As of this week, 9 To 5 is now Dolly’s highest-placing song ever in the UK, after reaching at number five.
The track was originally released in 1980 and appeared on the soundtrack of the film of the same name – but, surprisingly, missed the top 40 completely on this side of the Atlantic when it first came out.
Dolly’s previous highest-charting songs had been Jolene and Islands In The Stream, both of which landed at number seven.
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Those two tracks continue to make a dent in the charts, with Jolene rising to number six and Islands In The Stream, a collaboration with the late Kenny Rogers, sitting at number nine.
Meanwhile, her greatest hits collections Diamonds & Rhinestones has risen one place to number five on the Official Album Chart, its highest entry yet.
The UK charts were full of momentous achievements this week, with Ella Langley earning her first-ever chart-topping single with Choosin’ Texas.
Her country song debuted at number 78 on the UK charts back in January, before cracking the Top 40 a month later, and finally rising to the Top 10 in July.
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Ella replaces Sam Fender and Olivia Dean at number one, ending a run of 10 weeks in the top spot for their duet Rein Me In, which had previously set a new record with 23 non-consecutive weeks in peak position.
Rein Me In is still in the top 10, but has fallen to number seven, its lowest placement since February.
So it’s worth asking: why is he putting himself forward for a by-election now?
Polanski is still the most high-profile person within the left-wing party and it would a historic victory if the Greens took the seat, making it their first ever London constituency win.
He wasted no time signalling his desire to be selected by local Green members to be the party candidate for Starmer’s former constituency in the capital this week.
While the decision is not yet set in stone, Polanski is widely expected to be the party’s choice for the crunch vote in a head-to-head with Labour.
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As Sky News elections analyst Robert Ford wrote on X, the stakes are high for both parties.
He said: “Greens have chance to turn the tide on recent decline and show Polanski is a winner. Labour have a chance to show that the Burnham bounce is real, consolidate the left in a London heartland seat, and deal a potential knockout blow to Green insurgency.”
He added that Polanski’s decision to join the contest meant it is “no longer just Green vs Lab”.
Ford claimed voters are now being asked: “Would you like the national leader of the Green party or a generic Lab backbencher as your local representative?”
Green MP Hannah Spencer with Polanski after she won the Gorton and Denton by-election in February
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It’s rather precarious, though, especially as the seat is traditionally Labour.
The Greens themselves are trying to put their best foot forward, with one party official telling HuffPost UK they feel “confident” about Polanski’s chances.
Another senior insider shrugged off the idea that it was risky to put the Green leader forward, insisting he would be a “brilliant candidate”.
A third pointed out that the Greens won “lots of traditionally Labour seats” in London back in May during the local elections.
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If he is chosen for the seat, he may have also have a slight advantage when it comes to winning over the left-wing votes.
Former independent candidate Andrew Feinstein announced he would not be standing in the by-election, and would instead back the Green leader.
Feinstein secured 19% of the vote in the constituency back in 2024, coming in second place behind Starmer.
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If his 7,312 votes and the Greens’ 4,030 votes from the general election had been combined at the time, it would have significantly reduced Labour’s majority – though the party would still win by some margin on 18,884 votes.
Still, as Luke Tryl, the UK director for More in Common, told HuffPost UK if Feinstein’s voters “switch en masse to the Green Party, Polanski will need a much smaller swing to win”.
He said: “The seat’s demographics could help the Greens too: young, diverse, Remain-voting, with lower concern about migration than recent by-elections, it’s strong territory for Polanski, whose approval among 18-24s is almost nine times what it is among the over-75s.
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“We know that high-profile candidates – whether it be Burnham in Makerfield or Farage in Clacton – can motivate voters and boost turnout in by-elections.”
This is why Holborn and St Pancras beyond Polanski running matters – because of what it means for consolidation of the left bloc. Since Burnham came to power Labour have consolidated their hold on the left bloc, at the same time as Reform’s share of the right bloc has slipped. pic.twitter.com/BDHL8YJV6m
Labour is yet to choose its own candidate for the crunch vote.
HuffPost UK was told by one source that it is “a slam dunk” that Camden Council leader and Starmer ally, Sagal Abdi-Wali, will be Labour’s candidate.
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The local insider said: “It will be a straight Lab-Green fight, so Polanski has a chance. Sagal will be a strong candidate with cast-iron local credentials and a personal story that will resonate with huge chunks of the electorate.
“Her being Muslim and Somali will limit Polanski’s ability to attract people angry about Gaza.”
However, other party sources insist the candidacy is still up for grabs.
Tryl told HuffPost UK this by-election “will be a fascinating test of what the electoral landscape looks like on the left of British politics”.
