Ashley Cowburn
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Deputy Political Editor, The Mirror ashley.cowburn@mirror.co.uk
Exclusive: Rachel Reeves hits out at Donald Trump Iran war 'folly' hitting UK families www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Rachel Reeves hits out at Donald Trump Iran war 'folly' hitting Brit families
In an interview with The Mirror, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was 'very frustrated and angry' at America's actions as families across Britain suffer the consequences
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Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall tells Keir Starmer to honour promise and get law sorted 'ASAP' Aspinall - who introduced PM at Labour conf - says: "Do what you promised. You've not only promised it to me, you've promised it to the people of this country." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Hillsborough campaigner tells PM to honour promise and get law sorted 'ASAP'
Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James was among the 97 people killed in the 1989 tragedy, said she was frustrated by delays to the landmark Hillsborough Law
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Keir Starmer says Trump used words on Chagos Island "for the express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on the future of Greenland". "He wants me to yield on my position, and I'm not going to do so." www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
PM turns on Donald Trump in strongest criticism yet - 'UK will not yield'
Keir Starmer tells MPs Donald Trump hit out at the Chagos Islands deal for the 'express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on the future of Greenland...
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Nigel Farage breaks MPs' code of conduct with 17 breaches www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage breaks MPs' code of conduct with 17 breaches
Nigel Farage has breached the MPs' code of conduct 17 times by registering financial interests late. This is a Breaking News story.
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A Reform defector has been accused of a "staggering act of hypocrisy" for griping about the Chagos Islands deal despite begging Joe Biden for an almost identical agreement. Exclusive from @daveburke12.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform 'hypocrite' blasted as letter to Joe Biden about Chagos Islands emerges
Andrew Rosindell, who defected to Nigel Farage's Reform UK at the weekend, wrote to Joe Biden in December 2020 saying failure to 'decolonise' the Chagos Islands was causing international anger
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Breaking: Donald Trump says the UK and other European countries will be hit with a 10% tariff "on any and all goods" sent to the US from February 1. Will go up to 25% from June unless a deal is reached to buy Greenland www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Donald Trump slaps UK with tariffs for opposing him on Greenland
Donald Trump says he plans to impose import tariffs on goods from a string of countries - including the UK - with eye-watering tariffs as he sticks to his mad plan to own Greenland.
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Former Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi who once likened Nigel Farage to Hitler's propagandist has been unveiled as Reform's latest Conservative defector - with @daveburke12.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Ex-Tory Chancellor sacked over tax spat defects to Nigel Farage's Reform
Former Tory MP and Cabinet minister Nadhim Zahawi briefly served as Chancellor between July and September 2022 during the dying days of Boris Johnson's premiership
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Breaking: Ofcom launches probe into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfake images www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
UK regulator launches probe into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfake images
We'll be bringing you the latest updates on this Breaking Politics News story
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London homicide rate drops to historic low - as Sadiq Khan hits out at those 'talking city down' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
London homicide rate drops as Sadiq Khan blasts those 'talking city down'
New data shows London's homicide rate is considerably lower than cities including New York, Berlin, Toronto and Philadephia
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Benefit claimants risk being pushed into poverty by unacceptable government delays, MPs warn Public Accounts Committee highlights some people are waiting over a year for their PIP claims to be processed www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
DWP delays risk pushing disability PIP benefit claimants into poverty, MPs warn
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee said some benefit claimants have been left waiting over a year for their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims to be processed
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Exclusive: Neil Kinnock says the two-child benefit limit should be scrapped to lift kids out of poverty Former Labour leader says it could be paid for by a tax on assets of the super-rich or extra levies on the top 1% www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
'Scrap Tory two-child benefit limit to lift kids out poverty'
In an interview with The Mirror, the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock said the Tories had left the country in a state that would 'make Charles Dickens furious' with 'intolerable' hardship
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Inside Labour's benefits rebellion as Keir Starmer faces biggest revolt yet. "A lot of people have now decided they are more frightened of the voters than they are of the whips," one MP said. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Inside Labour's benefits rebellion as Keir Starmer faces biggest revolt yet
One MP told The Mirror of those previously wavering on a key benefits vote: 'A lot of people have now decided they are more frightened of the voters than they are of the whips'
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Really classy Daily Mirror front page on the 80th anniversary of VE Day. This Philip Zec celebrated cartoon was in the paper on this day in 1945
Front page of @DailyMirror on May 8, 1945 - 80 years ago today.
