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Reform faces free speech ‘test case’ |
Tim Montgomerie is not going quietly.
The high-profile Reform figure was suspended earlier this week following some outspoken criticism about what is going on behind closed doors in Nigel Farage’s party.
Now he has pledged not just to challenge that suspension, but to make it a “test case" for whether the party can “tolerate free speech and dissent”.
His vow has done little to dampen the flames of the civil war raging within Reform UK.
All this after Mr Farage won last week’s Clacton by-election - and just over a fortnight before its annual conference is due to open in Birmingham.
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Robert Harris tells The Independent’s editor-in-chief Geordie Greig that the Labour prime minister’s ‘desire to be liked’ risks making him look ‘facile and glib’
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With the register of MPs’ financial interests revealing that the prime minister enjoyed hospitality at Glastonbury, Aintree and the Brit Awards, he has passed a smell test that his predecessor famously failed, says Anne McElvoy
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Dr Seema Yasmin is clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University and the author of ‘What the Fact?! Finding the Truth in All the Noise’. She reflects on what she was taught about race and Black bodies as a medical student, and how racial mythology can easily slip into an elite education
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Lessons from No 10: When government comms go badly wrong | Lee Cain |
In this episode of Lessons from No 10, Lee Cain explains the problem of Whitehall’s comms bloat, revisits the “slow-moving car crash” of the pandemic’s communications failures and offers an insider’s view of Burnham’s “social-first” strategy.
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Lessons from No 10: When government comms go badly wrong | Lee Cain |
In this episode of Lessons from No 10, Lee Cain explains the problem of Whitehall’s comms bloat, revisits the “slow-moving car crash” of the pandemic’s communications failures and offers an insider’s view of Burnham’s “social-first” strategy.
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