👤 Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

2026-09-30 · The Guardian · Politics

‘Strong indications’ that Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, says Burnham

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2026-09-28 · The Guardian · Politics

UK security forces were aware of RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot, says defence secretary

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2026-11-02 · The Guardian · Politics

PM to ask countries affected by UK’s role in slavery to help shape formal apology

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2026-10-05 · The Guardian · Politics

Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

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2026-10-09 · The Guardian · Politics

Leader of Jewish Greens calls for Zack Polanski to resign

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2026-10-09 · The Guardian · Politics

Holborn and St Pancras byelection loss will disappoint Greens – but there may also be relief

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2026-09-17 · The Guardian

🔮 And more extreme weather is forecast in the months ahead. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Guardian

🔮 The Greens are pushing Zack Polanski to take a stance on a potential party policy stating “Zionism is racism”, with some fearing it could alienate Jewish supporters if it was passed. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Guardian

🔮 Zack Polanski requested that the Greens’ ruling executive committee postpone the party’s imminent annual conference so they could focus on the Holborn and St Pancras byelection but was refused. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Guardian

🔮 Speaking ahead of the party’s annual conference in Brighton, Davey warned that discipline and focus were vital, given what he described as their “moral responsibility” in blocking a Reform-led government, predicting that Kemi Badenoch would eventually seek an alliance with Nigel Farage’s party. assertive

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

🔮 Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Guardian

🔮 Even the more malcontented MPs accept he will take the party into the next election, and in many cases they also accept that his careful approach has merits. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Guardian

🔮 He said: “There’s a live police investigation, and as a matter of course we don’t comment in detail on operational security matters, because often the more that we might say, the more insight we give to those who would wish us harm and do us harm, given the opportunity.” assertive

2026-09-30 · The Guardian

🔮 Speaking to the media at the end of the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Burnham said he could not give any more details amid a police investigation, but that Iran was believed to be involved. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Guardian

🔮 Some Jewish members have said privately they fear it will be difficult for them to remain in the party if the policy passes. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Guardian

🔮 The Conservatives have unveiled a proposed £700m childcare giveaway for high earners ahead of their annual conference, saying they would end the “cliff edge” where free entitlement ends at salaries above £100,000. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Guardian

🔮 The forthcoming Conservative conference will be, almost everyone in the party agrees, notably more upbeat and unified than last year. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Guardian

🔮 The head of the Jewish Greens has said she may leave the party after it voted to adopt a policy that equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state. mixed

2026-10-08 · The Guardian

🔮 It would involve a doubling of the defence budget in nominal terms from £70bn in 2026 to £151bn in 2035, according to the Transition Security Project, a research centre which was spun out of Common Wealth, a thinktank with close links to Andy Burnham. assertive

2026-10-08 · The Guardian

🔮 Failure to win the seat by a reasonable margin could end his honeymoon period and bring renewed doubts about Labour’s ability to protect inner-city seats from the Greens, who won several London councils in May’s local elections. Holborn and St Pancras could be promising ground for the Greens, with a young and diverse population that includes many students. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

🔮 Justifying the Conservatives’ decision to scrap the target of the UK reaching net zero emissions by 2050, introduced under Theresa May, the document says that estimates of how much this would cost the economy “have varied enormously”. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

🔮 A low turnout of 38.7% and Abdi-Wali’s numerically modest 3,364 majority that resulted might not appear the greatest endorsement of the government, but it is also likely to have been in part due to the widespread assumption that Labour would win. mixed

2026-10-09 · The Guardian

🔮 In post-byelection interviews, Polanski said he would have voted against the motion had he attended. assertive

2026-10-20 · The Guardian

🔮 Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Greens, has urged his party’s councillors to reject the newly adopted “Zionism is racism” motion if it will help them stay in power in local government, in a fresh sign of internal dissent over the policy. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Guardian

🔮 “The prime minister opened by setting out how he would shortly write to cabinet on the UK’s relationship with the EU,” it said, adding: “He said the Brexit deal left by the last government had been bad for the UK and had led to a harder Brexit than had been promised at the referendum.” assertive

2026-10-30 · The Guardian

🔮 The health and social care select committee said in a report that there are no signs the so-called “moonshot ambition on obesity”, set out in the 10-year health plan for England, will achieve anything significant. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Guardian

🔮 It merited the briefest of mentions in John Healey’s speech and just one paragraph in the 166-page budget document, but some believe it could revolutionise not just public spending but the very process of government itself: a new focus on long-term outcomes. mixed

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 The decision, which will have been more financially and environmentally costly than if the prime minister had travelled to London, leaves him open to accusations of hypocrisy after Labour repeatedly criticised Rishi Sunak for his use of private planes and helicopters for domestic travel when he was the prime minister. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 A statement from Labour said coalitions or other deals with Greens would stop in all local authorities where they had refused to condemn the policy motion passed at their party conference last month, which also called for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 While Farage has said the party’s vetting procedures have improved greatly, footage in the programme included Alan Feeney, a Reform councillor and deputy mayor of Solihull, calling Asian homeowners “parasites”, making Islamophobic remarks, and stating that “no more than 1% of [the] British population can be non-white”. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Guardian

🔮 Andy Burnham will ask countries affected by Britain’s role in slavery to help shape an expected formal apology, Downing Street has indicated, arguing that their input is indispensable in crafting a enduring message. assertive

2026-11-03 · The Guardian

🔮 MPs and others working in parliament could be required to take a criminal record check before being given a security pass, and receive anti-harassment training under a pioneering scheme to root out violence against women. assertive

2026-11-04 · The Guardian

🔮 The Palace of Westminster will be at risk of a Notre Dame-style fire or a similar catastrophic event if MPs do not tackle the issue of funding refurbishments, a parliamentary committee has said. assertive