Andrew Sparrow
@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social
I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog
Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle joins Greens - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle joins Greens - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander rules out 'national pay-per-mile' scheme for electric vehicles in budget - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander rules out 'national pay-per-mile' scheme for electric vehicles in budget - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Burnham sets out Greater Manchester's 'new model of economic growth' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Burnham sets out Greater Manchester's 'new model of economic growth' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Burnham says UK would benefit from new approach to growth and politics he's promoting in Manchester - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Burnham says UK would benefit from new approach to growth and politics he's promoting in Manchester - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Andy Burnham urges government to rethink plans to make asylum seekers wait up to 20 years for permanent settlement - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Andy Burnham calls on Labour to rethink plans to make it tougher for asylum seekers to settle permanently – UK politics live
The home secretary’s plans ‘may leave people in a sense of limbo and unable to integrate’, Burnham said
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November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Andy Burnham urges government to rethink plans to make asylum seekers wait up to 20 years for permanent settlement - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer will have to resign as PM if SNP wins majority at next year's Holyrood election, John Swinney claims - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Starmer will have to resign as PM if SNP wins majority at next year's Holyrood election, John Swinney claims - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Streeting says it's 'peculiar' for Clive Lewis to say he would give up his seat for Burnham - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Streeting says it's 'peculiar' for Clive Lewis to say he would give up his seat for Burnham - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Streeting defends asylum policy - but says he's not 'comfortable' with more forced removals for families with children - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Streeting defends asylum policy - but says he's not 'comfortable' with more forced removals for families with children - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Only 9% of people believe Rachel Reeves is making economy better, YouGov poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Only 9% of people believe Rachel Reeves is making economy better, YouGov poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Don't listen to the voice that says 'you're not good enough', Starmer tells his son and all children in letter to mark men's day - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Allegations about Farage’s conduct as schoolboy ‘disturbing’, says No 10 – UK politics live
The Guardian spoke to more than a dozen contemporaries of Farage at Dulwich college, a public school in south London
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November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Don't listen to the voice that says 'you're not good enough', Starmer tells his son and all children in letter to mark men's day - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reform UK says it would ban person as candidate if they made racist comments like those Farage denies making as schoolboy @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reform UK says it would ban person as candidate if they made racist comments like those Farage denies making as schoolboy @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
No 10 says allegations about Farage's conduct as a schoolboy 'disturbing' and Reform UK 'dragging politics into dark place', @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
No 10 says allegations about Farage's conduct as a schoolboy 'disturbing' and Reform UK 'dragging politics into dark place', @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer signals that it would be wrong for House of Lords to kill off assisted dying bill with delaying tactics - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Starmer signals that it would be wrong for House of Lords to kill off assisted dying bill with delaying tactics - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
PMQs - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Starmer refuses to rule out freezing tax thresholds as Badenoch criticises budget plans – UK politics live
Tory leader says Reeves will be breaking Labour’s manifesto if she freezes income tax thresholds
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November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
PMQs - snap verdict - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Farage biographer Michael Crick says Reform UK leader should apologise in light of new evidence of his schoolboy racism - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Farage biographer Michael Crick says Reform UK leader should apologise in light of new evidence of his schoolboy racism - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Green party says Reform UK's proposed aid cuts 'cruel and senseless', as it says it would raise aid spending to 1% of GDP - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Green party says Reform UK's proposed aid cuts 'cruel and senseless', as it says it would raise aid spending to 1% of GDP - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Badenoch describes Church of England as 'Labour party at prayer', as she says letting welfare spending soar 'not Christian' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Badenoch describes Church of England as 'Labour party at prayer', as she says letting welfare spending soar 'not Christian' - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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NEW: Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’
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Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’
Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on ‘non-British-sounding’ surnames in court was ‘frankly racist’
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November 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
NEW: Ofcom receives complaints over GB News item on defendants’ ‘foreign-sounding names’
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Dan Jarvis, security minister, says government still hasn't decided whether China will join Russia and Iran in Firs enhanced tier - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – politics live
Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliament
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November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Dan Jarvis, security minister, says government still hasn't decided whether China will join Russia and Iran in Firs enhanced tier - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
MPs warned to avoid China-linked agents trying to contact them on LinkedIn, ahead of statement by security minister - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
MPs warned to avoid China-linked agents trying to contact them on LinkedIn, ahead of statement by security minister - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Badenoch accuses Reform UK of deceiving voters with claim it could easily abandon post-Brexit EU trade deal - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reform’s plan to cut EU citizens’ benefits would risk trade war with Europe, Labour claims – UK politics live
As Reform announces what it claims are £25bn in savings through cuts, Labour says ‘Farage’s fantasy numbers don’t add up’
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November 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Badenoch accuses Reform UK of deceiving voters with claim it could easily abandon post-Brexit EU trade deal - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Shabana Mahmood says UK government in past has been 'unwilling to show necessary toughness' over asylum removals, @syalrajeev.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Home Office says more families and children of failed asylum seekers will face deportation as Labour MPs attack ‘dystopian’ plans – live
Home office intends to ramp up deportation of families and children of failed asylum seekers saying ‘hesitancy’ about this in the past was wrong
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November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Shabana Mahmood says UK government in past has been 'unwilling to show necessary toughness' over asylum removals, @syalrajeev.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Home Office says more refused asylum families with children face deportation, suggesting past 'hesitancy' about this wrong - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Home Office says more refused asylum families with children face deportation, suggesting past 'hesitancy' about this wrong - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice complains about Send children wearing ear defenders in schools @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice complains about Send children wearing ear defenders in schools @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
BBC chair Samir Shah tells staff Trump has 'no basis' for libel case and corporation 'determined' to fight it - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
BBC chair Samir Shah tells staff Trump has 'no basis' for libel case and corporation 'determined' to fight it - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...