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This week, the pundit, coach and former player talks to Beth Rigby about what he says are big questions about football ownerships after sanctions were put on Roman Abramovich. Plus, why he’s signed up as a member of the Labour Party, what makes a good leader and who would he rather work for – Liverpool

In the refurbished splendour of the Blackpool Winter Gardens, the Conservative Party is consciously attempting to press rewind to an earlier, easier era. In their first conference visit to Lancashire since 2006, the programme and the conversation seeks to create an oasis where politics sounds much more like it did in an age before the

The defence secretary has said he “understands (the) threat very well” and would never disclose sensitive information on an insecure line after being targeted by a suspected Russian hoax, a colleague has said. Ben Wallace had “some pretty tough questions” for his department which arranged the video call with an imposter posing as Ukraine’s prime

Vladimir Putin sees himself as heir to the brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, Boris Johnson has said. The prime minister also believed the Russian leader’s threat of using nuclear weapons over his invasion of Ukraine is a “complete distraction” and part of his ploy “to get away with it”. The prime minister said he had

Two cabinet ministers have mistakenly written strongly worded letters to an individual who left his role as P&O Ferries chairman last year. On Friday afternoon, both Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Transport Secretary Grant Shapps posted copies of their respective letters addressed to “the Chairman of P&O Ferries” Robert Woods, demanding answers over the company’s

David Cameron has revealed he is assisting the war effort by driving a van containing supplies for Ukrainian refugees to Poland. Announcing his upcoming trip on social media on Friday, the former Conservative prime minister said he would be travelling with two colleagues from the Chippy Larder, a food project in west Oxfordshire with which

Jacob Rees-Mogg has dismissed the row over parties held during lockdown in Downing Street and across Whitehall as trivial “fluff”. Speaking at the Conservative spring xonference in Blackpool, the Brexit minister said the current Ukraine crisis showed that partygate was not a fundamentally serious issue. “It is a reminder that the world is serious, that

Dramatic video out of Bakhmach, Ukraine, shows a man attempting to stop a Russian tank with his body. #CNN #News

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks to CNN from the streets of Ukraine as the Russian military closes in on Kyiv. #CNN #News

Ret. Colonel Cedric Leighton breaks down the Russian attacks in Ukraine and where they may be headed next. #CNN #News

President Joe Biden will deliver the annual State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress on March 1, 2022. #CNN #News #Biden

CNN’s Pamela Brown speaks with two doctors on the opposite sides of the debate over lifting mask mandates in schools. Some states are loosening mask restrictions while the CDC still recommends everyone to wear a mask indoors when in areas of substantial or high transmission. #CNN #News

Retired Major General James “Spider” Marks explains the origins of the current Russia-Ukraine crisis and the military strategies at play today. #CNN #News

Colorado Governor Jared Polis tells CNN’s Dana Bash why he ended the state’s indoor mask mandates months ago, ahead of the recent push for states to end mask mandates post-Omicron. #CNN #News

Exclusive satellite images provided to CNN show Russia’s military buildup in one of eastern Ukraine’s breakaway regions. Erin Burnett has the details. #CNN #News

Former President Donald Trump, as well as his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., must sit for depositions in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation of their business practices, a New York judge ruled. #CNN #News

Rudy Giuliani has been engaging with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection through his lawyer about the scope of his subpoena and whether he may be able to comply with some requests. #CNN #News

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is attempting to block Trump-backed candidates in the 2022 midterm elections in an effort to reclaim a Republican majority, according to a New York Times report. It’s 2022, and election officials are still dealing with threats https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/politics/election-officials-face-threats-ctzn/index.html CNN Poll: A growing number of people lack confidence in American elections https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/cnn-poll-democracy/index.html

Republicans have had a lengthy history of distrust towards Russia, but after former President Donald Trump took office, many Republicans shifted their position. CNN’s John Avlon explains. #CNN #News