He noted Burnham started to unite the left since replacing Starmer, he has “halved the share of 2024 Labour voters defecting to the Greens since the spring”.
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A separate YouGov tracker shows 50% of respondents think Burnham is a better PM than Polanski would be, compared to 8% who believe it is vice versa.
Tryl added: “Polanski’s own popularity has tumbled, leaving him the least popular party leader in the country.
“On the raw numbers, that makes Labour look like a safe seat: Holborn and St Pancras isn’t even a top-100 target for the Greens, who’d need a 19-point swing to take it outright.”
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But the pollster also observed that “support for Labour has eroded in the seat in recent years”.
“For Labour, this is one of the first real tests of whether Burnham has really managed to unite the left behind Labour again,” Tryl said. “For the Greens, it’s a test of whether Polanski can regain his mojo after a difficult few months.”
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Zia Yusuf has been accused of plotting to replace Nigel Farage amid heightened scrutiny over Reform UK donations.
The party has been reported to the Metropolitan Police after an undercover sting operation accused Reform of accepting foreign funding, which goes against British electoral law.
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Investigative journalists from Verbatim accused the party of allegedly taking funding from a US company to commission three supposedly independent polls at £32,500 earlier this year.
Reform’s head of policy James Orr and Farage’s close aide Dan Jukes organised the donation and were unaware the donors were actually undercover reporters.
Jukes has been accused of suggesting a way to work around British electoral law, too, so an American donor could give £500,000 to Reform UK.
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Jukes and Orr have stepped down after the report was broadcast by Channel 4 News.
Reform insists it is not guilty of any wrongdoing and called the incident a “hoax”.
Farage has downplayed the concerns about breaching electoral rules, claiming it was “loose pub talk” and “jack-the-lad-dery”.
Amid this serious chaos, Yusuf chose to publish a glossy social media, telling a detailed story about his childhood and life before politics.
“I’ve dedicated my life to serving,” the unelected politician said in the clip.
“I’ve spent my career getting things done, doing hard things in the real world. That’s exactly what I’ll bring to the office of home secretary.
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“If you want another career politician doing TikToks about crisps, there’s plenty to choose from. If you want someone who will do whatever it takes to deliver on our promises, vote Reform.”
The clip was published shortly before Yusuf’s major speech in front of the party conference where he told Reform delegates the “fate of this country is down to us”.
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It quickly sparked speculation that the Reform politician’s timing may have been strategic.
Former Farage ally Tim Montgomerie, who was recently suspended for publicly criticising the party, said: “The sooner Nigel Farage realises this man is running to replace him as leader, the better.”
Reform UK has been approached for comment.
Plenty of other commentators on social media seemed to think Yusuf might also have his eye on the crown.
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He’s either running for Starmer’s old seat, or he’s pitching himself as Farage’s successor.
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Donald Trump may actually have finally lost it this week.
While the US president already has a reputation for being unpredictable, mercurial and chaotic – to say the least – he seems to have taken it to a new level in the last few days.
The maverick Republican picked a fight with Canada by starting a trade war and then rubbed salt in the wound by renaming Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes on the border between their countries, Lake America.
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He upped the pettiness by sharing AI videos showing Canadian geese with his trademark blonde hair and carrying machine guns patrolling the shores of “Lake America”.
Trump is also all over the place with the Iran war, a conflict he started in February.
The US-Israeli strikes against Tehran gave the Iranians the chance to seize control of the major oil shipping lane, the Strait of Hormuz.
They have let almost no trade through the major waterway in the last six months and the global economy continues to suffer.
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America’s allies in the Gulf are suffering the real-world consequences as Iran has retaliated by hitting US military bases in the region.
But the president seems to be in denial about the reality of the war.
Trump appears to be testing new UK prime minister Andy Burnham, too.
The president has refused to deny reports America could stop supporting Britain’s claims to the Falkland Islands.
If the States did withdraw its backing for the British Overseas Territory – and instead start supporting Argentina’s claim to the archipelago – then it would spell major trouble for the UK-US “special relationship” and trigger Burnham’s first international crisis.
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Could Trump be looking to punish the UK for not supporting his offensive on Iran, as a leaked Pentagon email from April suggested?
Or is it his way of forcing the government to spend more money on defence. With Trump, you simply can never tell.
This is not the first time the president has upended international diplomacy, of course – his insistence Greenland belongs to him continues to rile Nato members – but his behaviour does appear even more illogical than usual.
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It hardly seems politically savvy to focus on the international stage when Americans are preparing to elect members to Congress in the November midterm elections.
