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• Dorries denies threatening to cut BBC funding because of Nick Robinson’s interview with PM – as it happened

  23-11-2021 18:58
  
  Culture secretary says comments on confrontational interview with Boris Johnson were ‘attributed to me, but nobody can actually say I said it’People in England and Scotland urged to take more lateral flow testsBoris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in LordsHow did your MP vote on social care funding?Boris Johnson’s much-criticised speech to the CBI, in fullCoronavirus global updates – liveThe Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended, and the readout
  
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• Social care plan ‘still in peril’, say MPs as peers vow to amend bill

  23-11-2021 18:49
  
  MPs report discontent over lack of information about changes amid predictions that ministers will compromiseMPs have said the government is “still in peril” over its plans for social care funding, with several expecting a government climbdown as peers warned they would force the issue back to the Commons.The government suffered a significant rebellion on Monday night but carried the change to the social care cap with a slimmed-down majority. The number of abstentions from discontente
  
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• Dorries denies threatening to cut BBC funding because of Nick Robinson’s interview with PM – UK politics live

  23-11-2021 16:39
  
  Latest updates: culture secretary says comments on confrontational interview with Boris Johnson were ‘attributed to me, but nobody can actually say I said it’People in England and Scotland urged to take more lateral flow testsBoris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in LordsHow did your MP vote on social care funding?Boris Johnson’s much-criticised speech to the CBI, in fullCoronavirus global updates – liveThe Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended,
  
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• Scotland to allow negative Covid lateral flow test for entry to venues and large events from 6 December – politics live

  23-11-2021 15:51
  
  Latest updates: From 6 December people in Scotland can access events by showing proof of vaccination or proof of a recent negative lateral flow testBoris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in LordsHow did your MP vote on social care funding?Boris Johnson’s much-criticised speech to the CBI, in fullCoronavirus global updates – liveThe Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended, and the readout from the prime minister’s spokesman about what was said at cabinet
  
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• Boris Johnson concedes people may still have to sell homes to pay for social care under reform plans – politics live

  23-11-2021 13:30
  
  Latest updates: PM admits that, under his plans to reform social care, some pensioners could still be forced to sell their homesBoris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in LordsHow did your MP vote on social care funding?Boris Johnson’s much-criticised speech to the CBI, in fullCoronavirus global updates – liveThe Downing Street lobby briefing has just ended, and the readout from the prime minister’s spokesman about what was said at cabinet this morning include
  
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• UK police must do more to support child sex abuse survivors, says report

  23-11-2021 12:44
  
  IOPC makes 12 recommendations following inquiry into South Yorkshire policePolice must do more to support and listen to survivors of child sexual abuse, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following a major investigation into South Yorkshire police’s response to allegations made in Rotherham.The report published on Tuesday makes 12 recommendations to national and local police forces, warning that some systemic problems, identified in the 91 separate investigation
  
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• Police must do more to help child sexual abuse survivors, says Rotherham report

  23-11-2021 12:44
  
  IOPC says some systemic problems identified in 91 separate investigations still existPolice must do more to support and listen to survivors of child sexual abuse, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following a major investigation into South Yorkshire police’s response to allegations made in Rotherham.The report published on Tuesday made 12 recommendations to national and local police forces, warning that some systemic problems identified in the 91 separate inves
  
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• Ministers will eventually U-turn over social care costs, Jeremy Hunt predicts – UK politics live

  23-11-2021 10:57
  
  Latest updates: row over the cap on social care costs unlikely to go away despite Boris Johnson winning vote on how it will be implementedBoris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in LordsHow did your MP vote on social care funding?Coronavirus global updates – liveBut Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Conservative leader, has a very different take from Jeremy Hunt on the PM’s CBI speech. She posted this on Twitter last night.Davidson was once seen as a future Conserv
  
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• Boris Johnson’s social care plans face fresh hurdle in Lords

  23-11-2021 10:19
  
  Tory peers will try to amend PM’s controversial bill that has already sparked a rebellion by his MPsBoris Johnson is facing a showdown with Conservative peers in the House of Lords who will attempt to force his changes to social care back to the Commons, where the government suffered a significant rebellion on Monday night.The former health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed he abstained on the vote over concerns that funding changes would hit poorer households in areas with lower house price
  
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• Social care: Johnson’s reforms face fresh hurdle in Lords

  23-11-2021 09:46
  
  Tory peers will try to amend PM’s controversial bill which has already sparked a rebellion by his MPsBoris Johnson is facing a showdown with Conservative peers in the House of Lords who will attempt to force his social care reforms back to the Commons, where the government suffered a significant rebellion on Monday night.The former health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed he abstained on the vote over concerns that funding changes would hit poorer households in areas with lower house prices.
  
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• UK employers step up demand for workers vaccinated against Covid

  23-11-2021 07:00
  
  Analysis shows job adverts requiring candidates to be jabbed rose by 189% between August and OctoberEmployers in the UK are following the lead of their counterparts in the US by stepping up demands for staff to be vaccinated against Covid-19, analysis of recruitment adverts reveals.According to figures from the jobs website Adzuna, the number of ads explicitly requiring candidates to be vaccinated rose by 189% between August and October as more firms ask for workers to be jabbed before they star
  
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• The NHS is facing the hardest winter in its history, and still the Tories vandalise it | Polly Toynbee

  23-11-2021 07:00
  
  The health and social care bill has been sabotaged by government ideologues still in thrall to privatisationA screeching U-turn to save northern homeowners’ inheritances, or plunging his bulldozer through his own “red wall” seats? Regardless of the vote on how much people will pay for the government’s social care reforms, Boris Johnson has never had a plan to rescue England’s stricken social care system itself. After this vote, not a penny extra will be put towards
  
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• Government narrowly wins vote on social care cap with majority of 26 – as it happened

  23-11-2021 00:56
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can find our stories on this below:Ministers defy Tory rebellion to push through amendmentBoris Johnson praises Peppa Pig and loses place in rambling speechUK minister refuses to rule out people having to sell homes to fund careJeremy Hunt calls social care plan ‘stingy’ but urges MPs to back itThe England social care cap: how will it work and is it fair?Keir Starmer: Labour will not just ‘throw cash’ at UK problemsJohnson is now defendin
  
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• How did your MP vote on social care funding?

  23-11-2021 00:55
  
  The House of Commons tonight voted to change a formula that would have protected the savings of less-well-off pensioners who had to pay for their care. Nineteen Tory MPs seem to have rebelled and many more abstained. Find out how yours voted Continue reading...
  
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