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“Peters called the proposed rule 'unacceptable.'”
“where attendees were encouraged to contribute as much as $13,500 to attend.”
“Starmer’s decision to quit had the backing of 62 per cent of voters”
“We are satisfied that the mayor has met his legal obligations to register disclosable pecuniary interests, a GCMA spokesperson said.”
“Please push back on being a pawn in this authoritarian playbook,” Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan told Steiner on Wednesday. “The Postal Service is one of the most important institutions in our country. Don’t taint it with the o…”
“while "hosts" contributed $5,000 and "champions" contributed $13,500.”
“47 per cent of people voting Labour wanted Starmer to stay on and fight a leadership election, compared to only 35 per cent that did not.”
“All the state gives us is a list of here are the voters that are supposed to get ballots and here are the ballots. We then compare the two, make sure the ballots that are supposed to get sent, get sent,” Steiner said.”
“Contributions above the federal limit to an individual candidate of $3,500 went to the Texas Democratic Party and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to the invitation.”
“52 per cent of Conservative voters thought Theresa May was right to resign”
“In line with that order, the Postal Service’s proposed rule said that agency employees would verify the eligibility of mail-in ballots by checking them against lists of voters that states would share with the federal government.”
“And while the Pritzker administration has passed more than 50 tax hikes”
“43 per cent thought the same for Boris Johnson’s decision”
“The proposal, though, said that Postal Service staffers “would not verify whether individuals should or should not be included on a State’s Mail-In and Absentee Participation List,” adding that “states will retain full control over the con…”
“In a February interview with the New Yorker, for example, Talarico swore off super PACs”
“70 per cent Conservative support, Liz Truss’s resignation enjoyed a resounding endorsement her party”
““Under our proposed regulation, no,” Steiner replied. “We would tell the state that we need the manifest.””
“A super PAC run by Talarico's former chief of staff, Lone Star Rising, began running ads aligned with the page's instructions shortly after Talarico's campaign updated it.”
“49 per cent in the North backed the PM’s decision, compared to 30 per cent of voters in London”
“for 80 years it held.”
“And while the Pritzker administration has passed more than 50 tax hikes, Pritzker himself is more frugal with his money...”
“racist and religiously motivated violence on public transport has risen 67 per cent in three years”
“At 250, this is just who America is now.”
“In a February interview with the New Yorker, for example, Talarico swore off super PACs...”
“one in six Britons now hold hostile views towards them”
“All three candidates won their Democratic primaries on Tuesday.”
“But Talarico's website includes a buried section that tacitly coordinates with super PACs by laying out instructions about what media markets to run ads in and what messages to include in them, the Washington Free Beacon reported. A super …”
“nearly 7 per cent of the vote in the recent Makerfield by-election”
“America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!”
“Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, for example, has paid more than $36,000 to a firm that specializes in "creator-led campaigns" and has a "network of powerful online messengers" on its payroll, the Free Beacon reported.”
“This year marks 15 years since the then Tory party co-chair Sayeeda Warsi rattled the establishment by claiming bigotry against Muslims had “passed the dinner-table test””
“Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States. The votes seem to have them doing quite well against each other. The bad news is that history has conclusively shown that the downtrodden States that they will soon be running will ONLY…”
“Last year, the New York Times reported that billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer, who was running for governor of California, paid $100,000 to TikTok star Carlos Eduardo Espina, who endorsed Steyer in a video post.”
“the first of three racially motivated assaults of Sikh women within a few weeks of each other in nearby West Midlands neighbourhoods last autumn”
“Mayor Mamdani pulled through 3 solid Communists, and has received loud and universal applause from the Fake News Media”
“Harris's campaign paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to production companies and managers of celebrities who joined her on the campaign trail, from Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen to rappers Fat Joe and 2 Chainz.”
“On 23 April, during an event that was nominally about the cost of healthcare, the US president announced his plans to transform the century-old reflecting pool in the heart of the capital into a “beautiful, beautiful” spectacle, just in ti…”
“It was the night the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party. Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots.”
“Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, for example, has paid more than $36,000 to a firm that specializes in 'creator-led campaigns' and has a 'network of powerful online messengers' on its payroll, the Free Beacon reported.”
“Built in 1922, the 2,030ft-long pool was designed to serve as a link between the monuments to two of the country’s greatest presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.”
“The agreement signed last week secured an extended 60-day cease-fire that allows time for further negotiations to take place.”
“Propper, whose celebrity clients include John Legend and Kerry Washington, was 'tapped by the Harris campaign to manage Hollywood support' in 2024.”
“The Obama administration spent more than $34m on a project to renovate the pool that largely failed.”
“the measure passed in a 358-32 vote.”
“Goldman himself was defeated by a giant margin by former city comptroller Brad Lander in a primary campaign dominated by the Israel issue.”
“As a property developer, he estimated he had “probably built more than 100 swimming pools””
“The Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act a day earlier, with just five Republican Senators voting nay.”
“New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, a fierce opponent of Israel whose support for Lander was likely instrumental in Goldman’s ouster, on Tuesday demurred when asked to condemn Poetica Coffee’s actions.”
“Trump’s guy thought they could get the job done in weeks, for around $1.5m.”
“The House delegations from Florida and Texas had the most members opposing the bill––the former with six and the latter five.”
