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• Gascoigne describes sex assault allegations as ‘year of hell’

  19-10-2019 23:41
  The 52-year-old was cleared of sexual assault, and of the lesser, alternative count of assault by beating on Thursday
  
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• PM sends unsigned photocopy of Parliament’s request for Brexit extension to EU

  19-10-2019 23:34
  A second note states the PM thinks a delay would be corrosive in a move likely to spark a political row.
  
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• Boris Johnson sends unsigned request to Brussels for Brexit delay

  19-10-2019 23:33
  The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the EU summit on Friday. Photograph: Isopix/REX/ShutterstockBoris Johnson has sent a letter to European council president Donald Tusk requesting a further Brexit delay beyond 31 October.Despite the prime minister’s insistence that he would not “negotiate” a further extension of the UK’s membership of the EU, he confirmed on Saturday evening that he had sought such a prolongation.Shortly af
  
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• Johnson ‘faces fresh court action’ after rejecting delay to Brexit

  19-10-2019 23:16
  Boris Johnson says he is ‘not daunted or dismayed’ by the vote. Photograph: House of Commons/PABoris Johnson was warned on Saturday that he risks a fresh challenge in the courts after he reacted to a humiliating Commons defeat over Brexit by calling on EU leaders to reject any extension of Britain’s membership of the European Union.After MPs voted by 322 to 306 to withhold approval of his EU exit deal, the prime minister was obliged to write to Brussels by 11pm on Saturday to r
  
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• Corbyn says he will challenge the Government ‘all the way’ over Europe

  19-10-2019 23:09
  He was cheered and applauded by supporters as he spoke about the Iraq war, arms sales to Saudia Arabia and austerity.
  
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• Haringey boss pulled ‘frightened’ players off pitch amid alleged racist abuse

  19-10-2019 22:46
  The FA Cup fourth round qualifying tie was abandoned after 64 minutes.
  
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• Boris Johnson will write to Tusk ‘to seek Brexit delay’

  19-10-2019 22:34
  It comes after the PM lost a key Commons vote over his EU withdrawal plans.
  
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• Five Massive News Stories From The Weekend That Have Nothing To Do With Brexit

  19-10-2019 22:14
  As you're no doubt aware, it's been a rather big weekend for all things Brexit- but if you're looking for the latest from parliament, you're in the wrongplace (you should be here fyi)
  
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• 5 Massive News Stories From Today That Have Nothing To Do With Brexit

  19-10-2019 22:14
  As you're no doubt aware, today was rather a big day in all things Brexit -but if you're looking for the latest from parliament, you're in the wrongplace (you should be here fyi)
  
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• Boris Johnson has confirmed he will seek Brexit delay, says Brussels

  19-10-2019 21:39
  Donald Tusk says he is ‘waiting for letter’ that PM promised in phone call after Commons vote. Boris Johnson has confirmed in a phone call with the European council president Donald Tusk that he is sending a letter requesting a further Brexit delay beyond 31 October. Despite the prime minister’s insistence that he will not “negotiate” a further extension of the UK’s membership of the EU, he confirmed on Saturday evening that he would be seeking such an extensi
  
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• Boris Johnson Declares He Will Tell EU That Brexit Delay 'Is Not A Solution'

  19-10-2019 21:04
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written a letter to MPs saying he will tellthe EU that "further delay is not a solution"
  
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• Dumb luck, nurturing, hard work: how class does not always dictate fate

  19-10-2019 21:00
  Life Chances study participant Anna Lam is now a primary school teacher at Coburg North Primary School. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The GuardianIn 1990, the Brotherhood of St Laurence began a study in the inner-city Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood and Fitzroy. Life Chances has echoes of the British Seven Up series, which has documented the lives of 14 people every seven years since the early 1960s.The heart of both projects is class. Life Chances began with 167 babies born to wealthy parent
  
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• Scottish politicians react to Prime Minister’s Brexit defeat

  19-10-2019 19:40
  The First Minister said that Boris Johnson suffered a 'severe blow to his plan' after MPs inflicted another Brexit defeat on the Prime Minister.
  
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• March organisers hail ‘one of the greatest protest marches in British history’

  19-10-2019 19:40
  Led by mayor Sadiq Khan, around one million protesters gathered to demand a fresh referendum. In one of the largest public demonstrations in British history, a crowd estimated at around one million marched outside parliament to demand MPs grant them a fresh referendum on Brexit. Organisers of the march said the turnout, buoyed by the dry weather and the promise of “super Saturday”, was comparable to the previous second referendum rally six months ago, when a million people gathered i
  
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• Boris Johnson's Super Saturday bubble bursts

  19-10-2019 19:36
  ‘Trust me, I’m Boris,’ the PM had said, and to his astonishment 321 MPs decided they didn’t. Boris Johnson isn’t good at deferred gratification. Sulk wants. Sulk must have. Jennifer Arcuri had driven him mad by insisting he stick to Google Hangouts when he’d been dying to move on to spreadsheets. But today of all days he had been certain nothing could spoil his triumph. He’d looked the EU in the eye and he had blinked first. It took some skill to go back
  
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• Voices from the People’s Vote march

  19-10-2019 19:25
  Protesters explain why they want a second referendum on EU membership. Claudia Cobban, 46 from the Black Forest in Germany, lives in Malvern, works in social housing; and her daughter Maya, 13 It’s fair enough making a choice to leave or not to leave but you need to do it on good information. Now we have better information an informed choice can be made. I’ve been here 20 years and my husband and children are English so I love this country and have no intention to leave. But I’
  
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• Celebrities and politicians address huge crowds on People’s Vote march

  19-10-2019 19:22
  Sir Patrick Stewart said 'you haven’t just impacted the Brexit debate, you have transformed British politics'.
  
