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YOUR VIEWS: Starmer’s digital ID plan has split opinion, but many in our community have drawn on experiences overseas to argue ID cards are practical and long overdue

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Matthew Pennycook refused to guarantee the use of asylum hotels will end by 2029

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Donald Trump’s first state visit to the UK, in June 2019, was an attempt by the British government to try to forestall the threat of Trumpism, a set of ideas and style of leadership that were not, in the end, embedded. The unprecedented second state visit of September 2025 has…

COMMENT: Feted by British royalty like no other American president, Donald Trump, the brash real-estate guy from Queens who is shunned by New York’s grand old families, was made to feel right at home, says Emily Sheffield. But it was a crowning achievement for Keir Starmer, too

Sir Richard Moore used an outgoing speech to say the Russian president is ‘stringing us along’ amid faltering efforts to broker a truce.

Exclusive: The visit is expected to play an important role in the UK’s diplomacy with the Trump White House

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