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Gary Lineker tears into top Tory over 'clumsy football analogy' in Twitter row
The former England goal scorer hit back at the Conservative MP after she mentioned him in a football analogy in the Commons. He is already in a Twitter row for comparing the government's new asylum policy to Nazi Germany
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HS2 route to be delayed by TWO years in Tory betrayal of northern voters
Transport Secretary Mark Harper has said the Government will delay building the Birmingham to Crewe leg of HS2 by two years. Labour said: 'The North is yet again being asked to pay the price for staggering Conservative failure'
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Gary Lineker and his stance on refugees should make English football proud
Gary Lineker has left a large proportion of Conservative politicians foaming at the mouth after expressing his disgust at the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill, leading to a campaign to get him sacked - purely, it seems, for having an opinion
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Help UK shipyards seize on offshore wind and boat bonanza, Tories told
Trade body Maritime UK has published a document outlining how UK companies can capitalise on the huge expansion in offshore wind power planned for the coming decades
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Silence as MP Jess Phillips reads names of 108 women killed by men in UK
The Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding marked International Women's Day by reading a list of all the women who were killed where the primary suspect or known killer is a man since this time last year.
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Gary Lineker slams 'ridiculously out of proportion' reaction to Nazi comments
Gary Lineker has hit out on social media for his comments being blown "out of proportion" after he compared the the recent proposed Tory immigration policy to Nazi Germany
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Labour MP says she was sexually assaulted by colleague in Westminster
Charlotte Nichols - the MP for Warrington North since 2019 - also claimed that separately she had been 'repeatedly sexually propositioned' by a Tory MP 'old enough to be my grandfather'
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Large sections of HS2 to be delayed to save cash, ministers set to announce
The imminent announcement has sparked fury, with one Tory MP saying his constituency has been "blighted" by fields being turned into construction sites
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Heartbroken mum fears daughter's killer husband will seek revenge after release
Diana Parkes has asked Dominic Raab to block the early release of her daughter's killer Robert Brown, who bludgeoned her to death with a hammer in 2010
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Boris Johnson 'warned Dominic Raab about his behaviour amid bullying claims'
The former Prime Minister is understood to have spoken to Adam Tolley KC, who is carrying out an investigation into allegations of bullying by Mr Raab, and is claimed to have privately warned him about his behaviour
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Asylum seeker hotel bill 'to hit £25 billion in 5 years due to Tory bungling'
Labour claims that failure to negotiate return agreements with countries like France, and new restrictions under the Illegal Immigration Bill will leave tens of thousands of people holed up in hotels "indefinitely"
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'Confected outrage at Lineker cause he dared to question Tory lack of humanity'
Right-wing MPs demanding ex-footballer's sacking would have more credence if they were also critical of others who have tested the limits of BBC impartiality
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Lineker won't be silenced and makes migrant vow after BBC boss's £800K Boris row
Football legend faces “impartiality” rap just weeks after it emerged BBC chairman Richard Sharp had introduced someone to ex-Prime Minister to guarantee loan
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Gary Lineker says he's doomed over Nazi Germany tweet as he 'dodges BBC calls'
Piers Morgan has now issued a statement regarding pal Gary Lineker's refusal to back down amid his row with BBC bosses, following the Match of the Day presenter likening the current UK government to using similar language Nazi Germany did in the 30s
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Gary Lineker's former BBC colleague slams his Nazi Germany comments
Gary Lineker's former BBC colleague Mark Lawrenson said he was 'totally wrong' for his comments after he appeared to draw comparisons between the government's new Illegal Migration Bill and Nazi Germany
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'New asylum laws lack compassion - why one rule for some and not for others?'
Eva Simpson asks why there is one set of rules for one set of people and one for others, when we should be showing compassion to people fleeing war and persecution regardless of where they are from
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Tenth of the Army 'on the sick' - but many would still be sent to war anyway
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said some of those on the soldier sick list were waiting for appointments with a dentist - and would be sent into battle "if the balloon went up"
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Fox News host says he 'passionately' hates Donald Trump in text messages
The stark difference between what Fox News host Tucker Carlson was saying publicly and privately about Donald Trump has been revealed by court filings from Dominion Voting Systems
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Rishi Sunak confronted over woman's death after she faced 8 hour ambulance wait
The elderly woman called Jean drove herself to hospital in Eastbourne after being told she would have to wait eight hours for am ambulance. She collapsed in A&E and died an hour later
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Send RAF Typhoon jets to NATO allies to 'unlock' warplanes for Ukraine, say MPs
Armed Forces Minister James Heappey faced calls to deploy a batch of British fighter planes to "backfill" air defence roles in countries which have aircraft bteter suited for Ukrainian forces
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'Male violence against women and girls is an epidemic on every street in the UK'
Labour MP and the Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Jess Phillips writes in the Mirror that femicide isn't just an add-on for International Women's Day - it's integral to national security
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Tory loudmouth Lee Anderson slammed MP second jobs. then got one himself on TV
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has got a show on GB News despite previously suggesting MPs wanting to earn big money should give up their day jobs in Parliament
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Braverman's 'cowardly attack' on civil servants may have broken ministerial code
Union boss representing senior civil servants has written to Rishi Sunak and urged him to order the Home Secretary to withdraw and apologise for the comments to Tory supporters on Tuesday
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Tories accused of apeing Enoch Powell with bill that would see Mo Farah removed
In a bruising encounter, the PM faced a barrage of questions about his new "far-right appeasing, anti-refugee" immigration laws, which MPs heard would see Olympic legend Sir Mo Farah kicked out of the country
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'I became a bouncer after Sarah Everard's murder - women make venues safer'
This International Women's Day (IWD) Lisa Baskott, 53, talks about why she set up her own female-focused recruitment agency for the private security sector following Sarah Everard's murder