. The then-NatWest CEO Dame Alison Rose later resigned after she admitted she had discussed the details of Farage's bank account with a BBC journalist. It is understood that after NatWest agreed to pay Nigel Farage damages …

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6 days, 17 hours ago

Labour minister under fire after he compares welfare squeeze to 'cutting my child's pocket money by £10 per week'... as Government admits 800,000 disabled Brits will be £4,500 per year worse off

Daily Mail

A Labour minister came under fire today after he compared the Government's welfare squeeze to cutting his children's pocket money by £10 per week. Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, offered the 'offensive' and 'patronising' example as he was quizzed about the impact of Labour's benefits cuts In the Government's own assessment of its benefits changes, it was …

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UK Welfare Reforms to Drive 250,000 More People Into Poverty

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6 days, 18 hours ago

UK Welfare Reforms to Drive 250,000 More People Into Poverty

Live Mint

-- A quarter of a million people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty in the UK by 2030 as a result of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ planned cuts to the country’s benefits system, according to a government assessment of the policy that risks stoking a rebellion within the governing Labour Party. “Making cuts instead of …

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6 days, 18 hours ago

Britain's wealth squashed under Reeves... and it could get WORSE: Brits face an extra YEAR of flatlining wealth, a record tax burden with fears of more to come - and the only thing propping up GDP is

Daily Mail

Brits are facing four years of flatlining wealth - and a new record tax burden - as a grim report underlined how even meagre economic growth has been driven by immigration. The tax burden is still on track to hit a record high of 37.7 per cent of GDP in 2027-28, from 35.3 per cent this year, with frozen thresholds …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Urgent! It's your last chance to grab your payout as £200million claim is made for victims of scandal-hit fund, warns financial guru JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Daily Mail

It is nearly six years since Neil Woodford's investment empire began to crumble when dealings in the flagship Woodford Equity Income Fund were abruptly suspended. Then there is the High Court group claim that litigation specialist RGL has brought against wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown for the part it played in persuading customers to join the Woodford party – despite growing …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Why has the UK government announced swingeing welfare cuts?

Al Jazeera

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled a major shake-up of the country’s welfare system, arguing that it could save the country 5 billion pounds a year by 2030, but sparked a political row in the process. Colum Eastwood, an MP from Labour’s sister party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, in Northern Ireland, referred to the case of …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Europe needs to spend more on defence, not just pretend to

The Economist

A s the British government drew up its annual budget in 2015, the sums came out wrong in a troubling way. Cuts across departments meant that spending on defence would come out just shy of 2% of GDP for the first time since the 1930s. That wouldn’t do: only a year earlier Britain had hosted NATO leaders as they formally …

1 week, 6 days ago

Where else will the axe fall as the economy stalls? Rachel Reeves 'must still slash £10bn from spending' in Spring Statement next week despite Labour uproar at crackdown on benefits

Daily Mail

Rachel Reeves still faces making deep cuts in spending next week despite Labour's curbs on benefits. The Chancellor's Spring Statement next Wednesday had originally been billed as a low-key update, after she vowed only to hold one Budget a year. Ms Reeves has ruled out more borrowing or tweaks to the main tax rates, leaving spending cuts her only option …

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2 weeks ago

A £5billion cut to benefits barely scratches the surface - it's a sticking plaster at best: JASON GROVES on Liz Kendall's plan to trim Britain's spiralling welfare budget

Daily Mail

Few would argue with Labour's claim that the welfare system is 'broken'. Liz Kendall's proposals will trim £5 billion from the welfare budget, prompting predictable howls of anger from the Labour benches. No wonder that Sir Iain Duncan Smith, whose welfare reforms cut a much lower benefits bill by more than £30 billion, describes Labour's plans as 'peanuts'. Work and …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

