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Rachel Reeves will copy Joe Biden's plan to get more mothers into tech jobs
The Shadow Chancellor, who will hold talks with the U.S. President’s team in Washington DC today, has pledged to learn from his drive to encourage women into cutting edge sectors
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'Wake up, it's not the 1980s anymore!' Starmer tells Sunak in bitter clash
The Labour leader urged the Government to do more to boost UK manufacturing, telling the Prime Minister: "We can't afford to be stuck in the changing rooms complaining about how unfair life is"
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US debt default threatens world chaos making Credit Crunch 'look like tea party'
The US has raised its debt ceiling limit multiple times in the last decade up to $13.4 trillion but a deal must be struck before the end of the month to avoid default which could spark a terrible recession
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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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Rishi Sunak 'too busy' to watch Tory rival Liz Truss's Taiwan speech
The snub came after Liz Truss - Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister who almost crashed the economy - lectured the West on the need to reduce 'dependence' on Beijing
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Keir Starmer vows to back 'builders not blockers' with planning rules shake-up
The Labour leader will attempt to capitalise on Tory failures over the housing crisis after Rishi Sunak bowed to pressure from his own MPs to scrap house-building targets last year
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Clarkson's Farm star heads to No10 for food prices crisis talks with Rishi Sunak
Kaleb Cooper, who became a sensation after appearing on the Amazon Prime show, attended a crunch No10 summit with supermarket bosses, farmers' leaders and industry executives
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Britain faces Northern 'brain drain' as 4 in 10 young people to leave for work
Some 44% of 16 to 21 year olds expect to have to move from the North to improve their career chances, according to a study Atkins and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership think tank
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Manufacturing boom for towns, country and coast 'could pump £70bn into economy'
A study by the Centre for Progressive Policy think tank has calculated the potential impact of reviving heavy industry across swathes of Britain
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Small businesses prioritising growing revenue over meeting net zero targets
The government has set a net zero target for all UK sectors by 2050 - but the cost-of-living crisis means SMEs have other priorities
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'Boris Johnson left UK in chaos but has fallen on his feet again with £3.8m pad'
The former Prime Minister recently splashed out £3.8million in cash on a plush country manor, just months after leaving Downing Street in disgrace and hurling the country into months of chaos
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Rishi Sunak slaps down top Tory's claim 2p could be cut from income tax
The Prime Minister's spokesman said it was not up to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride to dictate tax policy after he claimed getting people back into work will boost the economy enough to reduce income tax by 2p
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'Bank of England is firefighting a blaze caused by Conservatives' mismanagement'
It is charged with bringing down inflation and hiking interest rates is the only tool it has in its armoury
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Top Tory says it's not in Brits' 'psyche' to riot over issues like state pension
The DWP Chief Mel Stride also claimed the Tories still have a 'narrow path' to victory at the next general election - despite losing over 1,000 council seats at the local elections last week
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£15-an-hour wage for carers would deliver £7.7bn economic boost - see your area
Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps
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'Government must not hide hidden epidemic of Long Covid'
The illness can cause debilitating fatigue, headaches, brain fog and dizziness - but ministers barely ever mention the illness
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Tories reforms could mean workers do longer shifts in 'boost for bad bosses'
Union leaders warned people would be working 'excessive hours' if vital EU rules are scrapped and called the move the 'latest attack' on working people's rights by the Tories
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Lorries as long as bowling lanes to be made legal in bid to cut emissions
The longer semi-trailers will mean vehicles can carry more goods and therefore take fewer journeys in a bid to boost the economy and cut emissions, the Department for Transport has announced
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Tories warned not to backtrack as long-awaited reforms for renters delayed again
Shadow Housing Secretary Lisa Nandy criticised the government's failure to publish the Renters’ Reform Bill, four years after the Tories promised to scrap no-fault evictions
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Keir Starmer tells MPs 'hardest part is still to come' after elections success
At a Shadow Cabinet meeting, he is also set to say that Rishi Sunak made a strategic error by trying to fight the elections on “woke” issues
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'Royal family needs to change and modernise if it has any chance of surviving'
Because despite being a monarchist I have felt increasingly conflicted about holding such a lavish bash in the midst of a cost of living crisis
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Putin preparing plan for Russian defeat ahead of Ukraine's counter attack
The Kremlin's network of propagandists are being told to tell the Russian public not to "underestimate" Ukraine's counteroffensive, but that if Kyiv does win it's because they're supported with ammunition from the US and Europe
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Four-day week will be norm for UK workers by 2030, most people believe
A new survey carried out on behalf of the 4 Day Week Campaign found 58% of the public expects it to be the standard way of working within seven years - compared to 22% who think it won't
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Parents face 'cost of eating crisis' as price of school lunches rockets by third
Free school meals funding has failed to keep up with the rising cost of food meaning schools are forced to make up the difference from teaching budgets, it has been warned
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