Politics

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Priti Patel takes swipe at Tory MPs who asked her for help getting new jobs
The former Home Secretary claimed that 'many' MPs have asked her for help as she appeared to hit out Tory HQ selecting career-minded candidates
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Grant Shapps claims his family had trouble opening bank accounts amid Farage row
Grant Shapps has accused banks of going "too far" and claimed he, his wife, children and siblings have had trouble opening accounts - while Nigel Farage says he's launching a fresh campaign over "de-banking"
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Green charities warn Rishi Sunak after he's slammed for flying 200 miles
The under-fire PM - who has been criticised for taking a 200 mile journey by helicopter - has been warned by dozens of environmental charities not to use green policies as a "political football" amid Net Zero pressure
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'For Labour to back away now from net zero by 2050 would be fatal – literally'
Scientists are near unanimous that it was heatwaves caused by burning too much fossil fuel which these fire into uncontrollable, raging infernos
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'Latest migrant plan is ridiculous lurch to the right by desperate Tory clowns'
Keir Mudie says Tory politicians are 'out of ideas, out of talent, massively behind in the polls' and the latest migrant plans are just a sign of things to come
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Rishi Sunak's 200-mile helicopter trip - train journey is just 10 minutes more
For his latest trip the PM borrowed a Tory donor’s chopper to go to a routine campaign event in North Wales just 200 miles away. The equivalent journey from London to Wrexham would only have taken around 10 minutes longer by train.
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NHS-owned PPE worth £225 million burned in China pumping out 6,000 tonnes of CO2
More than half a billion items of PPE, which were bought in China and never left China, have now been burned in China
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LGBT Veterans urge government not to make them wait for compensation
Last week, in line with a recommendation by a damning report on Britain's ban on LGBT+ people in the military, the PM finally said sorry in a victory for campaigners and the charity Fighting With Pride.
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Thousands waiting 18 months for NHS treatment despite Rishi Sunak claim
The Prime Minister claimed to have "virtually eliminated" 18 month waits for NHS treatment - but 7,300 people are still waiting a year and a half or more for treatment
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Slap owners of long-empty houses with council tax hikes, Mayors tell ministers
The call comes as Labour's Lisa Nandy warned Brits faced a "double whammy" of unaffordable house prices and skyrocketing rents
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Firm 'profiteering from misery' by providing migrant barges donated £70k to UKIP
The Langham family, owners of Langham Industries, is now set to profit from an 18-month contract with the Home Office to let the Bibby Stockholm berth at Portland, Dorset
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'London mayor's campaign to tackle violence against women is patronising'
Columnist Rachael Bletchly says violence against women cannot be stopped by men telling other men to do so - but fisrt, we must root out vile misogynists within our police forces
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Top Tory told 'get back to work' and meet unions as rail strikes pile on misery
Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has written to Tory cabinet member Mark Harper after official records showed he hasn't met with the RMT or ASLEF at all in 2023
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Tories blasted over 'unforgivable' failure to improve support for rape survivors
Labour has accused the Tories of failing to act on a series of recommendations made by the Criminal Justice Joint Inspectorate after it uncovered serious failings 18 months ago
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'Nigel Farage fiasco is all about Rishi Sunak running scared of party right'
How petrified of upsetting its own extremists must this government be that it drops everything to rush to the aid of Yesterday's Man Nigel Farage?
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Stalling Jeremy Hunt leaves infected blood victims 'disheartened beyond words'
The Chancellor refused to outline a much-delayed compensation scheme for victims of the infected blood scandal and their families - and admitted the dire state of the economy will impact the sums paid
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Tory cuts mean fire services 'not prepared for wildfires' after 2022 devastation
New figures obtained by the Lib Dems found fire services have lost an average of 12% in Government funding - sparking fears the crews aren't prepared for another summer like last year
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Matt Hancock loses complaint over way Mirror described him and Covid coverage
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) ruled in favour of this newspaper after Matt Hancock objected to being called a "a failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote"
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Tories accused of abandoning pledge to 'fix social care' after diverting cash
The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter
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Blundering UK officials accidentally sent top secret info to Russia ally
A probe is underway at the Ministry of Defence after a typing error meant a "small number" of emails were sent to Mali - which is closely aligned with the Kremlin
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Tory-led councils lose High Court bid to stop Sadiq Khan's ULEZ expansion
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan plans to expand the Ulez zone to cover the whole of the capital from August 29 to boost air quality
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Medal that Britain's nuclear veterans have waited 70 years for finally unveiled
The delayed and long-awaited nuclear test medal is finally in production, 70 years after Britain's first atomic bomb
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'We need to re-think fast fashion as nature is paying the price'
The big household brands mustn’t wash their hands of responsibility - we are what we wear to some extent and paying a little more for clothes we’ll keep longer would benefit the earth
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We've got five extra weeks to protest crazy closure plan for rail ticket offices
Ticket office staff won't be redeployed on platforms like the rail firms claim, says Paul Routledge
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'Disability Action Plan fails to tackle issues important to disabled people'
It will sit alongside the National Disability Strategy and work on short-term solutions to the pressing issues disabled people face in everyday life