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Tory ministers recycle wet wipe ban announcement for the third time in 5 years
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey will pledge to consult shoppers and industry on outlawing wet wipes containing plastic fibres over concerns they are creating fatbergs in Britain's sewers
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'Suella Braverman isn’t being brave, she is being deliberately divisive'
'Grooming isn’t a colour issue. It’s about how to protect vulnerable young girls from exploitative nasty scum whatever their background, race or religion'
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Suella Braverman got £700 expenses for rental flat - and STILL hasn't repaid it
The Home Secretary has not paid the money back despite renting the home out for profit during the period for which she had received the payout
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Nigel Lawson dies as Sunak leads Tories hailing Thatcher's pivotal Chancellor
Nigel Lawson, who served in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher, has died at the age of 91. The father of TV celebrity Nigella Lawson represented the constituency of Blaby from 1974 until 1992
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Meet the 'Stevenage Women' needed to secure a Labour election victory
The Mirror took a trip to the Hertfordshire town to find out what issues the group of voters identified by a think-tank are affected by and what they think of Keir Starmer
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'Suella Braverman won't allow facts to get in the way of a good scaremongering'
For a Conservative Party without a plan, a Home Secretary determined to start a race war is a perfect distraction
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Everything we know about Trump indictment - what it means and what happens next
Former US president Donald Trump has been indicted and will be handing himself in at the lower Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday, February 4 with an arraignment expected later that day
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Tory voter ID checks slammed as just one person cautioned for fraud last year
Conservative ministers have been accused of discouraging young people from voting by requiring people to show photo identification at polling stations at local elections in May
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'Stop the gloats - Suella Braverman has got a flipping cheek'
The Home Secretary 'flipped' her second home allowance to claim £25,000 in energy bills for her own family, says Fleet Street Fox. She's got a flipping cheek
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Rishi Sunak warns against turning 'blind eye to child grooming gangs'
The Prime Minister was speaking as he hosted the first meeting of a new taskforce aimed at rooting out child sexual exploitation - and after the Home Secretary pointed the finger at British Pakistani men
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Finland to formally join NATO tomorrow, Jens Stoltenberg announces
Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced Helsinki would be formally admitted to the coalition on Tuesday
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Finland's 'Party Prime Minister' Sanna Marin loses election in tight race
The centre-right National Coalition Party (NCP) claimed victory with all of the votes counted, coming out on top at 20.8 per cent followed by the right-wing populist party The Finns
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Keir Starmer rubbishes Tory claim Brexit had nothing to do with Dover delays
The Labour leader said it was "obvious" that new checks could lead to delays, and said the Government needs to "get a grip" after again being caught ill-prepared
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Hunt for woman who handled bomb minutes before cafe explosion killed blogger
Two female suspects have been identified as suspects including Daria Trepova, 26, who appears to be on the run and a video is believed to show her walking to the cafe carrying what may have been the bomb
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Children 'left in pain' after thousands of NHS operations axed in just one year
A series of Freedom of Information requests by the Liberal Democrats has lifted the lid on the scale of cancelled surgeries affecting kids - and the waits they have to suffer
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'Braverman milks taxpayers to cover bills on her home while the rest of us pay'
Nurses, teachers, firefighters, police, council workers, armed forces and everybody else hurting in a terrible cost of living crisis can’t just Braverman-style fill in a form.
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'Tory Government is no Robin Hood - they steal from the poor and give to Rishi'
You’ve got to laugh when the Tories falsely claimed Britain was bankrupt under Labour, despite national debt being more of a steep hill than today’s mighty mountain
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'Braverman's attitude sums up the Tories - out of touch and their needs first'
While Ms Braverman has been able to claim £25,000 over the last five years towards her heating bills and other household costs, there are families who are going without food because they cannot afford to heat their homes.
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Suella Braverman claims £25,000 to pay household bills after 'milking loophole'
A Mirror investigation has found the Home Secretary has claimed nearly £25,000 in household bills despite staying rent free in her parents home whilst the country faces sky high energy bills
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Taxing tourists £1-a-night for hotel stays 'would generate £428m' for town halls
Manchester has become the UK's first city to impose the 'tourist tax' levy and Wales is on course to follow suit, with supporters saying the move could provide vital new funds
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'Incompetent' Tories failing to order Border Force boats despite migrant crisis
A former Defence Minister lashed out at the Government after the Immigration Minister admitted "formal discussions" on ordering new cutters and patrol craft had not even been held
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Anti-Tory parties urged to oust Conservatives from 'tragedy councils' - see list
The campaign group Compass wants progressive parties to work together rather than compete for votes across swatches of the country, saying cooperation could help oust Conservatives
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Red Wall Tory blasts housebuilding fail as he demands 90,000 social homes a year
West Bromwich West MP Shaun Bailey attacked successive governments' records on meeting housebuilding pledges in an essay for the centre-right think tank, Bright Blue
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Keir Starmer must win over 'Stevenage Woman' to secure Labour election victory
Think tank Labour Together suggested the party needed to lure over this sort of voter - who previously backed the Tories - to propel Keir Starmer into Downing Street
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Farting cows to get food additives to stop them breaking wind in climate fight
Gaseous cattle are blamed for fuelling emissions by belching and breaking wind - but a solution could be at hand as the Government desperately tries to hit net-zero