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• Labour pledges £26 billion boost to healthcare spending

  12-11-2019 23:33
  
  Britain's opposition Labour Party will pledge on Wednesday to spend an extra 26 billion pounds ($33 billion) on healthcare if it wins the Dec. 12 election, including recruiting thousands more staff, rebuilding facilities and providing new equipment.Labour, which is trailing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservatives in the polls, has sought to make the state-run National Health Service (NHS), a central part of its campaign."With experts warning this winter is set to be one of the worst, the tr
  
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• Labour vows to outspend Tories with £26bn ‘rescue’ plan for NHS

  12-11-2019 23:30
  
  Health service in England would get £5.5bn more a year by 2023-24 than the £20.5bn promised by Conservatives. Labour is to unveil a “rescue plan” for the NHS in England with an extra £26bn of funding a year paid for by higher taxes on companies and the wealthiest in society, as the party puts the health service at the heart of its election offer to voters. The party’s pledge would give the health service £5.5bn more a year by 2023-24 than the £20.5
  
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• Labour pledges to ‘end NHS crisis’ with £26bn real-terms rescue plan

  12-11-2019 23:30
  
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell will say the cost will be covered by taxing 'the richest in society'.
  
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• How will Labour put an extra £26bn into the NHS by 2024?

  12-11-2019 23:30
  
  Raising taxes for the wealthy would help deliver a ‘world-class health service’, party says. Claim Labour has pledged to put an extra £26bn – over and above inflation – into the NHS in England by 2023-24 if it forms the next government. The party claims its plans for the NHS would deliver the “world-class health service we all need”. Background NHS funding has been a key political battleground since 2010, when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalit
  
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• Corbyn vows to deliver ‘massive investment’ in Scotland if Labour win election

  12-11-2019 23:30
  
  He promised to deliver a second Brexit referendum and provide more funding for public services.
  
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• Boris Johnson To Launch Obscene Attack On Jeremy Corbyn In First Major Election Speech

  12-11-2019 23:09
  
  The prime minister will say Labour's plan for a second Brexit referendum amounts to political masturbation.
  
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• Prime Minister Johnson to declare Britain can end 'the groundhoggery of Brexit'

  12-11-2019 23:03
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday declare that the UK can "end the groundhoggery of Brexit" if he wins next month's election, saying the rest of the world was wondering why so much time has been spent agonising over whether to leave the European Union.Britons will vote on Dec. 12 after parliament agreed to an early election, seeking to end three years of deep disagreement over Brexit that has sapped investors' faith in the stability of the world's fifth largest economy and d
  
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• Boris Johnson: Tory majority government will end ‘groundhoggery’ of Brexit

  12-11-2019 23:00
  
  The Prime Minister will also warn that a Labour-SNP coalition would 'ruin 2020' with two referendums and put up taxes for 'everyone'.
  
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• Boris Johnson to promise end to ‘Brexit groundhoggery’ in first stump speech

  12-11-2019 23:00
  
  Prime minister will repeat familiar themes in visit to West Midlands factory. Boris Johnson is to use his first set-piece speech of the election campaign to stress a familiar roll-call of core policies, including a pledge to “end the groundhoggery of Brexit”, spend more on the NHS and cut crime. Speaking at an electric vehicle plant in the West Midlands, Johnson is due to combine touting the Conservative offering with a vehement condemnation of Labour, saying Jeremy Corbyn’s pa
  
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• Rift in Lib Dem ranks as candidate stands aside in bid to thwart Tories

  12-11-2019 22:56
  
  Party seeks replacement as Tim Walker drops out in Canterbury to avoid dividing pro-remain vote. The Liberal Democrats face a revolt from a local party over plans to replace a candidate who unilaterally stood down in a marginal Labour-held seat, saying he wanted to avoid the “nightmare” of handing the constituency back to the Conservatives. Tim Walker announced in an article for the Guardian that although he did not trust Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit, he wanted to give Rosie Duffield, the
  
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• General Election LIVE: latest as Boris Johnson meets flood victims in Yorkshire - The Sun

  12-11-2019 22:51 via news.google.com
  General Election LIVE: latest as Boris Johnson meets flood victims in Yorkshire  The SunNicola Sturgeon election CRISIS: Unemployment rises by 43,000 in Scotland under SNP  ExpressHow the Brexit Party could decide the general election by denying Conservatives 90 extra seats  Telegraph.co.ukNigel Farage’s faux-alliance might not be the silver bullet the Tories hope  Evening StandardGeneral Election LIVE: latest as Boris Johnson meets flood victims in
  
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• Violent hate crimes in US reach highest levels in 16 years, FBI reports

  12-11-2019 22:34
  
  Data from more than 16,000 US law enforcement agencies shows surge in attacks against Latinos and transgender people. Violent hate crimes and threats have reached their highest levels in the US in 16 years, with a surge in attacks against Latinos and transgender people in 2018, according to new FBI data. The data comes from more than 16,000 law enforcement agencies. Overall, the agencies reported a slight decrease in total hate crime reports, which include crimes against property, from 7,175 inc
  
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• SNP holding balance of power after election best for Scotland, Sturgeon says

  12-11-2019 22:28
  
  The First Minister was addressing people at a rally in Johnstone, Renfrewshire.
  
