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• Lords vote to protect rights of EU citizens in UK

  01-03-2017 20:38 via ft.com
  Call for May to ‘think again’ as peers pass amendment to Brexit bill
  
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• House of Lords votes to protect EU citizens’ rights

  01-03-2017 20:38 via ft.com
  Call for May to ‘think again’ as peers pass amendment to Brexit bill
  
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• After Brexit: Jean-Claude Juncker sets five paths for EU's future

  01-03-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker present future options for the EU after Brexit.
  
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• House of Lords Votes To Give EU Citizens Right To Stay After Brexit

  01-03-2017 19:48
  
  The House of Lords has voted to give EU citizens living in the UK guaranteed rights to stay under Brexit - representing the first Government defeat on its legislation to leave the European Union. 
  With the future of three million EU nationals still uncertain, a cross-party coalition of peers voted by 358 to 256 to defeat the Government by backing a Labour amendment to the Brexit Bill going through the House of Lords.
  The amendment grants unilateral rights to both citizens of the EU and the
  
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• PMQs: 'What The F***ing Hell Was That!?' Unspun's Matt Forde Gives His Verdict On Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn

  01-03-2017 19:05
  
  As a former Labour Party worker and one of the country’s top political comedians, you would think nothing would surprise Matt Forde anymore when it comes to the Commons.
  But while watching Prime Minster’s Questions at Huff Post HQ today, Forde nearly choked on the pizza we used to entice him as he watched the drama unfold.
  Theresa May’s bizarre pronunciation of “incredible” as she mocked Labour provoked an expletive-ridden reaction from Forde, but luckily he managed
  
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• Keep Dubs child refugee scheme open, MPs say

  01-03-2017 18:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The overwhelming vote in favour of the Dubs programme is not binding on the government.
  
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• Liam Fox warns EU against trade barriers

  01-03-2017 18:49 via ft.com
  Britain wants to maintain close ties with member states after Brexit, says trade secretary
  
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• Lord Tebbit Criticises Concern For 'Foreigners' Rather Than British Over Brexit

  01-03-2017 18:46
  
  Former Tory minister Lord Tebbit drew jeers in the House of Lords after criticising peers for being more concerned about looking after “foreigners” than British people.
  The ex-MP - who famously coined the ‘cricket test’ when questioning the lack of loyalty to the England cricket team among immigrants and their children - spoke out ahead the House of Lords voting to give EU citizens living in the UK guaranteed rights under Brexit.
  “If we are to be concerned about any
  
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• Lord Tebbit Condemns Concern For 'Foreigners' Rather Than British Over Brexit

  01-03-2017 18:46
  
  Former Tory minister Lord Tebbit drew jeers in the House of Lords after criticising peers for being more concerned about looking after “foreigners” than British people.
  The ex-MP - who famously coined the ‘cricket test’ when questioning the lack of loyalty to the England cricket team among immigrants and their children - spoke out ahead the House of Lords voting to give EU citizens living in the UK guaranteed rights under Brexit.
  “If we are to be concerned about any
  
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• Lord Tebbit Complains 'The Foreigners' Rather Than British Over Brexit

  01-03-2017 18:46
  
  Former Tory minister Lord Tebbit drew jeers in the House of Lords after criticising peers for being more concerned about looking after “foreigners” than British people.
  The ex-MP - who famously coined the ‘cricket test’ when questioning the lack of loyalty to the England cricket team among immigrants and their children - spoke out ahead the House of Lords voting to give EU citizens living in the UK guaranteed rights under Brexit.
  “If we are to be concerned about any
  
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• Ford plans to cut more than 1,100 UK jobs at Bridgend

  01-03-2017 18:40 via ft.com
  US carmaker says it may close underperforming sites to stay profitable in Europe
  
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• Ford expects to cut more than 1,100 jobs at Bridgend

  01-03-2017 18:40 via ft.com
  Ministers pressed to offer US carmaker similar assurances to those given to Nissan
  
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• End uncertainty for EU residents, ministers urged

  01-03-2017 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers are urged to guarantee the rights of EU residents after Brexit and end the uncertainty for them.
  
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• Lord Howard: Peers must face up to 'unpalatable truth'

  01-03-2017 18:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lord Howard says he backs a guarantee for EU residents but the Commons will not change its mind.
  
