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• UK set for new wave of strikes as civil servants and train drivers vote for action – as it happened

  10-11-2022 18:49
  This live blog has now closed, you can read more on this story hereAccording to Pat Leahy, political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.In his Sky News interview Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, also suggested that large number of politicians in parliament are voting for Matt Hancock to perform “grim” tasks on I’m A Celebrity. My co
  
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• UK set for new wave of strikes as civil servants and train drivers vote for action – politics live

  10-11-2022 15:35
  Around 100,000 civil servants, working in multiple government agencies, have voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs.According to Pat Leahy, political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.In his Sky News interview Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, also suggested that large number of politicians in parliament are voting for Matt Hancock
  
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• Watch the 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert – video

  10-11-2022 09:48
  John Lewis has kicked off the festive season, breaking with tradition in its annual campaign with a simple but moving ad to raise awareness of the challenges faced by children in care. This year the department store's Christmas ad shows the touching but bruising efforts of a foster dad to learn how to skateboard so he can share the passion with his foster daughter. Claire Pointon, customer director at John Lewis, said the ad was a 'very different story to what we have done before' and
  
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• Sunak warned UK public services will need £43bn a year to ‘stand still’

  10-11-2022 01:01
  TUC says vital services had been left short-staffed and overwhelmed after over a decade of austerityRishi Sunak’s government has been warned that Britain’s creaking public services will require at least £43bn a year in additional funding just to “stand still” amid the fallout from soaring inflation.The Trades Union Congress said next week’s autumn statement needed to protect both public services and workers’ pay from the highest rates of inflation since
  
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