Will Hazell

Jenrick is a picture of loyalty. But Tory insiders insist Badenoch should be worried The shadow Justice Secretary is a popular draw amid the struggles of the party leader

Jenrick is on his best behaviour in Manchester. But Tory insiders think he is playing a long game, knowing that any explicit show of disloyalty could fatally damage his reputation among the membership inews.co.uk/news/politic...

House sellers will be forced to list problems with their homes before sale The Government wants to speed up sales and cut costs of house buyers

House sellers will be forced to disclose problems with their homes before sale under plans by the Government to cut costs for buyers and speed up purchases inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Home Office could outright ban protests that risk ‘intimidation’ or ‘serious disruption’ The Home Secretary is considering giving police new powers to ban protests

The Home Office is looking at introducing outright bans on protests which risk intimidating minorities or threaten serious disruption, @theipaper.com understands inews.co.uk/news/politic...

‘It’s f**king serious’: Badenoch's last chance as Jenrick coronation threat looms Some Tories preparing for their conference are contemplating 'amalgamation' with Reform UK after a series of dire poll ratings

As Kemi Badenoch prepares for the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Tory MPs have warned she is “in the last chance saloon”.

Here’s our @theipaper.com weekend long read inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Ed Davey told by his MPs to raise game and drop ‘bullsh*t stunts’ Dissatisfaction has been fuelled by a feeling that the party have not received the media attention that many MPs expected after their election performance

Exclusive @theipaper.com: Sir Ed Davey has been told to raise his game by Liberal Democrat MPs amid growing concerns that the party is failing to cut through with the public inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Some Labour MPs have backed proposals to tax private healthcare, but the industry has hit back

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Reform defector says senior Tories want to join him - in blow for Badenoch Nigel Farage is bolstering his party with defections - but it's a strategy not without risks

EXCLUSIVE: Tory to Reform switcher David Jones has told
@theipaper.com he is talking to current Conservative MPs who are thinking about defecting too inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer rules out bank holiday if Lionesses win Euros The England women's team is likely to get an open-top bus parade through central London instead if they triumph against Spain

Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out granting a Bank Holiday if the Lionesses win the Euros in Switzerland on Sunday, @theipaper.com understands inews.co.uk/news/politic...

‘We’re told to eat s**t’: Resentment builds on Labour benches as economy stalls Fears among MPs of a slide towards populist authoritarianism unless living standards are raised and backbenchers say they're treated like 'robots'

Our latest @theipaper.com weekend long read is on the fallout from Starmer’s strike against Labour rebels and the apparent refusal of the UK economy to play ball with Reeves’ growth plans inews.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Ministers are f**king sh*t’: Inside divided Labour as MPs prepare to rebel again Starmer's on a charm offensive. But his rank and file think No 10's 'a mess' and are contemptuous of their frontbench colleagues

Labour MPs knew a VIP was imminent in Parliament’s old smoking room because when they turned up Mini Cheddars had been left out in advance.

Sure enough, the PM arrived to schmooze them.

Our @theipaper.com long read is on Starmer's bid to reset his troubled government inews.co.uk/news/politic...

How Putin's shadow fleet of ageing oil tankers could trigger a war with Nato The foreign ships Russia uses to evade sanctions on oil exports are already suspected of sabotage. Now it is feared they could spark a major conflict

My latest @theipaper.com read is on Putin’s “shadow fleet” of sanction-dodging oil tankers.

Is the fleet being used for sabotage and hybrid warfare operations?

How can it be stopped?

And could it trigger a clash between Russia & NATO? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform 'could launch a Trump-style assault on UK universities' Labour peer Chris Smith, one of the favourites in the contest to be chancellor of Cambridge University, talks to The iPaper about Farage's threats, tuition fees and free speech

Exclusive: One of the frontrunners to be the next Chancellor of Cambridge has said he fears Reform could launch a Trump-style assault on UK universities.

Lord Chris Smith, Blair's first culture secretary, said: “Populism is always driven by a wish to kick the elite" inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Everything you need to know about the British voting public

It is certainly positive news for UK universities. The question is still how substantial it is going to be

Trump's 'act of self-harm' could accidentally save UK universities The US President’s clampdown on foreign students could rescue British universities facing tighter restrictions on their own overseas recruits

Could Trump's decision to go to war with US universities inadvertently save the UK's cash-strapped higher education sector?

