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Former Dulwich college pupil alleges Farage told him ‘that’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets

EXCLUSIVE - Yinka Bankole compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to dismiss hurt of alleged targets

Yinka says 17yo Farage targeted him when he had just joined Dulwich at 9 and told him "that's the way back to Africa"

from Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social and me

Tories accuses Farage of ranting about racism allegations - while at same time in effect admitting they are true - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Keir Starmer says deportation policies touted by Reform UK ‘would tear our country apart’ – UK politics live Prime minister says Britain may not survive as ‘tolerant, diverse country’ if Nigel Farage takes power

Zack Polanski calls for cap on political donations after £9m gift to Reform UK, saying democracy should 'never be for sale' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Keir Starmer says deportation policies touted by Reform UK ‘would tear our country apart’ – UK politics live Prime minister says Britain may not survive as ‘tolerant, diverse country’ if Nigel Farage takes power

£9m gift to Reform UK highlights 'alarming trend' of parties getting ever larger donations from the very rich, Electoral Reform Society warns - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Keir Starmer says deportation policies touted by Reform UK ‘would tear our country apart’ – UK politics live Prime minister says Britain may not survive as ‘tolerant, diverse country’ if Nigel Farage takes power

Starmer says Britain may not survive as 'tolerant, diverse country' if Reform UK takes power - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Latest £9m donation to Reform UK shows elections not fair if they can be 'bought by handful of individuals', MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Minister says mayoral elections could technically happen in 2026, but government is delaying so 'foundations are strong' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Former Labour minister accuses government of ignoring 'moral obligation' to allow mayoral elections to go ahead - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Labour says it is ‘deplorable’ for Reform to dismiss Farage schoolboy racism claims as lies – UK politics live Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has claimed that allegations against Farage are ‘nonsense’ from people with ‘a political axe to grind’

Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice says racism claims about Nigel Farage from fellow pupils are ‘made-up twaddle' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Tory-Reform election pact would be ‘alliance of austerity and failure’, says Starmer – UK politics live PM responds to report that Nigel Farage told donors he expects Reform could do an election deal with the Conservatives

PMQs - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Streeting says he was 'surprised' by experts' prostrate cancer screening recommendation, hinting rethink possible - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Preparing evidence for Covid inquiry has cost government £100m in staff and legal costs, figures show - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he denies election pact – UK politics live Reform UK leader says report of an election deal with Conservatives is ‘false’, but suggests only under their current leadership

Farage says deal with Tories ‘as they are’ would cost Reform UK votes, as he dismisses claim he’s contemplating electoral pact - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Amazing letter in The Times (also an unbelievable play fwiw)

Tories condemn Starmer as 'Beijing's useful idiot' after he defends engagement with China - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Starmer says decision by last Tory government to cut back on engagement with China 'dereliction of duty' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Lammy to address ‘court emergency’ but expected to safeguard jury system – UK politics live Justice secretary appears to have pulled back from plans to scrap juries for all but the most serious cases

David Lammy says his plans to slash jury trials in keeping with Magna Carta, which was also response to 'state failure'
- www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OBR chief resigns, saying budget leak was ‘technical but serious’ error – UK politics live Richard Hughes says he is stepping down in order to restore confidence in organisation

Some evidence suggests previous OBR reports may have been hacked early, without anyone knowing, James Murray tells MPs - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OBR chief resigns, saying budget leak was ‘technical but serious’ error – UK politics live Richard Hughes says he is stepping down in order to restore confidence in organisation

Richard Hughes says budget mistake was 'technical but serious error' and he's resigning to help 'restore confidence in OBR' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OBR says its inadvertent release of budget report is ‘worst failure’ in its 15-year history – UK politics live Office for Budget Responsibility says Rachel Reeves ‘had every right to expect that the [report] would not be publicly available until she sat down at the end of her budget speech’

Richard Hughes has resigned as chair of OBR, MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

What OBR say about why its budget report was inadvertently made available early to journalists - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

OBR publishes report into its inadvertent release of budget report, saying it is 'worst failure' in its 15-year history - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Starmer says he is ‘proud’ of budget and insists ‘there was no misleading’ by Reeves over public finances – UK politics live Prime minister gives speech after report that some ministers are unhappy over handling of the budget

Keir Stamer's speech and Q&A on the budget - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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