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Would you like to have a four-day working week? Vote in our poll
The trial has been hailed a “major breakthrough moment” as 56 companies continue the flexible working pattern.
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Paedophile ex-Tory MP released from prison after just nine months behind bars
Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan was sentenced to 18 months in prison at Southwark Crown Court in May for groping a 15-year-old boy in 2008
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New favourite for SNP leader as Kate Forbes loses support over gay marriage row
Finance Secretary Kate Forbes sparked a backlash just hours after announcing her candidacy by telling an interviewer that her conscience wouldn't allow her to vote for same-sex marriages - propelling Humza Yousaf into the driving seat
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Nigella Lawson says Liz Truss should lug 'Jenga' lectern 'everywhere she goes'
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson said the ex-PM should be made to carry around the £4,000 wooden monstrosity after the Mirror revealed it has been left abandoned in No10 as officials have failed to find it a new home
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Women going through menopause will see costs of HRT slashed to under £20 a year
From April 1, women prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as part of menopause treatment will be able to access a new scheme to give them access to a year's worth of treatment for just under £20
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Michael Gove stuns partygoers by hitting dancefloor in Aberdeen nightclub
The Levelling Up Secretary was spotted grooving to Donna Summer's hit 'I Feel Love' at Club Tropicana in the early hours of the morning at the weekend on another solo night out in Aberdeen
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Tory ministers 'could quit' over Rishi Sunak's new Brexit deal - explained
Rishi Sunak is racing to get an agreement on a new Brexit deal, but loud-mouthed Eurosceptic Tory MPs have warned the Prime Minister that they will revolt if he fails to deliver on their demands
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Nearly all firms stick with four-day week after 'incredible' trial
Campaigners hailed the 'breakthrough moment' for the radical policy after a study tracked over 60 companies - from a chippy in Norfolk to a consultancy in Lancashire - in a six-month pilot
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1.6m children living in cold, damp or mouldy homes in cost-of-living crisis UK
The grim revelation came from the Citizens Advice charity, which called on the Government to widen new legislation to include private rental properties in its crackdown on substandard homes
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Rebuilding Ukraine's railways 'will be critical in war' as UK pledges £10million
Transport Secretary Mark Harper said that fixing Ukraine's battered railway network will be vital in the battle against Vladimir Putin and said it would also help with grain supplies - which will keep food prices down
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'Labour must make a pledge to provide free school meals for all children'
We know uncaring Tories won’t do anything, but why isn’t Labour promising to make universal free school meals a ­manifesto commitment to clinch a General Election and give Britain a fresh start?
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Liz Truss calls for West to send fighter jets to Ukraine on her backbench return
The former Prime Minister made her first address to the Commons from the backbenches in more than a decade after she was forced to quit No10 in October following her disastrous 49-day reign
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Boris Johnson told by his No10 aide to 'back off' so PM can sort Brexit mess
Guto Harri, who was Boris Johnson's director of communications in Downing Street, urged the former PM and his allies to 'let the people in charge try and nail' a deal on Brexit arrangements in Northern Ireland
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Tories use photo of woman who confronted PM over NHS in 'achievements' brag
The Conservative website, in a section headed 'our achievements', features a photo of Rishi Sunak with patient Catherine Poole - who famously told him to 'try harder' over nurses' pay
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Is Boris Johnson right to intervene in Rishi Sunak's Brexit talks? Take our poll
Former PM says it would be a 'great mistake' to surrender legislation which allows the UK to scrap elements of the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill by itself
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Call for far-right Patriotic Alliance and Britain First to be banned after riots
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called for 'calm' language on all sides - saying Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick would undoubtedly 'regret' seeing Suella Braverman's words on far-right placards following the riot in Knowsley
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London free school meals to make 'irrefutable' case for change says ex-food tsar
Henry Dimbleby, who authored the National Food Strategy for Boris Johnson, said the game-changing decision by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to offer free school meals to all primary pupils in the capital would prove the benefit of the scheme
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'Prescriptions should be free in England like other parts of the UK'
Mirror reader D Richens says it isn't fair that patients in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland don't have to pay for their NHS medication. Do YOU agree?
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Thousands of junior doctors vote to go on strike next month in 72-hour walkout
Almost 37,000 votes were cast - with a massive 98% backing strike action. It is the largest ever turnout for a ballot of doctors by doctors' union the British Medical Association
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Tory MP posts strange video branding constituents 'savages' and 'scroats'
Jonathan Gullis is accused of highlighting the impact of 13 years of Tory government after sharing a rant about anti-social behaviour as he pleaded for more police and CCTV
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'If Prince Andrew gets evicted, he'll demand a 20-bedroom council mansion next'
Kicked out of Royal Lodge, the Duke of Dork would have the same chance of a council house as the rest of us, says Fleet Street Fox. But rather different expectations
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What is Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol and will Rishi Sunak get a deal?
The UK formally severed its ties with the EU in 2020 after years of bitter Brexit wrangling but the future relationship with Brussels is very much not resolved - no matter what Boris Johnson says
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New favourite to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as frontrunner rules himself out
SNP MP Kate Forbes is in prime position to take over from Nicola Sturgeon after launching her leadership campaign less than an hour after Angus Robertson said he wouldn't be standing
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Should all primary school children have free school meals? Vote in our poll
The Mayor of London’s £130million emergency scheme is expected to save families an estimated £440 a year - as many face financial struggles amid the cost-of-living crisis
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NHS staff ‘shattered’ and 'won't be there' if crisis not fixed, warns expert
Professor Jeremy Farrar, who became a well known face during the Covid pandemic, warned that exhausted and demoralised NHS staff would not be ready when another a crisis hits unless low morale and capacity issues solved