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• Election 2019: Brexit Party surge as Farage’s party almost rivals Tories in Express poll

  29-10-2019 23:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  BORIS JOHNSON has been urged to form an allegiance with the Brexit Party in the latest Express.co.uk poll.
  
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• Female MPs Condemn 'Distasteful' Media Coverage Of Meghan Markle In Open Letter

  29-10-2019 23:28
  A cross-party group of female MPs has written to the Duchess of Sussex backingher stand against "distasteful and misleading" media coverage
  
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• 'Will you campaign Lib Dem?' Blair squirms as he's put on spot over support for Corbyn

  29-10-2019 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair was quizzed by Channel 4 News presenter Matt Frei over his support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Northern Ireland votes ‘will matter as never before’

  29-10-2019 23:12
  DUP leader Arlene Foster said it is right that the people of Northern Ireland have their say through the ballot box.
  
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• Sturgeon claims SNP general election success would confirm case for indyref2

  29-10-2019 23:04
  The Scottish First Minister will visit Stirling to launch the SNP's General Election campaign.
  
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• Tory MPs 'asking Brexit party not to stand against them'

  29-10-2019 23:00
  Party chair receives ‘numerous’ requests not to risk splitting leave vote. Tory MPs are asking the Brexit party not to run candidates in their seats at an early general election, according to the party’s chair, Richard Tice, as speculation mounts over the anti-EU party’s potential pacts in leave areas. Tice said he received a frantic message from one Tory urging him not to stand a candidate in their constituency because they were facing a challenge from the Liberal Democr
  
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• Tory MPs 'asking Brexit party not to stand against them'

  29-10-2019 23:00
  A pro-Brexit demonstrator outside parliament. The Brexit party is aiming for up to 50 seats. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesTory MPs are asking the Brexit party not to run candidates in their seats at an early general election, according to the party’s chairman, Richard Tice, as speculation mounts over the anti-EU party’s potential pacts in leave areas.Tice said he received a frantic message from one Tory urging him not to stand a candidate in their constituency becau
  
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• Brexit children’s book to help parents explain UK’s complex exit set for release

  29-10-2019 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN’S complex and turbulent exit from the European Union has been transformed into a children’s book to help parents explain Brexit to their kids.
  
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• Here's What Happens Next Now MPs Have Backed A December 12 Election

  29-10-2019 22:44
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• UK election weather warning: Britons set for coldest poll date as PM tries to seal Brexit

  29-10-2019 22:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITONS could be braced for the coldest general election in 30 years according to speculation from forecasters.
  
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• End anxiety of UK citizens in EU, government urged

  29-10-2019 22:36
  House of Lords committee says more must be done to protect rights of Britons living in Europe. A House of Lords committee has said the government “must do more” to secure the healthcare and pensions security of UK citizens living in the EU who have been living in “a state of anxiety and uncertainty for several years”. The chair of the committee, Lord Morris of Aberavon, wrote a letter to the Brexit department minister James Duddridge questioning whether the government had
  
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• Queen celebrates campaign to halt avoidable blindness

  29-10-2019 22:27
  The Queen met health professionals and supporters from across the Commonwealth with the Countess of Wessex.
  
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• 'Pure gold' Caroline Flint in stitches as she throws back head in laughter at Anna Soubry

  29-10-2019 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR MP Caroline Flint laughed and clapped her hands as Independent Group for Change leader Anna Soubry claimed “backbenchers on both sides do not want a general election”.
  
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• Home Secretary's Adviser Escorted From Commons Bar By Police

  29-10-2019 22:17
  Home Secretary Priti Patel's top aide was escorted from a Commons bar bypolice, HuffPost UK has been told
  
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• Home Secretary Priti Patel's Adviser Escorted From Commons Bar By Police

  29-10-2019 22:17
  Home Secretary Priti Patel's top aide was escorted from a Commons bar bypolice, HuffPost UK has been told
  
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• Boris Johnson on course for a pre-Christmas general election

  29-10-2019 22:10
  MPs vote by 438 to 20 to back a Bill enabling the election to take place on December 12.
  
