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Teen Tory council candidate suspended over vaccine tweets and Andrew Tate likes
Paris Coulson, 19, is standing for in next week’s local elections in Long Eaton - but was axed by the party just days before polling day.
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Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner answer your questions
Hundreds of Mirror readers wrote in with questions for Labour's leader and deputy leader - on diverse topics including Brexit, foodbanks, House of Lords reform, the cost of a weekly shop, Mr Starmer's "infamous" quiff, and trans rights. Here's how they answered your burning questions
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'The whole murky Richard Sharp affair sums up how the Tory elite operate'
It is essential that measures are put in place to prevent future governments from deciding who runs the broadcaster - and Sharp’s departure should not allow Boris Johnson to wriggle off the hook
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Tory levelling-up cash used to sort out 'Brexit passport mess' at Dover
Tens of millions pounds from the fund meant to help revive high streets in deprived towns is instead being pumped into the Kent port to tackle Brexit-fuelled delays
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Gary Lineker wades into fresh row as he demands Tories don't pick next BBC boss
The Match Of The Day host said the BBC chairman should not be picked by the government 'not now, not ever' after Richard Sharp was forced to resign over Boris Johnson loan row
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Tory delivers savage verdict on embarrassing 'carpetbagger' Lee Anderson
Gio Spinella, who heads the Conservative group at Camden Council in North London, hit out at the loudmouth MP and admitted that all parties have "peculiar figures"
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Labour pledges biggest bus service overhaul in a generation after Tory 'failure'
In an interview with The Mirror, shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh said she and her colleagues are 'chomping at the bit' to get into Government and address failures piling misery on passengers
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Three million food parcels a year is ‘a bloodstain on our broken economy'
In 2013, no one had heard of Daniel Blake yet. Now the North East, where the 2016 film shone a light on austerity, is a 'hot spot' for food parcels
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Workers suffer £400 hit to monthly pay as wage growth stalls under Tories
Labour's Rachel Reeves warned that ordinary families are paying the price of 13 years of low-growth and high taxes under this Conservative government
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'After 13 years, Brits know they’re not better off. Here’s how we change that'
Writing for the Mirror, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves vows that a Labour government would help workers by kickstarting Britain's economy after years of Tory failure
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New train strike announced for day of Eurovision Song Contest final
The RMT rail union announced a new strike date after rejecting the latest pay offer from the Rail Delivery Group
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Rishi Sunak's wife wears £645 Gucci heels as she hits election campaign trail
Akshata Murty wore a pair of Gucci shoes adorned with gold buckles in the shape of the designer brand's logo she posed for pictures holding a Vote Conservative sign
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Betting curbs for under-25s and online slot limits - gambling crackdown details
Punters who lose large sums of money online will face credit checks, while gambling firms will be forced to stump up cash to pay for NHS treatment for addicts
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Tory anger at 'outrageous' decision to invite top Chinese official to Coronation
Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping's deputy, will represent China at King Charles's Coronation on May 6 - provoking anger from top Tories over his role in a crackdown of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong
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Neil Kinnock warns Tory 'levelling-up' plan 'more like flattening down'
The former Labour leader accused the Conservatives of failing the UK's nations and regions in a report from the Centre think tank demanding more devolution
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'This Conservative Government has failed our schools, pupils and teachers'
School spending in England has been ravaged by Tory cuts and is now 3% lower than it was in 2010. Over the same period the backlog for repairs to school buildings has doubled to £11billion
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Furious Tory MP calls for 'quasi prison' barge for asylum seekers to be scrapped
Richard Drax - who said opponents are considering legal action against the Home Office plans - claims he wasn't consulted before Home Secretary Suella Braverman told him of the plan to house more than 500 asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset
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Lee Anderson had row with expelled Tory and dad of Game of Thrones star
Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson told ex-Tory councillor Sebastian Leslie to 'come outside and we'll sort it out' in row about MP Andrew Bridgen being kicked out of the party for comparing Covid jabs to the Holocaust
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Tories 'let energy giants off hook' as windfall tax raises £2.7bn below target
Oil and gas firms paid £4.4billion in windfall tax payments in the past year, which is way below the £7.2billion the government had forecast
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Theresa May accuses Suella Braverman of plan 'to keep more people enslaved'
The ex-prime minister said the Home Secretary's Illegal Migration Bill will prevent traffickers being prosecuted and consign innocent people to misery
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Grope row Tory Chris Pincher will quit as MP at next election
Tamworth MP Chris Pincher resigned as Deputy Chief Whip last summer after allegations he had drunkenly groped two men in a private members' club in London - in a scandal that set in motion the end of Boris Johnson's premiership
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Housebuyers hit by £4,060-a-year Tory mortgage penalty wrecking property dreams
Labour's Rachel Reeves accused the government of destroying many people’s hopes of getting on the housing ladder as mortgage costs have soared since Rishi Sunak became chancellor
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Ex-Tory legal chief savages plan to let UK break international law over migrants
In a bruising encounter in the Commons, 'Tory Gandalf' Sir Geoffrey Cox demanded to know why ignoring orders from the European Court of Human Rights was needed amid concerns over the power it would give Suella Braverman
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Andrew Bridgen expelled by Tories for comparing Covid vaccines to Holocaust
The controversial Conservative MP said the life-saving jabs were "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust" in an incendiary tweet that was widely condemned
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Tories admit sending out leaflet wrongly telling voters they don't need photo ID
Hundreds of campaign leaflets including the incorrect advice were sent in "error" to residents ahead of next week's local elections. New Voter ID rules have been introduced