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Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Albania’s prime minister said Monday that a European Union summit in his country’s capital this week demonstrates the EU’s heightened geostrategic interests in the Western Balkans region during Russia’s war […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Downing Street has urged the RMT rail union to “think again” about the threat of strike action in the run-up to Christmas, insisting that a two-year pay deal proposed by […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email A new integrity and ethics commission would raise standards and politics in a bid to “clean up Westminster”, Labour has said. Former prime minister Gordon Brown hit out at “Conservative […] More

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he agreed with the “basic case” made by many Leave supporters during the 2016 Brexit referendum. Sir […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Keir Starmer has set his face against government proposals to tighten restrictions on the right to strike as the UK braces for a winter of discontent. The Labour leader said […] More

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Rishi Sunak’s government was accused of “smoke and mirrors” after it emerged that a Brexit opportunities fund used money already committed through other schemes. […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Liz Truss will stand again as a Tory MP at the next general election despite her recent exit as prime minister. A spokesperson for Ms Truss confirmed to The Independent […] More

Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Matt Hancock has accused Dominic Cummings of being the “chatty rat” who leaked news of a second Covid lockdown in October 2020. The former health secretary pointed the finger at […] More