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Victory for The Independent! The PM has broken the spell on Europe (opens the original)
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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Victory for The Independent! The prime minister used his speech at the Labour Party conference to raise the possibility that Britain might rejoin the European Union. In our “Europe: the Way Back” campaign, we called on Andy Burnham to use his moment of change to go beyond the red lines of Keir Starmer’s manifesto – and he delivered. The reactions to Burnham’s words on Europe
Burnhamâs speech was one of the most backwards-looking Iâve ever heard (opens the original)
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It is said of Andy Burnham that he talks left and acts right. In his acceptance speech to the Labour Party, though, he talked backwards â and we have to hope that his actions will take him forwards. It was the most backward-looking speech I have heard from a front-rank politician. It was an explicit call to return to the 1970s, before everything went wrong in the 1980s. He talked nostalgically of steel works and iron works, the coal fields, the shipyards of Scotland and the North East and the
Farage vs Binface: John Rentoul answers your Clacton by-election questions (opens the original)
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Nigel Farageâs decision to trigger a by-election in Clacton has descended into farce â and the fallout has sparked questions from Independent readers. The Reform UK leaderâs only declared opponent is Count Binface, a man in a bin costume, after other mainstream parties declined to stand â intensifying scrutiny of an undeclared £5m gift from British-Thai businessman Christopher Harborne and the support from convicted criminal George Cottrell that prompted the contest in the first place.
What questions does Nigel Farage have to answer about his finances? (opens the original)
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A YouGov poll carried out this week found that 73 per cent of Britons would describe Nigel Farage as “sleazy”. The poll found that 69 per cent think his party, Reform UK, is sleazy, a figure that has increased by 18 points over the last two years. This increase presumably reflects the reporting of Farage’s finances, especially over the past two and a half months, since Anna Isaac of The Guardian reported in April that he had received a personal gift, before becoming an MP, of £5m from Christophe
John Rentoul Q&A: What is really going on with Farage’s Clacton by-election? (opens the original)
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Welcome to an exclusive Ask Me Anything session with me, John Rentoul, chief political commentator at The Independent. To see the questions and my answers, scroll down. Make sure to press the “load more” button to read the full Q&A. Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in Clacton – and with it, plenty of confusion over what he is actually trying to achieve. The Reform UK leader insists the contest is “real” — even though his only declared opponent is a man in a bin costume. The by-election w
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