Because, you see, buying influence is only a worry if a Labour peer donates a couple of "freebie" outfits to close friends. When a man, whose business is literally DARK MONEY, single-handedly rescues a near-bankrupt far-right party, leading in the polls, he's doing it because he believes in Nige.

Trump’s response would presumably be “but what’s wrong with running a fraudulent Ponzi scheme”? Repardon presumably on the blocks already.

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Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."

I spend a lot of time on social media reminding people that it’s possible to be *both* dishonest *and* a moron. The right in the US and in the UK now largely consists of the overlap in this Venn.