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The chancellor accused Labour of secretly planning to raise VAT, while Labour accused the Conservatives of having a £71bn hole in their spending plans

In today’s newsletter: What explains the treatment of Britain’s first Black female MP – and is it part of a pattern?

UK relationship ‘isn’t taking up as much of our mental space as it was a few years ago’, says EU diplomat

The British parliament dissolved on Thursday ahead of a July 4 general election, which looks set to bring Labour to power after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Yvette Cooper has outlined plans for an army of neighbourhood police and PCSOs to end a ‘decade of dereliction’ on crime under the Conservatives

Brexit campaigner suggested he and prime minister should ‘have a conversation’ after favours he had done Tories over the years

After a stop in Devon, where his audience appeared uniformly bored, you had to wonder, where are the rest of the cabinet?

No royal children will be exempt from taking part in at least a year of service when they turn 18, the country’s Conservative Party clarified.

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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced plans to reintroduce national service should the Conservative party retain power in the general election. Under Sunak’s proposed scheme, 18-year-olds would either spend a year in the military or one weekend out of every four volunteering.

One of the least spoken about shifts in English politics over the last decade is the move towards mayors. Starting with the establishment of the Mayor of London by Tony Blair in 2000, successive Conservative governments have created 11 mayoral combined authorities, each with its own directly elected mayor, since…