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  • Keir Starmer vows to end ‘open borders experiment’ with immigration crackdown

    4 days ago | politics.co.uk | Josh Self

    Keir Starmer has vowed to end Britain’s “experiment in open borders” with new, stricter migration rules. Speaking at a press conference on Monday morning, the prime minister said the crackdown would shut down the “lab” and finally deliver on the oft-repeated promise to “take back control”, first voiced in the 2016 EU referendum.

  • Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns launch joint leadership bid

    4 days ago | politics.co.uk | Josh Self

    News Adrian Ramsay / Ellie Chowns / green party News Adrian Ramsay / Ellie Chowns / green party Adrian Ramsay will stand for re-election as Greens co-leader alongside fellow MP Ellie Chowns, with the duo vowing to position the party as ready to hold the “balance of power”. Ramsay has served as Greens co-leader since 2021, holding office alongside Carla Denyer.

  • Cross-party MPs brand voting system ‘dangerous’ in an era of electoral volatility

    1 week ago | politics.co.uk | Josh Self

    News Alex Sobel / Constitutional Reform / Ellie Chowns / Lisa Smart News Alex Sobel / Constitutional Reform / Ellie Chowns / Lisa Smart A major cross-party group of MPs has warned that the electoral system is “unrepresentative” and potentially “dangerous”, urging the government to back reform amid deepening disillusion with politics.

  • Watch: Speaker leads procession of MPs as parliament marks VE Day 80

    1 week ago | politics.co.uk | Josh Self

    Video Parliament was suspended on Thursday as the House of Commons speaker led MPs and peers on a procession to Westminster Abbey, a ritual to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The procession served as a re-enactment of the historic walk MPs did from parliament on VE Day in 1945, after it was announced that fighting in Europe had come to an end.

  • Lucy Powell apologises to grooming gang survivors over ‘dog whistle’ remarks

    1 week ago | politics.co.uk | Josh Self

    Video Lucy Powell has issued an apology after she was accused of “dismissing” concerns over grooming gangs. Powell, the leader of the House of Commons, said she was “very sorry” for her remarks and apologised for “any distress” she has caused survivors. The statement came after Jesse Norman, the shadow commons leader, said his opposite number had received “universal condemnation for dismissing concerns” about grooming gangs as “dog whistle politics”.

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