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• Lord Heseltine leads tributes to former Armed Forces chief Lord Bramall

  12-11-2019 22:22
  
  The D-Day veteran has died at the age of 95.
  
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• Field Marshal Lord Bramall obituary

  12-11-2019 22:21
  
  Lord Bramall saw his home raided after allegations about a VIP paedophile ring were made by one man before police admitted there was insufficient evidence and the case was dropped. Photograph: Tony Harris/PAField Marshal Lord Bramall, who has died aged 95, was chief of the defence staff from 1982 until 1985, the pinnacle of a long military career that began just in time to land him on the beaches of Normandy as a freshly minted second lieutenant in the D-day invasion of June 1944.But in March 20
  
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• Kim Darroch: inquiry into diplomatic cables leak ongoing, says Met

  12-11-2019 22:18
  
  Material passed around other news outlets before it appeared in Mail on Sunday, senior officer says. The Metropolitan police are continuing their criminal investigation into the leak of diplomatic cables to the Mail on Sunday that led to the downfall of the British ambassador to Washington DC, prompting renewed speculation on how they ended up in the hands of the national newspaper. Neil Basu, one of the Met’s four assistant commissioners, told an audience in central London that the embarr
  
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• Conservatives to run four candidates in Northern Ireland

  12-11-2019 21:44
  
  The party currently has no elected representatives in the region.
  
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• Campaign Check: Flood defences

  12-11-2019 21:44
  
  Sky's economics editor Ed Conway is looking at Labour’s claim that spending on flood defences favours London and the South East.
  
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• Lib Dem candidate stands down in marginal to avoid splitting Remain vote

  12-11-2019 21:15
  
  Labour’s Rosie Duffield, who won the seat in 2017 with a majority of less than 200, said the choice facing voters was 'now clear'.
  
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• PM follows Trump’s commands, says Swinson

  12-11-2019 21:13
  
  Liberal Democrat leader suggests a secret election deal was agreed between Johnson and Farage,
  
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• Lennie James: Generations of lives at risk if care charities are not funded

  12-11-2019 20:56
  
  The Walking Dead star spent eight years in the care system after his mother died when he was 10.
  
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• Love Island and Rugby World Cup boosts ITV

  12-11-2019 20:52
  
  Broadcaster reports rise in viewing figures and ad revenue over past three monthsThe Rugby World Cup and dating show Love Island helped bolster viewing figures and advertising revenue at ITV over the past three months.The chief executive, Carolyn McCall, whose strategy is to build ITV into a digitally led media and entertainment company said on-screen and online viewing had performed well. Continue reading...
  
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• Windrush victim dies without compensation or apology

  12-11-2019 20:47
  
  Hubert Howard outside Lunar House, Croydon, during his long fight for British citizenship. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianAnother prominent Windrush victim has died without receiving compensation or a personal apology from the government. Hubert Howard died on Tuesday, just three weeks after finally being granted British citizenship, 59 years after he arrived in London aged three.Howard spent much of the last two months of his life still fighting for British citizenship from his intensive-
  
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• Incestuous couple jailed for killing sons and plotting to murder other children

  12-11-2019 20:38
  
  Teenagers Tristan, 13, and Blake Barrass, 14, died after being strangled in Sheffield.
  
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• Boris Johnson urges people in flood hit areas to heed emergency service advice

  12-11-2019 20:21
  Severe flooding hit several areas in Yorkshire and the East Midlands last week.
  
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• Conservative Party hit by cyber attack ahead of election - two sources

  12-11-2019 20:10
  
  Britain’s governing Conservative Party was hit by a cyber attack on Tuesday which tried to force its website offline, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.A Conservative Party spokeswoman had no immediate comment and said she was unaware of the attack.One of the sources said the attackers appeared to be different from those responsible for two back-to-back attacks on the main opposition Labour Party on Monday and earlier on Tuesday.
  