The president may not be on the ballot paper but he needs Republicans to hold the Senate and the House of Representatives to get key legislation passed.
Current predictions suggest the electorate are poised to deliver a brutal blow to Trump and his party by handing control of Congress to the Democrats.
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Americans are concerned about the cost of living and elected Trump on the promise that he would put “America First” and bring prices down.
Instead, his war in Iran has led to a spike in oil prices and pushed up the cost of living both in the US and around the world.
There is growing anger that he rarely seems focused on the everyday problems of the very people who voted him into the White House.
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So why is he still doubling down on that bizarre decision this week?
Listen to Commons People as we unpack the fallout from the recent Trump drama and why he cannot continue to ignore his domestic problems.
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Writer, activist and feminist trailblazer Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92.
Her spokesperson confirmed that, on 2 September, she passed “peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”.
Paying tribute, they wrote on Instagram: “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end.
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“Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard.
“Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their truest selves. Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humour.”
Here are six of the defining moments from her life and career, many of which go to show what a pivotal figure she was in amplifying the second-wave feminist movement and ensuring women’s voices were heard.
1. She went undercover as a Playboy Bunny in the 1960s – and wrote an article all about it
Trying to carve out as career as a journalist was no mean feat for a woman in the 1950s and 60s, however Steinem persevered and gained national attention in ’63 when she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny and penned a two-part series for Show magazine on what it was really like for women to work at the Playboy Club, including what they were paid and some of the sexist practices that went on behind the scenes.
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2. She penned ‘After Black Power, Women’s Liberation’ for New York Magazine in 1969
In April 1969, Steinem connected the fight for racial equality to that of gender equality in a New York Magazine essay which won her national attention and helped to spread feminist ideas outside of small activist bubbles and into wider public awareness.
3. Steinem co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus
The National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) was founded in 1971 by Steinem and fellow activists Shirley Chisholm; Betty Friedan; Fannie Lou Hamer and Bella Abzug, with an aim of identifying, recruiting, training and supporting women candidates for elected and appointed office in the United States.
In 1971 there were 15 women in US Congress, which rose to 150 women in 2026. Similarly, there were just seven female Mayors of cities with a population of over 30,000 people in 1971, compared to 428 in 2026.
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4. She co-founded feminist publication Ms Magazine
In 1972, Steinem launched Ms Magazine, a national feminist publication, as she put it, “for those of us who had the radical idea that women are people”. The magazine covered topics typically unexplored in traditional women’s glossies, such as domestic abuse, sexual harassment, abortion, race and sexuality.
Reflecting on the publication’s success back in 2022, Steinem said: “The response was shocking … It sold out in eight days.”
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Gloria Steinem speaks at a rally organized by Women’s March NYC in New York on Jan. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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5. She advocated strongly for reproductive rights
Steinem was a firm believer that women should have control over their bodies and reproductive choices. She opened up about her own abortion, at the age of 22, and even dedicated her book, My Life On The Road, to the London physician Dr John Sharpe, who carried out her abortion back when it was illegal to do so.
In 2011, she told The Guardian: “It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty. But I never could!
“I think the person who said: ‘Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament’ was right. Speaking for myself, I knew it was the first time I had taken responsibility for my own life. I wasn’t going to let things happen to me. I was going to direct my life, and therefore it felt positive.”
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6. She repeatedly banged the drum for women’s and girls’ rights and equality
She has spoken publicly at hundreds of events over the years, including the Women’s March on Washington in 2017, all of which helped project women’s rights and issues into the forefront of discussion.
Per the National Women’s History Museum, she also co-founded: the Women’s Action Alliance, the Women’s Media Center, Voters for Choice and the Ms. Foundation for Women, as well as helping to create Take Our Daughters to Work Day, empowering young girls to learn about career opportunities.
Labour plans to mock Reform UK over the ongoing investigation into Nigel Farage’s £5 million gift at the party’s annual conference, HuffPost UK cam reveal.
A van will be circling the NEC venue in Birmingham showing an image of Farage shoulder-deep in wads of cash with the slogan: “You have 5 million questions to answer, Nigel. Tell us about the money.”
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Labour will also be using the same slogan and picture to taunt Reform across its social media accounts.
He has repeatedly pointed out that he was not even an MP when he received the gift, months before he ran in the general election.
Farage’s return to the Commons means the parliamentary investigation into the £5 million donation has resumed.
If he is found to have broken the rules, and is then suspended by parliament’s standards committee for more than 10 days, he could face yet another by-election.
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The Metropolitan Police are also separately investigating four large donations to Reform.
A senior Labour source told HuffPost UK: “The scandals are piling up for Farage and Reform.
