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Ali Fortescue

Correspondent at Sky News

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  • The choice facing Labour in face of real Reform UK threat - and it could define Starmer's government

    1 week ago | islandfm.com | Ali Fortescue

    Sarah Pochin, Reform UK's first female MP, was grinning from ear to ear when she appeared for a photocall outside parliament, flanked by Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson, just before being sworn in. Politics latest: Indian workers exempt from UK's 'jobs tax'The six votes that took her over the line at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election was the omen of things to come on Friday morning. It's no exaggeration to say British politics may never be the same again.

  • The choice facing Labour in face of real Reform UK threat - and it could define Starmer's government

    1 week ago | news.sky.com | Ali Fortescue

    Reform UK's victory lap came to Westminster on Tuesday. Sarah Pochin, Reform UK's first female MP, was grinning from ear to ear when she appeared for a photocall outside parliament, flanked by Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson, just before being sworn in. Image: Sarah Pochin joins Reform UK's parliamentary party. Pic: PA The six votes that took her over the line at the Runcorn and Helsby by-election was the omen of things to come on Friday morning.

  • Feminists 'feel braver about speaking out' after gender ruling - but critics say it 'stokes culture war'

    4 weeks ago | news.sky.com | Ali Fortescue

    A former Labour MP who quit the party over Sir Keir Starmer's leadership has welcomed the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman as a "victory for feminists". Rosie Duffield, now the independent MP for Canterbury, said the judgment helped resolve the "lack of clarity" that has existed in the politics around the issue "for years".

  • Welsh government can't guarantee lives won't be lost in another coal tip disaster

    1 month ago | news.sky.com | Ali Fortescue |Hannah Woodward

    It is "difficult" to give a "cast iron guarantee" that lives won't be lost because of a coal tip disaster, the deputy first minister of Wales has told Sky News.  Nearly 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people when coal waste slid down the side of a mountain into a school, £130m has been invested in securing waste left behind by coal mining operations. Earlier this year, the Welsh government said up to £600m could be needed to secure coal tips across the nation.

  • Trump's tariffs will have an impact before too long – but how will the UK respond?

    1 month ago | msn.com | Ali Fortescue

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