UK’s Reeves floats ‘radical shake-up’ of bureaucracy to cut business costs

Al Jazeera

British chancellor to meet regulators on Monday to announce ‘action plan’ for cutting red tape. The United Kingdom’s Labour Party government is set to announce a “radical shake-up” of bureaucracy aimed at cutting administrative costs for businesses by a quarter. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is set to meet with regulators on Monday to announce the “action plan” …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

Labour Vows Support for Most Vulnerable Amid Welfare Cuts Debate

Live Mint

-- The UK government said it will seek to support the country’s most vulnerable even as plans to cut spending on welfare spur dissent within the ruling Labour Party. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said on Sunday that the government’s welfare reform is aimed at supporting people who can’t work while helping those who can find employment. “I haven’t seen the …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Labour U-turn on £5bn benefits crackdown as Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall 'prepare to backtrack on cutting disabled people's payments'

Daily Mail

Labour is tipped to U-turn on their £5billion benefits crackdown as Sir Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall prepare to back down on a key plank of the controversial plans. The government is set to unveil a series of welfare reforms next week, which would see about 1million people lose their disability payments, as Labour attempts to grapple with the country's …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

As many as 30,000 jobs at risk of being cut under Labour's plans to overhaul the NHS, eclipsing 10,000 to be axed with NHS England

Daily Mail

Up to 30,000 jobs could be cut as part of Labour's plan to overhaul the NHS, it was reported last night. Sir Jim Mackey, who is set to become NHS England's new chief executive from next month, has instructed the ICBs to cut their running costs by 50 per cent by the end of the year. Sir Jim has also …

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Defiant Keir Starmer defends billions in benefits cuts as backlash from his own MPs grows

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Defiant Keir Starmer defends billions in benefits cuts as backlash from his own MPs grows

Daily Mail

Sir Keir Starmer has defended billions of pounds of looming benefits cuts despite a growing backlash from his own MPs. Sir Keir Starmer has defended billions of pounds of looming benefits cuts despite a growing backlash from his own MPs Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell who now sits as an independent MP after rebelling against the Labour whip 'There is …

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Finally! Patients to be put before NHS bureaucrats: More than 9,300 jobs to go as Labour scrap 'world's biggest quango' NHS England to improve care and crack down on wokery

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Finally! Patients to be put before NHS bureaucrats: More than 9,300 jobs to go as Labour scrap 'world's biggest quango' NHS England to improve care and crack down on wokery

Daily Mail

NHS England will be scrapped under major reforms aimed at cutting waste and bureaucracy, Sir Keir Starmer announced yesterday. Half the 18,600 staff employed by the two organisations will be lost, with the funds redirected to doctors, nurses and frontline services This will help to cut waiting lists and improve care, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer added Prime Minister Sir …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Keir Starmer dramatically announces scrapping NHS England

Daily Mail

Keir Starmer dramatically scrapped NHS England today as he launched a striking assault on the 'flabby, unfocused and over-cautious' state. Sir Keir said abolishing NHS England will reduce 'duplication', saving money that can then be spent on frontline services. Sir Keir said no official's 'substantive time' should be spent on a task where technology can 'do it better, quicker and …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

‘Many will die’: UN aid chief warns of fallout as humanitarian relief cut

Al Jazeera

Cuts to humanitarian relief could mean less help for people in Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and more countries, UN aid chief said. “Many will die because that aid is drying up,” Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said at a news briefing at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. UK Prime Minister Keir …

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Benefits cuts 'delayed to next week' as Labour MPs revolt over 'rerun of austerity' - despite Keir Starmer warning the system is 'indefensible'

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3 weeks ago

Benefits cuts 'delayed to next week' as Labour MPs revolt over 'rerun of austerity' - despite Keir Starmer warning the system is 'indefensible'

Daily Mail

Labour's welfare overhaul has been delayed amid a Labour revolt despite Keir Starmer warning the system is 'indefensible'. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been widely expected to unveil plans as soon as today, with ministers struggling to slash £5billion from 'spiralling' benefits costs. Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall had been widely expected to unveil plans as soon …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