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• Labour axes controversial trigger ballots after backing election

  29-10-2019 22:07
  Party to decide this week on fate of controversial MPs such as Keith Vaz and Chris Williamson. Labour has suspended the party’s controversial trigger ballots process, which could depose sitting MPs, after the party committed to supporting a general election. The move comes as the party’s national executive committee prepares for a key meeting this week. Members of the body will decide whether all sitting MPs, including NEC member Keith Vaz and leftwing campaigner Chris Williamson, wi
  
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• Britons pay £17 BILLION a year for repairs to everyday ‘essentials’

  29-10-2019 21:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  Unexpected payments for repairs to everyday “essentials” cost Brits £17 BILLION every year. A poll of 2,000 adults found we splash out an average of £328-a-year on unforeseen bills, with having to replace a broken mobile phone, fix an oven and vet, bills the most common.
  
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• Can Labour eat into projected 58-seat Tory majority?

  29-10-2019 21:41
  Boris Johnson listens to Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Photograph: House of Commons/APWe’re off, and Labour has it all to do. The Conservatives start the campaign with a 10-point poll lead, a margin that translates into an overall majority of about 58 for Boris Johnson, according to estimates produced by Electoral Calculus.If anything, the latest Brexit wrangling has benefited the Conservatives, extending the party’s lead by two points since 1 October, even as it
  
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• Commons erupts as Bercow forced to take over from Deputy Speaker in election vote shambles

  29-10-2019 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  SPEAKER John Bercow was forced to take over from Dame Eleanor Laing, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, as Independent Group for Change MP Chris Leslie put in a last-minute amendment.
  
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• How do I register to vote in the 12 December 2019 general election?

  29-10-2019 21:26
  A dog holds a frisbee by a polling station. They can’t register to vote - but you still can. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA Who is eligible to vote in a general election?To vote in a UK general election you must:* Be 18 or over on the day of the election.* Be a British, Irish or qualifying Commonwealth citizen.* Be resident at an address in the UK (or a British citizen living abroad who has been registered to vote in the UK in the last 15 years).* Not be legally excluded from voting.You also ne
  
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• Parliament breaks Brexit deadlock with vote for 12 December election

  29-10-2019 21:24
  MPs voted on Tuesday night to finally resolve their Brexit deadlock by calling a general election, setting the stage for a 12 December contest that could be the most unpredictable in a generation.Boris Johnson won his fourth bid to go to the polls by 438 to 20 after Jeremy Corbyn declared that Labour would support an election as a “once-in-a-generation chance to transform our country”. The pre-Christmas vote will be the first December poll since 1923.The Liberal Democrats and Scottis
  
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• General Election Set To Be On December 12 As MPs Back Move To Break Brexit Deadlock

  29-10-2019 21:23
  The UK is set to head to the polls on December 12 after MPs backed thegovernment's proposed move to break the Break deadlock
  
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• Queen sees funny side of fancy dress-clad staff at Balmoral

  29-10-2019 21:17
  Ms Kelly said the party was staged a few years ago
  
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• Republican's mockery of Sanders and socialism backfires

  29-10-2019 21:05
  The former governor of Wisconsin tweeted: ‘Anyone notice the backdrop behind Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib looked like the empty shelves of stores in many socialist countries? Irony’ Photograph: The Young TurksIrony is a type of humor that is frequently misunderstood, and the word is therefore, frequently misused. But when former Republican governor Scott Walker used it on Monday, he didn’t realize how ironic he was truly being.Poking fun at Democratic nominee Senator Bernie
  
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• Vote victory helps Boris Johnson edge closer to pre-Christmas election

  29-10-2019 21:02
  The Government is on course for a December 12 general election after MPs rejected an opposition move to bring the date forward.
  
