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  PM would offer to extend Britain’s nuclear deterrent in exchange for access to EU free-trade zone Daily Telegraph 09/08/26 Britain could rejoin the EU’s single market under a new post- Brexit deal presented to Andy Burnham. In exchange for access to the bloc’s free-trade zone, the Prime Minister would be expected to promise to extend the protection of Britain’s Armed Forces and nuclear deterrent across the Continent. The plan was drawn up by Nick Boles, a former Conservative MP who quit the party in 2019 and helped with Sir Keir Starmer’s preparations for government. It has since been circulated to top government officials, including Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser. Under the proposal, Britain would push for the creation of a “European Confederation”, linking the EU’s free-trade zone with Nato’s defence commitments. Countries such as Ukraine, Switzerland, Norway and the Western Balkan states would also be invited to join. As a member, Britain would pledge to sp...

  More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households face eviction under Badenoch’s plan to stop UK being used as ‘cash machine’ Daily Telegraph 06/08/26 Kemi Badenoch has pledged to evict foreign nationals from council housing, under plans to end Britain’s status as a “cash machine for the world”. The Conservatives would eject almost 230,000 non-EU foreign national households, which the party said would free up homes for British families. The policy would also ban any foreigners, from the EU or elsewhere, from signing new tenancies . Announcing the plans, Helen Whately, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “Making Britain your home should be earned by working, paying tax and integrating. “It should not come with a free ride on the benefits system. Britain cannot be a cash machine for the world.” The waiting list for social housing has reached 1.3 million households in the UK, and housing charities have warned that the backlog will take more than a century to clear at the current...

  Labour slips to second place behind Farage’s party in new poll Daily Telegraph 04/08/26 Reform UK has regained its lead over Labour in a YouGov poll that suggests the “Burnham bounce” has subsided. Andy Burnham’s popularity was credited with ending Reform’s long period of poll dominance last week as a first voting intention survey in 16 months saw Nigel Farage’s party fall to second place. However, the latest YouGov voting intention survey puts Reform on 23 per cent, up one percentage point and ahead of Labour on an unchanged 22 per cent. Dr Patrick English, the pollster’s head of elections and political data, told The Telegraph: “I would say that there certainly has been a positive response from the British public to Labour’s removal of Keir Starmer and replacement with Andy Burnham, who is currently the most positively rated party leader that we are measuring. “There has been a response there, and I think that’s to be expected, but even though Burnham leads our favourability r...

Reform should enter into a coalition, but with the mainstream Right not the hard Right Daily Telegraph 03/08/26 Regardless of their recent slip in the polls, it’s been clear for some time Reform can only take power at the next election as part of a Right-leaning coalition . But Nigel Farage will be making a huge mistake if he pursues any pact with Rupert Lowe’s Restore. This risks sending Reform tumbling further in the polls and drastically reducing the prospect of victory. Speaking today at a press conference on illegal immigration, Farage said he was open to an informal chat with Lowe’s party . This came after Lowe’s prior offer of a closer relationship and Farage’s comment at the weekend that he wanted to create a broad coalition on the Right to rescue Britain Farage needs to walk back this offer of a chat. A relationship that ended so appallingly between the two men is irreparable. The characters of the two men are such that a sensible working relationship could never happen. And a...