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• UK risks Scotland split, more austerity after a no-deal Brexit - Hammond

  19-06-2019 23:37
  Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond warned contenders in the race to become prime minister that a no-deal Brexit could pull the United Kingdom apart and would deprive Britain's next leader of the money needed to end austerity.All four remaining candidates in the Conservative Party leadership contest have said they are prepared to take Britain out of the European Union without a transition deal to smooth the economic shock if necessary.
  
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• Hammond: no-deal Brexit will quash new PM's spending plans

  19-06-2019 23:30
  Chancellor to warn leadership candidates they can leave with no deal or spend, but not both. The incoming prime minister will be forced to abandon any spending plans if the UK accelerates towards a no-deal Brexit, Philip Hammond is to say in a warning apparently directed at Boris Johnson. The chancellor, who is likely to be removed from the cabinet under a Johnson premiership, will tell business leaders in his Mansion House speech on Thursday that any leadership candidate must have a plan B if r
  
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• Boris Johnson May Be Forced To Call Second Brexit Referendum As PM, Hammond Warns

  19-06-2019 23:30
  Philip Hammond is set to warn Boris Johnson that as prime minister he may haveno choice but to call a public vote on Brexit
  
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• Prince Harry 'was wrong' to call Fortnite addictive, developers say

  19-06-2019 23:27
  Canon Pence, general counsel for Fortnite developers Epic Games, said the company was "taken aback" by the Duke of Sussex's criticisms made earlier this year.Answering questions from a Commons committee on Wednesday about immersive and addictive technologies, Mr Pence added that the comments "couldn't be further from the truth".Committee chairman Damian Collins then asked Mr Pence if he believed Prince Harry was wrong, or had misunderstood the game, to which he agreed.
  
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• Gove-supporting MP urges voters to back Boris Johnson in massive slip-up - 'Freudian slip'

  19-06-2019 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  TORY MP Nicky Morgan asked voters to support Boris Johnson in the final round of votes, despite publicly backing Michael Gove, in a mistake made live on air.
  
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• I love you so much: Sajid Javid shares letter from 10-year-old daughter

  19-06-2019 23:20
  'I am writing this letter because I am proud of you for doing so well for coming this far to being prime-minister'.
  
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• 'Porn block' delayed for third time after government climbdown - Sky sources

  19-06-2019 23:20
  The government's porn age verification scheme is to be indefinitely delayed, according to Sky sources.Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Secretary Jeremy Wright is expected to announce the climbdown in Parliament on Thursday.The regulator, the British Board of Film Classification, was told of the development on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• London bloodbath: Boy, 14, stabbed in broad daylight on Lewisham High Street

  19-06-2019 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was stabbed in south London this afternoon, as the capital’s knife crime epidemic continues to spiral out of control.
  
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• EXPRESS COMMENT: Brexit puzzle can only be solved by Johnson - but HE needs someone too

  19-06-2019 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS JOHNSON is the “only person” Nigel Farage would make a deal with and the Brexit Party would give the Tories a “massive majority” in a general election, Express.co.uk’s Head of News has claimed.
  
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• Mariam Moustafa: Four teen girls spared jail after 'truly shocking' attack on student

  19-06-2019 22:45
  Four teenage girls have been spared jail despite admitting being part of an attack on an Egyptian student who later died.Mariam Moustafa was punched several times near a bus stop in Parliament Street, Nottingham, on 20 February last year.The engineering student suffered a stroke after being taken to the Queen's Medical Centre and died at Nottingham City Hospital on 14 March.
  
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• Hunt: Keep Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case out of Tory leadership battle

  19-06-2019 22:45
  Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he did not want the sensitive case to become a 'brickbat' with rivals.
  
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• Film crew member stabbed in the neck on Warner Bros set near Watford

  19-06-2019 22:14
  A man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed in the neck on a film set at the Warner Bros Studios in Hertfordshire.Warner Bros told the Watford Observer that it was an "isolated workplace incident" which police were investigating.A spokesperson for Hertfordshire Police said officers had responded to a call from the Leavesden studios, where the Harry Potter series was filmed, just after midday on Wednesday.
  
