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Top Tory admits Braverman partly to blame for violence as she faces sack today
Defence Minister James Heappey insisted Suella Braverman was 'not entirely' responsible for ugly scenes at the Cenotaph, as speculation builds that Rishi Sunak could hold reshuffle
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Fury as UK steel firms 'pay double for electricity compared to foreign rivals'
The gulf between what French and German steel manufacturers pay compared with the costs faced by UK steel companies has been laid bare in a study by the industry's trade body
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'Suella Braverman brazen to stand at Cenotaph after whipping up poison'
If dithering Rishi Sunak does not sack Braverman he will be backing a harmful Home Secretary, says the Voice of the Mirror
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Weak Rishi Sunak has not sacked Suella Braverman because he's a pathetic coward
'Sunak shares much of Braverman’s Right-wing reactionary social conservatism and tortured worldview. He too wanted the lawful pro-Palestinian march banned.'
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Suella Braverman facing calls to quit as she lays a wreath at Cenotaph
Labour blamed the Home Secretary for sowing “hatred and mistrust” and called on her to quit after she was blamed for violence on Armistice Day
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Labour demands 'full and immediate humanitarian pause' in Gaza fighting
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for a "full and immediate humanitarian pause" in Israel's war on Hamas - but stopped short of demanding a ceasefire
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Three quarters of pensioners struggled to get GP appointment, study finds
A study by the Silver Voices campaign group has laid bare the difficulties pensioners face in securing face-to-face appointments with their family doctors - forcing some to go private
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Tory steel plans 'will create national security risk' ministers told by own MP
A Conservative MP who is vice-chairwoman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Steel has raised fears of how Britain could be left relying on foreign firms for the metal it needs
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Suella Braverman 'to go nuclear with Rishi Sunak' if Rwanda plan deemed illegal
Under-fire Home Secretary Suella Braverman is likely to demand the UK withdraws from the European Convention on Human Rights (EDHR) if the Rwanda scheme is deemed illegal by the Supreme Court
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Liz Truss cut out of Theresa May's photo of former prime ministers together
Theresa May shared an image of former Prime Ministers at the Cenotaph - but there were only six in the shot, with flash-in-a-pan leader Liz Truss cropped out
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Liz Truss among seven former Prime Ministers paying respects at Cenotaph
Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Sir Tony Blair and Sir John Major attended the national Remembrance Sunday service - though Ms Truss did not lay a wreath during her 49-day premiership
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Nadine Dorries asks if Michael Gove was 'playing to the gallery' by being mobbed
In an extraordinary broadside at her former cabinet colleague, Nadine Dorries told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that any "sensible" politician wouldn't have been at Victoria Station
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Grant Shapps squirms as Laura Kuenssberg asks if he's fed up of Suella Braverman
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was told by Laura Kuenssberg that cabinet members are fed up of Suella Braverman "shooting her mouth off"
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Suella Braverman lays wreath at Cenotaph 24 hours after clashes she's blamed for
Suella Braverman was at the Cenotaph alongside war heroes, royals and senior colleagues despite being accused of inciting ugly scenes at the memorial yesterday
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Sadiq Khan slams ministers on housing as London outbuilds rest of country
The latest official data, up to March 2022, shows London increase its housing stock by 8% since Mr Khan took office in 2016, compared to just 6% for the rest of England
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Senior Tory donor says he 'feels sorry' for disgraced MP Peter Bone
Property mogul Charles McDowell, who is a member of the Party’s Treasurer Committee, tweeted that he “feel[s] sorry for Peter Bone”, adding that it “is beyond imagination” that anyone could feel bullied by him
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'Disturbing Cenotaph violence was direct result of Suella Braverman's behaviour'
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says if Suella Braverman had any honour she would resign - and if not, Rishi Sunak should sack her. "If he doesn't, he's either too weak to do so or he agrees with her."
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Doctors urge minister to rethink plan to hand £480m NHS deal to US firm Palantir
In the first major intervention from clinicians in the mammoth deal to make a unified patient database, Doctors Association UK called on the government to ensure "public trust and value for money" in the system
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Tory Gavin Williamson handed £25,000 'bonus' by donor's firm
The firm is owned by Dr Selva Pankaj, a long-time Tory donor whose firms have handed more than half a million to the party
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Tory minister Johnny Mercer told to stop spending taxpayer cash on vanity snaps
The Veterans minister has claimed hundreds of pounds on expenses for 20 snaps of himself taken by photo agencies, which he’s used on his website and on campaign leaflets
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Suella Braverman told to resign as far-right mobs clash with Met near Cenotaph
As violence erupts between far right thugs and riot police around Whitehall, political figures are calling for Suella Braverman’s head - accusing her of stoking the fire after she claimed the police show bias towards pro-Palestinians
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13 times Suella Braverman could have got a red card, and the one time she did
Rishi Sunak is once again weighing up whether to sack whether to sack Home Secretary Suella Braverman after numerous times he could have done so. She was previously booted out by Liz Truss
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Angela Rayner's hidden heartache as she splits from Labour MP Sam Tarry
Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner put her heartbreak aside as she took part in a debate on the King's Speech just hours after breaking up with fellow MP Sam Tarry
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Labour and Tory MPs unite to praise Daily Mirror's 'respect' front page
Former Tory Cabinet member David Davis said The Daily Mirror had got the issue "exactly right" after the Royal British Legion backed the right to protest
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'I’ve read Dorries's book. It should be on fiction shelves alongside her novels'
'People deserve to know the truth,' screams a blurb on the back of the book. They do. We do. Unfortunately these 336 pages don’t provide it. Oh no.'