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“I have not heard that at all. But we understand that it’s being investigated and we’ll allow the investigation to go through. That’s all I’m going to say about that.”
“save over £50billion a year”
“Around 10 million working-age people (24%) report living with a disability, compared with under 17% in 2013/14.”
“Government analysis estimates the ban could save fans around £112 million annually, with 900,000 more tickets bought directly from primary sellers each year.”
“This article appears in the 25 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman”
“I don’t like the fact that they took a shot yesterday, actually four of them.”
“Brand Finance says the US is its top-ranked Soft Power nation and ranks third globally for influence in sport, thanks in part to its hosting of the majority of games at this World Cup.”
“estimated 2.89 million Britons have their welfare claims modified or withdrawn”
“As of April, there were about four million claimants entitled to Pip in England and Wales.”
“expected to last at least a year, probably longer.”
“Under the interim deal, the two sides have 60 days to work out the details.”
“for 25 years.”
“"more than double" the Coalition's welfare savings - worth £20.5billion - and the recent Tory proposed cuts totalling £23billion”
“The review's final recommendations are due this autumn and 'will lay the foundation for deep, sustainable reform'.”
“In November 1991, the Americans and the British jointly announced that they were indicting the two Libyans.”
“now in its fifth year”
“take effect in the next transfer window, January 2027”
“Some £22billion of the savings would be made in changes to the disability programme alone”
“The Centre for Social Justice, a centre‑right think tank founded by Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith, has called for mental‑health benefits to be tightened to more severe cases to save an estimated £7.4bn.”
“On 5 April last year, Gaddafi’s men were handed over to the warders from Glasgow’s Barlinnie jail awaiting them at Camp Zeist.”
“The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on the first day of his second term, is part of his administration’s broad immigration crackdown.”
“decision by the European Court of Justice in 2024”
“The welfare budget is set to rise to £333billion this year”
“Dozens of Labour MPs expressed concerns about plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits payments to save £5bn a year by 2030.”
“by December, Britain had restored full diplomatic relations with Tripoli.”
“raising the maximum length from three to five years”
“investing £3.5 billion in employment support”
“Earlier this month, US diplomats visited Libya for the first time in nearly 20 years.”
“around 100,000 players”
“In her letter, Kemi Badenoch stated her party is 'happy to work with you and other parties' on the matter, provided that any proposed solution is 'fair to those who have made provisions and saved up over the course of their lives'. She als…”
“The Foreign Secretary who, at a meeting in London with Madeleine Albright in December 1997, persuaded her to accept the idea of a third country trial...”
“Andrew Goodacre, chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA), said that Labour’s timeline for action “is simply too long and we need to follow the Euro example by introducing an interim measure”.”
“Last summer, more than 130 MPs, including 120 Labour MPs, signed an amendment to reject plans to cut disability and sickness-related benefits payments, hoped to save £5billion a year by 2030.”
“The idea of a British court of law convening in a third and independent country is quite unprecedented and was originally mooted in 1994 by Robert Black, a professor of law in Edinburgh.”
“Last week, housing experts told City PM that Labour party infighting, not the Iran war, is the main factor dictating whether London’s prime property market will be able to emerge from its longstanding malaise.”
“state of emergency declared in Crimea”
“approval rating at 79 per cent in May, down from 87 per cent last September”
“There’s going to be a lot of shocked people on 7 November, starting with my opponent and all the pundits who don’t understand what is happening in California, he roared to cheering supporters.”
“Dubbya would certainly like California’s 54 electoral votes, but they are not as vital to him as others.”
“the Bushies have set up no fewer than 250 field offices in California alone; in one single week, Bush has spent $1.8m in television advertising there.”
“his team has broadcast no fewer than 4,762 campaign ads in Philadelphia (the biggest city in Pennsylvania) against Bush’s 2,898.”
“Nader is taking 19 per cent of the hard‑left vote from Gore, 11 per cent of independents, and 19 per cent of under‑25s: “5 per cent [for Nader] is massive in a 1‑ or 2‑point race,” says Zogby.”
“in January 1998 to Robert Mugabe’s Harare.”
“the 78-year-old farmer”
“prime minister until 1902”
“return five months later”
“As early as the 1960s, TV and tabloids”
“the past 20 years”
“in 1900”
“13-hour working day”
“every month”
“in 2100”
“There were victories in key targets such as the mayoralties of Hackney and Lewisham and an increase of an additional 248 councillors across the 32 boroughs.”
“the number of party members in the capital has jumped from 8,000 to 40,000 in a year.”
“placed the Greens on 5 per cent, about the same as Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain.”
“The Greens won 17 seats, becoming the second largest party”
“The Greater Manchester combined authority is made up of 10 councils”
“Reform came in first across the Greater Manchester area with 31 per cent of the vote. The Greens fell into third with 19 per cent.”
