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David Kogan, chairman of the Independent Football Regulator, says he would step down if political pressure were brought to bear on the body's handling of the Manchester City case.
Kemi Badenoch's uncosted £10bn anti-missile plans were seized on by the rightwing press as the moment it anointed a new champion against Andy Burnham, Guardian columnist Jane Martinson writes.
The prime minister tells MPs Brexit has "done more harm than good" and refuses to rule out an in-out referendum, as opponents accuse him of relitigating a settled question.
The prime minister describes the current UK-EU arrangement as 'not good enough' and frames next month's Brussels summit as a possible first step towards membership, while industry braces for a dispute over 'Made in Europe' trade rules.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs he will pursue deeper cooperation with the EU on youth mobility, food and drink, and energy at next month's summit, claiming the agreements could add £10bn a year to the economy by 2040.
A meeting of Liberal Democrat MPs on Tuesday night could gather the signatures needed to force a confidence vote in Sir Ed Davey, the Guardian has reported, as the party weighs a seat-winning strategy against internal demands for change.
The prime minister will tell the Commons that turning down a closer relationship with the European Union — if one can be negotiated with Brussels — would be a 'dereliction of duty'.
Reform UK's economics spokesperson Robert Jenrick has cast Kemi Badenoch as the face of a metropolitan elite and warned that any coalition with his former party would be like being partnered with a zombie.
A Russian plague researcher’s death, a botched US execution, and the Tory party conference frame a week in which Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
BBC political editor Chris Mason reports that the Conservative Party has closed its Birmingham conference firmly behind Kemi Badenoch, yet opinion polls suggest the Tories remain more unpopular than at the last general election.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and allow couples to leave £1m tax-free.
Kemi Badenoch has wrapped up her address to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, with BBC analysis noting her personal poll ratings are rising while the party's are not.
