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• Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clash over immigration centre scandal at PMQs – as it happened

  02-11-2022 19:07
  This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story hereThis is from Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham, who has been engaging in the time-honoured lobby practice of U-turn counting.Alok Sharma, the Cop26 president, said he was “delighted” Rishi Sunak will now be attending the Cop27 summit in Egypt. And he said he completely agreed with Sunak’s comment that “there is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change”.It’s extremely good news that
  
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• Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clash over immigration centre scandal at PMQs – UK politics live

  02-11-2022 17:11
  Labour leader questions PM over small boat arrivals and overcrowding at Dover site; Sunak to attend Cop27 after earlier refusal to goThis is from Bloomberg’s Alex Wickham, who has been engaging in the time-honoured lobby practice of U-turn counting.Alok Sharma, the Cop26 president, said he was “delighted” Rishi Sunak will now be attending the Cop27 summit in Egypt. And he said he completely agreed with Sunak’s comment that “there is no long-term prosperity without a
  
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• State of social care in England ‘never been so bad’, social services boss warns

  02-11-2022 11:00
  Councils receiving 5,400 new requests for help each day while capacity has reduced significantlyThe state of social care in England has “never been so bad”, the country’s leading social services chief has said, with half a million people now waiting for help.Sarah McClinton, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), told a conference of council care bosses in Manchester: “The shocking situation is that we have more people requesting help
  
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