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• DUP leader Edwin Poots quits in fresh turmoil for N Ireland

  17-06-2021 22:33 via ft.com
  Leader of largest unionist party goes after just 3 weeks in face of criticism from own party over concessions to nationalists
  
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• Fresh turmoil in N Ireland as DUP leader suffers revolt

  17-06-2021 20:20 via ft.com
  Leader of largest unionist party criticised after concessions made to nationalists
  
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• ‘Serious shortcomings’ preceded Manchester bombing, says inquiry head

  17-06-2021 19:48 via ft.com
  Arena owners, security contractors and transport police blamed for ‘missed opportunities’ ahead of attack
  
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• UK ministers reject post-Covid ‘right to work from home’

  17-06-2021 19:43 via ft.com
  Government still maintains it wants more flexible practices in workplace
  
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• UK business demands more involvement in trade talks

  17-06-2021 18:00 via ft.com
  Plus, survey highlights growing anxiety among Northern Ireland’s unionists
  
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• NI party leader faces revolt after appointing first minister

  17-06-2021 17:56 via ft.com
  DUP head Poots faces possible vote of no confidence after less than three weeks in role 
  
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• UK Treasury criticised over failure to publicise Covid sick pay scheme

  17-06-2021 16:24 via ft.com
  Department says guidance for businesses on pandemic support ‘has always been clear’
  
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• Northern Ireland government avoids collapse

  17-06-2021 14:46 via ft.com
  Political appointments agreed despite backlash from unionist MPs
  
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• WhatsApp is where real political power lies in Britain

  17-06-2021 14:37 via ft.com
  The Dominic Cummings-Boris Johnson chat shows how the messaging app dominates Westminster’s decision-making
  
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• The dealmaker on a mission for social mobility

  17-06-2021 06:00 via ft.com
  Peter Lampl put his financial muscle into boosting educational access for all — but the pandemic has made progress harder than ever
  
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• UK meat industry cuts production as Brexit labour shortages bite

  17-06-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Industry ‘heading for brick wall’ and calls on government to relax immigration rules
  
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• Business lobby urges UK government to extend support scheme

  17-06-2021 01:01 via ft.com
  BCC’s new head says withdrawal of Covid relief ‘disappointing’ as end of lockdown delayed
  
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• Johnson suffers backbench rebellion over delay to ending lockdown

  16-06-2021 23:44 via ft.com
  Measures pass vote in parliament but Tory MPs voice concern over impact of restrictions on businesses
  
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• Ryanair to sue UK government over border policy

  16-06-2021 22:04 via ft.com
  Airline joins Manchester Airports Group to seek judicial review over traffic-light system for international travel
  
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• Covid jabs to be made compulsory for care home staff in England

  16-06-2021 19:01 via ft.com
  Government plans to require workers and volunteers looking after people to be inoculated or risk being sacked
  
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• Why today’s Boris Johnson is the biggest risk to his future self

  16-06-2021 16:47 via ft.com
  The row over the Northern Ireland protocol is a classic case of his ‘directions now, details later’ approach
  
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• The greatest threat to Tomorrow Johnson is Today Johnson

  16-06-2021 16:47 via ft.com
  The row over the Northern Ireland protocol is a classic case of his ‘directions now, details later’ approach
  
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• Eviction ban on firms behind on rent is extended by nine months

  16-06-2021 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government's ban on landlords evicting companies in rent debt will now end in March 2022
  
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• MPs to vote on delaying England's lockdown easing by four weeks

  16-06-2021 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs are debating the government's plans to keep restrictions in place until 19 July rather than 21 June.
  
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• Power-sharing deal should be implemented - Johnson

  16-06-2021 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The PM says NI wants a "mature executive" as Brandon Lewis plans meeting over Irish language stand-off.
  
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• Boris Johnson brands Matt Hancock hopeless in texts revealed by Dominic Cummings

  16-06-2021 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  No 10 says Boris Johnson has full confidence in the health secretary after Mr Cummings' latest attack.
  
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• Chesham and Amersham by-election: Who will be the next MP?

  16-06-2021 16:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Tories have never had a majority of fewer than 10,000 in the Buckinghamshire constituency.
  
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• Boris Johnson plans to leave No 10 two years after next election at latest, Cummings claims – politics live

  16-06-2021 15:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Latest updates: former special adviser publishes messages purporting to show PM’s criticism of health secretary Matt HancockCummings texts show Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’UK again excluded from EU’s Covid-safe travel list, but US addedAll care home staff in England should have Covid vaccine, says ministerCovid jabs to become mandatory for care home staff in EnglandGlobal coronavirus updates – live 2.58pm BST More disruption could be looming for u
  
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• PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on lifting Covid restrictions

  16-06-2021 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Keir Starmer says the government has shown a pattern of being "too slow, too indecisive, overpromising and under-delivering" over Covid.
  
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• PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on Covid policy and India travel ban

  16-06-2021 15:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is asked if his decision to keep UK borders open helped spread the Delta variant to the country.
  
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• PMQs: Blackford and Johnson on UK-Australia trade deal

  16-06-2021 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The SNP calls the UK-Australia trade deal "disastrous" and claims it will see Scottish farmers and crofters "thrown under the Brexit bus".
  
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• PMQs: Lib Dem call for Covid recovery visa to hire staff

  16-06-2021 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lib Dem Layla Moran tells PMQs the government's "bungling" of the pandemic and problems caused by Brexit are causing staff shortages in the hospitality sector.
  
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• Covid vaccine to be compulsory for England care home staff

  16-06-2021 15:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Workers are expected be given 16 weeks to have the jab - or risk losing their job, the BBC understands.
  