“Polling at just 19 per cent does not smack of a certified Green Party victory.”
“Nominations from 20 per cent of Labour MPs – 81 in this case – are required to trigger a leadership race under Labour Party rules. Burnham has crossed the threshold following a secretive ring-round operation in recent weeks...”
“Burnham has no plans to trigger a contest on Friday or over the weekend, but is ready with a list of supporters he can show to Starmer.”
“Some are “80 per cent there” and are likely to be added to the spreadsheet of Burnham backers after the Makerfield result, one insider said.”
“he emerged from a meeting of his party executive to announce to the massed ranks of journalists and cameras that he was giving up the chairmanship of his Freedom Party. For the time being, he would content himself with the governorship of …”
“But instead of Grasser, Haider has appointed as his successor the coalition government’s vice-chancellor, Susanne Riess-Passer. The 39-year old Riess-Passer has always been Haider’s loyal spokeswoman and unconditional supporter”
“The huge, rain-sodden rally on Vienna’s Heldenplatz on 19 February has been followed with demonstrations every Thursday outside the Chancellery”
“Eva Nowotny, Austria’s former ambassador in London and now the senior diplomat in charge of Austria’s relations with the EU, warned of " the greatest crisis the country has experienced since 1945".”
“A million more people in work”
“total claimant unemployment set to fall below a million for the first time since the mid-1970s”
“working families tax credit has made it fruitful for parents to take on part-time work, providing they do at least 16 hours a week”
“one in three men aged between 50 and 65 is not working, compared to one in six in 1980”
“During the 1990s, a man in this age bracket became 20 per cent more likely to be out of the labour force, while a woman aged 25-34 became 20 per cent less likely”
“by 2020, there will be two million fewer people in the 16-50 age group and two million more who are over 50 but below state pension age”
“Crest’s research finds that only one in ten voters in last year’s devolution elections found the ballot papers hard to fill in.”
“In Scotland, a two-to-one majority thinks that PR should continue to be used to elect the parliament”
“In Cambridge, votes for county councillors divided almost evenly between Labour (21,000) and Liberal Democrats (18,000).”
“But the very same voters overwhelmingly backed Labour (by 27,000 to fewer than 9,000) when choosing their MP.”
“In Pendle, three times as many people voted Lib Dem for the county council as for parliament.”
“on average, according to Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of Plymouth University, Labour parliamentary candidates performed four points better, Tories two points better and Lib Dems seven points worse than their council counterparts.”
“The last time that a general election and local elections were held on the same day was in 1979.”
“Rallings and Thrasher conclude: “Many more electors cast votes for different parties at the 1997 general and local elections than had done so at the comparable contests in 1979.””
“At the end of March 1982, the Tories looked as if they were heading for terrible results in the local elections five weeks later.”
“This started to change in the 1990s – remember the way Wandsworth and Westminster resisted the anti-Tory tide in 1990 and 1994 by promising to keep local taxes down.”
“On the night of 4 May, first-choice votes will be counted. If no candidate wins an outright majority, then the top two candidates survive into a second count.”
“this was a measure born of the struggle between high-Thatcherism and ultra-leftism – pushed through to guard schoolchildren against what was widely perceived as a radical cultural agenda, endorsed by some teachers. [...] the government’s s…”
“they have the backing of Brian Souter, the founder and chairman of the successful bus company Stagecoach, who has pledged his very large private fortune to fight for the family”
“On 20 March, the Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee met in the main debating chamber of the parliament.”
“It was composed wholly of Labour and Liberal MSPs (who form the ruling coalition) with some opposition Scottish Nationalists. The only Tory on the committee was absent.”
“'Keep the Clause' has as its most powerful advocates Brian Souter and Cardinal Thomas Winning, the head of the Scottish Roman Catholic Church”
“Tom Cassidy of the PR company Media House, which organises the 'Keep the Clause' movement for Souter”
“earlier this week, they had the backing of almost all the faiths in Scotland for a letter which pleaded with Donald Dewar, the First Minister, for a written commitment to family-centred teaching.”
“The committee had slightly more women on it than men and was under the chairmanship of Kate MacLean, a Labour MSP from Dundee”
“Tommy Sheridan, who is the only representative of a socialist party (the Scottish Socialist Party) in a British legislature.”
“Judith Mackinlay was that bogey of anti-political correctness conservatives, a lesbian single parent. She was also a primary-school teacher.”
“nominations for Labour leadership candidates do not close until 9 July”
“The SCG has around 30 members”
“81 MP nominations are needed to get on the ballot”
“in which the group’s candidate Bell Ribeiro-Addy failed to breach the threshold”
“in the last Labour leadership election in 2020”
“This caucus of left-wing MPs was founded in 1982”
“Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election, comfortably and decisively.”
