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• BBC Newsnight host Maitlis savages Corbyn over his Brexit stance - ‘Why is he so special?'

  20-11-2019 02:12
  
  REBECCA LONG-BAILEY came under intense pressure to clarify Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit position in a feisty interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC’s Newnight on Tuesday.
  
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• Jamaican model crowned Miss World 2019

  14-12-2019 20:16 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Piers Morgan was among the judges.
  
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• Caroline Flack’s boyfriend posts picture with TV star after assault charge

  14-12-2019 20:13 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  The Love Island presenter was charged with assault following an incident on Thursday.
  
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• Dominic Cummings: If Leave had lost Brexit vote, I’d have queried result as invalid

  14-12-2019 20:01 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Dominic Cummings: If Leave had lost Brexit vote, I’d have queried result as invalid. Boris Johnson aide wrote to data watchdog in 2017 complaining electoral system was ‘wide open to abuse’
  
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• Supplier branded ‘disgraceful’ as thousands left without water

  14-12-2019 19:54 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Anglian Water has apologised for the disruption, which began on Friday evening.
  
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• Body found in Cheshire is ‘murdered’ boy, 15

  14-12-2019 19:47 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
  
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• London's Royal Parks to pay attendants living wage following strikes

  14-12-2019 19:41 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  London's Royal Parks to pay attendants living wage following strikes. Union says board agreed to salary increase after threat to escalate industrial action
  
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• Boris Johnson announces plans for spending spree in north

  14-12-2019 19:41 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Boris Johnson announces plans for spending spree in north. PM is pondering using an £80bn fund for infrastructure spending in areas that helped seal Tory win
  
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• ‘Village green’ land at risk after ruling by supreme court

  14-12-2019 19:31 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  ‘Village green’ land at risk after ruling by supreme court. Decision on Moorside Fields in Lancaster makes it harder to stop public space being developed
  
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• One-nation Tory or raging populist: which Boris Johnson will we get?

  14-12-2019 19:07 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  One-nation Tory or raging populist: which Boris Johnson will we get?. The prime minister’s ideology may be hard to pin down, but when he talks about healing a divided country, it’s probably hot air
  
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• US suspect in Harry Dunn death filmed behind the wheel

  14-12-2019 18:59 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Harry Dunn, 19, died after a head-on crash with a car outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.
  
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• In Pictures: All the glamour of Miss World

  14-12-2019 18:30 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Vanessa Ponce, of Mexico, won last year's event.
  
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• The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we have

  14-12-2019 18:15 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we havePolitical manipulators in the UK proved they have learnt from the US how to blur truth, but one local paper points to the antidote
  
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• A week in UK politics: from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s bunker to Richard Burgon’s job prospects

  14-12-2019 18:05 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  A week in UK politics: from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s bunker to Richard Burgon’s job prospects. The final verdict on the few highs and numerous lows of the 2019 general election campaign
  
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• Supplier branded ‘disgraceful’ as thousands remain without water

  14-12-2019 17:56 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Anglian Water has apologised for the disruption, which began on Friday evening.
  
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• Sturgeon: Scotland wants different future from rest of UK

  14-12-2019 17:53 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Sturgeon: Scotland wants different future from rest of UK. SNP leader says election results made clear Scottish voters don’t want a Boris Johnson government or Brexit
  
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• In Pictures: Miss World finalists take to the stage

  14-12-2019 17:49 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Vanessa Ponce, of Mexico, won last year's event.
  
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• Housing charities and food banks report spike in donations after Tory win

  14-12-2019 17:23 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Housing charities and food banks report spike in donations after Tory win. Organisations protecting the vulnerable such as Shelter, Refuge, the Trussell Trust and the Biscuit Fund welcomed contributions
  
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• Boris Johnson marks new Tory territory with maiden speech in Sedgefield

  14-12-2019 17:19 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Boris Johnson marks new Tory territory with maiden speech in Sedgefield. Former opposition stronghold represents electoral triumph over both old and New Labour
  
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• On the rocks: gin club derailed by Crossrail

  14-12-2019 16:55 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  On the rocks: gin club derailed by CrossrailLondon business faces year of closure after drilling floods basement
  
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• EU looks at extending Brexit transition period beyond 2020

  14-12-2019 16:48 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  EU looks at extending Brexit transition period beyond 2020Move is being considered by EU officials in face of Johnson not seeking extension beyond 11 months
  
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• John McDonnell will not return to shadow cabinet

  14-12-2019 15:57 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  John McDonnell will not return to shadow cabinetShadow chancellor says new Labour leader needs to build broad coalition across UK* Follow the latest political news - live
  
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• Johnson must accept another Scottish independence vote - Sturgeon

  14-12-2019 15:56 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson needs to "focus on reality" and recognise that the Scottish National Party (SNP) has been given a mandate for a second independence referendum, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Saturday.The SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in the UK parliament in Thursday's national election, prompting Sturgeon to step up her demands for another independence referendum.
  
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• Woman seriously injured in double stabbing

  14-12-2019 15:30 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  The incident is not being treated as terror related.
  
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• Leading Scottish Labour politician calls for indyref2

  14-12-2019 15:05 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Alison Evison is president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
  
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• "I will repay your trust," Johnson tells ex-Labour voters on trip to north

  14-12-2019 15:01 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited former strongholds of his Labour opponents in northern England on Saturday and pledged to repay their trust for helping to deliver a stunning victory for his Conservative Party in Britain's national election.Johnson led the Conservatives on Thursday to their biggest election win since Margaret Thatcher's landslide victory of 1987, trouncing his socialist Labour Party opponent Jeremy Corbyn by winning 365 parliamentary seats and securing an overall majority of
  
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• John McDonnell to quit frontline politics following Labour defeat

  14-12-2019 14:57 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell admitted it is time for the Labour Party to "move on" under new leadership.
  
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• Boris Johnson vows to repay trust of voters in north-east England

  14-12-2019 14:39 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  Boris Johnson vows to repay trust of voters in north-east England. Prime minister speaks during visit to Sedgefield after party wins 80-seat majority
  
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• Johnson vows to repay trust of voters who turned from red to blue

  14-12-2019 14:37 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  PM says his One Nation Conservative government is committed to spreading opportunity throughout the country.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon warns PM he cannot ‘bludgeon Scotland into accepting his view’

  14-12-2019 14:35 via Yahoo News UK & Ireland - Latest World News & UK News Headlines
  
  The First Minister said Boris Johnson's refusal to grant indyref2 is unsustainable after the SNP's emphatic victory in Scotland in the election.
  
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