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Tory Suella Braverman 'asked civil servants to arrange private speed course'
Labour demanded an urgent investigation into the Home Secretary after it emerged she had asked civil servants to arrange a one-to-one speed awareness course in order to avoid a fine or points on her license
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Cost of fish and chips soars to £9 as Rishi Sunak urged to help firms with bills
The average cost of chicken and chips has risen by 17% to £6.18, an extra 89p. Burgers are also up by 17%, an average increase of 64 pence to £4.35
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Tory MPs enjoy cricket jolly in Corfu while colleagues tackled crisis in Sudan
Eight Conservative MPs, including Nigel Adams, James Daly and Crispin Blunt, and two Tory peers went on the trip to Corfu last month
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Labour MP in 'living hell' from PTSD believes magic mushrooms could be cure
Labour MP Charlotte Nichols wants restrictions eased on psilocybin – the mind-altering chemical found in certain fungi, to help ease her symptoms for PTSD
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Ex-Playboy model says Trump affair was love but she moved on with Bruce Willis
Karen McDougal says she and exUS President Donald Trump met at a Playboy pool party for Celebrity Apprentice contestants as he was hosting and he followed her around like a 'lost puppy' - but she moved on with Bruce Willis
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A&E deaths rose by 4,000 last year as hospital waiting times soar in NHS crisis
Labour's Keir Starmer will pledge to end record delays in accident and emergency departments as he unveils plans to overhaul the health service on Monday
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'It's shameful that innocent lives are lost because nobody takes responsibility'
Today we ask the same question we asked yesterday: how many more have to be mauled before the Government takes action?
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Rishi Sunak denies voters care about his wealth as he's grilled on rising prices
The PM, whose family are the richest inhabitants of Downing Street in history, was challenged as desperate parents admit they are stealing formula milk as they cannot afford to feed children
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Carrie and Boris Johnson expecting third child together - with baby due in weeks
The arrival of their newborn baby will mean the Mr Johnson will have at least eight children - and the third the couple have together after their son Wilfred and daughter Romy
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'The Tories have broken Britain'
The Tories have matched Labour's record for the length of time in power, says Fleet Street Fox. But they've broken Britain doing it
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Retiring Tory MP says Boris Johnson will get his old seat 'over my dead body'
Quizzed about whether the former Prime Minister could return to Henley rather than contesting his more vulnerable Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat, outgoing MP John Howell responded: "Over my dead body"
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Rishi Sunak lost for words as he’s asked how it feels to be a loser on TV
The PM, who is in Japan for the G7 summit, was grilled on how it feels to have lost more than 1,000 Tory seats in his first test at the ballot box in local elections earlier this month
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Labour warned Black MPs 'losing faith' in response to 'hierarchy of racism'
A letter signed by Black Labour MPs has demanded urgent action is taken to bring in changes recommended in a bombshell report by Martin Forde KC last year - who found a toxic culture of disputes existed under Jeremy Corbyn
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Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty lose £500,000 a day as wealth drops to £529million
The mega-rich PM and his wife are now worth around £529 million, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. But it's been a tough year for them, as in 2022 it was estimated they had a fortune of around £730 million
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Patients at risk of serious harm from 'corridor care' at A&E units, nurses warn
The Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress heard one doctor had to give a cancer diagnosis in a crowded corridor and that failings are causing 'catastrophic harm'
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Sunak claims he will still be PM after election - despite Labour's poll leads
The Prime Minister told journalists travelling with him in Japan he was confident he would remain in No10 after voters have had their say at the ballot box
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'Once again we are paying the price for the Tories' privatising water firms'
Since being sold off, these monopolies have paid out more than £65bn in dividends to shareholders while their bosses have raked in millions
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'Rocco Forte is Labouring under the misapprehension we want him to stay'
Hotelier is just the latest in a long line of whinging rich and famous people who threaten to quit the UK if they don't get the government they want, says Paul Routledge
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Water companies 'will add cost of cleaning up sewage spills to customers bills'
The trade body representing the mega-rich water companies said consumers will face 'modest upward pressure' on bills as part of their £10billion modernisation scheme
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Matt Hancock says Tories may be torn apart by Braverman's 'extremist' fans
The shamed former Health Secretary said he was alarmed by the 'Trumpian takeover' taking place and branded right-wingers 'Conservative Corbynistas' following the National Conservatism conference this week
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Rishi Sunak's election agent duped voters with fake council tax demand
The PM's Tory election agent produced the scam leaflet that scared people into think they owed money as it was made to look like it came from the local council
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Full cost of Queen's Elizabeth's state funeral and mourning period published
More than £161million was spent during the period of national mourning after the Queen's death on September 8, which culminated in the solemn State Funeral on September 19
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Bank of England chiefs ambushed over rocketing inflation and interest rate hikes
The Commons Treasury Select Committee held a rare sitting outside Parliament - and went to Threadneedle Street in the heart of the City of London to tackle the Governor and his deputies
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Japanese firms pledge to pump £18bn into UK projects as Sunak lands in Hiroshima
The announcements came as the Prime Minister met with leading Japanese companies in Tokyo on the first leg of his four-day visit to the country on the first leg of his four-day visit to the country
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China 'tried to keep Covid outbreak quiet' and first death earlier than believed
A Senate investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has presented further circumstantial evidence linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the leak - though admits there's no "smoking gun"