#UK politics

Articles (5)

• 🇬🇧 Several Labour MPs in talks with Greens about defecting to the party, sources say — 12/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: none of the MPs are yet near point of crossing the floor and want guarantees they would be reselected for their seat at next election</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/p...

  Related: #Political defections
• 🇺🇸 Reform UK receives another big donation from crypto investor — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Christopher Harborne gave the party £3mn in November, on top of £9mn donated in August

  Related: #Political funding, #Cryptocurrency influence
• 🇬🇧 Gorton and Denton by-election polls open — 26/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  There are 11 candidates battling to become the next MP for Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester.

  Related: #By-election, #Political candidates
• 🇬🇧 How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis — 25/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century</p><p>Labour and Conservative MPs...

  Related: #Political rhetoric, #Immigration policy
• 🇬🇧 The Papers: 'Trump pulls support for Chagos' and 'Britain faces '1936 moment'' — 19/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Donald Trump's reversal on the Chagos Islands deal leads some of the papers today, while Sir Keir Starmer is called to increase military spending.

  Related: #International diplomacy, #Defense policy, #Media influence