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Labour picks a side on Gaza — and cheers the party faithful (opens the original)
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LIVERPOOL, England — One of the most stinging criticisms thrown at Andy Burnham is that he is a people-pleaser who hates to pick a side. But on one of the most contentious issues facing Labour, he has done just that. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband made the shift clear in his speech to Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool this week — directly telling internal critics who had accused the governing party of failing to take strong enough action to defend Palestinians: “You were right.” Many of tho
Reform aide caught in donor sting attended Egypt retreat with JL Partners (opens the original)
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LONDON — Former senior Nigel Farage aide Dan Jukes went on an all-expenses-paid trip to Egypt with the polling company JL Partners in December 2025, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. Jukes joined a JL Partners staff retreat at a resort in El Quseir on the Red Sea in December 2025 and gave a talk for the company, which subsequently released opinion polls publicly without disclosing that they were financed by supposed donors to Reform. The trip provides a window into the extent of t
Farage donor scandal turns spotlight on UK polling industry (opens the original)
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LONDON — Questions are swirling around the British polling industry — and piling up for the company implicated in a Reform UK party scandal that prompted the resignation of two senior party aides. The scandal hinged on donations from undercover reporters posing as a wealthy American benefactor and his son that were used to pay for a real set of high-impact polls that were released without disclosing the funding source. These polls were carried out by the influential opinion research firm JL Part
UK Foreign Office gets first female leader (opens the original)
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LONDON — Lindy Cameron, the U.K.’s High Commissioner to India, has been appointed the new permanent under-secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office — the first woman to hold the role. Cameron’s appointment is one of the first major foreign policy decisions of Andy Burnham’s government, and comes at a time of upheaval for the FCDO. She will have to steady a department recently rocked by the scandal over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as U.S. ambassador and the subsequent sackin
Andy Burnham to host Emmanuel Macron in London as part of diplomatic push (opens the original)
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LONDON — Andy Burnham will welcome French President Emmanuel Macron to Downing Street next week as he intensifies his diplomatic efforts with Britain’s closest allies. Macron will attend the formal opening of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at the British Museum, where the 900-year-old artifact is being displayed on loan as a gesture of friendship between the two countries, according to two people briefed on the plans. He is also expected to take part in a bilateral meeting with the British prime
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