Politics

Election results 2019: Ex-Labour Ipswich MP Sandy Martin takes aim at ‘lies’

The former Labour MP for Ipswich, Sandy Martin, who lost his seat to the Conservatives in Thursday’s general election, has hit out at politicians’ campaigns, saying “the only way that we can win elections in this country now is by lying”. Mr Martin, who was elected as Labour MP in 2017, was defeated by Tory

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Impeachment Briefing: Late-Night Vote Is Postponed

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened After more than 12 hours of deliberation, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a vote to approve two impeachment articles against President Trump. The committee will reconvene

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Justice Dept. Releases Legal Opinions That Could Bolster Trump’s Claim of Executive Privilege

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has released several internal legal opinions that could help bolster President Trump’s claim of executive privilege in barring Congress from interviewing witnesses and collecting documents from the executive branch. The legal opinions were written during previous Democratic and Republican administrations by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which provides

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For Trump, Impeachment May Be a Political Plus, but Also a Personal Humiliation

WASHINGTON — Under pressure over his possible impeachment, President Richard M. Nixon supposedly talked to the paintings in the White House. President Bill Clinton absently toyed with his old campaign buttons. President Trump punches out Twitter messages in the lonely midnight hour. Long after his staff has gone home, long after the lights have gone

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DeVos Defends Restricting Debt Relief for Bilked Students

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday vigorously defended her decision to grant partial or no loan relief to tens of thousands of students who were misled by for-profit colleges, blaming the Obama administration for overpromising debt relief. Appearing before the House Education Committee, Ms. DeVos faced Democrats who have accused her of unjustly

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Republicans Are Now ‘the Beer and Bluejeans Party’ Because of Trump. So Says the Trump Campaign.

WASHINGTON — Hours before the House Judiciary Committee was set to take a historic vote to push President Trump to the brink of impeachment, campaign officials gathered across the Potomac River for a state-of-the-race briefing in which they described how the Republican Party had been transformed into the “beer and bluejeans party” crafted in Mr.

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