“In a sermon on Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis”
“the cost had soared to $14.7m, with a no-bid contract awarded to a single firm”
“The housing bill includes more than 50 provisions aimed at increasing the U.S. housing supply, reducing costs for homebuyers and renters, and restricting the role of large, institutional investors in the single-family housing market, among…”
“Another $1.7m contract was awarded to an Ohio-based firm, reportedly linked to a Trump donor, for a water purification system designed to vanquish the algae.”
“Of the 32 House members who voted against the housing bill on Tuesday, 21 of them signed a March letter to congressional leaders”
“This article appears in the 25 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman”
“which would sunset at the end of 2030.”
“In May 1975, the New Statesman invited leading writers and thinkers to give their views on the upcoming referendum on the Common Market.”
“he’s submitted an amendment to Congress to block the federal government from issuing a CBDC 38 times in the current Congress”
“The vote, held on 5 June, would deliver a definitive yes to the UK remaining in the European Communities (EC), with 67 per cent in favour.”
“Last night, I joined 31 of my colleagues to STAND FIRM with President Trump in refusing to pass ANY SENATE BILLS until the SAVE America Act is passed”
“Eleven! That gave me only half an hour.”
“in a 358-32 vote”
“On that demo about five miserable anti‑immigrant matchers turned up”
“The Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act a day earlier, with just five Republican Senators voting nay”
“I went to my first anti‑fascist/racist/etc demo 48 years ago”
“The House delegations from Florida and Texas had the most members opposing the bill––the former with six and the latter five”
“opening her six questions”
“The housing bill includes more than 50 provisions aimed at increasing the U.S. housing supply, reducing costs for homebuyers and renters, and restricting the role of large, institutional investors in the single-family housing market, among…”
“If Burnham is able to run uncontested, then he only has three sessions of PMQs left.”
“is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT”
“It’s a shame it took him two years and one resignation statement in order to do so.”
“Of the 32 House members who voted against the housing bill on Tuesday, 21 of them signed a March letter to congressional leaders that expressed a “dire need to prohibit a Central Bank Digital Currency from ever happening in the United Stat…”
“Miliband famously ran against, and beat, his older brother David to the Labour leadership in 2010.”
“The letter, addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, was written in response to a previous version of the housing bill”
“the temporary CBDC prohibition ... would sunset at the end of 2030”
“I joined 31 of my colleagues to STAND FIRM with President Trump”
“In the House, meanwhile, the measure passed in a 358-32 vote. All the lawmakers who voted against it were Republicans.”
“The House delegations from Florida and Texas had the most members opposing the bill──the former with six and the latter five.”
“Cloud was also one of the House members who voiced support for Trump’s message pushing Congress to first and foremost pass the SAVE Act on Wednesday after voting against the housing bill the previous day. Reps. Roy, Perry, Self, Clyde, Mil…”
““Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,””
“Known as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the package passed both chambers of Congress this week with overwhelming support from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.”
““This bipartisan bill includes policies long championed by the President. It cuts unnecessary red tape, helps increase housing supply, and limits the ability of large institutional investors to purchase single-family homes,””
“Trump hasn’t indicated that he would go so far as to veto the bill, but if he did take that step, Congress could also have the two-thirds supermajority needed to override his objection: the housing bill passed by well over that margin in b…”
“The House passed the legislation in February, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said that Republicans don’t have the votes needed to push the bill through the upper chamber.”
“In Manchester, Burnham laid out a target for the northern city to become carbon neutral by 2038, taking measures such as investing in electric buses to keep the city on track with its goal.”
“Trump threatened to impose a “big tariff” on Britain if it refused to scrap its digital services tax on U.S. tech companies in April.”
“Burnham argued last year that Trump’s return to office had shaken global politics.”
“In a 2016 interview after Trump won his first presidential election, Burnham said he found Trump’s rhetoric troubling, but he suggested politicians should shoulder the blame for Trump’s success rather than the voting public.”
“In 2017, Burnham rejected the idea of potentially meeting Trump during a U.K. visit, describing the decision as “a matter of principle” after the President reposted videos shared by far-right figures in Britain.”
“"Politics is getting more polarized. And the path we're on, if we are not careful, is a path towards the politics of the United States of America," he warned on June 13.”
“Starmer’s Labour government came into power aiming to phase out fossil fuels from the U.K.’s electricity generation by 2030.”
“Last year, it announced its intent to ban new North Sea oil and gas licenses.”
““I’ve got something of an open mind, you know. I don’t have a sort of fixed position,” he said in early June.”
“Andy Burnham after being sworn in as a Member of Parliament in Westminster, London, on June 22, 2026.”
“If Andy Burnham’s planned leadership bid remains unchallenged, the newly sworn-in Member of Parliament for Makerfield could be the U.K.’s new Prime Minister in a matter of weeks.”
“Reform ultimately lost to Burnham in Makerfield, where he secured 55% of the vote.”
“Burnham said 'We have to look closer to home, and say, well, how about the parties that have represented the areas that are feeling this? Are we doing enough in representing them, and what are we doing to respond to their concerns?'”
“"Politics is getting more polarized. And the path we're on, if we are not careful, is a path towards the politics of the United States of America," he warned on June 13. "A polarized, poisonous politics where people in communities don't wo…”
““There was a risk that we would carry on seeing Britain and the politics of our country go down a path towards greater darkness and division and ending up somewhere like the United States of America, where people don't talk to each other i…”
