Close, connected and critical to our future. This is the Arctic. Europe’s Northern Neighborhood. Tomorrow, we’re presenting a new Strategy for our common geographical and political space.

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"Many elected officials within Reform believe the party is putting on an acceptable face to get elected, and then would install a British ICE, engage in mass deportations, or enact violent reprisals against civil servants, police officers, and others who it felt had betrayed Britain."

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Burnham too is deluded on this issue. He might think he's playing nice, but he's opening the door to the nastiest elements, who *will* come to dominate if they can simply buy persuasion, in the way that Bolsonaro's backers have done in Brazil. By refusing to cap, he's signing Labour's death warrant.

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By and large we don't get the governments we deserve; we get the governments funders pay for. As in the US, UK politics is becoming dominated by huge spending. The result is *inevitably* to push us rightwards. The unions' position is breath-takingly blinkered. They will never win the funding race.

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The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

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