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• People’s Vote march: from every corner of the land they came, to join a very British rebellion in the rain

  19-10-2019 19:20
  They were charity assistants, health professionals, teachers and parents … all demanding a final say in their future. As the news of the success of the Letwin amendment filtered out to the hundreds of thousands who had once again marched to Parliament Square to demand a People’s Vote on the Brexit deal, there was the most reassuringly British of reactions: widespread applause in the rain. Throaty cheers and whistles gave way to nuanced conversations from under umbrellas and the hood
  
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• Rebel amendment defeat is yet another painful bellyflop for Boris Johnson

  19-10-2019 19:17
  ‘Boris Johnson richly deserves to become the next Tory leader to fail over Europe.’ Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty ImagesThe prime minister nose-dives again, yet another painful bellyflop among the many in his 88 short days in power. He takes the same humiliating punishment he inflicted on his predecessor in order to snatch her seat: she was gracious, but you could see the inner smirk.Today he was stopped dead in his tracks from bulldozing an EU deal through p
  
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• Serious Fraud Office closes Libor rigging investigation

  19-10-2019 19:05
  Former Barclays trader Peter Johnson pleaded guilty to manipulating the US Dollar Libor in October 2014.
  
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• Animal activists stage gruesome ‘experimentation’ protest

  19-10-2019 18:59
  Mac Cosmetics states on its website that it does not conduct animal testing or contract others to conduct animal testing.
  
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• What could happen next in the Brexit saga?

  19-10-2019 18:45
  We look at what happened on Super Saturday and what is likely to happen now.
  
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• Lord Darzi named chairman of Aurora Prize selection panel

  19-10-2019 18:45
  Speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, the peer said the appointment is a 'great honour'.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg And Andrea Leadsom Had To Be Escorted By Police As They Left Westminster

  19-10-2019 18:43
  Cabinet ministers had to be escorted by police as they left parliament onSaturday, as anti-Brexit protestors heckled them with boos and shouts of"shame on you"
  
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• Nigel Farage fury as MPs delay Brexit again keeping the public in ‘most awful situation’

  19-10-2019 18:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  NIGEL FARAGE reacted furiously to Remain MPs passing the Letwin Amendment forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request a Brexit extension from the EU.
  
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• Ian Blackford savaged by Tory MP in Brexit debate - 'SNP don't speak for Scotland!'

  19-10-2019 18:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  SNP’s Ian Blackford was savaged by Tory MP Stephen Kerr in the House of Commons as the Brexiteer said the party doesn’t speak for Scotland.
  
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• Andrea Leadsom accuses People’s Vote protesters of ‘frightening’ abuse

  19-10-2019 18:20
  Footage posted to social media showed Cabinet ministers targeted with boos and shouts of 'shame on you' as they left Parliament under police escort.
  
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• What does the Letwin amendment mean for Brexit timetable?

  19-10-2019 18:00
  Will Boris Johnson still try to get his deal through – and will he ask the EU for an extension?. What happens now the Letwin amendment has passed? The former Tory minister Oliver Letwin’s amendment passed 322 to 306. This means Boris Johnson did not get the clean yes or no vote on his Brexit deal that he had hoped for in Saturday’s “super sitting” and must by law request an extension. In short, it pushes the focus of Brexit decision-making into next week. What was t
  
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• EU will grant Brexit extension if Johnson sends letter, says Brussels

  19-10-2019 17:58
  The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the EU summit on Friday. Photograph: Isopix/REX/ShutterstockThe EU will grant a further Brexit delay beyond 31 October if a letter of request is received from Boris Johnson, but the bloc will not make the first move, senior officials in Brussels have said.Shortly after the Commons put the prime minister under a legal obligation to seek an extension, a spokeswoman for the European commission called for clarificati
  
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• Defiant Boris Johnson says he will not negotiate Brexit delay after Commons loss

  19-10-2019 17:32
  At a special Saturday sitting, MPs voted in favour of an amendment withholding approval of the Prime Minister's Brexit deal
  
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• Live coverage: MPs back Brexit delay amendment as protesters march in London

  19-10-2019 17:29
  Boris Johnson had appealed to MPs to end a 'painful chapter' as the October 31 deadline for withdrawal looms.
  
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• Government urged to give ‘iron-clad guarantee’ it will avoid no-deal

  19-10-2019 17:28
  The director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce said a no-deal would be an act of negligence.
  
