Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two books: Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now and How To Be A Liberal.

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Obama intervention 'surprised' Alex Salmond

Salmond ‘surprised’ by Obama’s independence intervention

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Humiliated: Give faces the Commons tomorrow

Mutually assured destruction: May and Gove’s leadership row humbles them both

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Obama backs Better Together

Obama: Scotland should stay with the UK

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Cutting it up: New law will target adulterants

Government crackdown on drug cutting agents panders to myths

*Comment & Analysis

Queens Speech 2014

Queen’s Speech as-it-happens

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An amputated soldier following fighting in Somalia. Despite UNHCR appeals, Britain is deporting people back to the country.

What on earth is Britain doing deporting people to Somalia?

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A Somali man looks down at a blast victim as a wounded Somali mother holds her two children, one wounded and one dead, following a bomb attack in Mogadishu last month

Somali deportation halted at the last minute

A deportation to Somalia set for this morning has been halted at the last minute, following a successful judicial review.

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Huhne adds to Clegg's leadership woes

Huhne: Clegg’s ‘colourless mush’ is costing us the election

Another front opens up in Clegg’s fight to maintain his leadership of the Lib Dems, as Chris Huhne warns he is “destroying the Lib Dem vote”

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Soubry congratulates a colleague as she arrives at Downing Street during the 2013 reshuffle

Tory minister: Some people concerned about immigration are ‘frankly racist’

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Nigel Farage is greeted by a supporter following the local elections, but he hasn't done as well as the media thinks he has

Four things we’ve learned from the local elections

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Could the Greens provide the real upset at the local and European elections?

Could the Greens provide the real upset of the European elections?

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Miliband and wife Justine leave Sutton Village Hall after voting this morning

Labour and Ukip neck-and-neck as Europe goes to the polls

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Jeremy Rifkin: "What we're seeing now is the emergence of a new economic system"

How the internet will destroy capitalism

*Comment & Analysis

PMQs as-it-happens

PMQs as-it-happened

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Details about the extent of rape and sexual assault in prison are hard to come by

The denial of rape in prison

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A Ukip problem? Youth wing member quits over fears of racism

Asian Ukip member quits warning of ‘racist populism’

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Khan warns Grayling is burying his head in the sand on sex in prisons

Khan: I’ll be open to prison sex inquiry if we win election

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The 2010 debates proved a game-changer

Why TV debates are a wildcard threat for David Cameron

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The truth about prison libraries

Dear prisons minister: Here’s the truth about prison libraries

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