Politics

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Liz Truss earns £16k an hour for a speech plus paid hotel, flights and expenses
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss told the crowd at February's event in Mumbai, organised by media firm ABP Networks, she was 'struck by the energy and the excitement of the city' while earning over £60k
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Most of public oppose Liz Truss handing out 'reward for failure' peerages
Outgoing PMs are allowed to stuff friends and cronies into the House of Lords in their ‘resignation honours’ lists - but just 7% back Liz Truss doing so
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Rishi Sunak urged to slap down Dominic Raab for 'undermining' bullying report
The PM was blasted for allowing Mr Raab to resign - and put forward his version of events in a newspaper article - before the report into his behaviour was published by Downing Street
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'Unpleasant Dominic Raab could change his ways but it was too little, too late'
Keir Mudie says Dominic Raab's resignation letter was 'graceless' as there was 'no apology' but just a 'bizarre rant about how him leaving is no good for government'
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Rishi Sunak accused of 'eco own goal' as plans for £230m 'green town' scrapped
The government has scrapped plans for the UK's largest net zero town, which would have been located around five miles outside of Oxford, with the scrapping of the plans condemned as an eco own goal
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Send in your questions for Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to answer
The Labour leader and Deputy will sit down on the campaign trail next week - answering Sunday Mirror readers’ questions together for the first time
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Labour planning local ad blitz if Tory MPs block sewage dumping crackdown plan
The party plan to hold a binding vote on Tuesday to introduce a bill that would implement legally binding targets to reduce sewage dumping, and impose automatic fines
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Suella Braverman 'asked whether she could claim speeding ticket on expenses'
Senior Tory MP William Wragg made the extraordinary claim about Home Secretary Suella Braverman in a series of tweets in the early hours of Saturday morning
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'Rishi Sunak showed weakness over Dominic Raab - he must explain appointment'
The ex-Cabinet minister had been intimidating, unreasonable and abused his power to undermine and humiliate civil servants. He should have been denied the luxury of resigning
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Real patriotism is all about making this country a better place to live
Some people believe any English person who fails to get a lump in their throat during the King’s Coronation hates their country
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Two-day nurses strike could be unlawful over ballot row, NHS bosses claim
NHS Employers, an organisation which acts on behalf of NHS trusts, argues the six month period in which industrial action can be taken in England expires during the strike action
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Wes Streeting says NHS must stop 'pouring more money into hospitals'
In a stark statement, the Labour frontbencher said the health service is 'still salvageable' as he vowed his party could 'turn the situation around' in its first term if it was in government
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New Tory Science Secretary's husband once branded Covid-19 a 'mental illness'
The Prime Minister carried out a mini-reshuffle to replace sacked Dominic Raab and to appoint maternity cover for two top Tories
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Britain backs the nurses as poll shows 56% support decision to reject pay offer
The Redfield & Wilton poll found three times as many people supported the Royal College of Nursing decision to reject the 5% pay rise than disagreed
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Five bombshell claims in the Dominic Raab bullying inquiry
The Deputy PM resigned on Friday after the long-awaited report by Adam Tolley KC concluded he engaged in an 'abuse or misuse of power' while at the Foreign Office
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'Dominic Raab's resignation letter was as grudging and ungracious as possible'
Bullying is the scourge of every workplace. The end result is everyone feels they are walking on eggshells. As far as I can see, Raab thinks that’s the way to run a department, writes Chris Bryant
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Rishi Sunak begins mini-reshuffle as Dominic Raab replaced
Alex Chalk got the nod to fill the vacant Justice Secretary role, Downing Street has confirmed, while former Tory chairman Oliver Dowden will take over as Deputy PM
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Dominic Raab says 'the people will pay' as he claims he was victim of plot
In a 1,100 word rant published after his resignation over a bullying probe, the former Deputy Prime Minister claimed to have been warned that "unionised officials" were planning to target him
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POLL: Is Rishi Sunak weak over his handling of Dominic Raab
Dominic Raab has dramatically quit his role as deputy Prime Minister following Adam Tolley KC’s investigation, but do you think Rishi Sunak was weak in his approach? Vote in our poll
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Dominic Raab's resignation letter in full as 'bully' says he never swore at work
Dominic Raab criticised the inquiry for being 'flawed' and complained it set 'the threshold for bullying so low', saying it concluded he had never 'sworn or shouted at anyone'
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Deputy Prime Minister quits over bombshell bullying report
The deputy PM has dramatically resigned as pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak to sack him - but in a furious resignation letter branded the findings "flawed" and claimed it set a "dangerous precedent"
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Dithering Rishi Sunak slammed over Dominic Raab 'farce' as deputy PM faces D-Day
The Prime Minister has come under fire for delaying a decision into whether to sack his deputy after receiving a report into bullying allegations yesterday morning
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Foreign Secretary cuts short Pacific tour after hundreds killed in Sudan
James Cleverly cancelled a meeting with his New Zealand counterpart to return to the UK amid heightened alarm over the deteriorating situation in Sudan, where hundreds have died in fighting
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Schools warned 'virtually impossible' to tell if kids use ChatGPT in coursework
Education think tank EDSK warned that teachers face the 'virtually impossible task' of determining whether pupils have done their own coursework or relied on AI models to help them cheat
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'Tory amateurs running the country are clueless to fix strike chaos'
They’ve only been in office five minutes and they’ve never had to deal with social unrest on this scale. There are no old hands who’ve seen it all before