Politics

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Rishi Sunak's Brexit deal dealt hammer blow as DUP vows to vote against it
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said party officers had today voted unanimously to oppose the Windsor Framework when MPs get a vote in the Commons on Wednesday - and right-wing Tories could also rebel
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Scrapping mental health funding for NHS staff 'reckless', Tories told
Wellbeing Hubs were set up in 2020 to help medics with the stress and trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic - but the number of referrals to the hubs is continuing to rise, and cash is set to run out in a matter of weeks
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End to train strikes in sight as Network Rail staff vote to accept pay offer
Rail union RMT announced today that its 20,000 members have voted to accept a new and improved offer covering pay, jobs and conditions by a margin of three to one
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'Tony Blair still thinks the Iraq War had to happen, but it delivered terror'
On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion there's much Tony Blair can and will be blamed for, says Fleet Street Fox. But if he'd said no, could he have stopped it?
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Do you think Boris should step down as MP after Partygate grilling?
Under-fire former PM has refused to accept any fault during a crunch televised roasting by members of the Parliamentary Privileges Committee
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Boris Johnson faces Partygate 'lies' showdown - everything you need to know
The shameless ex-Prime Minister will be hauled before the Commons Privileges Committee on Wednesday for up to four hours of questioning over his whether he misled Parliament about lockdown boozing in No10
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NHS hospitals relying on ageing kit - with vital equipment dating back to 1980s
Some 541 pieces of critical equipment such as X ray machines, CT scanners and radiotherapy machines are over a decade old, according to figures from 69 NHS hospital trusts in England
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Tories have overseen worst living standards drop in modern times, study finds
Damning analysis by the TUC ruled that by next year, household disposable incomes will have fallen for nearly half of the time the Conservatives have been in office
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'Gloria's Law ensures no elderly or vulnerable person dies alone in a care home'
Voice of the Mirror explains the Mirror's campaign for Gloria's Law which would make it mandatory to have a support worker in place to make sure no one in a care home dies alone
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'Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq is a warning to Keir Starmer on defence spending'
The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party
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Ministers splash more on new iPhones for Whitehall staff than on defibrillators
Labour has hit out at the 'warped' decision to spend an estimated £1.5 million on state-of-the-art phones for Department of Health staff last year, while just £1 million was set aside for new life-saving defibrillators
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Tories' £1bn giveaway to richest 1% 'will stop just 100 doctors retiring a year'
Thousands of fat cat bosses were left toasting Chancellor Jeremy Hunt after he scrapped the top limit on tax-free pensions savings, a move which has been branded a "pensions bung to the wealthy"
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Tories received £5,000 'funnelled through Peterborough United FC by co-owner'
The Conservative Party has been accused of taking advantage of loopholes in the law to accept donations from non-UK citizens
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Tories 'repeating Covid errors as thousands killed by air pollution', MP warns
Labour's Karen Buck has called on the government to help drivers switch to greener vehicles and back controversial Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) as Public Health England figures show up to 36,000 die each year due to exposure to air pollution
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Suella Braverman 'resorting to photo ops to push unworkable Rwanda plan'
The Home Secretary has travelled to capital Kigali, where she hopes the UK can start sending asylum seekers by the summer after more than a year of legal wrangling
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Tory Lee Anderson warned to stay 'impartial' ahead of elections on new TV show
Ranting Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has been handed an hour-long Friday night show on GB News - but Ofcom warned he would have to promote all sides of political arguments ahead of May's local elections
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Government food tsar quits with blast at 'insane' Tory failure to tackle obesity
Leon co-founder Henry Dimbleby said the Tory party was refusing to impose restrictions on the junk food industry due to its obsession with 'ultra-free-market ideology' - and risked storing up problems for the NHS
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Home Secretary blasted for interior design joke over Rwanda migrant homes
Suella Braverman's comments drew accusations she was 'playing politics with people's lives and chasing cheap headlines' with the Government's controversial Rwandan deportation scheme
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Date for UK's first nationwide 'armageddon alert' system test confirmed
As revealed by the Sunday Mirror last week, millions of people across the UK will hear a loud alarm from their mobile phones, along with a test alert message on Sunday April 23
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Ministers expected to raise state pension age weeks after tax handout to richest
Longstanding MPs and Ministers - including Jeremy Hunt - stand to benefit from the Chancellor's huge handout to the richest, while the low paid are expected to have to work for longer before claiming a state pension
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Suella Braverman blasted by judge who says migrant rules lack 'clarity of law'
Her Honour Melissa Canavan was so baffled by the Home Secretary's deportation bid, she took the extraordinary step of quoting from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland when she rejected it in court
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Boris Johnson could face his 'Waterloo' in Partygate grilling over ABBA bash
Members of the Commons Privileges Committee are expected to ask him for details of one party that Sue Gray’s probe didn’t investigate - the so-called “ABBA party” on November 13 2020
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Iraq War vet Dan Jarvis pays tribute to fallen comrades for 20th anniversary
The Labour MP said it was "absolutely legitimate" to think it was wrong to invade Iraq - and a special debate in the Commons this week is solely to commemorate the service of "those very brave men and women who stepped forward in good faith and to serve"
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'BBC cuts will be a disaster - people need local news coverage'
Keir Mudie says the BBC is putting local news coverage to the sword, replacing dedicated programming with one-size fits all stuff that will be broadcast everywhere
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'Trophy hunting vote is a victory for conservation and compassion'
Yesterday MPs from across the political divide condemned the barbaric pursuit as they backed a new law to prevent the import of animal parts from at-risk species