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Alba at risk of being locked out of Holyrood election amid legal battle

ALBA face the risk of being legally unable to stand candidates at next year’s Holyrood election because of a bitter dispute with a former senior…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 5, 2025

Kemi Badenoch sets out Tory plans to deport 150,000 migrants a year with Trump-style immigration crackdown

A Removals Force modelled on the ICE agency would be given £1.6 billion and ‘sweeping new powers’ including facial recognition without warning to spot illegal immigrants

Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2025

‘Moment of unity’: SNP and Believe in Scotland sign independence campaign deal

THE SNP have signed a deal with campaign organisation Believe in Scotland, marking a significant milestone in establishing a formal partnership to…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 4, 2025

Senior Liberal backs rogue MP's immigration stance

Despite the coalition shedding frontbenchers, a senior MP has backed her party leader as the Liberals recover from their "dismal state".

AAP · Oct 4, 2025

Next Tory leader? Rise of Katie Lam reflects rightward shift on migration

Shadow Home Office minister who tweets in language of hard-right populism is talked of as future of conservatism

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025

Top London Tory defects to Reform and 'charismatic' Nigel Farage in blow to Kemi Badenoch on eve of party conference

London Assembly member Keith Prince says Reform ‘has a vision’ - while the Conservative party ‘is not the party I joined 49 years ago’

Evening Standard · Oct 4, 2025

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski

Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025

Why does Reform seem unassailable? Because this is party conference season, when politicos always lose the plot

They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about Starmer, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025

‘Trump’s decomposing ear of corn’: what does ‘hair certainty’ tell us about our leaders?

From Starmer’s stiff quiff to the Maga movement’s glossy TV locks, how performative a politician’s hair appears can tell us much about the prevailing political winds

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025

Rachel Reeves urged to break manifesto pledges to avoid ‘pasty tax’ budget

Labour colleagues advise chancellor against string of small money-raising measures, as OBR presents forecast

The Guardian - UK · Oct 4, 2025