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REFORMED CHARACTERS
In a deleted post, Reform candidate Robert Kenyon backed a ban on MPs taking extra-parliamentary jobs and owning shares. What would his leader say!

A MURRELL DILEMMA
Peter Murrell's sentencing will not mark the end of this sorry chapter in SNP history, as calls continue for a full independent inquiry.

MANDY PANDERING
The latest Mandelson papers suggest that US military tech firm Anduril's UK contracts were in part the result of a desire to suck up to Donald Trump.

EXPLOSIVE NEWS
Palantir is the subject of an excoriating report by a select committee, who say the firm “shouldn't play such a significant role in the public sector”.

TEMPTING FREIGHT
With even Donald Trump furious at persistent Israeli bombing raids in Lebanon, is the UK's arms exports embargo keeping its hands clean? Not entirely.

CALLED TO ORDURE
Keir Starmer hates the weekly half-hour PMQs so much that he has taken to padding it out with worthy preambles and gluey tributes.

CRASH COURSE
Responding to Tony Blair's criticism, Keir Starmer noted that Blair had not mentioned the 2008 financial crisis. So is he wary of another such crisis? Er…

A WARMING FROM HISTORY...
Climate sceptics leapt on Trump's claim that an old projection was “WRONG” as proof that climate change is rubbish – but the reality is more nuanced.

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A Murray dance
MD on the new health secretary

On message
Hacks' mysterious Mandelson access

Party's over
Donald Trump's birthday blues

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