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After a bit of will he won't he, Zack Polanski has thrown his hat into the ring and announced he will stand in Keir Starmer's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras (subject to the approval of the local Green party). It's a high stakes move for the Green leader. If he wins, in what should normally be a relatively safe Labour seat, he'll puncture Andy Burnham's argument that he can persuade Left voters to stick with Labour. But if he loses, it's Polanski's authority that will come under the spotli...
The article explores strategic approaches Taiwan can adopt to enhance its defense capabilities and deter aggression from China, emphasizing the importance of international support and military readiness.
The two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths, a Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wednesday
Republicans opened their highly unusual midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon, a “Trump-a-Palooza” that is putting the president at the center of this fall’s midterm elections — whether the candidates running like it or not. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Professor Todd Belt, Director of the Political Management Programme at George Washington University, says that Trump "believes in the power of his own charisma"
John Healey’s speech: continuity is no crime will.driscoll Mon, 07/09/2026 - 16:58 The summer’s Reeves to Healey switch was more continuity than change. 5 Comment Giles Wilkes Institute for Government Yes John Healey delivers his speech in Coventry on 7 September. Public finances Budget Labour Conservative No The past two decades have seen enough chancellor transitions to support a categorisation into two sorts: radical change and gentle evolution. In the first sits the shift from Alastair Darling to George Osborne in 2010, and to and from Kwasi Kwarteng in 2022. The rest were more continuity than change. And this includes this summer’s changing of the guard. Yes, more of the same John Healey’s speech on Monday has accordingly been damned as “more of the same” by opposition parties, no doubt confident that associating the new chancellor with Rachel Reeves will do him no favours. But it was already apparent that Andy Burnham’s takeover from Keir Starmer represented a change of style and personnel more than a . There will also be something he called “economic potential analysis”, which sounds very like a willingness to be generous when assessing the possibility of positive, dynamic change. These changes are not guaranteed to work. Consultation and judicial review may be impediments but are also helpful guardrails against arbitrary, badly-thought-through ideas. One person’s economic potential is another’s optimism bias. But the government promised a tilt towards action, and these measures should help with that. Healey has also indicated progress on the PM’s signature ambition: greater devolution. One of Rachel Reeves’s last big announcements was a plan to produce a Fiscal Devolution Roadmap. Healey has now promised one at the budget this autumn. The suspicion is that this will be a more ambitious effort than whatever might have been extracted from the Treasury before. His argument is that putting power and resources with local leaders will be a boon for private investm
The state election result could lead to a debate over the future of the firewall that has kept the Alternative for Germany out of power
Wildfires and heatwaves are threatening global efforts to improve air quality and protect human health, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Monday. The UN agency warned that increasingly severe fires are raising exposure to toxic PM2.5 pollution, even as regulations have reduced industrial and transport emissions in Europe and North America
Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey – but not Farage – to discuss how to fix one of most intractable issues he faces