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Boris Johnson mounts bid to build swimming pool at lavish £3.8m country manor
The ex-Prime Minister has applied for planning permission for the works in the grounds of his Cotswolds grand manor house, which he bought earlier this year after being ousted from Downing Street
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Evidence of crimes against Brit servicemen in Cold War radiation experiments
The nuked blood scandal first exposed by the Mirror last year has uncovered shocking new evidence of possible crimes committed by the British state against its own servicemen
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'Stop The Boats is only a slogan - not a solution'
Take Back Control has turned into Stop The Boats, the latest three-word slogan designed to grab the headlines. But like its predecessor it’s totally meaningless, Eva Simpson writes
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Rishi Sunak novelty Toby Jug mocked for looking nothing like the Prime Minister
Every modern Prime Minister gets a novelty jug which is sold in the Houses of Parliament's gift shop - but collectors may be disappointed by the latest ceramic ornament of PM Rishi Sunak
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Labour MP tells party Black MPs can't fix racism alone in Stephen Lawrence talk
Shadow minister Sarah Jones noted that mainly just Black female MPs had come to the debate on the Met's investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence
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Furious Labour MP demands Oliver Dowden resigns after 'misleading' the Commons
In an extraordinary move, Dawn Butler lambasted Rishi Sunak's number two after he claimed Labour green plans would cost mortgage payers an extra £1,000 a year
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MP who felt 'terror' over mortgage payments accuses Tories of 'lack of empathy'
The exchange came after Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner used PMQs to attack the government over the 'Tory mortgage bombshell'
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Lawyers probe Nadine Dorries for 'forceful' messages over blocked peerage
In a savage dig at Nadine Dorries, Tory MP William Wragg - who chairs Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee - described her as the 'lingering MP for Mid Bedfordshire'
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Defence Secretary hits out at Ukraine's demands for weapons: 'We're not Amazon'
Ben Wallace suggested Kyiv should be more grateful for the arms NATO allies have sent Ukrainian armed forces as they fight Russian invaders
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Chinese 'spy' attempts to infiltrate Hong Kong dissidents' Commons briefing
Pro-democracy activists Finn Lau and Christopher Mung were speaking at the briefing in a private room at the Commons when a man believed to be sent by China's Communist Party tried to get in
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Peer who fled Nazis as child vows to fight on against cruel Tory migration bill
Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it
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Rishi Sunak says Ukraine 'belongs' in Nato after Zelensky blasts 'absurd' delays
The Prime Minister asked his officials to leave the room so he and the Ukrainian President could hold one-to-one private talks
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School closures loom in autumn as teachers' union votes in favour of strikes
Members of the NASUWT union voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions
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Nadine Dorries to publish book on Boris Johnson 'political assassination'
The former Culture Secretary claims to have uncovered a 'history of treachery and deceit' as she points the finger at "powerful, unaccountable forces behind the scenes" for the shamed ex-PM's downfall
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Surgeon shot dead by patient in his own examination room in 'horrific' attack
Dr Benjamin Mauck was killed in his examination room by one of his patients, who was seen pacing the surgery prior to the 'horrific' killing at the Campbell Clinic in Collierville, Memphis
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Tory minister gives virtual reality tour of 40 new hospitals as they don’t exist
Labour's Wes Streeting said patients need a government in the 'real world' as Steve Barclay resorted to hosting reality tours of hospitals that haven't been built
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Labour trade chief visits world's biggest steelworks as he pledges UK shake-up
Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wants to learn from Joe Biden’s “worker centric trade policy” as he shapes Labour ’s plans for government
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Struggling Rishi Sunak admits by-elections will be 'difficult' amid dire polling
The Tories face potential defeats in three polls in Uxbridge and South Ruislip; Selby and Ainsty; and Somerton and Frome next Thursday
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Rishi Sunak urges NATO allies to pump more cash into defence
The PM also took a swipe at the alliance's 'out of date' spending reports showing the percentage spent by Britain is due to drop from 2.16% in 2022 to 2.07% in 2023
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Rishi Sunak could snub recommended pay hike for police, troop and nurses
The Prime Minister indicated he could overrule proposals from independent Pay Review Bodies into how much of a wage hike public sector workers should receive
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'My partner died from a brain tumour - two years later I had his baby'
Lauren McGregor, who lives near Hale Village, Merseyside, said her husband Chris began having random hot flushes and struggled to remember her name - before being diagnosed with astrocytoma
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Cruel Tories vote to deny trafficking victims support despite Theresa May pleas
The former Prime Minister told MPs that Suella Braverman's callous Illegal Migration Bill would "consign more people to slavery" - but this wasn't enough to convince enough Tories to vote against the Government
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'Mortgages are on a road to hell - someone must stand up for ordinary people'
The average 6.66 per cent rate is stinging in part because the Bank of England, with the backing of Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, is hiking interest rates to curb inflation
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Stun grenades and police dogs need banning in children’s prisons, ministers told
Dozens of children’s rights campaigners have written to the Government to say they are 'gravely concerned about the appalling, potentially unlawful treatment of children and young people in custody'
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Boris Johnson's baby name inspired by Greek hero who 'leaves wife behind'
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie today announced the arrival of their third baby and the name they've chosen for the little one - which might raise eyebrows to those familiar with the Classics