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• Farewell realism's Rory Stewart – elbowed out by chancers and charlatans

  19-06-2019 21:39
  Conservative MPs show they are determined to make the priapic Mr Blobby their next leader. Shortly after six o’clock on Wednesday, Charles Walker, the joint acting chair of the 1922 Committee, confirmed what most people had already suspected. Rory Stewart was out of the leadership contest, his support having haemorrhaged away. The Tories had looked the national interest in the eye and put the party first. The one candidate who had injected some realism into the race had been sharp-elbowed
  
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• Tory leadership: what next for the surviving candidates?

  19-06-2019 21:30
  Boris Johnson surges on ahead of challengers Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt and Sajid Javid. Boris Johnson Johnson’s progress to Downing Street appeared unstoppable even before last week’s first round of voting among MPs, and most of his colleagues believe it is now all but inevitable that he will be Britain’s next prime minister. His well-disciplined campaign team will continue with their strategy of subjecting him to minimal media exposure, though once the field is narrowed down t
  
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• Corbyn rebuffs calls to shift Labour's position on second referendum

  19-06-2019 20:56
  Backers of people’s vote express disappointment as Labour leader reiterates his position. Jeremy Corbyn told colleagues at a fractious and inconclusive shadow cabinet meeting on Wednesday that he had been reading Harold Wilson’s autobiography to gather inspiration about Labour’s Brexit position. The Labour leader was repeatedly urged during the meeting, including by his longstanding political friend John McDonnell, to win back disillusioned party members by moving towards a mor
  
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• Man, 64, arrested over death of footballer Emiliano Sala

  19-06-2019 20:49
  A 64-year-old man has been arrested over the death of Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala earlier this year.Police said he was from North Yorkshire and was detained on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act.Sala, a 28-year-old Argentine striker, was killed when a private plane taking him from France to the UK crashed in the English Channel north of Guernsey on 21 January.
  
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• Rory Stewart confronted after leadership elimination – 'Do you regret attacks on Boris?'

  19-06-2019 20:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  RORY STEWART was quizzed by Sky News political editor Beth Rigby on whether he regrets “some of the attacks on Boris Johnson”, following his elimination from the Tory leadership race.
  
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• Queen braves downpours to join thousands at Royal Ascot

  19-06-2019 20:21
  The heavens opened on Wednesday afternoon, leaving racegoers running cover.
  
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• Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Emiliano Sala death

  19-06-2019 20:07
  The 64-year-old from North Yorkshire was arrested on Wednesday.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Signals Stronger Labour Stance On Second Brexit Referendum

  19-06-2019 20:05
  Jeremy Corbyn has signalled that he will strengthen Labour's stance on asecond Brexit referendum before Theresa May is replaced by a new Tory primeminister
  
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• Race for No 10: Everything you need to know about the Tory leadership candidates

  19-06-2019 20:03
  The battle for Number 10 is hotting up.
  
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• Robotic capsule could spell end of endoscopic examinations, scientists say

  19-06-2019 20:00
  The images captured by the Sonopill are said to be better able to identify some types of cell change associated with cancer.
  
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• Cold War spy satellite pictures reveal accelerating Himalayan glacier melt

  19-06-2019 20:00
  Analysis from 40 years of satellite observations, including Cold War era military images, show a doubling in the loss of ice.
  
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• Couple 'devastated' as £850,000 riverside cottage starts sinking

  19-06-2019 19:56
  A "devastated" couple have been forced to abandon their thatched cottage of 17 years after they woke up to find it sinking.Ken and Gail Pitts, who are aged in their 60s, found out three months ago that the £850,000 riverside property in Horning, Norfolk, had a severe tilt.Neighbours claimed the 1970s-built cottage started sinking shortly after it was re-thatched because wooden pile foundations broke under the weight.
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Brexit position from never never land – David Miliband

  19-06-2019 19:56
  The former foreign secretary under Labour said a second Brexit referendum should be held.
  
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• Hospital bed cutbacks have gone too far, NHS England boss says

  19-06-2019 19:50
  Policy has left hospitals unable to cope with rise in patient numbers, Simon Stevens says. Shutting beds has left hospitals unable to cope with the growing number of patients needing care and needs to stop, the head of the NHS has admitted. In a surprise U-turn, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said the policy had gone too far and that hospital beds had become “overly pressurised” as a result of years of closures. The number of beds in NHS hospitals and other facilities
  
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• Awkward moment Rory Stewart exposed over BBC debate tie stunt - 'It was planned!'