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• Johnson squandered boost from Covid vaccinations, says Starmer

  16-06-2021 14:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister let Delta variant take hold by delaying blocking arrivals from India, Labour leader tells PMQsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson squandered the UK’s advantage from its rapid vaccination programme by failing to block arrivals from India early enough, thus allowing the Delta variant of Covid to become entrenched, Keir Starmer has told MPs.Deciding to not use prime minister’s questions to press Johnson about messages published
  
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• A third of care home staff in some London areas have not had Covid jab

  16-06-2021 13:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Figures come as ministers are poised to make it mandatory for staff to get jabCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA third of staff in older adult care homes in some areas of London have not received a single vaccine nearly six months after they were made a top priority, in a development that has left more than a 1,000 care workers still unprotected in just four boroughs.Overall across England, nearly 84% of care workers have received their first dose but in Hackney,
  
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• Cummings reveals Johnson messages calling Hancock’s efforts ‘hopeless’

  16-06-2021 13:24 via ft.com
  Former top adviser turns up heat on UK health secretary after releasing WhatsApp missives showing prime minister considered sacking Hancock
  
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• Cummings publishes Johnson messages calling Hancock’s efforts ‘hopeless’

  16-06-2021 13:24 via ft.com
  Former top adviser launches new attack on health secretary, publishing prime minister’s private WhatsApp messages
  
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• Cummings texts show Boris Johnson calling Matt Hancock ‘totally hopeless’

  16-06-2021 13:14 via theguardian.com
  
  WhatsApp message published by former aide reveals prime minister’s scathing verdict on health secretaryBoris Johnson described Matt Hancock as “totally fucking hopeless” during the early stages of the pandemic, concerned by the health secretary’s promises on testing, text messages published by Dominic Cummings have revealed.Writing on Substack, the prime minister’s former chief aide published a slew of texts and documents from emergency Cobra meetings that he said w
  
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• UK asks EU to suspend Northern Ireland sausage ban

  16-06-2021 13:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Brexit minister Lord Frost asks for ‘a bit of breathing space’ to negotiate deal and head off trade warThe UK has asked the EU to suspend an imminent ban on the sale of British sausages in Northern Ireland to give both sides “breathing space” to negotiate an agreement on the Brexit protocol and avert a trade war.Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, was speaking days after Boris Johnson warned he would do “whatever it takes” to protect Northern Ireland’s posi
  
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• Making sure the 'big people' pay their taxes would be a boost to democracy | Nicholas Shaxson

  16-06-2021 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Close the loopholes, crack down on the havens: there are plenty of ways to make billionaires do the right thingIn June 2016, while researching an article for Vanity Fair, I asked Donald Trump if he was using tax havens to escape tax. “I know a lot about tax havens, but I don’t use them,” he told me. “There is greater incentive in many ways to keep your money in the United States.”Fellow billionaires may chuckle, because they know this too, following decades of attac
  
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• UK Treasury to extend ban on commercial evictions until March 2022

  16-06-2021 12:34 via ft.com
  Debt moratorium extended for nine months offering relief for retailers and commercial tenants
  
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• Man charged after BBC reporter chased by protesters

  16-06-2021 10:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A clip shared on social media shows demonstrators haranguing BBC Newsnight reporter Nicholas Watt.
  
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• Covid jabs set to be made compulsory for care home staff in England

  16-06-2021 09:51 via ft.com
  Government plans to require workers looking after people aged over 65 to be inoculated or risk being sacked
  
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• UK warned it is unprepared for climate chaos

  16-06-2021 08:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Homes need to be more resilient and the government is in a worse position than five years ago, report says.
  
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• British politics is still drunk on Brexit spirit, and Boris Johnson won’t call time | Rafael Behr

  16-06-2021 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister seeks to game and inflame a state of mind that rejects complex reality in favour of symbols and fantasy There is a simple reason why Boris Johnson and European leaders failed to find common ground over Brexit at last week’s G7 summit. They are not even talking about the same thing.For the British prime minister, Brexit is a matter of national character that cannot be described in legal documents. For continental politicians, legal texts contain the true meaning of a proj
  
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• UK in talks with six companies over battery ‘gigafactories’ for electric cars

  16-06-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Ford, LG and Samsung among groups examining production to supply electric vehicles
  
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• Britain in talks with six companies for battery gigafactories

  16-06-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Ford, LG and Samsung among groups examining production to supply electric vehicles
  
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• Britain in talks with six companies about gigafactories

  16-06-2021 05:00 via ft.com
  Ford, LG and Samsung among groups examining making batteries for electric vehicles in UK
  
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• UK failing to plan for impact of climate change despite warnings

  16-06-2021 01:01 via ft.com
  Government adviser says country worse prepared to tackle global warming than five years ago
  
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• SMEs attracted record equity during pandemic

  16-06-2021 01:01 via ft.com
  Tech-focused companies prosper and others helped by Covid emergency fundraising scheme
  
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• Defects with UK army’s new tank go back to 2019, minister admits

  16-06-2021 01:01 via ft.com
  Ajax armoured vehicle’s problems were flagged up 11 months before suspension of trials
  
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• Brexit a ‘one-off’ chance for UK to escape EU red tape, says task force

  16-06-2021 00:28 via ft.com
  Opportunity for new regulatory framework to encourage innovation, growth and inward investment
  
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• Sunak faces £4bn bill to keep ‘triple lock’ pension pledge

  15-06-2021 22:39 via ft.com
  Data distortions mean UK chancellor could hand windfall to pensioners if he sticks to Tory policy
  
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• Daniel Morgan: Met Police accused of 'form of corruption' in report

  15-06-2021 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Met's top officer Dame Cressida Dick has apologised to the Morgan family in the wake of the report.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Boris Johnson postponing the end of restrictions — cartoon

  15-06-2021 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
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