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“No 10 operatives have told Wes Streeting’s team that a leadership campaign should not be triggered until after the Manchester race because the party’s HQ would not be able to print leaflets with Andy Burnham’s face on it as part of their a…”
“"She likes power," presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said of Jill in February 2024”
“We saw this in last year’s spring statement: small bond-yield movements suddenly created the need to cut disability payments.”
“30,000 jihadis traversed Turkish soil, establishing the so-called jihadi highway”
“the number of party members in the capital has jumped from 8,000 to 40,000 in a year.”
“When I entered Congress in 2001, support for Israel was broad and bipartisan.”
“A poll by Convergent Opinion which landed in the final weekend of campaigning placed the Greens on 5 per cent”
“...and her association with the January 2025 60 Minutes Gaza segment that Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) called "a disgraceful hit job against Israel"—may have caused internal friction at CBS News...”
“He sees the mayoralty of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) as “27 Gorton and Dentons””
“Last July, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Albanese "spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism and open contempt for the United States, Israel and the West."”
“an increase of an additional 248 councillors across the 32 boroughs”
“appeared before the House Oversight Committee this week”
“the number of party members in the capital has jumped from 8,000 to 40,000 in a year”
“Gates reportedly testified Wednesday that he had no knowledge of Epstein's crimes.”
“placed the Greens on 5 per cent, about the same as Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain”
“Gates has said he met Epstein in 2011”
“The Greens won 17 seats, becoming the second largest party”
“a column in February entitled, 'What Trafficked Girls Think of Jeffrey Epstein and His Pals.'”
“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”
“Hoffman apologized for the relationship in 2019, saying he cut off contact with Epstein in 2015.”
“The Greater Manchester combined authority is made up of 10 councils”
“emails released by the Department of Justice earlier this year show Hoffman and Epstein met for dinner, spoke by phone, and had Skype appointments through at least 2018”
“the 27 constituencies which cover Greater Manchester”
“Summers communicated frequently with Epstein for years, including until the day before Epstein's arrest in July 2019.”
“In an interview with the Today programme on 6 May”
“The donations to Kristof went for naught after he was disqualified from the Oregon ballot in February 2022.”
“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 Oregon Supreme Court ruled that Kristof, who had a summer home in Oregon and registered to vote there in 2020, did not meet the state's three-year residency requirement.”
“placed the Greens on 5 per cent, about the same as Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain.”
“killed himself in jail in 2019 after his arrest on charges that he trafficked underage girls.”
“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.”
“Bill Gates, a prominent donor to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's failed campaign for Oregon governor, faced congressional questioning this week over his longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Polling at just 19 per cent does not smack of a certified Green Party victory.”
“Polling at just 19 per cent does not smack of a certified Green Party victory”
“We inherited a mess, but the nation is fed up with us pointing the finger”
“Tories’ 1 per cent support in the Makerfield by-election”
“Fresh from his landslide 2024 election victory”
“Victorian Labor Party in Australia won three elections in a row”
“The 2029 general election will be as definitional for the country as 1979.”
“When the Labour Party was founded over 120 years ago, it grew from the friendly societies, self-help groups and trade unions of a newly industrialised Britain.”
“I first learnt the power of communities when I led Lambeth Council in the late 2000s.”
“On 16 June 2016, the member for Batley and Spen was shot in the head and chest with a modified rifle and stabbed 15 times while on her way to a constituency surgery days before the EU referendum.”
“Twitter, now X, launched almost exactly ten years before Jo Cox was murdered.”
“end 40 years of neoliberalism”
“neoliberalism is only responsible for half of the problems faced by the UK economy”
“Mont Pelerin Society in 1947”
“Atlas Network, created much later, in 1981”
“nearly 500 think tanks”
“Through a well-planned industrial and trade strategy over the last 15 years, China has cornered the market...”
“GMB is the largest union in parliament, with more than 1,500 active members.”
“An analysis of the parliamentary staffing registers between October 2024 and May 2026 supports this picture, finding that MPs’ offices lose staff at roughly double the national average: around 35 per cent annualised, against a national rat…”
“Even after removing the 20 worst-performing MPs, the remainder still average 29 per cent”
“An analysis of job adverts posted on parliamentary recruitment site w4mp between October 2024 and May 2026 found that, of 650 MPs, 547 advertised at least one role during the period.”
“A third of those adverts were for caseworkers”
“You work longer, but that doesn’t get you a pay rise,” said one person who spent six years in parliamentary offices.”
“Her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – more commonly referred to as the assisted dying bill – had just fallen. It had been talked out in the House of Lords, where peers had tabled more than 1,200 amendments.”
“In 2015, when Burnham was last in the Commons, he abstained when assisted dying legislation came before MPs.”
