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OPINION - Rishi Sunak doubles down on small boats — but is anyone listening?

The 2001 general election was a disaster for the Conservatives. After four years in opposition, a young new leader and the twin crises of fuel protests and foot and mouth disease, the party achieved a swing of just 1 per cent and a net gain of a single seat, taking…

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OPINION - Keir Starmer brands Diane Abbott’s comments “antisemitic”

The thing to understand is they really mean it. Of course, politicians often dodge and dissemble, but they also hold beliefs that they hope to enact when in power.

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OPINION - Humza Yousaf wins SNP leadership election

Succession is the final act of leadership. For as long as power has been concentrated in the hands of mortals, men and women have sought to ensure they are followed by their chosen heir – perhaps an oldest child or political protégé. But if you want to make god laugh,…

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Rishi Sunak’s poll ratings dive as sleaze storm rages on

Lord Ashcroft thinks about polling the same way I feel about my emotions: they are a snapshot, not a prediction. Even when 100 per cent accurate – which no survey professes to be – they still do not necessarily tell you what will happen in the future.

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England 6-2 Iran, FIFA wins again

If Filippo Inzaghi was born offside and Patrick Vieira perennially one yellow card away from suspension, what of Harry Kane?

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We’re on the ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns world leaders

It’s Monday, the trains are stuffed and your feet are wet, so let’s start with some good news: the worst-case scenario has been averted. It was not so long ago climate scientists were warning that Earth – the only known place in the visible universe you can live/watch Matt Hancock…

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Our next prime minister: Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has been elected unopposed as leader of the Conservative Party and will be the UK’s next prime minister. Aged 42, he will also be the youngest to assume the office since the 2nd Earl of Liverpool in 1812. and the first from an ethnic minority since Benjamin Disraeli…

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Putin strikes Kyiv in ‘revenge’ for bridge attack

Kyiv and cities throughout Ukraine fell under renewed Russian aerial bombardment today, with the death toll reaching 11 people and dozens more injured. Targets from Moscow’s so-called ‘high-precision’ weaponry aimed at apparently ‘critical military infrastructure’ included children’s playgrounds, pedestrian bridges and parks.

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King Charles III leads procession behind the Queen’s coffin

If there is one building that exemplifies the great sweep of English (later British) history and the pitch battles – sometimes literally – that marked the development of constitutional monarchy in this country, it is Westminster Hall.

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Tory leadership debate cancelled while London burns

There was something deeply weird about last night’s ITV leadership debate. Not the moment Rishi Sunak asked Liz Truss what presumably his team thought would be a zinger:

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What a winker! The best reactions to that Dominic Raab wink

“I feel soiled”

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Citymapper status update: don’t bother

Now is not the time for drop intros – we can leave those at home – but if you read only one piece on the rail and Tube strikes, make it this one by transport journalist Christian Wolmar.

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Boris Johnson makes 11th hour plea to MPs ahead of no-confidence vote

In professional sport, victory is everything. But for connoisseurs, there is a particular pleasure to be found in a scrappy, ill-begotten, near miscarriage of justice 1-0 wins that no 5-0 drubbing can match.

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