Breaking: Downing Street rules out U-turn on winter fuel payment cut for millions of pensioners www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Prime Minister rules out U-turn on winter fuel cut for millions of pensioners
Labour MPs said last week the controversial cut to winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners was raised on the doorstep by voters at the local elections as anger mounts
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NEW: Andy Burnham suggests at @resfoundation.bsky.social event the government should introduce a target for new social homes of at least half a million by the end of the decade. He says it would help "end the housing crisis" and prevent kids from having to put up with "damp and mould"
Benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human’ @DailyMirror spoke to some people about their experience of Universal Credit/PIP benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
DWP claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human'
Amnesty International's new research, which involves interviews with hundreds of people on benefits, claims the current welfare system is 'consciously cruel' and ruining lives
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Benefit claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human’ @DailyMirror spoke to some people about their experience of Universal Credit/PIP benefits www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
DWP claimants give verdict on welfare system - 'You're not treated as human'
Amnesty International's new research, which involves interviews with hundreds of people on benefits, claims the current welfare system is 'consciously cruel' and ruining lives
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Elections guru John Curtice writes for The Mirror ahead of next week’s local elections He suggests the Tories face losing hundreds of seats — they have the “most to lose”. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
'Reform UK may have just enough support to win hundreds of seats from Tories'
Sir John Curtice - of the country's top elections experts - writes in The Mirror the Tories 'have the most to lose' when voters head to ballot box in next week's local elections
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Keir Starmer has failed to meet his promise at last year's Lab conference in Liverpool to introduce a "Hillsborough Law" ahead of today's 36th anniversary of the tragedy. No10 says more time is needed for best version of Bill. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer misses anniversary Hillsborough law deadline - 'huge disappointment'
Keir Starmer promised to introduce a 'Hillsborough Law' by the 36th anniversary of the tragedy - but No10 insists more time is needed to create the 'best version' of the legislation
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Nigel Farage to LBC on his pal Donald Trump's tariff chaos: "I think Trump did too much too soon, rather like Liz Truss did a couple of years ago."
Exclusive: Liz Kendall admits it will be a personal failure if child poverty rates still rising at next election "Child poverty will be going down," she says, despite warning 50k extra kids will be in poverty as a result of last week's benefit cuts www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Liz Kendall admits it would be a 'failure' if child poverty is rising in 5 years
The Work and Pensions Secretary told The Mirror child poverty "will be going down" - despite a grim official analysis of her department's welfare cuts
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Andy Burnham tells the Work and Pensions Committee: "Benefits policy in this country is too much - under all governments - been written to create headlines to please certain newspapers and not actually do the job of encouraging the recovery of people to a better position in their life."
Stephen Fry, Stanley Tucci, and Arlene Phillips among stars demanding benefit cuts U-turn www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Stephen Fry and Stanley Tucci among stars demanding benefit cuts U-turn
Former Strictly judge Dame Arlene Phillips said: 'Our social security system should be rooted in justice and compassion, able to be there for us all...cutting disability benefits is shameful'
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Interesting Cabinet league table of @LabourList readers, who say they are Labour members. Miliband tops survey of most liked member of the Cabinet - with Rayner in second place. Starmer ranked 17th while Kendall and Reeves only ministers with unfavourable ratings.
NEW: Blackpool MP Chris Webb says PIP cuts will be a "devastating blow for many of my constituents who are already on the edge". He adds: "I will never vote for anything that makes people in Blackpool poorer - and some of these reforms could do exactly that."
Diane Abbott is far from the only Labour MP who believes there isn't a moral case for cutting benefits – opposition stretches well beyond the Socialist Campaign Group. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
A Labour welfare revolt is still brewing
As many as 40 of Keir Starmer’s MPs are threatening to rebel against benefit cuts.
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Labour MP Diane Abbott tells Starmer to drop the "moral" arguments for benefit cuts. "There is nothing moral about cutting benefits for what may be up to a million people," she tells him. "This is not about morality - this is about the Treasury's wish to balance the books" on the back of poorest.
