#UK politics

#UK politics

Badenoch highlighted pressure from trade unions and former Labour Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair, arguing that Starmer had the authority to act but was choosing to defer responsibility.

Starmer's most costly quarter for foreign travel occurred in the last three months of 2025, with eight trips totaling £1.2 million, including a £413,000 visit to Brazil.

A family car with a 55-litre tank is now paying £89 to fill up. If crude oil stays around $100 a barrel, petrol could reach 148p per litre, with diesel potentially hitting 170p. This hike is really starting to hurt drivers, especially those with diesel vehicles.

Restore Britain have been firmly backed to win an overall majority at the next general election. Rupert Lowe's party were backed by 71% of bets this week; the newly founded party's odds have tumbled from 80/1 into 20/1 as punters rally behind them.

Farmers were told the government wouldn't introduce inheritance tax on farms and I objected to them breaking this promise. Having the whip removed is not a pleasant experience and whilst I have no desire to make a habit of it, I will always do what I can to look after our people in Cumbria.

There has been a factional antagonism towards anyone who might wave a Palestinian flag in solidarity with Gaza or yearns to rejoin the European Union, as well as to those who worry a lot about climate change or display too much sympathy for asylum seekers. For much of the past six years under Keir Starmer, his advisers have been dismissive of such viewpoints, which they thought would alienate the older, whiter and more traditionally working-class voters widely regarded as vital to electoral success.

Incumbent governments quite often get results like that mid-term, but I do understand that voters are frustrated, they're impatient for change. I came into politics late in life, as it happens, to fight for change for those people need it. The people who need an NHS that works for them, to be able to doctors appointment when they need it, to get the money they need in their pockets to pay their bills, and to have decent and better life.