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Boris Johnson struggled to explain Brexit during an interview with a French radio station on Monday, 18 November.The former British prime minister, who campaigned to leave the European Union, told France Inter: “There’s an idea of constitutional freedom for the United Kingdom. And, I recount the struggle for Brexit [in Unleashed].”The freedom to do things differently. In particular, you see – We forget all this now because it was two or three years ago but when we had the pandemic, thanks to Brexit we had the chance to do the vaccinations in England much earlier.” More

A farmer predicted “big problems with food shortages” following Labour’s changes to inheritance tax announced in the Budget.Critics have warned that the change, which means farmers will have to pay 20 per cent of tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m from April 2026, will destroy family farms that make up around two-thirds of Britain’s agricultural base.”The biggest worry for us… is to be able to feed the poorer people in society,” Gareth Wyn Jones told GB News on Monday, 18 November.”I won’t be selling any lamb or any beef this week… This is not to make people hungry, this is to show what’s to come in the future.” More

Boris Johnson has said that he believes Donald Trump will not embarrass himself by allowing Vladimir Putin to win the war in Ukraine.Speaking on France Inter on Monday, 18 November, the former British prime minister declared that he could not imagine someone like the president-elect “inaugurating his mandate by humiliating the United States and NATO by letting Putin defeat Ukraine.”Mr Johnson’s comments came amid fury in Moscow as the US gave the green light for Ukraine to use US-made long-range missiles to target Russian territory, according to reports. More

Louise Haigh has defended Labour’s budget measures after Keir Starmer shunned farmers at a tax protest.The transport secretary said budget measures that affect farmers are “fair and proportionate”.She sidestepped questions about why the prime minister did not speak to farmers who gathered to protest outside the Welsh Labour conference on Saturday (16 November) and whether it was wise for a farming minister to say farmers should calm down over plans to raise inheritance tax plans.“We do recognise the difficult situation that many are in, but we think the choices that we set out in the budget are fair and proportionate,” she told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips. More

In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Lord Hague discusses with Geordie Greig his campaign to win election as Chancellor to the University of Oxford. The former foreign secretary explains his opinions on what the statue of Cecil Rhodes, his love of history and how his experience as a student shapes his view on opening Oxford to more state-educated students.In the wide-ranging interview, Hague maintains his stance on Donald Trump being a threat to democracy as US President and the Right have strayed from the ideals of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.Read the story here. More

A Reform UK MP has criticised taxpayer-funded translators for the NHS, describing them as a “complete waste of money.”Rupert Lowe, MP for Great Yarmouth, told BBC Politics Live he “did not care” that some patients may feel more comfortable speaking their native language during medical appointments.“They live in England, they should speak English,” he told Ash Sarkar, who said the cost of translators “is not where the problem is.”She added: “The problem is we’ve had 14 years of austerity.” More

Nigel Farage was heckled during Prime Minister’s Questions as he congratulated President-elect Donald Trump on his US election win on Wednesday, 13 November.The Reform UK leader’s comments prompted a joke from Sir Keir Starmer, who said he was glad to see Mr Farage making a “rare appearance” in the UK after his time in the US.“I was half expecting to see him on the immigration statistics,” the prime minister continued.Mr Farage asked the prime minister to “mend fences” between the UK and the incoming Trump presidency “given that the whole of his cabinet have been so rude about him.” More