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• MPs put brakes on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with rebel amendment

  19-10-2019 17:23
  PM says he will press ahead with legislation next week, but is obliged to request extension. MPs have inflicted a humiliating defeat on Boris Johnson by passing a backbench amendment withholding their support from his Brexit deal. Instead of backing Johnson’s agreement in a “meaningful vote”, MPs passed an amendment tabled by a cross-party group of MPs led by Oliver Letwin by 322 votes to 306 – a majority of 16. The prime minister said he was not “daunted or dismaye
  
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• MPs put brakes on Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with rebel amendment

  19-10-2019 17:23
  MPs have inflicted a humiliating defeat on Boris Johnson by passing a backbench amendment withholding their support from his Brexit deal.Instead of backing Johnson’s agreement in a “meaningful vote”, MPs passed an amendment tabled by a cross-party group of MPs led by Oliver Letwin by 322 votes to 306 – a majority of 16.The prime minister said he was not “daunted or dismayed” by the defeat, and would press ahead with tabling Brexit legislation next week. MPs ar
  
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• Rees-Mogg and his son need police escort as Remain campaigners target them with vile abuse

  19-10-2019 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  JACOB REES-MOGG and his young son left Parliament with a huge police presence as People’s Vote campaigners shouted vile abuse at the Leader of the House of Commons and his family.
  
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• Remainer activists celebrate Brexit delay 'like World Cup goal' outside Westminster

  19-10-2019 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  REMAINERS celebrated the passing of the Lewin amendment “like a World Cup goal” as the tens of thousands of People’s Vote supporters saw the vote as an “opportunity” to demand a referendum.
  
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• People's Vote march: 'One million' anti-Brexit protesters fill London streets - Mirror Online

  19-10-2019 17:02 via news.google.com
  People's Vote march: 'One million' anti-Brexit protesters fill London streets  Mirror Online
  
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• Piers Morgan laughs at Gary Linekar complaint about Brexit delaying BBC Match of the Day

  19-10-2019 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  PIERS MORGAN took a swipe at Gary Linekar as he complained about tonight’s episode of Match of the Day being delayed due to the Brexit debate.
  
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• Here's What Happens Now That Boris Johnson Has Been Forced To Request A Brexit Delay

  19-10-2019 16:47
  The passing of the so-called Letwin amendment triggers another bit oflegislation - the Benn act - which means Johnson must now write a letter tothe EU asking for an Article 50 extension to January 31
  
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• Bercow powerless as Boris Johnson and Tory MPs storm out of Commons – VIDEO

  19-10-2019 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  JOHN BERCOW was left powerless as Conservative MPs stormed out of the House of Commons as MPs voted to delay the Brexit vote under the Letwin Amendment.
  
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• City bosses fury: MPs urged to back Boris and stop delay - including ex-Remain chief

  19-10-2019 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  BUSINESS leaders and City financiers are urging Parliament to back Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and end three years of uncertainty - on the day MPs ordered him to seek another delay.
  
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• Two in court after heroin worth £3m seized

  19-10-2019 16:34
  They will return to court next month.
  
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• Brexit deal: Did your MP vote for the Letwin amendment?

  19-10-2019 16:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Find out if your MP voted for a proposal to withhold Commons approval to the Brexit deal until it becomes law.
  
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• Thousands march on Westminster to demand vote on Brexit deal

  19-10-2019 16:27
  Effigies of the Prime Minister were held aloft on the People's Vote protest through central London.
  
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• Blow for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal as amendment passed

  19-10-2019 16:09
  Sir Oliver Letwin's amendment could force the Prime Minister to seek another extension.
  
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• Thousands Descend On London For People's Vote March – Here Are Some Of The Best Signs

  19-10-2019 16:05
  Effigies of the Prime Minister and his senior adviser Dominic Cummings were onshow during the demonstration, attended by famous faces including Star Trekactor Sir Patrick Stewart
  
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• The 'super Saturday' Brexit amendments MPs are voting on

  19-10-2019 15:54
  Boris Johnson delivering a statement in the House of Commons, London, to update the House on his new Brexit deal. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA What MPs are voting on todayMPs have a packed timetable for “super Saturday” – the first time the Commons has met on a Saturday since 1982.The Speaker, John Bercow, has selected two amendments from MPs trying to change, shape and amend Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, which is being presented as a motion for approval. Th
  
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• Family killer Jeremy Bamber hopes phone evidence could free him

  19-10-2019 15:16
  The 58-year-old is serving a whole-life tariff for the murder of his family at their Essex farmhouse in 1985.
  
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• British protesters lampoon the 'Lucifer' of Brexit and his billionaire backers

  19-10-2019 15:10
  Anti-Brexit protesters on Saturday used a bizarre array of humour to lampoon Britain's leaders, casting Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser as a manipulating devil behind a divorce that was the work of a privileged few.The battle over Brexit spilled onto the streets of London when hundreds of thousands of people gathered to demand a new referendum while lawmakers decided the fate of Britain's departure from the European Union.Many turned to sometimes risqué British humour.
  
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• Live coverage: MPs debate Brexit deal as thousands of protesters march in London

  19-10-2019 15:09
  Boris Johnson has appealed to MPs to end a 'painful chapter' as the October 31 deadline for withdrawal looms.
  
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