Former UK home secretary Suella Braverman (left) with prime minister Rishi Sunak. Both are of Indian-African descent.
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Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
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There are plenty of valuable parallels to be drawn from the Good Friday peace process that might be applied to Braverman’s thinking on protests. But she instead chose to inflame tensions.
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Why creating an independent regulator is a good move.
Teachers striking in London, May 2023.
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The picket lines have brought surprising levels of success.
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Labour frontbencher Imran Hussain has resigned over the party’s failure to support a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Allowing people to consent to ‘conversion therapy’ would contradict UK and international law.
Then Prince Charles opened Parliament in May 2022 in place of his mother, the queen.
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The monarch has to read the speech whether he agrees with it or not.
Sunak greets Giorgia Meloni, the far-right prime minister of Italy, at his AI summit in London.
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Sunak wants everyone to be better at maths. Here’s what taking his own advice would mean for his election campaign.
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Fewer people are being ‘socialised’ into Conservative voting since the dominance of New Labour in the 1990s.
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Giving evidence to the COVID inquiry, Boris Johnson’s former adviser exposed the dysfunction of an administration lacking in the expertise needed to manage a crisis.
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After a post-referendum drop in the polls, Labor has bounced back.
Rishi Sunak arrives in Israel for a two-day visit.
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A crisis abroad has exposed multiple disagreements at home.
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The results represent more than just dissatisfaction with local MPs – the national picture has shifted.
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More and more people are saying they don’t trust the news or can’t face engaging with it – and that appears to have political implications.
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The need for the Labour leader to reclaim his personal narrative had become urgent – so did he succeed?
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Written by comedian Harry Hill, it’s a hectic hour-and-a-half of high-energy songs and skits.
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Angela Rayner’s expansive policy brief faces the threat of ‘short-termism’ perhaps more than any other. If Labour win power, will Rayner be able to fight against these short-term political incentives?
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Once upon a time, questioning the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU was effectively taboo. But times have changed and the public might be more on board than before.
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With less than a week to go until the Voice referendum, the polls are looking grim for the “yes” campaign.
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A prime minister who has been an MP for nearly a decade now wants to challenge 30 years of ‘vested interests’.