Seven members of the Great British PAC took a register to vote stall to Buchanan Street on Saturday and found the crowds coming to them, rather than the other way round.
Vicky Richter · 28 September 2026Downing Street advisers are pushing Andy Burnham to call a spring general election, believing it is Labour's best chance of another majority. YouGov's latest MRP model projects Labour 85 seats short. SNP sources have named their price, and the Prime Minister insists he has ruled out an early election.
Vicky Richter · 26 September 2026The Government’s £88m-plus package combines previously announced and new humanitarian support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Meanwhile, Army training cuts are linked to a £30m saving, with reservists expected to lose service days.
Vicky Richter · 25 September 2026Some 83,279 people have arrived in small boats since the general election, compared with 73,660 regular soldiers in the British Army. The milestone came in a record week: 781 crossings on Wednesday and two dinghies landing unchallenged on the Kent coast.
Vicky Richter · 25 September 2026France's parliamentary inquiry into the Channel accords has warned that the next three-year deal could reach €1 billion, equivalent to roughly £860 million. Sébastien Huyghe's figure is conditional, and nothing has been agreed.
Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026A cross-party think tank has drawn up plans to scrap the licence fee and replace it with a monthly charge on internet connections, understood to have been discussed with advisers to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. The proposal would cut the annual cost for existing payers, but extend BBC funding to millions of households that pay nothing today.
Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026A report by the Tony Blair Institute sets a ten-year ambition for Britain to rejoin a significantly reformed EU and lands three days before Labour gathers in Liverpool. The same morning, the IPPR estimated that UK goods exports to the EU could have been up to £6.5bn a year higher under a mutual recognition agreement.
Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026Negotiations between the British Museum and Greece over the future of the Elgin Marbles have reportedly collapsed, more than a year after the Great British PAC assembled a cross-party coalition of parliamentarians, lawyers, historians, academics and public figures to demand an end to secretive plans to remove the sculptures from Britain.
Vicky Richter · 24 September 2026The Defence Secretary has conceded the Chagos Islands deal is not good enough without American backing, and placed the origin of the legal dispute in decolonisation. Both the security case and the legal case for the treaty are now being tested at the same time.
Vicky Richter · 23 September 2026Ofcom's 2026 news consumption survey asked viewers what they thought of the news they already watch. GB News viewers gave their channel 74 per cent on trust. BBC viewers gave the BBC 66 per cent. On impartiality, 63 per cent to 53. None of it appeared in the report published on 15 September. It surfaced afterwards, once GB News asked for it. Ofcom calls the delay an administrative error. The figures land while ministers consult on making "trusted" news providers more prominent on social media, and as new Ofcom crisis measures for online platforms take effect this autumn. Great British PAC chief executive Claire Bullivant says the figures are "deeply embarrassing for both Ofcom and the BBC".
Vicky Richter · 23 September 2026Britain already runs a long list of bodies watching misinformation, hostile influence and information threats. Andy Burnham has just announced another one, tasked with detecting, attributing and disrupting hostile state information attacks. No budget, no headcount, and no published definition of what "disrupt" means.
Vicky Richter · 23 September 2026The Liberal Democrats think Britons would sign up to defend the country if only they were given the option. The reaction to the "war register" suggests otherwise.
Vicky Richter · 22 September 2026Stories originally reported by our sister title, the Conservative Post. Join the PAC to get them first.
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