UK uni sources have told me they are already seeing foreign students who had intended to go to the US coming here instead inews.co.uk/news/politic...

My @theipaper.com read:

The case for using "global majority" by institutions should be rejected unless + until it can be shown
- most people understand what it means (most don't)
- most people it is about would like it used (most don't)

I find it a deeply incoherent fiction + a highly regressive term in some many ways

Farage's policies would risk Truss-style mini-Budget market chaos, economists warn Independent economists predict that Farage's policies could cause a market shock up to twice the size of the former PM's mini-Budget

Nigel Farage’s plan to slash tax and increase benefits would cause a market shock up to twice the size of Liz Truss’s mini-budget, independent economists have told @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Can Farage really become PM? Why electoral chaos could mean power for Reform Reform's big poll lead suggests first past the post may flip to work to the party's advantage. But many obstacles still lie in the way

Can Nigel Farage really become PM? I took a look for @theipaper.com at what he’d need to poll, target seats, what Reform has to do over the next 3-4 years, as well as the obstacles (including his proximity to Trump and tactical voting) inews.co.uk/news/politic...

It's worth emphasising the existential problem for the Tories right now - they no longer lead among older Britons, in the South of England or among the middle classes, while holding a 17pt deficit among Leave voters. Their islands of strength are gone and they're becoming a party for nobody.

Excellent thread. The extent to which explicit racism, antisemitism etc has become ubiquitous on social media (I see it most on X but that’s one of the main platforms I use) is shocking and horrific.

Treasury has 'things up sleeve' in desperate bid to avoid tax hikes Labour insider says changes to planning system among possible measures to buy extra headroom for the Budget

Rachel Reeves is pinning her hopes on planning reforms unlocking extra fiscal headroom to avoid raising taxes again this year, @theipaper.com understands inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Labour in fight of its life as Reform sets sights on running Wales Nigel Farage hopes winning Wales next year will be a springboard to No 10 - but can he really win it?

Starmer pointedly didn't mention Reform in his immigration speech & the White Paper has been in the works for months, but Farage's rise is of course the context to all this.

I took a look here at whether Reform could take Wales next year inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Well worth a read

Farage's 'Boris Johnson-style tactics' could steal the Red wall, Labour fears Nigel Farage is emulating the tactics deployed successfully by Boris Johnson in the 2019 general election, Labour MPs say

Farage's 'Boris Johnson-style tactics' could steal the Red wall, Labour fears - by @whazell.bsky.social for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Ed Miliband ready to work with Trump on nuclear Ed Miliband said that Donald Trump's administration wants a "nuclear renaissance" and it was the UK Government's job to "work together with the US on these issues"

Ed Miliband has played down the differences with the Trump administration on Net Zero by saying the UK Government want to work with the US on its “nuclear renaissance” @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The right-wing challenger party taken over by Ben Habib to outflank Reform clearly needs some work. Visit the Integrity Party's website and you're greeted with this surreal AI-generated vision of Britain's future.

My full piece here inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The new right-wing party that wants to put Farage’s Reform out of business Reform UK's ex-deputy leader Ben Habib wants to take on his old party - but could his relaxed attitude to the possibility of Tommy Robinson joining leave his new venture dead on arrival?

Need Nigel Farage and Reform UK fear a new right-wing challenger party being launched by Reform's ex-deputy leader Ben Habib, which aims to put them out of business? I took a look for @theipaper.com here inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer risks rebellion if Trump addresses Parliament on 'stupid' state visit 'It would be completely inappropriate for the US President to address the Houses of Parliament,' Labour MP tells The i Paper

A Labour MP said the Trump state visit showed a "desperate government prepared to sacrifice what little credibility it has left on the mythical altar of GDP growth".

"It won’t work and the sooner they understand this the sooner we can start to reverse our dire polling.” inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Text: How Reform is channelling Maga to try and make Farage prime minister Image:Nigel Farage’s Reform has been taking inspiration from Donald Trump’s Maga movement

Farage would follow Trump’s lead in appointing mavericks from outside of politics to key positions in government and the Civil Service

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