UK government planning 6 billion pounds in welfare savings, ITV News reports

Live Mint

LONDON, March 7 - The British government is planning to make more than 6 billion pounds in welfare savings, ITV News reported on Friday, as finance minister Rachel Reeves seeks to balance the books. ITV reported that the government would seek to make billions of pounds of welfare savings by making it harder to qualify for Personal Independence Payments, a …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

No wonder they wanted Musk's millions! Reform UK rakes in less cash from donations than the Communist Party as income plummets after election gains

Daily Mail

Reform UK pulled in less money from donations than the Communist Party of Britain in the last quarter of last year, raising questions about the strength of its support. Official figures show Nigel Farage's party banked £281,000 between October and December last year. It would also help explain why the party was keen to be linked with a £100million cash …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Billions in welfare cuts loom in UK

China Daily

By EARLE GALE in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2025-03-06 09:17 Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves ahead of a meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Canary Wharf, London, Britain Feb 20, 2025. United Kingdom residents could soon find it harder to access welfare money, after the nation's finance minister makes multi-billion-pound cuts to …

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UK’s international development minister quits after foreign aid cut

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1 month ago

UK’s international development minister quits after foreign aid cut

Associated Press

LONDON — The British Cabinet minister responsible for international development quit Friday in the wake of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision earlier this week to ramp up defense spending by slashing the foreign aid budget. In a letter to Starmer, which she posted on social media, Anneliese Dodds resigned as international development minister and minister for women, saying there were …

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1 month ago

Labour overtakes Reform after Starmer’s defence spending boost, latest poll reveals

The Independent

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1 month ago

Labour's promise to 'end asylum hotels' backfires as numbers rise by 8,500

Daily Mail

The number of asylum seekers living in hotels at the expense of taxpayers has risen by 8,500 under Labour. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘Despite promising to end hotel use for asylum seekers, the numbers have gone up again and they are costing Britons dear. Does the Labour Government really think that letting 96 per cent of illegal immigrants …

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1 month, 1 week ago

UK foreign aid: How much is spent and who receives it as Starmer slashes budget

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

What is Keir Starmer’s plan to increase UK defence spending and is it affordable?

The Independent

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1 month, 1 week ago

Another European right-winger flies high in polls, UK seat held by Labour for 103 years shows why

Firstpost

In what may disrupt generations of the political landscape in Wales, the far-right Reform UK of Nigel Farage is making inroads in the region as voters increasingly become miffed with the Labour Party that has held power in the area for a century After Italy, France, and Germany, the far-right is set to make major inroads in another European country: …

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1 month, 1 week ago

UK to hike defence spending and cut aid budget, Starmer says

Al Jazeera

British prime minister Keir Starmer’s announcement comes prior to his trip to the United States later this week. The United Kingdom will increase its annual defending spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said, signalling the UK’s efforts to boost Europe’s security. On the eve of his departure to meet US President Donald Trump …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Kemi Badenoch calls for end of BBC licence fee in first for a Tory leader

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cost of Brexit on UK’s tourism industry revealed – with the worst yet to come

The Independent

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Health Secretary Wes Streeting signals support for more private cash to fix the NHS

Daily Mail

Wes Streeting has signalled his support for more private investment to fix the NHS after admitting there was a 'hell of a lot more to do' in improving the service. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has indicated he is open to investment from the private sector to fix the NHS Mr Streeting said earlier the Government has 'hit the ground running …

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NHS boss claims Labour should consider private funding to fix crumbling hospitals - and admits much of £25bn cash injection at the Budget has been swallowed by staff pay rises

Daily Mail

Labour need to consider the use of private capital to fix crumbling hospitals, the boss of NHS England has said. The NHS England chief executive was challenged over the health budget rising from 26 per cent of all Whitehall spending in 1998-99, to 43 per cent in 2022-23. Amanda Pritchard, pictured with Health Secretary Wes Streeting last month, demanded a …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Labour ploughs £400m into migrant deportation flights drive as it seeks to fend off Farage’s Reform

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The UK’s ruling Labour government ‘paved the way for Reform to rise’

Al Jazeera

The populist, hard-right Reform UK party has topped a voting intention poll for the first time, sending shockwaves throughout the British political establishment. A February 3 YouGov poll found that if an election were to be called now in the United Kingdom, 25 percent would vote for Reform UK, 24 percent would vote for the current governing Labour Party, and …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

UK MPs' salary hike proposal slammed. How much do they earn annually?