  19-06-2019 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  RORY STEWART was painfully caught out on Sky News this morning over the tie stunt that he pulled in the BBC Tory leadership debate after it was revealed the act had been planned all along.
  
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• Government under pressure to delay launch of porn restriction scheme for third time

  19-06-2019 19:44
  The government is under pressure to delay its controversial online pornography age verification scheme for a third time, or risk "nefarious" companies "using this opportunity to harvest and manipulate user data".Sky News has obtained a copy of a confidential note sent by the Digital Policy Alliance, a lobby group representing many online pornographers, to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).The BBFC is the regulator for the age verification scheme, a world first, which will require p
  
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• Boris Johnson storms ahead as Rory Stewart crumbles in third ballot - New Statesman

  19-06-2019 19:39 via newstatesman.com
  Boris Johnson storms ahead as Rory Stewart crumbles in third ballot  New StatesmanRory Stewart wants Gove to join his leadership bid against Boris  Daily MailTory leadership news LIVE: Voting underway in fifth ballot as Johnson, Gove and Hunt compete for final places  Evening StandardTory leadership: Why is Rory Stewart backing Michael Gove? Will Gove BETRAY Boris Johnson?  Express.co.ukBoris Johnson takes another huge leap towards Number 10 with almost ha
  
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• Emiliano Sala Death: Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Manslaughter

  19-06-2019 19:38
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with thedeath of Emiliano Sala, Dorset Police said
  
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• Should Boris Johnson be sent empty away?

  19-06-2019 19:36
  Boris Johnson in the Church of St Margaret, in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, in 2016. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAGeorge Pitcher is surely right to bewail the Church of England’s silence over the prospect of a Boris Johnson premiership (My battered church should take a stand on Boris Johnson, Journal, 18 June). But the central question that might hopefully be asked by church leaders would be about his suitability to lead one of the most unequal societies in the world, where the gap between r
  
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• Conservative leadership debate was just embarrassing

  19-06-2019 19:35
  Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, Rory Stewart and Sajid Javid at the TV debate. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC via GettyPicture anyone from any European country coming across the recent TV debate between the candidates for leadership of the Tory party and the UK (Johnson defensive and evasive but remains favourite for No 10, 19 June). Imagine trying to explain why this was taking place. Five politicians with closely similar views, representing barely half of our electorate, debating departu
  
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• MPs need maternity leave just as much as other public servants

  19-06-2019 19:34
  Roderick McLeod and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority chair Ruth Evans on funding and support. As a director in the Department for Education, my daughter was entitled to 12 months’ maternity leave. Her right to care for her baby for those important early months was respected, and arrangements were made for her duties to be carried out during her absence. In contrast, Stella Creasy has no entitlement to maternity leave ( I’m pregnant, but denied maternity leave as an M
  
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• The perfect prequel to Years and Years

  19-06-2019 19:32
  Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart participate in a BBC Conservative leadership debate on Wednesday 18 June 2019. Photograph: BBC via Getty ImagesSo Stewart Dakers says faith systems don’t produce volunteers (Society, 19 June) because “their holy communities are preoccupied with the repair of high-maintenance architectural white elephants, or focused on rapture in the hereafter”. On the opposite page was an interview with John Poyton, whose R
  
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• Tory vote live: Rory Stewart eliminated from leadership race

  19-06-2019 19:31
  Boris Johnson again topped the ballot.
  
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• Experts had warned of fire risk at Barking block of flats

  19-06-2019 19:30
  Independent assessment in January said wooden balconies could accelerate spread of fire. Fire experts had warned of the risk of deaths at a block of flats in east London as a result of the building’s wooden balconies five months before it went up in flames. An independent fire risk assessment of Samuel Garside House in Barking, built by Bellway Homes, was carried out in January. It warned that the wooden structures might not be fire-resistant and could “accelerate fire spread &hellip
  
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• Boris Johnson remains clear favourite to take the Tory crown

  19-06-2019 19:27
  The current favourite had 143 backers for his leadership bid in the third round of voting by MPs.
  
