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Rishi Sunak's California flat soars in value by £125k in year to £6.4million
New documents show the PM's luxury beachfront home in Santa Monica is now worth £6.4million - with the PM and his wife Akshata Murty paying £73,500 in property tax last year
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Tory students filmed dancing to sick Nazi anthem at posh bash
Footage from a black tie event hosted by the Warwick University Conservative Association's (UWCA) shows revellers dancing to Erika, a 1938 song beloved by white supremacists
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Nigel Farage loses temper on TV as he's accused of turning blind eye to racism
Nigel Farage reacted angrily after Sir Trevor Phillips suggested he was 'prepared to use any means at all, including fanning the flames of prejudice' to advance his aims
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Campaigner for Nigel Farage says migrants should be shot in undercover footage
Reform UK canvasser Andrew Parker told an undercover investigator that people who arrive by small boats should be shot by Army recruits and used a racist slur about Rishi Sunak
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Factory worker confronts Sunak saying things 'infinitely worse' under Tories
The Prime Minister, visiting a pottery factory in Derbyshire, was told things are 'infinitely worse' than they were in 2010, and told that the rise in people using foodbanks is 'not acceptable'
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Nine bombshells from Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak's 'shouty' TV election debate
Keir Starmer landed heavy blows in a bitter BBC debate with Rishi Sunak just over a debate before the General Election, accusing the PM of lying to voters at the end
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Every school pupil will get two weeks of 'quality' work experience, Labour vows
Labour has vowed to 'turbocharge' careers advice and make sure pupils get 'quality' work experience amid fears thousands of youngsters are falling through the cracks
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UK's top polling guru says it's 'too late' for Sunak and highlights big mistake
Sir John Curtice said Rishi Sunak doesn't have enough time to revive his ailing fortunes - and said the PM was wrong to focus too much on immigration and tax cuts
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'I lost £800 because of Tory election betting scandal - it sticks in throat'
Peter Spurgeon, from Merseyside, is set to lose hundreds of pounds after a mysterious punter matched his bet on Betfair Exchange the day before Rishi Sunak's announcement
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Ex-No10 aide makes prediction on Tory leaders after Rishi Sunak
Katie Perrior, who was director of communications under Theresa May, predicted the Tories will 'plough through a couple of leaders' before it sorts itself out with no money
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Tory Cabinet minister Alister Jack 'bragged he made £2,100 on election bet'
Alister Jack is claimed to have told a BBC reporter he'd won £2,100 by betting on the date of the General Election - but this evening claimed it had been a 'joke'
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Rishi Sunak put on spot over claims he froze out Iceland boss in foodbank row
Rishi Sunak was confronted over claims by Iceland boss Richard Walker that the Prime Minister berated him for publicly raising concerns about the rising use of foodbanks
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Small boat crossings since Sunak became PM set to pass 50,000 within 24 hours
Since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister in October 2022, 49,709 people have reached the UK by small boat despite him making stopping the crossings a key pledge
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Zelensky warns Nigel Farage is 'infected with the virus of Putinism'
Reform UK Nigel Farage has come under fire after saying the West was to blame for the war in Ukraine, but denied he's an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin
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Michael Gove likens Tory betting scandal to Partygate as Sunak crisis deepens
Housing Secretary Michael Gove likened the betting scandal to Partygate as Rishi Sunak's election campaign got dragged further into crisis with Tory Nick Mason dragged in
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Over 10,000 hospitalised with waterborne diseases as river sewage crisis deepens
Tories have come under fire over 'sickening' failures as alarming data show 10,000 hospitalisations since 2019 with diseases such as typhoid, salmonella and E.coli
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Jeremy Hunt gets in muddle over National Service plan (and son's age) on tape
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who is supposed to be the Tory numbers man, got confused about Rishi Sunak's flagship National Service plan for teenagers - and the age of his own son
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Top Tory refuses to rule out more names emerging in election gambling scandal
Tory Welsh Secretary David TC Davies said he has 'absolutely no idea' if more names will emerge in the Gambling Commission probe over election date bets
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Ex-Tory minister destroys Rishi Sunak for 'siding with climate deniers'
Former Tory climate change tsar Chris Skidmore lashed out at the Prime Minister and said he'd be voting Labour for the first time in a bitter blow for Rishi Sunak
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15 key moments in BBC Question Time debate as Rishi Sunak mauled on live TV
Rishi Sunak endured a torrid night on BBC Question Time as he was confronted over the betting scandal, the NHS, Tory chaos and National Service
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Angela Rayner says 'time's up' for bad landlords as Labour launches 'crusade'
Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband have unveiled plans to raise energy efficiency standards and save tenants an average of £250 in energy bills in a 'crusade' against fuel poverty
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'True cost' of Rishi Sunak's National Service fiasco 'threatens to sink it'
Startling analysis of training costs suggests the non-military part of Rishi Sunak's National Service plan alone could cost more than the £2.5billion he's allocated for it
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Keir Starmer emotional as Gary Neville asks about his parents in moving clip
Keir Starmer told Gary Neville that his team are ready to 'hit the ground running' if he becomes PM in a video filmed in the Lake District, where he holidayed as a child
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Gary Neville delivers scathing verdict on Tories as he backs Keir Starmer
Manchester United and England icon Gary Neville spoke to Keir Starmer in an election broadcast in which he warned many voters think politicians are 'all the same'
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Mega-poll predicts Tories will win just 108 seats in General Election bloodbath
YouGov figures reveal the Tories are likely to be reduced to just 108 MPs, down a massive 257 since 2019 - while Labour are tipped to secure 425 seats