Keir Starmer has not received backing from The Sun.
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The Sunday Times has given Starmer a gritted-teeth endorsement, but The Sun has not backed a party.
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The UK of 2024 is very different than 1997. Back then, Britons had hope for the future. Today, many are disaffected and cynical, hoping things won’t continue to get worse.
Could Welsh parliament politicians be criminalised for telling untruths?
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Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price is leading proposals to make lying by politicians a criminal offence.
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The Labour leader is looking to the examples set by Tony Blair and Harold Wilson in drawing a line under his party’s recent past.
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Even though Keir Starmer is more comfortable being associated with the leaders of the last Labour government than Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband, this is not a return to the past.
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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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Tony Blair has called on ministers to tighten food regulation, including adding levies to foods high in fat, salt and sugar.
The number of students going to university has increased significantly over the past 25 years.
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The government in England is promoting apprenticeships rather than “rip-off” university degrees.
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Bill Clinton and senator George Mitchell were central in keeping the players at the table so that the historical deal could be signed in 1998.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness pictured before the peace agreement was reached.
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Secret, behind-the-scenes talks were going on years before the official Belfast Agreement was signed – and made the whole thing possible.
A US female soldier searches Iraqi women, Baghdad, June 2003.
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The beginnings of Iraq’s sectarian civil war, the failures of its US-built political system, and the struggle for civilians attempting to survive chaos and violence are here in these 2004 interviews.
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The former PM was criticised for making decisions without proper advice or consultation
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If some progress was made in the early 2000s, austerity measures from 2010 saw the push for equality, diversity or inclusion die down.
Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss.
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Since the Brexit referendum in 2016, Africa has slipped from its precarious but tangible place in UK political discourse.
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Having an ethics adviser is a matter of convention, not a legal requirement.
Keir Starmer, Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern.
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Anxious not to be easy targets for their pro-business opponents, labour parties everywhere now run on a ‘thin ideological platform’. Anthony Albanese’s ALP is no exception.
Civilians try to escape from the town Irpin, near Kyiv, which has been heavily shelled in recent days.
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In 2005 the world decided it must take action to protect civilians from being targeted in war. In Ukraine frightened civilians are still waiting.
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The types of people who gathered daily to watch Neighbours are the same who backed Tony Blair in 1997.
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The satirical magazine has long been a unique example of conservatism and iconoclasm.
Eden Lakes’s monsters are a group of working class children.
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A wave of new horror films leant into Tony Blair’s Asbo policy demonising young working class men, portraying them as the monsters that society should be scared of.