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"Allies of Shabana Mahmood are confident that she would be kept as Home Secretary by a Burnham premiership and her reforms would hardly be watered down, if at all" - PoliticsHome
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The "fairly Labour" group [excluding 'very Labour'] are the contingent support group that makes the party viable: the new "hero" voters
They are moderately liberal balancers on immigration - most have a fair amount of sympathy for asylum seekers: they are reluctant to cut overall numbers.
This might be vibes: it is also policy content on 15 years for settlement and 20 years for refugee settlement being much too long for supporters of the Labour party.
Those who won't vote Labour are keener on retrospective changes than those who might
Our March 2026 data found Mahmood trailed Starmer by 20% with third of electorate who say fairly likely to consider Labour next time
Labour party 64-28 (+36)
Starmer 60-35 (+25)
Mahmood 40-46 (-6)
Mahmood better among voters who say "never" vote Labour
Starmer 5-90 (-85)
Mahmood 11-78 (-67)
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Andy Burnham supporters are increasingly optimistic about Makerfield. Sienna Rodgers explores what comes after the by-election
Immigration into NI is tiny, and after three years of race riots, it hardly looks attractive to newcomers. But the idea that this is anything other than a pronounced problem for Loyalism and that "cross-community rioting" will emerge is nuts. The lads with flags in Dublin aren't from the Falls.
Colin Murray
Andrew McQuillan (Spectator) notes "anti-immigration violence is an increasing feature of loyalism in recent years" but regrets "kumbaya politics" of Irish nationalists opposing violence. Hopes "the potential for genuine cross-community rioting cannot be discounted"
spectator.com/article/why-...
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In North Belfast, the loyalist ceding of ground to nationalists has been compounded by the impact of immigration