All news by author: John Stevens

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Keir Starmer backs Mirror campaign to stamp out sale of illegal dogs online
Labour leader supports campaign on dangerous dogs and vowed to look at how the Dangerous Dogs Act can be toughened if he gets into No10
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Gas boss demands families offered green alternative to expensive heat pumps
Ministers are due to make a decision later this year on whether the UK's existing gas grid could carry a blend of hydrogen to people's homes
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Sunak slammed for failing to end strikes after one year of walkouts - new dates
As this week marks one year since railway workers in the RMT voted to begin their biggest walkouts in almost 30 years, trade union leaders demanded the PM to stop 'messing around' and end the disruption
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PM spends £260,000 of taxpayer cash on bash to woo business after economic chaos
Labour accused the Conservatives of using money from the public purse to 'paper over the cracks of their 13 years of economic failure with meaningless photo opportunities'
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'How do you distract from Speedy Sue. It's obvious, Boris Johnson!'
Could it be that Rishi Sunak’s allies in government are desperate to distract from his own problems with sleaze? The timing could not be a more welcome distraction
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Rachel Reeves will copy Joe Biden's plan to get more mothers into tech jobs
The Shadow Chancellor, who will hold talks with the U.S. President’s team in Washington DC today, has pledged to learn from his drive to encourage women into cutting edge sectors
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Suella Braverman must be sacked if she told aide to mislead Mirror, says Rayner
Rishi Sunak was denounced as 'weak, weak, weak' as he shilly-shallied over whether to launch a sleaze probe into the Home Secretary who has been dubbed 'Speedy Sue'
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Tory MP rants about BBC grilling Rishi Sunak over Suella Braverman speeding row
Sir Charles Walker complained that BBC Political Editor Chris Mason had asked the Prime Minister about the scandal at a press conference at the G7 summit in Japan
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Suella Braverman told to 'come clean' on whether she told aide to mislead Mirror
Lib Dem chief whip Wendy Chamberlain has written to Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to demand an investigation after the Home Secretary's team told the Mirror she hadn't been caught speeding
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Tory James Cleverly hires £40m VIP jet to travel like Succession's Kendall Roy
The Foreign Secretary has chartered the aircraft described as 'one of the best luxury private jets money can buy' for his eight-day diplomatic jaunt around the Caribbean and Latin America
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Speaker shuts down Suella Braverman's paedophile rant as she ducks speeding row
The Home Secretary appeared rattled as MPs grilled her on claims she asked civil servants to help her avoid attending a driving awareness course with members of the public
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Keir Starmer unveils plan to improve social care to free up more hospital beds
Labour leader Keir Starmer will give a major speech detailing his plans to “build an NHS fit for the future” with one in every seven hospital beds taken up by people who don't need to be there
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Joe Biden declares Vladimir Putin 'will not break resolve' in supporting Ukraine
Joe Biden told Volodymyr Zelensky and other fellow world leaders at the G7 summit that the United States are "not going anywhere" as Vladimir Putin's bloody war continues
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The four times Suella Braverman's aide denied speeding claims - transcript
A transcript shows that the Home Secretary's special adviser insisted it was "nonsense" that she'd been done for speeding when contacted by the Mirror six weeks ago
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Suella Braverman's team originally denied speeding ticket - as pressure mounts
The Mirror can reveal the Home Secretary's special adviser insisted she had not been done for speeding when contacted by this newspaper six weeks ago
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Rishi Sunak's election agent duped voters with fake council tax demand
The PM's Tory election agent produced the scam leaflet that scared people into think they owed money as it was made to look like it came from the local council
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Raging Boris Johnson warned he would punch 'lickspittle' Macron's lights out
The PM threatened an "orgy of frog bashing" after the French President criticised his handling of the Ukrainian refugee crisis, former spin doctor Guto Harri revealed
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Boris Johnson's fan club buy caps from China despite claiming to be patriotic
The foreign-made hats were handed out as supporters of the ex-PM gathered in Bournemouth for the inaugural conference of the Conservative Democratic Organisation
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Pupils encouraged to do engineering and computing GCSEs to get jobs without uni
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham wants students to pick GCSE subjects that will help them to get good jobs in the local economy without the need for university
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'Rishi tries pork pie diplomacy in No10 but it's not the red meat MPs want'
The PM attempted to rally his MPs at a gathering in Downing Street on Monday night, but after he lost more than 1,000 council seats Tory infighting is back
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Keir Starmer demands a general election now to end 13 years of Tory hell
In an interview with the Mirror, Keir Starmer warned that struggling families cannot afford another day of this Tory government as he urged Rishi Sunak to hold an election
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'Struggling families want to know how Keir Starmer would make lives better'
Following Labour’s success in the local elections, Keir Starmer will face questions on how exactly he will make life better for the millions struggling up and down this country
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Labour could bring back maintenance grants for low income students if elected
Maintenance grants were scrapped by the Tories seven years ago, despite the average student in England having loan debt of around £45,000 when they graduate
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9 times flip-flopping Rishi Sunak broke his promises - from NHS waits to taxes
The PM has become notorious for chucking promises made to voters as he has whacked up taxes, failed to cut record hospital waiting lists and ditched a Brexit pledge to scrap EU laws
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Boris Johnson wanted to send Rishi Sunak message telling him 'you're a c**t'
The ex-PM found the explicit video to send to Mr Sunak after he quit as chancellor in what he saw as 'the great betrayal of all time', according to former No10 spin doctor Guto Harri