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Irish, Scots and Welsh leaders meet to plot break-up of United Kingdom

  Pro-independence first ministers will sign ‘memorandum of understanding’ at Cardiff summit and demand referendums Daily Telegraph 13/09/26 The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose. At an unprecedented summit in Cardiff, the three first ministers will put pen to paper on a joint declaration demanding the right to hold independence referendums . The meeting comes after Andy Burnham suggested to MPs that he would authorise another Scottish referendum if there were a “clear consensus” in favour of one The summit will come two days after Donald Trump declared that he would “love” to see a united Ireland. During a visit to Dublin on Saturday, he said Northern Ireland joining the Republic would be “a great thing” and asked: “How can it be bad?” The US president intervened as nationalist leaders pile pressure on the Prime Minister, who has put devolution o...
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Farage: £72m war chest will make Reform ready to rule

  Farage: £72m war chest will make Reform ready to rule Party’s biggest donor matches record £36m given by fellow cryptocurrency billionaire Daily Telegraph 12/09/26 Nigel Farage has declared that Reform UK will soon be “ready to form a government” after his party received £72m in donations from billionaire backers. Just 24 hours after announcing it had been given a record £36m by Ben Delo , a cryptocurrency mogul, Reform went public with an identical donation from Christopher Harborne, its biggest donor. The donations amount to a huge show of force by Reform’s wealthy supporters, and will turbocharge its attempts to build a party machine to rival the Conservatives and Labour as it prepares for the next general election. Reform has now raised more than £86m in donations this year, dwarfing the £10.2m raised by the Conservatives and £7.7m by Labour and giving Mr Farage a personal boost after a testing summer during which his family urged him to quit politics. Mr Farage still faces...
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Burnham gives mayors unlimited tourist tax powers

  Uncapped levy on hotel stays risks ‘jobs bloodbath’, hospitality industry warns Daily Telegraph 09/09/26 Andy Burnham is to hand mayors the power to impose unlimited taxes on tourists that could see families paying hundreds of pounds more to holiday in England. Officials stunned the hospitality industry late on Wednesday by announcing that English mayors and other local leaders will be able to impose an uncapped “overnight visitor levy” on anyone staying in hotels, holiday lets and bed and breakfasts. Bosses said they had been led to believe that the levy would be capped, as is the case in Wales. However, England will now follow the Scottish model, where there is technically no upper limit on what can be charged. The tax will apply to all overnight visitors to towns and cities that decide to impose the levy, applying to each night of the stay. British families going on staycations and professionals travelling for work will have to pay the fee. Funds from the tax will help to pro...
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Labour’s gross hypocrisy on Israel has just been exposed

  Sanctions could easily spiral out of control and become far more damaging than the British Government intends Daily Telegraph 08/09/26 It is all an act, apparently. That was the message that British diplomats reportedly gave to their American counterparts in advance of sanctions on the Jewish state . The moves are “largely symbolic and will have no material impact on the UK’s wider relationship with Israel on trade and security”, they murmured, according to reporting by Bloomberg . “Britain’s relationship with Israel will continue largely as it is.” So what was the point? Well, the upcoming by-election in Keir Starmer’s old seat of Holborn and St Pancras might have something to do with it. The Labour Government might be sitting on a working majority of 166, but if such a symbolic seat fell to the Greens, it would threaten to demoralise the troops and herald a domino effect. The problem is that this is a strategy of high risk. It’s all very well saying that we don’t mean what we ...
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How Polanski destroyed Green Party’s popularity

  Year of gaffes, controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism brings poll plunge for eco-Leftists Daily Telegraph  02/09/26 The Green Party ’s popularity has plunged to its lowest level ever recorded following Zack Polanski ’s first year as leader. A YouGov poll found the party’s net approval rating had fallen to -23, down 28 points from last August, the last poll before Mr Polanski took over as leader. Mr Polanski, who became leader on Sep 2, 2025, has overseen a tumultuous 12 months for the eco-populist party, which saw it win its first parliamentary by-election and face repeated accusations of anti-Semitism . As leader, Mr Polanski has tripled the party’s membership from 68,000 last September to 230,000 by shifting the party further towards the Left and targeting voters concerned about the conflict in Gaza . This strategy culminated in the party winning the Gorton and Denton by-election in February, where the Greens won over Muslim voters who were urged to “punish Labour ...
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