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• Philip Hammond joins board of Irish firm on salary of £125,000

  12-11-2019 20:02
  
  Philip Hammond will also serve on Ardagh’s audit committee as part of his new role. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPAThe former chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond has found a job worth about £125,000 a year within a week of stepping down as an MP.He has become a non-executive director of Irish metal and glass packaging firm Ardagh, which is listed on the New York stock exchange. The firm said Hammond had joined its board and would serve on its audit committee, which overse
  
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• Andrew Sparrow's election briefing: for Angela Rayner, the personal is political

  12-11-2019 19:57
  
  Catch up with the campaign with our daily roundup. Boris Johnson chairs emergency meeting on floods Boris Johnson has claimed the situation is “stabilising” for those affected by the flooding in northern England, as he spoke to broadcasters after chairing a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee. He rejected claims that the government had been complacent. But No 10 announced the Cobra meeting only after Jeremy Corbyn publicly called for one (although Downing Stre
  
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• Lib Dem candidate stands aside to avoid 'nightmare' of Tory win

  12-11-2019 19:56
  
  Tim Walker drops out in Labour seat of Canterbury to avoid dividing pro-remain vote. The Liberal Democrat candidate in a marginal Labour seat has unilaterally decided to stand down, saying that while the two parties could not agree on a pact he wanted to avoid the “nightmare” of handing the constituency back to the Conservatives. In an article for the Guardian, Tim Walker said that while he did not trust Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit, he wanted to give Rosie Duffield, the Labour candidate
  
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• Rare portrait of teenage Mozart to be auctioned in Paris

  12-11-2019 19:31
  
  A rare portrait of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be sold by British auction house Christie's on Nov. 27 in Paris at an estimated price of between 800,000 euros and 1.2 million euros ($882,000-$1.32 million)."It is one of the very rare paintings for which we know about the history since the beginning," Astrid Centner-d'Oultremont, head of the Old Masters department at Christie's Paris, told Reuters TV in an interview.The oil-on-canvas portrait depicts a 13-year-old Mozart playing
  
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• Labour allows candidate who made sexist comments to stand

  12-11-2019 19:29
  
  Ian Byrne addresses a Labour rally at the o2 Academy in Manchester on 7 November.Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAA controversial Labour councillor who sparked a row over online comments has been allowed to stand as the party’s general election candidate in Liverpool.Ian Byrne made “unacceptable” and “sexist” posts on social media aimed at public figures including businesswoman Michelle Mone, the former Tory minister Esther McVey and Prince William.He has also been accused
  
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• Is carbon neutrality the silver bullet fashion has been hoping for?

  12-11-2019 19:25
  
  The industry’s carbon footprint is under increasing scrutiny, but critics argue that offsetting lessens guilt rather than reducing harmTiny clutch bags, conceptual knitwear and carbon neutrality – the ideas that fashion chooses to embrace each season aren’t always those you might expect. But thanks to a recent shift, no doubt spurred on by the “Greta Thunberg effect”, carbon – as well as the practice of offsetting it – has become a hot topic for many of
  
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• Frank Dobson obituary

  12-11-2019 19:24
  
  In 1997 Dobson was appointed by Tony Blair to take the helm at the Department of Health. He oversaw one of the largest hospital building programmes in the NHS’s history.Photograph: Dave Gadd/Sportsphoto/AllstarThe former health secretary Frank Dobson, who has died aged 79, devoted his lifetime in politics to giving practical effect to the socialist principles he had always held and from which he never deviated. He described himself as a member of the “sane left” within the Labo
  
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• Former head of the Armed Forces Lord Bramall dies at 95

  12-11-2019 19:23
  
  The decorated war veteran took part in the Normandy landings in June 1944 and was chief of the defence staff in 1982 until 1985.
  
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• Tory-supporting church 'asks young members to hand over thousands'

  12-11-2019 19:19
  
  Alarmed parents say Spac Nation, which the Conservative party has embraced, operates ‘like a cult’. Parents and former members have accused an evangelical church operating in south London linked to the Conservative party of forcing young members into handing over thousands of pounds and pressing them into debt. Spac Nation says it focuses on disenfranchised black youth, taking them away from gang culture, but alarmed mothers say it is operating “like a cult” and that past
  
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• Department of Education criticised for secretly sharing children's data

  12-11-2019 19:11
  
  Information commissioner acts after complaint that data is used for immigration enforcement. The UK’s privacy regulator has criticised the Department for Education (DfE) for secretly sharing children’s personal data with the Home Office, triggering fears it could be used for immigration enforcement as part of the government’s hostile environment policy. Acting on a complaint by the campaigning organisation, Against Borders for Children (ABC), the Information Commissioner’
  
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• Revealed: Tory councillors posted Islamophobic content on social media

  12-11-2019 19:04
  
  Walsall councillor Vera Waters with Boris Johnson. She said that starvation in Africa was ‘nature’s way of depopulation’. Photograph: FacebookTwenty-five sitting and former Conservative councillors have been exposed for posting Islamophobic and racist material on social media, according to a dossier obtained by the Guardian that intensifies the row over anti-Muslim sentiment in the party.The disclosure that 15 current and 10 former Tory councillors have posted, shared or endors
  