“Speaking to BBC Manchester in November 2024, however, he said he had changed his mind – sort of. “”, he said, explaining that a family experience in the intervening years had shifted his view. But then came the caveat. A major one at that.…”
“Lauren Edwards, the MP for Rochester and Strood, has said she will reintroduce the legislation on Wednesday (17 June).”
“Edwards’ bill will be unchanged from Leadbeater’s, which cleared the Commons in June 2025.”
“Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, said in March that he was “disturbed about the filibustering” that took place in the Lords and how “undemocratic” it looked.”
“(According to the Independent, legalising assisted dying came bottom of a list of Edwards’ constituents’ priorities that they would want their MP to focus on if they had the opportunity to make a law change over the next year.)”
“Haigh has told one of her Sheffield constituents that she “would not support attempts” to invoke the Parliament Acts to force through the bill, the Guardian reported.”
“America’s 250th anniversary party has now become disfigured into Trump’s 80th birthday party.”
“on Thursday 11 June, he reversed his declared intention to attack Iran”
“The country found itself in a roughly similar place in 1974”
“Manchester City Council’s 2012 Local Plan lowered the target for affordable housing from 30 per cent to 20 per cent for all new developments”
“He pledged to end street homelessness by 2020”
“In 2021, shortly after his second election as mayor, there was a grassroots push from over 60 civil society organisations calling on Burnham to implement a Land Commission”
“In January Burnham described it as a “modern and functional response to the high inequality, low-growth trap that came from the 1980s drive to privatise economic power and overcentralise political power in the Treasury””
“The most advanced practical demonstration of this approach in Britain today,” Lawrence claims, “is Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester programme.”
“In 1984 Manchester City Council was taken by the left, one of a wave of councils of the time that took a similar turn.”
“The first three years of Graham Stringer’s leadership of the council (Stringer is now a Manchester MP) were spent in opposition to central government...”
“...participation in the so-called “rate capping rebellion” of 1985...”
“...and then, two years later, the third Thatcher election victory...”
“Out of this 1990s milieu were built the careers of two men who would have a critical role in shaping the trajectory of the city – Richard Leese and Howard Bernstein. Their joint leadership, as council leader and chief executive respectivel…”
“This was accelerated in the aftermath of the 1996 IRA bom”
“Now, setting the pace on the right is Rupert Lowe. The leader of the far right Restore Britain, a strange patrician figure as much redolent of parts of the old Tory right as of the very online new right, has in recent months opened a dange…”
“He has also complained of Restore’s backer Elon Musk who, he said, “has decided he will try to split the right of British politics as best he can”.”
“As the Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed, the Node Project was paid by Advance UK – Ben Habib’s party, pitched ever so slightly to the right of Reform – to produce a video for the Gorton and Denton by-election.”
“A montage of Anglo-Saxon warriors, Second World War nostalgia-bait, combined with the Beatles on the Abbey Road crossing under the slogan “a culture worth defending”, the video was watched around a quarter of a million times.”
“This week, Bones is campaigning in Makerfield. On this occasion, he’s come out for Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, posting videos that set a Champagne-swigging, elite sell-out Nigel Farage against a stern, no-nonsense Lowe – and, pleasingly…”
“leaving at least 27 people homeless.”
“net migration in the state between 2001 and 2023 amounted to around 62,000 people”
“including less than 2,400 refugees in secure accommodation”
“has seen fewer than 5,000 international migrants settle there this century”
“Only 3 per cent of Northern Ireland’s population belong to any ethnic minority at all”
“Thursday’s pledge to crack down on illegal immigration into Northern Ireland.”
“Even a 3 per cent target by 2029-30, alongside rising health spending, would mean deep cuts to unprotected departments.”
“Finance Minister François‑Philippe Champagne’s post‑budget media tour leaned hard on the argument that “monetary and fiscal policy are rowing together for the first time in a decade.””
“Far-right activists such as Tommy Robinson were quick to leverage the attack to further their anti-migrant agendas. He urged supporters to protest in the streets against this “invader attack”, providing a list of locations across the UK wh…”
“Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe went as far as pledging that his party would support mass deportations and reintroduction of the death penalty to prevent further atrocities committed by “barbarians”.”
“In the week when Nigel Farage claimed that Reform UK was now 'the party of the workers', the TUC has asked the Labour government to adopt its radical programme”
“He has invited the 48 unions affiliated with the TUC to attend his party conference in September.”
“in his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech.”
“The dispute began in 1967 when Tarsem Singh Sandhu, a Wolverhampton bus driver, was dismissed for refusing to remove his turban.”
“This article appears in the 10 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman, How Britain lost control”
“His most animated answer during the 45-minute session.”
“Gavin Robinson, the leader of the DUP whose East Belfast constituency was flooded with violence last night, called on the Prime Minister...”
“between 1966 and 1976”