“Farage needs to realise that no amount of bluff and bluster at his party conference is going to make the questions go away.
“It’s time he finally came clean with the public and proved he’s not just in it for himself.”
When asked for comment, a Reform source said: “Boring.”
The ongoing controversy over Farage’s finances have coincided with a slump in the Reform’s fortunes.
Earlier this week, Reform even slipped into third place after being overtaken by the Tories for the first time in 18 months in a poll for the More in Common think tank.
Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice also told the Spectator this week that the conference was geared towards making Britain “fall in love with Nigel Farage again.”
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It turns out that tiny changes – minutes more exercise, a few grams more veggies – can make a surprisingly large difference to your longevity and heart attack risk.
And Dr Dominic Greenyer, a private GP at The Health Suite, said that those lifestyle changes become medically obvious in time.
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“If you followed two twins over time, you would often see clear differences in their skin, body composition, energy levels and overall health depending on how they live,” Dr Greenyer said.
“Ageing is not just about time passing. It’s about how well the body is maintained.”
Here, he shared the five factors he feels make all the difference:
1) Building and maintaining muscle
As we age, our muscles begin to wane – a process called sarcopenia. If we do nothing to maintain or build it, some research says we’re expected to lose half our muscle mass by 80.
“One of the biggest predictors of healthy ageing is muscle mass,” Dr Greenyer said.
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2) Prioritising sleep and recovery
“Chronic poor sleep can accelerate ageing at a cellular level,” Dr Greenyer said.
“It affects hormones, recovery, inflammation and even visible signs like skin quality.”
Experts think that following a “7-1” sleeping rule (getting at least seven hours of sleep a night, with no more than an hour’s variance between bedtimes and wake-up times) could add years to your life.
3) Reducing inflammation through lifestyle choices
In and of itself, inflammation isn’t a problem – it can help our bodies to heal and may be an important part of muscle growth.
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But “inflammaging” can occur when inflammation is chronic, and might contribute to conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and frailty.
It “is influenced by diet, stress, alcohol intake and overall lifestyle,” Dr Greenyer said.
Those who eat whole foods, stay active, and manage stress well may have less unwanted inflammation, he added.
4) Maintaining “metabolic flexibility”
This is the ability to respond well to changing metabolic demands. It allows you to switch between burning carbohydrates and fat; a more flexible metabolism is linked to better ageing.
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“When this is impaired, people are more prone to energy crashes, fat gain and insulin resistance,” Dr Greenyer said. Exercise, eating well, and avoiding constant snacking may help, he added.
5) Enjoying life, in moderation
There’s lots of research to support the idea that enjoying ourselves – be it through socialising or even eating some candy – might help us to live longer.
“There is good evidence that polyphenol-rich foods such as dark chocolate can support cardiovascular health when consumed in moderation,” Dr Greenyer added. “Just as important is maintaining strong social connections, which are consistently associated with longer lifespan and better mental wellbeing.”
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He ended, “The difference comes from small choices repeated over years – but they should still allow you to enjoy life.”
Farage triggered the contest by resigning after a parliamentary standards probe was launched into his failure to declare a £5 million gift he received from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire.
Farage insisted he has not broken any rules, claiming “it was not a political donation” and pointing out that he was not even an MP when he received it in 2024.
Although the Reform boss increased his majority, his main challenger was Count Binface because Labour, the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens all refused to take part.
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Now Farage back in the Commons, the parliamentary investigation into the donation has resumed.
If he is found to have broken the rules and is suspended by parliament’s standards committee for more than 10 days, yet another by-election could take place.
When Mason asked what “on earth was the point” of last month’s by-election, Farage insisted the committee – which is made up of Tory, Labour and Lib Dem MPs plus seven members of the public – would not give him a fair hearing.
Asked about the a separate Metropolitan Police investigation into four large donations to Reform UK, Farage insisted “we live in a complainant society”.
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He said: “If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation. So we’re under investigation every day for virtually everything we do, because the other political parties are constantly writing to all the authorities.
“There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this, and we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.
“So I think what you’re seeing is the establishment, in a very coordinated way, fighting back. But do you know something, it isn’t going to work.”
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Mason replied: “Doesn’t that sound a bit conspiracy theory-like? This ‘the whole world’s out to get us’ stuff.”
Farage insisted there was a “degree of collusion” between Reform’s opponents, who he claimed have been working to “attack” his party since its success in May’s local elections.
He added: “It’ll keep coming. This won’t stop. Every single thing we do will be questioned in all sorts of ways. This will not stop. They will continually try and do this to us.”
