Adam Payne
Political Editor at PoliticsHome
Editor, @politicshome. Sometimes heard on our podcast The Rundown. Formerly Business Insider. Contact: [email protected] & DMs.
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politicshome.com | Tom Scotson |Adam Payne
3 min read To launch a new column on politicians making a meal of it, there was only one place to start. “Me and politics, I don’t have a clue,” says 27-year-old Jada Mehmet. She works in her mum’s café in New Covent Garden Flower Market in south west London, starting every morning at 4am. She wasn’t here on the morning that Ed Miliband dropped in for breakfast 11 years ago. But despite her claims to political ignorance, she knows about it.
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politicshome.com | Zoe Crowther |Tom Scotson |Adam Payne
3 min read A group of senior Conservative MPs has met with German sister parties to discuss how to recover from their 2024 general election defeat and take the fight to Reform UK. A delegation of shadow cabinet ministers, including Priti Patel, Andrew Bowie, Andrew Griffith and Alan Mak this month travelled to Europe to meet politicians from Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU).
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2 weeks ago |
politicshome.com | Adam Payne
4 min read The origins of Britain’s planning system are as deeply rooted in the legacy of the great post-war Labour government as the National Health Service and welfare state. The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act facilitated Labour’s historic council housebuilding programme and rebalanced power between wealthy landowners and workers. This policy embodies Labour values.
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politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Adam Payne
2 min read Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned that Britain is in a "changing and completely new world" after Donald Trump's tariffs on countries including the UK sparked global economic panic. Speaking in the West Midlands on Monday, Starmer said the country was now "an era where old assumptions which we've long taken for granted simply don't apply any longer".
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politicshome.com | Adam Payne
4 min read The rejection of a megafarm in my constituency is a watershed moment. We want growth, but industrial farming is not the answer. Yesterday, in what could be a watershed moment in the British farming industry in this country, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council’s planning committee voted against the planning application for the proposed megafarm in my constituency. The ‘megafarm’ in South West Norfolk had planned to house 14,000 pigs and 870,000 hens.
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💥 New And Old Labour MPs Clash Over Rule Changes One of the PLP rule changes causing controversy is the removal of annual elections for Labour's parliamentary committee reps – who are all 2024 intake MPs Some long-standing colleagues aren't happy: https://t.co/UyRWzqbNSq
