All news by author: Sophie Huskisson
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Top doctor warns scrapping two-week targets won’t help 'biggest cancer crisis'
An oncologist said 'failure is failure however you measure it' as it emerged the NHS is set to ditch a target for suspected cancer patients to see a specialist within two weeks
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Deadly bacteria outbreak forces all migrants to leave barge after just four days
The Home Office sent asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm barge moored at Portland in Dorset despite knowing Legionella bacteria had been discovered in the water supply
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Asylum seeker with TB told to move onto migrant barge, as crossings hit 100,000
A doctor treating the tuberculosis patient warned of a 'public health catastrophe' as the Home Office came under pressure to explain why it's not managed to stop Channel crossings
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Private jet addict Rishi Sunak takes more VIP flights around UK than any PM
The PM has taken a domestic private plane or helicopter flight every eight days during his time as PM fuelling criticism that he's wasting taxpayer cash and damaging environment
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Over 20,000 families kicked out of homes since Tories pledged to ban evictions
Households being kicked out of their homes because of no-fault evictions increased by 41% last year as the Tories fail to follow through on their 2019 promise to ban them
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Military to use 'Dad's Army' of older troops as it fails to recruit youngsters
Tory Defence Minister Andrew Murrison revealed plans for a more 'flexible' approach to the workforce including raising age caps and hiring more neurodiverse people
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Gordon Brown says Taliban treatment of women and girls is crime against humanity
The former Prime Minister wants the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the matter as the two-year anniversary approaches of the fall of Kabul
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Diane Abbott deletes sweary tweet criticising Lee Anderson's migrant comment
Veteran MP Diane Abbott highlighted a recent migrant boat tragedy as she hit out at Tory Deputy Chair Lee Anderson who told asylum seekers they should 'f*** off back to France'
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Tories threaten to pull out of human rights agreement like Russia and Belarus
Rishi Sunak will face accusations he is weak and unable to stand up to the hardliners in the Conservative Party if he withdraws the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights
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More than one million families to run out of savings as mortgage rate soars
Homeowners who have variable rate mortgages and are borrowing £300,000 over a 25-year period have seen their monthly repayments jump by 50% from £1,200 to £1,800
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Third of kids in care system between 8 and 11 were excluded from school
Damning research reveals pupils in state secondary schools are much more likely to be excluded if they have a history of receiving social care or special educational needs services
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A million youngsters owed share of huge £1.7billion pot - check your eligibility
MPs said many young adults do not know about their savings or have lost track of them, adding that officials 'may as well have buried these billions of pounds on a desert island'
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Forcing killers to attend court 'will help rehabilitation' says commissioner
The Mirror has launched the Face Justice campaign to call for an urgent change in the law to force killers to appear in the dock for their sentencing hearings
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Top Tory blames 'chaotic' Covid crisis for infected blood scandal payout delays
The top Tory suggested then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak was preoccupied with the pandemic, adding there was a breakdown in communication about compensation for victims
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Boris Johnson adviser Charlotte Owen becomes youngest person to be made peer
Charlotte Owen, who is just 30 years old, has been given a peerage for for life after being named in the former PM's honours list of allies, cronies and Partygate pals last month
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Tories accused of 'empty promises' over housing with vow for new homes in cities
The Government says is on course to meet its target of building one million homes - but only two weeks ago the Commons Housing Committee warned it is unlikely to deliver its target of 300,000 new homes per year
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Black peer says he’s been mistaken for staff three times in House of Lords
Crossbencher Lord Woolley of Woodford, who is the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, said he has been asked by other peers to help them with the photocopier
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Tory MP opens up over struggle after mum's death from alcoholism when she was 9
Sara Britcliffe, who was the youngest Conservative MP when she was elected in 2019 at just 24, revealed she was left stranded in an airport at just five years old when her mum was arrested
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Labour storm ahead with 17-point lead over Tories after record by-election win
The latest polling reveals Keir Starmer's party would rake in 42% of the vote if a general election was held tomorrow, with the Conservatives having fallen three points to just 25%
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Jamaican PM says William & Kate 'always welcome' after car crash Carribean tour
Andrew Holness tells the Mirror he would have preferred to 'move on' and cut colonial ties with Britain as soon as the former monarch passed away, but 'the process' is slow
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Chris Pincher got almost £8,000 in severance after he quit amid groping claims
Former top Tory Chris Pincher, who was responsible for maintaining discipline among Tory MPs, was paid £7,920 after he quit in disgrace last year following allegations of groping
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Tories go to war over unflattering photograph of London mayoral candidate
Conservative Party Deputy Chairman wrote to the Evening Standard's editor to express her 'sincere disappointment' at today's front page announcing Susan Hall had won selection contest
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Customers to get three months' notice of bank account closure amid Farage row
The Government will force Banks to provide a full explanation for terminating an account after Coutts Bank allegedly shut Nigel Farage's account amid concerns he is seen as 'xenophobic'
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Some 60,000 girls 'at risk of being groomed into carrying gang weapons or drugs'
Around a quarter of children at risk of serious violence and criminal exploitation are girls but they do not receive the same level of attention as young boys at risk, according to a damning report
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Double-digit pay rises for workers would not be inflationary, experts says
Ministers have consistently said large pay rises for public sector staff would make it more difficult to bring inflation down but a report now says they would not be inflationary
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