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Timetable and key moments from Labour Conference as Starmer heads to Liverpool
Voters will find out how a Labour government would change the country as Keir Starmer lays out his vision for Britain at the party's four day conference in Liverpool
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Billionaire Tory donor could switch to Labour after blasting Rishi Sunak
John Caudwell donated £500,000 to Tories ahead of the 2019 election, but he has become increasingly critical of Tory policies, especially when it comes to the environment
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'The Tory team are talking their way to relegation and won't win next election'
Columnist Brian Reade says the Conservative Party conference was the bluntest of admissions that for 13 years the Tories have done nothing but make this country worse
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Labour's Bridget Phillipson savages 'undeliverable' Tory plans to axe A-Levels
The Shadow Education Secretary accused the Tories of resorting to 'gimmicks' after 13 years of failure as the Prime Minister this week announced he wanted to merge A-levels and T-levels
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Rishi Sunak defends his smoking ban as he's asked if he's ever had a cigarette
The legal age to smoke will be raised by 'one year, every year' to stop children from ever picking up the habit, meaning the next generation will grow up smoke-free
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California rail bosses to visit HS2 to see British expertise days after leg axed
The American delegation will arrive on Wednesday for a two-day trip organised by Kemi Badenoch’s Business Department that was supposed to showcase best practice
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Alison Hammond gives Rishi Sunak brutal warning on Suella Braverman migrant rant
Asked three times whether he would condemn Suella Braverman's language, the Prime Minister dodged the question, failing to either back or explicitly criticise her
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'Dear the Labour Party: it's time to let Keir Starmer off the leash'
It's a year until polling day but the Labour Party is being too cautious, says Fleet Street Fox. Keir couldn't lose even if he put on a blond wig and started talking about pork markets
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Humiliated Tories get so few votes they lose deposit in by-election disaster
Labour crushed its main challenger the SNP while the Tories faced humiliation and were forced to forfeit a £500 deposit after failing to win over 5% of the vote share
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Labour win Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election in major boost to Starmer
Keir Starmer hailed a 'seismic result' his party in a by-election triggered by the recall of shamed MP Margaret Ferrier, with a 20.4% swing from the SNP to Labour
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'PM's rail pledges as fake as the 40 new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson'
A supposed £36billion package of transport projects announced by Rishi Sunak in the wake of the HS2 scrapping have already been shown to be as fake as Boris Johnson's '40 new hospitals' claim
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Government 'lost control' of Covid pandemic by ditching contact tracing early on
The Covid inquiry has heard that the Government 'lost control' of the pandemic and 'abandoned basic public health protection' when it privatised the Test and Trace system
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'Boris Johnson's dithering responsible for thousands of needless Covid deaths'
The Covid Inquiry has showed that Boris Johnson was in a blue funk during the Covid-19 crisis and he should never be allowed to hold public office again, says Paul Routledge
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Supervised toothbrushing in schools under Labour plan to 'rescue' NHS dentistry
Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled plans for an extra 700,000 emergency appointments to stop 'horror stories of DIY dentistry' after reports of patients yanking out their teeth
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Labour voters backing Lib Dems in 14 seats 'could help oust Tories' - full list
The Compass campaign group has published details of 14 constituencies where the Lib Dems are best placed to topple the Conservatives - and urged Labour supporters to switch allegiance
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Rishi Sunak's HS2 replacement plan - delays, re-announcements and broken vows
The Prime Minister trumpeted a string of transport schemes that could be funded instead of completing the high-speed railway to Manchester. We examine his claims and promises
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Labour politician relives horrifying dog attack as he lay on pet to protect her
Welsh Senedd Member Jack Sargeant recalled the terrifying moment he and King Charles Cavalier Coco were targeted by two off-the-lead Staffordshire Bull Terriers
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Rishi Sunak reported to police after Nicola Sturgeon joke in conference speech
The Prime Minister cracked a joke about the former Scottish First Minister, who was arrested in June as part of a probe into SNP finances. An Alba Party politician has alleged contempt of court
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Do you agree with Rishi's plan for new smoking laws? Have your say in our poll
Proposed new legislation will make it an offence for anyone born on or after January 1, 2009 to be sold tobacco products – effectively raising the smoking age by a year each year until it applies to the whole population
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Rishi Sunak shot HS2 video days before announcement - then said he'd not decided
Until yesterday the Prime Minister insisted no decision over HS2 had been reached - but it later emerged he had filmed an announcement video in Downing Street days earlier
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Rishi Sunak speech live - HS2 to be scrapped as Dorries makes scathing attack
Desperate Rishi Sunak has confirmed HS2 is being scrapped between Birmingham and Manchester in a move set to spark a massive backlash at the end of Tory Party Conference
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Sunak's decision to scrap HS2 to Manchester is 'another betrayal of the North'
West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin said the decision would "punish passengers and businesses alike"
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'Sunak promised change but he is the latest ringmaster of circus which must end'
Rishi Sunak's decision to pull the plug on the high speed trainline from London to Manchester is a damning indictment of this Government's ability to deliver what is needed
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Rishi Sunak tries to 'fool Britain' with conference speech plea to stay in power
Rishi Sunak bizarrely claimed that after 13 years of Tory rule voters will be choosing change if they back him at the election during his first conference speech as Conservative leader
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'Rishi Sunak, like HS2, has run out of line as he can't defend Tory record'
The Mirror's Jason Beattie provides his analysis after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attempted to take the conference stage to defend the Conservatives’ record in power
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