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• Rory Stewart out of Tory leadership race as Boris Johnson tops poll again

  19-06-2019 19:17
  The International Development Secretary's energetic campaign for Number 10 ran out of steam in the third round of voting by Tory MPs.
  
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• London's toxic school runs: how polluted is the air children breathe? - video

  19-06-2019 19:17
  Most UK cities have had illegally polluted air for nearly a decade, and the effect of air pollution is particularly bad on children. Ahead of Clean Air Day, we conducted an experiment to assess the air quality on a school run in central London, using new state-of-the art monitors that can measure air pollution in real time Continue reading...
  
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• Tory leadership race: Stewart out as Johnson extends lead

  19-06-2019 19:14
  Rory Stewart has been ousted from the Conservative leadership contest after losing 10 votes from Conservative MPs since the last round of voting and being leapfrogged by Sajid Javid who clung on to stay in the race.The frontrunner, Boris Johnson, substantially increased his tally to 143 votes, almost three times the number of his closest rivals Jeremy Hunt (54) and Michael Gove (51).Stewart, who ran an insurgent campaign buoyed by support on social media, tweeted that he was “so moved and
  
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• PM candidate Johnson increases support in third round of leadership contest

  19-06-2019 19:14
  Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson cemented his position as the favourite to be Britain’s next prime minister on Wednesday after he increased his support in the third round of the Conservative Party leadership contest.Johnson got 143 out of 313 votes, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in second place with 54 votes and environment minister Michael Gove third with 51.Interior minister Sajid Javid was fourth with 38 votes.
  
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• Rory Stewart Eliminated From Tory Leadership Contest

  19-06-2019 19:06
  Rory Stewart's insurgent campaign for the Tory leadership has come to an endafter he was eliminated in the third round of the contest
  
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• London's Jubilee underground train line partly suspended due to fire alert

  19-06-2019 19:03
  Part of London's Jubilee underground train line was suspended due to a fire alert in the Green Park area on Wednesday."At the moment we have no service on the line between Finchley Road and Waterloo," Transport for London said."The disruption has been caused by a fire alert in the Green Park area.
  
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• Global financial bodies not fit for purpose, John McDonnell says

  19-06-2019 19:00
  IMF, WTO and World Bank not doing enough to fight climate crisis, shadow chancellor says. Fighting the climate crisis should be put at the heart of decisions made by the International Monetary Fund and other global institutions as part of a fundamental shake-up designed to reduce the influence of corporate power, John McDonnell has said. The shadow chancellor used a Guardian interview to say that Donald Trump’s hostility to international bodies was the opportunity to recast organisations s
  
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• London Bridge was 'crying out' for barriers before terror attack

  19-06-2019 18:59
  London Bridge was "crying out" for temporary barriers prior to the terror attack there, an inquest has heard.Gareth Patterson QC, representing some of the victims' families, said it was "unreasonable" that the "wrong decision was clearly made".Eight people died and 48 others were injured in a van and knife attack on 3 June 2017.
  
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• Developing countries must be helped to tackle climate change, says Sturgeon

  19-06-2019 18:59
  Scotland's First Minister addressed delegates at the Global Climate Justice Forum at Glasgow Caledonian University.
  
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• Corbyn statement on Brexit position fails to impress remainers

  19-06-2019 18:56
  Jeremy Corbyn issued a lengthy statement reiterating his position. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/ReutersLabour backers of a second referendum who had hoped for a decisive shift in their party’s policy towards remain have expressed disappointment after Jeremy Corbyn issued a lengthy statement reiterating his position.In remarks to Tuesday’s shadow cabinetCorbyn said: “I have already made the case, on the media and in Dublin, that it is now right to demand that any deal is put to a
  
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• Elderly man shoved onto Tube tracks

  19-06-2019 18:55
  Paul Crossley shoved Sir Robert Malpas onto Tube tracks at Marble Arch station
  
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• Tory leadership candidates do not have ‘serious grasp’ of Irish border issue

  19-06-2019 18:54
  A no-deal Brexit could negatively impact the Northern Ireland economy.
  
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• Nicola Benedetti joins more than 1,000 pupils for orchestral performance

  19-06-2019 18:50
  The violinist and youngsters were joined on the stage at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow by conductor Sir James MacMillan.
  
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