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Meeting Tommy Robinson earlier this month, the French anti-immigration politician Éric Zemmour bluntly summed up his mission: “Politics needs to defeat demographics.” Given rising numbers of Muslims, he said, there was perhaps “10 to 20 years” left to save Europe from “disappearing”. Both men placed their hopes in one policy to reverse the “invasion”: remigration.At root, remigration means using mass deportations in order to curtail minority – especially Muslim – populations. In France’s 2022 presidential election, Zemmour pledged the creation of a “ministry of remigration” meant to remove “1 million” people, targeting undocumented and dual-national criminals. In practice, supporters of…

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been hosted by the Trump administration for a meeting at the state department in Washington.Robinson, 43, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was hosted by Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser at the state department.Rittenhouse wrote on X: “Honoured to have free speech warrior @TRobinsonNewEra at Department of State today.“The world and the West is a better place when we fight for freedom of speech and no one has been on the front lines more than Tommy. Good to see you my friend!”Robinson, who has convictions for assault, using a fake passport, mortgage fraud and…

An increasingly bloody battle for the soul of the leftwing Your Party set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will come to a conclusion on Thursday, when the results of its leadership election will be announced.After almost eight months of public spats, rows over money, accusations of sexism and rifts over policy and direction, Your Party is hoping to turn a page on the manifold misfortunes that have beset it since its launch last year.“The future of the party lies in the balance,” said one Corbyn-allied insider. “You have two fundamentally differing visions of the party and what it…

Ministers have called in Tony Blair’s thinktank and private tech companies to guide them on deploying AI across the UK government in a move campaigners compared to “inviting in foxes to consult on the future of the henhouse”.James Murray, chief secretary to the Treasury, chaired a meeting on Wednesday with the director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), the chair of IBM and senior executives at AI companies including Faculty AI, now part of Accenture, and Dex Hunter-Torricke, a former communications adviser at Google, Facebook and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.“These people are exactly who can help…

Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, will not face a sanction for leaflets that omitted the party’s imprint, after a high court judge accepted this was due to an inadvertent printing error.Reform admitted that it sent about 81,000 leaflets to the constituency’s voters from a “concerned neighbour”, which did not state they had been funded and distributed by the party.Under the Representation of the People Act 1983, election material must include the name and address of those the document promotes. Failure to do can result in a £5,000 fine, and a three three-year disqualification from…

Good morning. It is the last full day of campaigning in the Gorton and Denton byelection and a new poll is out which suggests – that it is too close to call, and that the Green party, Labour and Reform UK all have a credible chance of winning.The data is a bit more specific than that. Opinium has done the poll for Byline Times and Forward Democracy and the figures show a dead heat amongst all voters (the Greens and Labour on 28%, Reform UK on 27%), but the Greens marginally ahead (30%) of Labour and Reform UK (both on…

A byelection is usually called when something bad has happened. In Gorton and Denton it is because Andrew Gwynne, the former Labour MP for the Greater Manchester constituency, became embroiled in an embarrassing WhatsApp scandal. Gwynne was suspended by Labour and then retired because of ill-health. On Thursday, his former constituents go to the polls to elect a new MP.The byelection comes at a terrible time for Keir Starmer, with Reform riding high in the polls and his approval ratings at an all-time low. Then Greater Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, said he wanted to stand.Starmer blocked Burnham’s candidacy, saying it…

Political donations in cryptocurrency should be subject to an urgent temporary ban to stop foreign interference in British elections, the chair of the national security committee has said.Matt Western, who leads the committee of MPs and peers, said a moratorium was needed until the risks of donations in cryptocurrency have been dealt with – including adequate checks on the source of the money.The committee also called for a review of sentences for electoral offences, suggesting more of a deterrence was needed, with police highlighting that many covert surveillance measures can only be used for crimes that would lead to jail…

Teachers and schools face “a huge ask” implementing the government’s special needs proposals affecting hundreds of thousands of children, according to education leaders and MPs who otherwise gave the plans a cautious welcome.Under the plans unveiled by Bridget Phillipson, mainstream schools in England will assess pupils with special needs and draw up individual support plans (ISPs), creating a potential workload burden before the changes take full effect in 2029-30.The new plans aim to extend support to many of the 1.3 million children in state schools identified as having special needs but who do not have the education, health and care…

British citizens with a second nationality risk being blocked from entering the UK from Wednesday, the Home Office has confirmed.The government has decided to ignore pleas from families, the Liberal Democrats and the former Conservative cabinet minister David Davies for a grace period to allow British dual nationals to adapt to the new rules they face.Those who do not present a British passport or a certificate proving their right to enter the UK may be refused boarding on a flight, ferry or train under the latest rules.A Home Office spokesperson said: “The UK is moving to a modernised digital immigration…