Beth Rigby
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6 days ago |
news.sky.com | Beth Rigby
VE Day with a packed diary was perhaps not the moment the prime minister would have chosen to announce he'd sealed a trade deal with Donald Trump. Welcome to working with Trump's White House. "Dealing with the Americans is always hectic," observed one Whitehall official wryly. That the Trump call to seal the deal came right in the middle of Keir Starmer's beloved Arsenal playing PSG in the Champions League semi-final on Wednesday night is all the proof you need to know it was unplanned.
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6 days ago |
fosse107.co.uk | Beth Rigby
From the Trump news bomb dropped in the middle of the night about a deal being announced "with a big and highly respected country", to the hastily convened Oval Office-Jaguar Land Rover conference call, it was a substantial moment - months in the making - that had the feel of being announced on the hop. Politics live: 007 has 'nothing to worry about', says TrumpWelcome to working with Trump's White House. "Dealing with the Americans is always hectic," observed one Whitehall official wryly.
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Beth Rigby
"Shy" Reform voters in Labour areas led to Nigel Farage's party winning the Runcorn by-election by just six votes, Labour peer Harriet Harman said. Reform overturned a 34.8% majority gained by former Labour MP Mike Amesbury last year before he stood down earlier this year after he punched a constituent on a night out. It is the closest by-election result since records began in 1945.
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1 week ago |
news.sky.com | Beth Rigby
It's quite simply a political earthquake. Across England, Reform proved it can translate positive polling into real power, picking up another parliamentary seat, a mayoralty, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire councils and dozens of seats by lunchtime. The popularity surge for this anti-establishment party is real.
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2 weeks ago |
news.sky.com | Beth Rigby
This week's set of elections across England will be a series of firsts: it will be the first big ballot box test of Sir Keir Starmer's premiership and Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party. We will have the first by-election of this parliament in Labour-held Runcorn, the inaugural elections for the mayoralty of Hull and East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and our first chance to see if Reform's surge in the polls since the general election can translate into seats.
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