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PM could be ejected from Downing Street if Welsh Labour loses Senedd elections in May, First Minister says
LEFT-WING MPs pushing for a four-month propaganda ban before the EU referendum won influential support yesterday from the Electoral Commission.
Kate Hoey and Kelvin Hopkins are among Labour MPs who united with Tory rebels to demand an official 16-week campaign period before the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. That would stop government plans to completely scrap the normal 28-day “purdah” period of neutrality before the referendum.
Both Ms Hoey and Mr Hopkins are on Parliament’s constitutional affairs committee, which yesterday heard evidence from election experts about the effect of the Tory plans on impartiality.
Campaigns against nuclear weapons on the Clyde, financial backing for arms firms and rising militarism are converging with solidarity for Palestine, as Scotland’s peace movement builds momentum ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, says ARTHUR WEST
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