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• Public inquiry ordered over death of Sheku Bayoh in custody

  12-11-2019 19:01
  
  Inquiry will examine officers’ actions and force’s handling of 2015 incident in Kirkcaldy. A public inquiry is to be held into the death of a man in custody, after prosecutors decided not to charge any police officers involved. The Scottish government’s justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, announced there would be an independent investigation into Sheku Bayoh’s death in Kirk caldy four years ago after he was restrained by nine police officers using batons, CS spray and pepper
  
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• ‘Mr No Brexit’ protester welcomed as Lib Dem candidate by Swinson

  12-11-2019 19:00
  Steve Bray will stand for the party in the Cynon Valley seat.
  
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• Trump firm settles legal bill over Scottish windfarm dispute

  12-11-2019 18:59
  Donald Trump at the Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire in 2012. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Trump Organization has settled a £225,000 legal bill with the Scottish government after it lost a long court battle against a windfarm near its Aberdeenshire golf course.The Scottish government said Donald Trump’s family firm had agreed to pay its legal fees before a dispute over those costs went to adjudication by a court-appointed auditor.The Guardian re
  
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• Labour hit by second cyber attack in 24 hours

  12-11-2019 18:56
  
  The latest distributed denial-of-service incident is being dealt with 'quickly and efficiently', a party spokeswoman said.
  
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• In Pictures: Jeremy Corbyn visits flood area in election campaigning

  12-11-2019 18:53
  
  Nicola Sturgeon met future voters at a nursery as politicians hit the streets again.
  
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• Exclusive: Labour To Complain To Ofcom About Sky News 'Brexit Election' Branding

  12-11-2019 18:49
  
  Jeremy Corbyn's party says the branding favours the Tories and breaches impartiality rules.
  
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• Exclusive: Labour To Complain To Ofcom About Sky News 'Brexit Election' Branding

  12-11-2019 18:49
  Labour is set to complain to the broadcasting watchdog about Sky News'sdecision to brand December's snap poll "the Brexit election", arguing itbreaches impartiality rules.
  
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• Do you still have a black and white TV licence?

  12-11-2019 18:48
  
  We want to hear from people who have spurned colour sets, half a century after the advent of colour television More than 6,000 homes across the UK still have black and white television licences, according to the latest figures published by TV Licensing. Half a century after the advent of colour on the BBC, there are still 1,311 black and white permit holders in London, while Birmingham has 323 and Manchester has 245.We want to hear from people who still watch television without colour. Was your
  
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• Campaign highlights: Cyber attack on Labour as Farage issues call to Tories

  12-11-2019 18:40
  
  The Brexit Party leader called for the Tories not to contest seats where the Conservative Party has not won in 100 years.
  
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• Shifting alliances that might swing the election

  12-11-2019 18:39
  
  Leaders Sian Berry (Green party), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Boris Johnson (Conservatives), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats) and Nigel Farage (Brexit party). Composite: VariousIs this the new politics that Nigel Farage has been promising at successive elections: no consultation within the Brexit party before announcing the decision to stand down 317 candidates (Farage urged to give Tories free run at Labour seats, 12 November)? There are likely to be many unhappy prospective candidates and their team
  
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• Reviving Sure Start and investing in children is vital for society

  12-11-2019 18:39
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is promising to open a Sure Start centre in every community. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesFrances Ryan is right to draw attention to the fact that recent governments have broken down the unique opportunity of the Sure Start projects, set up under the Blair/Brown governments, to pioneer policies and practices that brought significant benefits to children (Reviving Sure Start highlights austerity’s trail of destruction, Journal, 11 November).Not onl
  
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• Dragging parliament into the 21st century

  12-11-2019 18:39
  
  ‘Now would be an opportune moment to move parliament into a modern, purpose-built building appropriate for the 21st century in the Midlands or the north,’ writes Jol Miskin. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty ImagesJohn Forsyth (Letters, 8 November) says he would vote for the party that opts to move on from the constraints imposed by the built fabric of the “mother of parliaments”. Writing from Penzance, he generously suggests parliament should be moved to the Midl
  
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• Nigel Farage faces backlash from 'betrayed' Brexit party candidates

  12-11-2019 18:37
  
  Leader’s decision to not contest Tory-held seats upsets some candidates who planned to stand Politics live – general election campaign coverage. Nigel Farage’s decision to unilaterally stand down more than half the Brexit party’s candidates has prompted fury from some of the hopefuls, with one candidate saying he only learned the news when a passing driver asked him why he was still campaigning. Darren Selkus, who was the candidate for Epping Forest, said Farage had &ldqu
  
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