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Asked who “they” are, Farage said: “People who, people who hold positions of power, influence, and money don’t want new kids on the block succeeding.
“It’s the whole ecosystem.”
He then suggested he and Donald Trump had “sat and talked” about the people who allegedly work against them, before changing his mind and adding: “I haven’t actually discussed this with him.
“But I can see the similarities because again, he was an outsider, he wasn’t part of the system.”
When Mason put it to Farage that scrutiny was “inevitable” considering he is angling to one day be prime minister, the Reform leader replied: “There’s been a wilful attempt, and it’s gone on now for months, to say that everything to do with Reform, that every individual involved with Reform is somehow a crook.
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“That’s been the attempt that’s been made.”
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Andy Burnham has insisted that the UK will hit Nato’s target of spending 3.5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) on defence by 2035.
In a post on X, Abbott said: “The imminent threat from Russia is a Nato fiction to justify their complete capitulation to Trump’s demands for more military spending. The increase should not go ahead.”
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The imminent threat from Russia is a NATO fiction to justify their complete capitulation to Trump’s demands for more military spending. The increase should not go ahead.
Fund rise in military spending from tax on middle earners, says Resolution Foundationhttps://t.co/ygSmhbaxvI
Her comments sparked an angry backlash from politicians and pro-Ukraine campaigners.
A spokesman for Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said: “Those views are reprehensible. Ukraine is an innocent party in this. Everyone should be foursquare behind Ukraine and against Russian aggression.”
Posting on X, Tory MP Ben Obese-Jecty said Abbott was “playing the role of Putin’s useful idiot”.
“To rail against increased defence spending by claiming the threat Russia pose is ‘a Nato fiction’ shows she is dangerously out of touch,” he said.
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“Over four years into the war in Ukraine, and with escalating sub-threshold activity, we are agreed that increasing defence spending is a matter of national security. It beggars belief that a senior Labour politician could be so naïve.”
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign said: “There are legitimate debates to be had about defence spending.
“Denying the Russian regime is a threat to democracy all over the world is not legitimate, particularly when the speaker describes Russia’s war on Ukraine as ‘the Nato campaign against Russia’.”
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There are legitimate debates to be had about defence spending. Denying the Russian regime is a threat to democracy all over the world is not legitimate, particularly when the speaker describes Russia’s war on Ukraine as “the NATO campaign against Russia”https://t.co/k08tChG2Pthttps://t.co/UiP55tMv2X
Abbott, the longest serving female MP in the Commons, lost the Labour whip last year after she argued in a letter to The Observer in 2023 that Jewish, Irish and Traveller communities experience prejudice rather than racism.
She got the whip back after Burnham replaced Keir Starmer as prime minister in July.
“Our commitment to supporting Ukraine from Russia’s illegal invasion is ironclad.”
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The prime minister succeeded Keir Starmer on July 20, just days after Westminster’s scheduled summer recess began.
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He therefore did not have to answer any direct questions from his opponents in the House of Commons for the first six weeks for his premiership.
So the Conservatives’ leader Badenoch used her first opportunity on Tuesday to remind MPs how Burnham enjoyed the summer without much scrutiny.
Burnham replied: “The Honorable Lady said the fact that I had been in my position for 43 days.
“Can I turn that round and say that means in six days, this government will have outlived the Truss government? And will be here for a lot, lot longer.”
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Truss was forced out of office in October 2022, after just 49 days in Downing Street.
Her own MPs kicked her out following the economic turmoil caused by her disastrous mini-Budget, which contained £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts, sending interest rates and inflation up while the value of the pound went into decline.
Truss’s name is now regularly used as a stick to beat the Conservatives by its opponents.
Burnham also used his time at the despatch box to remind the Leader of the Opposition just how many of her own front bench had been tightly tied to the Truss government.
“I noticed yesterday she appointed a new shadow cabinet,” the prime minister said. “The new shadow chancellor, I welcome him to his position too – I believe the author of the mini-Budget?”
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This jibe sparked uproar from across the House, as Burnham added: “I think at least half of the shadow cabinet supported the Liz Truss government.”
Badenoch removed Mel Stride and promoted Andrew Griffith to the top job over the bank holiday.
Griffith robustly defended the mini-Budget during the dying days of Truss’s premiership when he was financial secretary to the Treasury.
He said: “We think they’re the right plans because those plans make our economy competitive.
“What we politicians are responsible for is making the economic decisions that will drive continued growth.”
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Truss also welcomed news of Griffith’s promotion on Monday, writing on X: “Congratulations to Andrew Griffith on becoming Shadow Chancellor.
“The economic establishment of the last three decades has failed Britain. They must be taken on.”
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