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• New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

  04-07-2024 11:00
  
  An imminent Nato summit, bursting prisons and another strike by junior doctors for starters mean whoever takes the keys to No 10 will have little to no time to celebrateThe campaign is over, but it’s only now that the really hard work begins. Every new prime minister faces a bulging in-tray of issues, decisions and potential mishaps, but this one will be arguably more laden than most. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  04-07-2024 06:01
  Children’s experiences form basis of play that weaves 150 years of care system history into narrativeWhen theatre-makers Matt Woodhead and Helen Monks gathered with a small group of children in a theatre in Essex five years ago, the plan was simple: discuss the care system.Woodhead and Monks are co-directors of Lung Theatre, a company that has made a name for itself by tackling weighty subjects, such as the Chilcot inquiry, housing evictions and, most recently, the spate of self-inflicted
  
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