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Monday briefing: What do Reform’s record-setting donations mean for the party – and our politics? | Nigel Farage
Good morning. Nigel Farage has a confirmed talent for upending the laws of political gravity, and this weekend has been…
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Tuesday briefing: What happens next after Germany’s far-right breakthrough? | The far right
Good morning. Across Germany – and Europe more widely – there has been a palpable sense of shock and disbelief…
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Monday briefing: What can Andy Burnham learn from Spain’s Pedro Sànchez? | Pedro Sánchez
Good morning. To international onlookers, Pedro Sànchez appears to have achieved the impossible. Where other European leftist and left-ish premiers…
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Thursday briefing: What happens after an asylum hotel closes? | Immigration and asylum
Good morning. This week, immigration minister Anna Turley announced, with minor fanfare, the government will stop using a further 13…
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Wednesday briefing: Why the prison crisis is about much more than early release | Prisons and probation
Good morning. On his family holiday last week, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, was reported to be taking daily calls…
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Tuesday briefing: Inside the right’s heated climate-denial debate | Extreme heat
Good morning. Half of England and all of Wales are officially in drought, wildfires have burned through parts of the…
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Wednesday briefing: Will Zelenskyy’s domestic struggles harm his reputation on the global stage? | Ukraine
Good morning. Another week, another diplomatic success for Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On Monday, his first meeting with Andy Burnham as PM…
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Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s Iran gamble has produced a crisis reshaping the global order | Donald Trump
Good morning. Within two hours of entering No 10 on Monday afternoon, Andy Burnham had his first call with Donald…
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Burnham’s vow to end Labour briefing wars will test his grip on the party | Labour
Andy Burnham’s vision of cleaning up Westminster politics is a utopian one: ending the dominance of the whip system, the…
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Wednesday briefing: Do MPs have the will to stop mega-donors interfering in UK politics? | Politics
Good morning. I’m Hettie O’Brien, and I’ll be arriving in your inbox regularly from today, rounding out the First Edition…
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