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With Nigel Farage’s Reform UK muscling in to key parts of the country, Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan speaks to politicians through the North of England, where Labour has an uphill battle to convince their heartlands they can be trusted. Sascha speaks to Labour MP Josh Simons, whose seat of Makerfield had one of the highest proportion of votes for Reform without actually voting in one of the party’s MP. Simons tells Sascha about his plans to convince his voters that Westminster – and the Labour Party – speak for them, and how finally building one road, first earmarked as…
“When somebody concentrates all power into their hands, then of course that person will be held responsible for their mistakes,” said one SPD politician, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party matters. In the past, Klingbeil could always blame the party’s failures on others — including Olaf Scholz’s unpopularity — said the parliamentarian. But now, the parliamentarian added, Klingbeil is “the one who has to deliver.” ‘On the edge of the cliff’ The son of a soldier and a retail clerk, Klingbeil grew up in the military town of Munster in northern Germany — home to one of…
Moscow also left it until the eleventh hour to provide any detail about who would be in its delegation. With Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov not included either, it was clear this would not be an empowered team. A further signal of that was the man chosen to lead the delegation, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who served as an arch-patriotic culture minister from 2012 to 2020 and who oversaw the recent redrafting of official history school textbooks to advance the Kremlin’s dreary weaponization of historical memory. All Putin was doing by sending a delegation was to offer the diplomatic bare minimum…
Friedrich Merz ist zehn Tage Kanzler – Zeit für eine Zwischenbilanz. Gemeinsam mit Veit Medick vom Stern analysiert Gordon Repinski: Was hat Merz rhetorisch gut gemacht, wo droht der Rückfall in Scholz’sche Ankündigungen? Außenpolitisch setzt er erste Akzente – vom Kiew-Telefonat mit Trump bis zum Schulterschluss mit Macron und Tusk. Doch ob die angekündigte Veränderung bis zum Sommer realistisch ist, bleibt fraglich. Auch die SPD steht vor entscheidenden Wochen: Bärbel Bas wächst zur Symbolfigur, Tim Klüssendorf muss sich als Generalsekretär beweisen – und Lars Klingbeil bekommt als Finanzminister die erste große Rechnung serviert. Intern ist die Kritik laut, der Parteitag…
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But more recent polls have shown the gap narrowing significantly as decision day gets closer. On Wednesday, a poll of 4,000 people by AtlasIntel put the two candidates level on 48 percent each. Crucially, AtlasIntel included a sample of the large Romanian diaspora population, among whom Simion is hugely popular. Then, on Thursday, Dan took the lead in a poll for the first time, with 52 percent to Simion’s 48 percent. That survey, by independent research institute IRSOP, canvassed some 950 people. Nicușor Dan, 55, has been the independent mayor of Romania’s capital, Bucharest, since 2020. | Robert Ghement/EFE via…
“Still, we are considering sending someone at the appropriate level to at least hear what these people have to say and whether they are able to decide at least anything. If they are willing to have a serious conversion, we may engage in it. Otherwise, we will have the right to conclude that this is a Russian charade, not meaningful work for peace,” the official added. After a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, Zelenskyy said he was sending a delegation, led by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, to talk to the Russians and Americans in Istanbul.…
Vibe: Lining up to grab a tray (and again after my meal to put the tray on a conveyor belt), this POLITICO reporter felt vaguely like livestock being ushered through a feedlot. The ambiance did not improve when an ear-splitting alarm suddenly screamed through the room; potentially a regular occurrence, as most forks barely paused on their way to mouths. Who’s picking up the check? For around €9, I scored a sizeable vegetarian main and a dessert, so the prices are well within the budget of the average, barely taxed Commission worker, and even within the budget of the outrageously taxed POLITICO…
Stéphane Dedeyan, qui fait partie des six candidats auditionnés le 2 mai dernier par les administrateurs du comité des nominations de l’entreprise, est perçu comme le candidat de Bercy et des milieux économiques, selon de multiples connaisseurs du dossier. Le banquier bénéficie du soutien du sortant Philippe Wahl — un proche d’Eric Lombard — qui a officiellement fait campagne en sa faveur avant de se montrer plus discret, les uns et les autres estimant qu’il ne rendait pas vraiment service à son poulain. L’actuel PDG de La Poste était allé plaider sa candidature à l’Elysée auprès d’Alexis Kohler, quelques semaines…
LONDON — A Ukrainian man has been charged with arson after a fire at a north London property owned by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Metropolitan Police announced late Thursday that Roman Lavrynovych, a 21-year-old Ukrainian national, had been charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life. The fires relate to three separate events on May 11 and May 12: a vehicle fire, a fire at the entrance of a property, and a fire at another residential address.