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Princess of Wales has ‘our love and support’, says Sunak
We’re joined from Downing Street by our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara.
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Will immigration determine the election and Sunak’s future?
In the Political Fourcast, Lord Jo Johnson and MP Margaret Hodge join Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Gary Gibbon to discuss planes and plots as Rishi Sunak tries to get asylum-seeker flights in the air.
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Lords inflict multiple defeats on Sunak’s Rwanda bill
Members of the House of Lords have prolonged their stand-off with Ministers over the Rwanda Bill by inflicting a series of defeats on the Government this afternoon. Opposition Lords say it should be up to the courts to decide if Rwanda is a safe place to send asylum seekers rather than ministers. The defeats means…
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Rishi Sunak faces leadership questions ahead of looming election
Rishi Sunak has insisted ‘All conservatives are united’ despite reports of rebellious MPs plotting to oust him to avoid general election disaster.
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Rumours of plans to oust Sunak as PM dismissed by Tories
A government minister has today insisted that Rishi Sunak will fight the next election despite numerous reports of new plots among Tory MPs to unseat him as Prime Minister. It’s been a difficult week for Mr Sunak’s Downing Street operation after the row over racist comments about the MP Diane Abbott allegedly made by Frank…
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Sunak confirms no general election on 2 May
Rishi Sunak has confirmed there will not be a general election on the 2nd May.
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Rishi Sunak hints he’ll squeeze benefits to pay for tax cuts
This Mothers’ Day several women started a hunger strike outside parliament to protest rising food costs and pressures on family budgets.
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Sunak pledges to scrap National Insurance entirely
Yesterday they cut national insurance by another two pence. Today, the Prime Minister and his Chancellor want to scrap it altogether. How they would pay for it isn’t clear. Labour says the pledge is “more reckless than Liz Truss”. Meanwhile, after studying the Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says most people will be worse…
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Sunak: ‘Our democracy itself is a target’
In a pertinent illustration of how events here in the Middle East spill into other parts of the world, George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain focused his Rochdale by-election campaign on the Israel-Gaza war.
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Sadiq Khan: Why is Sunak ‘unwilling to call out’ Lee Anderson’s comments ‘which are clearly Islamophobia’?
What does the subject of Lee Anderson’s comments make of all this?
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Sunak refuses to repeat Badenoch’s claims in Post Office ‘lying’ row
The bitter row between the Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch and the sacked Post Office Chairman Henry Staunton shows no sign of abating.
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Sunak pledges help to farming industry ‘in crisis’
“I’ve got your back”: Rishi Sunak’s message to farmers as he became the first prime minister to address the National Farmers Union conference since Gordon Brown in 2008.
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By-elections: Pressure on Sunak leadership ‘minimal’, says Conservative Home deputy editor
We’re joined by Henry Hill, from Conservative Home.
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UK economy: what does technical recession mean for Sunak?
Rishi Sunak pledged to kickstart growth. Instead, the UK fell into recession late last year.
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Sunak trans jibe: calls for PM to apologise over comments in PMQs
Rishi Sunak is facing calls to apologise for making a transgender dig at Sir Keir Starmer during PMQs, while Brianna Ghey’s mother was visiting parliament.