Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories....
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Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories.
Martin Lewis pushes minister to apologise for Labour £2,000 tax claim
The Money Saving Expert challenged the Energy Security Secretary about the Tory tax allegation when she appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain
General election: Sunak, Starmer and the £2,000 tax 'lies' row
Tories ramp up £2,000 tax blast but Labour lashes ‘lies’
Sunak's £2,000 Labour tax hit claim 'unreliable', say fact checkers
Damning verdict from Full Fact: Independent fact checkers weeding out the lies, half truths and false statements in the general election campaign
Tories ramp up £2,000 tax attack on Starmer after TV clash with Sunak
The PM was widely seen to have landed a blow on the Labour leader in the tax row after the latter took a while to strongly refute it in the TV showdown
Farage intervention turns heat on Sunak ahead of tonight's TV debate
Tories get personal as Farage U-turn piles on the pressure over Brexit and migration
Zero Tory MPs will be left in Inner London, landslide poll predicts
The YouGov survey showed the Conservatives seeing their number of seats in the capital plummet from 21 to just four
Cleverly admits Tories may have flown Union Jack wrong way up in video
The Home Secretary was grilled on the flag blunder on live TV
Double election blow for Sunak with devastating poll and Farage return
The YouGov survey showed the Conservatives seeing their number of seats in the capital collapsing from 21 to just four
Farage: I won't 'spend much time' on Trump campaign trail if I'm an MP
Mr Farage has U-turned to become Reform UK leader and stand for Parliament
Lib Dems spring 'small boat' woes on Sunak at rowing club near London
The PM was on a visit to Henley and was chatting away when suddenly the Lib-Dem vessel came motoring past on the Thames
Fifty muggings a day going unsolved in London, warn the Lib Democrats
More than 18,500 robberies of personal property reported in 2023 in the capital were closed without a suspect being identified, according to figures from the House of Commons Library
Starmer puts his troops on Tory territory in best defence party fight
The Labour leader reaffirmed his party’s commitment to a ‘nuclear deterrent triple lock’.
Abbott to be 'rubber-stamped' to be Labour MP amid Starmer 'lies' row
Ms Abbott is expected to be confirmed as Labour’s candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington on Tuesday
Abbott says she 'intends to run' as Labour candidate in North London
Labour contender denies being offered a peerage
Five London commuter seats visited by Sunak to boost Tory support
He has been to Harrow East, Wimbledon, Harpenden & Berkhamsted, Chesham & Amersham, and Milton Keynes Central
Lib-Dems woo Labour backers to 'knock out' Tories from Wimbledon
Lib Dems targeting constituency after Tories won by just 628 votes in 2019
Britain allowing Ukraine 'to hit Russia' with Storm Shadow missiles
Jens Stoltenberg made the remark as America and Germany joined Britain in letting Kyiv use their weapons to strike inside Russia
Abbott 'free' to stand as Labour candidate at election, says Starmer
The party is being gripped by a huge row over whether the veteran MP should be allowed to stand again for Parliament
Nato boss: Time to consider letting Kyiv hit Russia with West weapons
Ukraine has built up an ‘ammunition reserve’ to blunt Russian advances
Opinion poll round-up on day nine of the election campaign
Keir Starmer vows to work with Donald Trump if both win power
Rishi Sunak declined to comment on conviction of former US president in hush money trial