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Ex-Tory minister rakes in £1,000 an hour advising a bank on climate issues
Former Tory Cabinet minister and ex-COP26 President Alok Sharma, who is still a sitting Conservative MP, is receiving £50,000 every three months for 48 hours work
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Labour on course for huge general election majority, ex-civil service boss says
Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was Cabinet Secretary under Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, suggested Labour could win between a 50-100 seat majority
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Eton College forced to close after sewer flood as £50k-a-year school delays term
Eton schoolboys were supposed to return to class after the winter break on Tuesday, but an overloaded local sewer system scuppered plans, with boys now being moved to remote learning
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Over 90,000 sign our petition demanding honour for Post Office hero Alan Bates
Downing Street has signalled that Alan Bates could get a knighthood after thousands joined our call for the former postmaster who exposed the Horizon scandal to be honoured
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Labour commits to toothbrushing for kids in breakfast clubs to end decay scandal
Keir Starmer is promising to have compulsory teeth cleaning in breakfast clubs and to ban vapes being advertised to kids to turn around poor health if Labour win the election
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Ex-Tory minister pleads for UK to engage with Taliban amid 'another 9/11' fear
Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons
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Victims of Post Office scandal to be handed £75,000 upfront compensation payment
Rishi Sunak told MPs today that Horizon convictions will be quashed on a "blanket basis" with each victim being handed a £75,000 compensation payment after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama ' Mr Bates vs the Post Office'
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Tories gave Paula Vennells £17,500 Government job despite Post Office scandal
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner
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Heiress sets up 'citizens group' to decide how she should give away £21m fortune
Marlene Englehorn, 31, has set up a citizens group to decide how to spend her £21.5million inheritance from grandmother Traudl Engelhorn-Vechiatto, who died in September 2022
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HS2 bill shoots up by billions as Birmingham leg costs four times more than said
HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'
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Wrongly convicted Post Office workers will be cleared under new law, Sunak says
Rishi Sunak made the long-awaited announcement at Prime Minister's Questions after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'
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Carol Vorderman backs petition for Post Office hero Alan Bates to get an honour
Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE
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Give Alan Bates an honour for exposing Post Office scandal - sign petition here
Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal
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Rishi Sunak faces Commons showdown on Rwanda scheme as Tory right-wingers revolt
At least nine former Cabinet ministers, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, are seeking to amend the Rwanda Bill during crunch debates next week
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Fujitsu still gets contracts worth £100m-a-year despite Post Office scandal
Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says
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'We need to banish the Cabinet of Traitors in the UK Government'
The Government of Great Britain would be much, much better – not hard, admittedly – if it were run like BBC TV show The Traitors - with regular Banishments to keep the cast fresh, and always on their toes
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Top Tory mocked for saying baby's teeth start growing 18 months before birth
Dame Andrea Leadsom made the baffling remark during a debate on the chronic shortage of NHS dentists, with MPs told Taylor Swift tickets are easier to get than an appointment
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Tories vote to keep Rwanda costs secret as Labour asks what they're hiding
Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper estimated that the Government has pledged almost £400million to Rwanda, with additional payments of around £200,000 per person sent there
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Alan Bates must get honour now ex-Post Office boss has given up CBE, MPs say
The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE
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TalkTV host declares 'London is grim' after being attacked in attempted robbery
TV presenter and TalkTV host Alex Phillips has taken to social media to share that she was attacked by a mugger on a bike as she walked along London's Oxford Street
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Fujitsu should stop getting taxpayer millions after Post Office scandal, say MPs
Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail
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Putin critic found dead after vowing to shed light on 'gigantic corruption'
Alexander Rybin, 39, was discovered by a roadside in Russia’s Rostov region and is the latest in a string of mysterious media-linked deaths - he died after a visit to occupied Mariupol
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South Korea bans dog meat as new law could jail illegal butchers for three years
Recently, surveys have indicated that over half of South Koreans wanted dog meat to be banned, and the majority no longer consume it - but farmers were extremely upset by the bill's passage
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Over 200,000 demand general election now as 'squatter' Rishi Sunak puts off vote
Tens of thousands of people have signed the Mirror's petition calling for a general election now to allow voters deliver their verdict on the last few years of Tory chaos
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Sadiq Khan will roll out free school meals for all primary kids for second year
London Mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled £140 million plans to extend universal free school meals for the 2024/25 school year, after piloting the approach in state-funded primaries across the Capital from September