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• MPs Fail To Change General Election Date To December 9

  29-10-2019 21:00
  The UK is set to head to the polls on December 12 after MPs failed to back anamendment to change the date floated by Boris Johnson
  
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• Britain First investigated by counterterror police after leader arrested while returning from Russia

  29-10-2019 21:00
  Far-right group Britain First is being investigated by counterterror police after its leader was stopped at Heathrow airport as he returned from Russia.Paul Golding and two other senior members of the anti-Muslim organisation were questioned under terror laws.
  
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• Shark attack: Briton survives brutal mauling in Australia as he speaks of ’scary’ ordeal

  29-10-2019 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BRITISH man who survived a brutal shark attack in Australia has admitted to friends of his fear at the ordeal.
  
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• One in five cosmetic surgery clinics are unsafe, warns CQC

  29-10-2019 20:50
  Health regulator threatens to shut down independent clinics putting clients at risk. The health regulator is threatening to shut down beauty clinics that perform unsafe facelifts, nose jobs and breast enlargements after finding that one in five are putting clients at risk. Too many people undergoing cosmetic surgery are treated by untrained staff and left in danger while sedated during liposuction, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) warns in a report published on Tuesday. It has sounded the alarm
  
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• Grenfell inquiry: key questions answered

  29-10-2019 20:36
  Why was it set up, why is it split into two parts and why are some people unhappy with it?. Why was a public inquiry set up? The morning after the fire, Theresa May announced an inquiry because families were “owed an explanation”. She picked the retired high court judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick and they agreed he would investigate the fire’s cause and spread, how the building came to be so combustible, the fitness of building regulations and the response of the fire brigade as wel
  
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• Tories restore party whip to 10 MPs who sought to block no-deal Brexit

  29-10-2019 20:32
  Margot James (centre) with Richard Benyon (left) and Nicholas Soames (right) – both of whom have already announced they will stand down at the next election. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Conservatives have restored the party whip to 10 of the 21 rebel MPs who were ejected in September after they voted to support a backbench-instigated bill seeking to block a no-deal Brexit, the party has said.A Conservative spokesman said the MPs restored to the whip were Alistair Bur
  
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• British shark bite victims recovering after Australia attack

  29-10-2019 20:32
  Danny Maggs after the shark attack in Australia. Photograph: InstagramA British tourist whose leg was bitten by a shark while snorkelling in Australia has been pictured smiling while being loaded into a rescue helicopter.Danny Maggs, 22, from Plymouth, and Alistair Raddon, 28, were attacked by a shark while swimming at a popular snorkelling spot in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, during a day trip on a tourist boat.Maggs received four deep lacerations to his right calf. Raddon, from Southamp
  
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• Polling guru John Curtice makes shocking prediction for 2019 General Election

  29-10-2019 20:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  TOP polling expert John Curtice made a surprising forecast on what he expects will happen in the upcoming general election, as the UK is expected to go to the polls in December.
  
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• Whip restored to 10 of the 21 Tory rebels

  29-10-2019 19:59
  Senior figures including Sir Nicholas Soames and Alistair Burt were among those who have been readmitted to the parliamentary party.
  
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• Queen invited Annie Leibovitz to take royal portraits after TV show incident

  29-10-2019 19:54
  The BBC and RDF, the company which made the clip, both apologised after a complaint from Buckingham Palace.
  
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• WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world

  29-10-2019 19:49
  WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users across four continents in a hacking spree whose targets included diplomats, political dissidents, journalists and senior government officials.In a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco, messaging service WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook Inc, accused NSO of facilitating government hacking sprees in 20
  
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• Facebook sues Israel's NSO Group over alleged WhatsApp hack

  29-10-2019 19:43
  Facebook Incon Tuesday sued Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group, alleging it hacked users of its messaging platform WhatsApp earlier this year.The hacking spree targeted journalists, diplomats, human rights activists, political dissidents, senior government officials and others, Facebook said in its lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.NSO's co-founder and company representatives in Washington and Tel Aviv did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
  
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• Advocate General for Scotland cleared of misconduct over firearms offence

  29-10-2019 19:40
  Lord Richard Keen QC faced an allegation of bringing the legal profession into disrepute related to a 2017 conviction of failing to secure a firearm.
  
