Politics

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Labour builds £47million war chest while Tory donations dip as election looms
Accounts published by the Election Commission show Keir Starmer's party boosted its fortunes, leaving Labour with a £2.7 million surplus in 2022 - despite losing nearly 25,000 members
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Damning figures show UK's asylum backlog is at record high with 175,000 in limbo
Data from the Home Office shows a massive 175,457 people were waiting for an initial decision on an application at the end of June - a 44% rise from 122,213 a year earlier
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Priti Patel says sorry to King over call for Prince Andrew to get security back
The former Home Secretary has said sorry for causing "embarrassment and difficulties" after she is claimed to have sent an email suggesting a review of the Duke of York's protection
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Rishi Sunak makes humiliating apology for breaking rules over wife's shares
Commons' standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg found the Prime Minister had "inadvertently" broken the MPs' code of conduct by not revealing Akshata Murty's stake in Koru Kids
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Big change to GCSEs looms for students sitting school exams from next year
Schools Minister Nick Gibb has signalled that students will no longer be allowed to rely on extra support brought in to ease disruption to education caused by the Covid pandemic
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Routine hospital care grinds to a halt as senior doctors begin 48-hour strike
The Government has refused to meet consultants since the British Medical Association balloted to strike so action will start from 7am today until the same time on Saturday
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Doctors warn of 'health emergency' as Universal Credit too low to cover basics
Campaigners say the standard Universal Credit payment is £35 less than the cost of essentials - leading Brits struggling to afford vital medicines or bus fares to hospital appointments
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Tories told to scrap cheap foreign labour loophole and get a grip on immigration
Labour says it will 'end the licence to undercut pay' by employing staff from abroad and focus on training UK workers ahead of the latest immigration figures being published
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'Plan to close train station ticket offices is an act of national vandalism'
Rail bosses have given no thought to travellers who need additional assistances, and they are blind to the fact that many prefer to buy tickets in person
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Mayor ramps up legal action over planning 'failure' for asylum seeker mega-barge
Carralyn Parkes, mayor of Portland in Dorset, says she's confident the Home Office broke planning laws - and is ramping up her legal challenge against the barge project after raising £18,000 from disgruntled locals
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One of surviving 'cloud flyers' holds first medal for Britain's nuclear veterans
John Robinson was at the medal factory in Birmingham to see the first medal roll off the production line after a five-year Mirror campaign to honour Britain's nuclear test veterans
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Dis Life: 'Spurs Disabled access makes fans feel like Beyonce'
Anyone who follows football will tell you that hope was a distant dream for Spurs last season, as they lost match after match by some margin - but now I have cause to hope
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Tories accused of ULEZ hypocrisy after calling for £15 a day driver charge
Tory Cabinet minister Grant Shapps called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to expand the £15 Congestion Charge in the capital in October 2020 when he was Transport Secretary
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Nigel Farage brands £2.4million pay package for ex-NatWest boss a 'sick joke'
Dame Alison Rose was forced to quit following complaints from the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage over the closure of his account with Coutts, the private bank run by NatWest
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Weekly shop 'costs 37% more than 2 years ago', with pint of milk soaring by 57%
Analysis released by the Lib Dems found that a loaf of bread has gone up by 37p, while a pint of milk is 24p more expensive than it as in 2021 amid calls for more Government action
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'The Tories must live up to their words with an inquiry into Orgreave'
They know what really happened that day in June 1985 at the height of the year-long miners’ strike. In 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd signalled her readiness for an inquiry
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'I'm outraged by Nadine Dorries - even my dying dad did his job as an MP'
Polly Hudson's father was a Labour MP for two decades and showed up for his constituents every Friday and Saturday... even when it put in him in the doghouse at home. When he was gravely unwell, he still worked. So the news that Nadine Dorries is still being paid after 'abandoning' her local area infuriates her
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UK set for 'most unpleasant, divisive' election in our lifetimes, warns Burnham
The Greater Manchester Mayor accused the Conservatives of 'betting the shop on culture wars' and said Labour needed to show it can bring hope as well as change to win the next election
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Tory Rail Minister's own constituents warn ticket office cull will be disastrous
Bexhill in East Sussex where Huw Merriman is the MP is one of 974 railway stations across England where the ticket office is set for the chop under the controversial plans
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The Queen 'only person Thatcher feared' - she downed whisky before meetings
The late Queen struck fear into Margaret Thatcher and the Tory ex-Prime Minister required a stiff drink before meeting her, according to a former political editor of the Times
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Guide Dogs charity signs up to Mirror's Save Our Ticket Offices rally
The Save Our Ticket Offices online rally will be live on The Mirror website and our YouTube channel at 5pm on Thursday as we fight the plan to shut counters at 974 railway stations
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Brits back £1bn-a-year plan to give young and unemployed paid conservation work
Activist group Green New Deal Rising has called on Labour to pledge a new 'National Nature Service' to get young and unemployed people doing paid conservation work
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Education Secretary admits £50,000 cost of university would have put her off
Gillian Keegan said she was working to ensure disadvantaged kids aren't shut out from higher education - but said her younger self might have been intimidated by the costs
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661 asylum seekers arrive on day Rishi Sunak can't say when he'll stop the boats
Home Office figures reveal well over 18,000 asylum seekers are known to have made the dangerous journey since the start of the year, with 661 arriving on 15 boats on Monday
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Home Office 'risking lives' by seizing medicines in detention centres - watchdog
Suella Braverman was asked how she would feel if one of her loved ones had their medicines taken off them as serious concerns were raised with the Home Office policy