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👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 MPs may be on recess – but as the Iran war enters its fifth week should Whitehall ramp up contingency planning for its impact at home? With the Strait of Hormuz still shut and reports of a potential US ground invasion, Prime Minister Sir…

The government is reviewing its electric car sale quotas – one of its flagship green policies. With 2025 having the lowest vehicle production in the UK since 1952, ministers are now looking at how to change the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, the government confirmed. If it decides to lower the quotas, it would represent…

Kemi Badenoch has told Sky News the row over reported missing messages from Morgan McSweeney’s stolen phone is “extremely fishy” and calling it so is not a conspiracy. Sir Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff had his work phone stolen last autumn, leading to the government saying it may be unable to publish all his…

It’s a windy March morning and I’m standing in the forecourt of a small service station that has been re-dressed in Reform teal. Across the petrol station’s price board in giant lettering reads Reform Refuel: 25p off with Farage. A gaggle of journalists, TV cameras, and photographers have gathered, alongside some curious locals. Alan Graves,…

Sir Keir Starmer has said it is “a little bit far-fetched” to suggest the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone was linked to the release of files relating to Lord Mandelson. The government is facing questions after it emerged that the PM’s former chief of staff’s phone was stolen, leading to the likely loss of his…

👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Beth is in Helsinki with the prime minister for an exclusive interview for the podcast. Sir Keir Starmer has said he “hates the fact” that he made a “mistake” over the appointment of Peter Mandelson. “I dwell on it. I beat myself…

Sir Keir Starmer says Donald Trump is seeking to “put pressure on me in different ways” – but has insisted that he won’t “buckle under pressure”. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby, the prime minister said he “wanted a good relationship” with the US president and still does, but vowed he is “not…

Cards on the table, when I first read a story heavily suggesting the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s mobile phone was somehow connected to requests for messages about Lord Mandelson, I thought to myself: that is an absurd conspiracy theory. After all, what are those “raising an eyebrow” at this affair saying happened? Was Number 10’s…

A month into the Iran war and the prime minister, on a visit to Finland with allies in the Joint Expeditionary Forces military coalition this week, left me in no doubt that he believes our lives, our country and the way we do things, is about to profoundly change. This is a “once in a…

Green MPs have written to Ed Miliband demanding he set out plans to decouple electricity prices from gas, after Sky News revealed he was “looking into” the policy. The letter calls for the government to fully commit to the measure, arguing it could knock hundreds of pounds off household energy bills by ending the “rigged…