Hindustan Times

The move to increase MPs' salaries in the United Kingdom has been criticised as a bitter pill to swallow by the TaxPayers' Alliance campaign, which opposed the move when the country is enduring a cost-of-living crisis, The Sun reported. Farmers drive their tractor in front of the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known by the name of the clock's bell "Big Ben", …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Nigel Farage is the biggest reason voters would not back Reform, new poll suggests

The Independent

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Does Labour think benefit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’?

The Independent

Liz Kendall, secretary of state for work and pensions, has said more about her plans for welfare reform. While stressing the vital support needed by those with disabilities and long-term illness trying to get jobs, Kendall remarked: “I have no doubt, as there always have been, there are people who shouldn’t be on those benefits who are taking the mickey, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

As Brexit’s impact deepens, Independent readers question the true cost of leaving the EU

The Independent

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Third of Tory voters switch to Reform as Farage’s party tops polls

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Third of Tory voters switch to Reform as Farage’s party tops polls

The Independent

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Jenrick refuses to rule out Tory pact with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

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Five million people could see their bins collected less frequently despite facing eyewatering council tax hikes, analysis reveals

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Five million people could see their bins collected less frequently from April despite facing punishing council tax hikes, analysis has found. The vast majority of local authorities across the UK slashing bin collections are simultaneously hiking council tax by 4.99 per cent, the maximum figure allowed without a local referendum or special government permission. Almost 500,000 living in Bristol - …

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Categorically untrue: Britain on reports of it paying more to seal Chagos deal

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A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to Mauritius under a renegotiated deal to retain a US-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Stephen Doughty, a Foreign Office Minister, told Parliament that reports in the British media that the cost of payments to retain the …

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Reform UK have topped a poll for the first time – but Nigel Farage shouldn’t celebrate just yet

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Reform UK have topped a poll for the first time – but Nigel Farage shouldn’t celebrate just yet

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Reform UK has, for the first time, topped an opinion poll – and beaten Labour in the process. Prompting some breathless, the latest Sky News/YouGov opinion poll indicates that Nigel Farage’s latest political vehicle is supported by one in four voters, just ahead of Labour and the Conservatives. Farage also claims Reform’s membership has overtaken that of the Conservatives – …

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Farage admits Britain needs better post-Brexit deal with EU in tetchy interview

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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK pips Labour in voters YouGov poll for first time

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Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform Party leads in UK poll for first time

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If a general election were held tomorrow, 25 percent of British voters would choose Reform, YouGov poll suggests. Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK Party is now the most popular political party in the United Kingdom, a new poll suggests, beating the Conservative Party and the governing Labour Party. The poll, published on Monday and conducted by YouGov for The Times …

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Reform UK to take more seats from Labour than Tories, poll shows

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Reform UK to take more seats from Labour than Tories, poll shows

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Labour could lose more MPs to Nigel Farage's Reform Party than the Conservatives will, mega-poll finds

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Labour could lose more MPs to Nigel Farage's Reform Party than the Conservatives will, mega-poll finds

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Labour could lose several more seats to Nigel Farage's Reform UK than the Conservatives, a new mega-poll has found. Labour could lose several more seats to Nigel Farage 's Reform UK than the Conservatives, a new pol finds. The research by Survation found Nigel Farage's party were backed by 24 per cent of voters, which was up four percentage points …

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