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• 'It's doing my head in': UK voters sick of Brexit – and the election

  29-10-2019 19:38
  Deb Metcalf in the town’s bakery: ‘We’re a laughing stock abroad’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Bury North: ‘England is a total joke. We’re a laughing stock abroad’In the foothills of the Pennines, the market town of Ramsbottom was busy with afternoon shoppers when news broke of a looming general election. Teacups clattered, eyes rolled and heads shook wearily in a town that voted 53% for leave in June 2016.“My brother lives in Germ
  
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• Time to reassess a Corbyn-led Labour party’s chances in the next election

  29-10-2019 19:34
  Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in London. Les Bright says Polly Toynbee’s article ‘lifted me above the standard narrative – that Labour is doomed, unless and until there is a change of leader’. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPAToo much time has been spent worrying about Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity, and by implication Labour’s electability. Like many others who are optimistic and positive about Labour’s likely offer to the electorate, I’ve found myself gettin
  
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• Building a better society with decent homes for all

  29-10-2019 19:34
  ‘The problem – lack of affordability – is caused by low interest rates, snowballing inherited property wealth and the outrageous help-to-buy programme.’ Photograph: Tim Ireland/PAJohn Harris is absolutely right to highlight housing problems as central to debates about politics and society and to stress the need for more and better public housing as a crucial part of everyone having a decent place to live (The anxieties dividing the nation begin with housing, 28 October).B
  
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• A down-to-earth view on flying cars

  29-10-2019 19:33
  Flying cars have long been portrayed as an answer to all our traffic problems, but Ruth Brandon fears the worst. Flying taxis ride again ( Taxi! But not as you know it, 26 October). The dream of flying cars to overcome road congestion is almost as old as the automobile. It first emerged in 1901, and has been revived, though fortunately not realised, at intervals ever since. Le Corbusier’s City of Tomorrow featured skycars in 1929, as did Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City in 1930; i
  
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• Royal Mail offers to hold talks with CWU if union removes strike threat

  29-10-2019 19:31
  "If the CWU agrees to rule out industrial action for the remainder of the calendar year – a critical time for our customers, we will commit to holding open discussions with no preconditions aimed at resolving the dispute," Royal Mail said in a statement.Reacting to the company's bid, the union said https://twitter.com/CWUnews/status/1189224576070377476 in a tweet it would consult the CWU Executive on Wednesday and determine its response.Royal Mail last year reached a deal with the union ov
  
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• Ian Blackford's call for EU nationals to vote slapped down by Tory MP with brilliant point

  29-10-2019 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  SNP WESTMINSTER Leader Ian Blackford claimed it is an “absolute disgrace” that EU nationals “do not have the right” to vote in UK general elections, during a Commons debate on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Female MPs write open letter to support Meghan’s stand against the media

  29-10-2019 19:26
  The cross-party group spoke out against 'distasteful and misleading' coverage of the Duchess of Sussex.
  
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• Boris Johnson’s bid for early election clears first Commons hurdle

  29-10-2019 19:21
  The Prime Minister wants to go to the polls on December 12 - declaring the need for a 'new and revitalised' Parliament.
  
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• Former chief EU negotiator ‘slower’ to realise issue of movement of goods

  29-10-2019 19:18
  Sir Olly Robbins masterminded Theresa May's deal.
  
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• London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial

  29-10-2019 19:09
  Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organised crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said.Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said.A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of o
  
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• MPs poised to vote through plan for December election

  29-10-2019 19:08
  Amendments seeking to extend vote to 16-year-olds and EU nationals are not selected. A general election in December may have passed its final major hurdle after amendments to an election bill seeking to extend the franchise to 16- and 17-year-olds and EU nationals were not selected for voting. The government had said it would pull the one-line bill seeking an election on 12 December if amendments allowing such moves were passed. However, MPs will vote on a Labour amendment changing the election
  
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