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• Women Elected To Parliament Since 1918 FINALLY Outnumber Sitting Male MPs

  01-03-2017 17:52
  
  A depressing, oft-cited statistic about how male parliament is has stopped being true - for now.
  Feminist campaigners have often emphasised the appalling fact that there were more men sitting in the House of Commons than women who had ever been elected to it.
  After the flurry of by-elections in recent weeks, which returned three women and one man, this is no longer true.
  When Labour’s Jamie Reed resigned as MP for Copeland on December 21, it left 454 sitting male MPs and 455 women elected
  
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• Len McCluskey backed by most Unite branches in leadership contest

  01-03-2017 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The union's current leader has more nominations than his two rivals in his bid for re-election.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Spokesman Says Labour Will Lose A General Election At Current Polling Levels

  01-03-2017 16:42
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman has issued a frank warning about the party’s electoral fate if its standing does not improve in the polls before a general election.
  The Labour leader’s spokesman seemed to confirm criticism from Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, who said yesterday that the party would lose in 2020 if “nothing changes”.
  Speaking after Labour failed to hold Copeland in last week’s by-election, Starmer had warned the party had &ldquo
  
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• Theresa May Accused Of 'Sneaking Out' Cuts To PIP Mental Health Benefits

  01-03-2017 15:19
  
  Theresa May has been accused of trying to “sneak out” an attempt to deny 160,000 people with mental health problems an increase in benefits.
  It came as a row broke out over whether work and pension secretary Damian Green gave his Labour shadow, Debbie Abrahams, enough notice of his plans.
  The government is under fire for attempting to overrule a court decision that would expand the number of people who can receive Personal Independent Payments (PIP).
  Ministers announced the move last
  
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• Corbyn: Adviser's comments show Tories are 'nasty party'

  01-03-2017 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader says a No 10 adviser's comments on mental health show the Conservatives are "still the nasty party".
  
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• Theresa May Makes Awful PMQs Joke Trying To Turn Labour MP's Words Back On Her Own Leader

  01-03-2017 14:47
  
  Theresa May delivered a joke so painfully awful it sent an awkward chuckle across the Tory benches at Prime Minister’s Questions today.
  She attempted to spin a Labour MP’s quote back on her own party - after Cat Smith described the Copeland by-election loss as an “incredible achievement”. 
  Speaking hours after the result, Smith told ITV: “To be 15 to 18 points behind in the polls and to push the Tories to within 2,000 votes is an incredible achievement.”I
  
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• PMQs: Corbyn and May in disability benefits clash

  01-03-2017 14:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May clash in the Commons over plans to change access to disability benefits.
  
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• Crackdown on using phones at the wheel falls short

  01-03-2017 14:41 via ft.com
  Our handsets are designed to interrupt the driving experience, writes Tim Harford
  
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• The gathering storm in Scotland

  01-03-2017 14:35 via ft.com
  Discontent is mounting from Nicola Sturgeon and the nationalists north of the border
  
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• Inquiry launched into 'stalling' by Rochdale grooming gang lawyers

  01-03-2017 14:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Solicitors’ watchdog launches inquiry after judge says lawyers have treated immigration tribunal with ‘sustained and marked disrespect’The solicitors’ watchdog is investigating alleged stalling tactics employed by lawyers at tribunals after criticisms from Britain’s most senior immigration judge.Inquiries by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) began last month after Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey accused lawyers acting for the Rochdale grooming gang of obstructi
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn urges rethink over 'nasty' disability benefit review

  01-03-2017 14:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour leader says changes are "shameful" - but PM insists no existing claimants will lose out.
  
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• Northern Ireland election risks return to direct rule

  01-03-2017 13:59 via ft.com
  Political leaders warn that Thursday’s poll unlikely to produce a governing executive
  
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• EU citizens face 85-page form to stay in UK

  01-03-2017 13:32 via ft.com
  Foreigners living in Britain left in ‘limbo’ by onerous red tape for residence
  
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• EU citizens face 85-page Brexit Britain form

  01-03-2017 13:32 via ft.com
  Foreigners living in UK left in ‘limbo’ by onerous red tape for residence
  
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• Lords set to challenge government over Brexit bill

  01-03-2017 13:19 via ft.com
  Labour and Lib Dem peers backing an amendment protecting EU citizens in the UK
  
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• Farage-Carswell knighthood row 'passed to UKIP NEC'

  01-03-2017 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP's only MP Douglas Carswell denies blocking an attempt to get Nigel Farage a knighthood.
  
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• Labour calls for economic equality bill to stop budgets favouring men - Politics live

  01-03-2017 12:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and the House of Lords debate on the article 50 bill 11.10am GMTAt the weekend Jeremy Corbyn complained that Britain’s “wonderful media” were not reporting properly what Labour has to say about policy. Some of us felt this was a little unfair, because Labour’s policy output has not been especially rich recently, but this morning Sarah Champion, th
  
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• EU citizens confront ‘nightmare’ 85-page form to stay in UK after Brexit

  01-03-2017 11:23 via ft.com
  Foreigners living in Britain left in ‘limbo’ by onerous red tape for residence
  
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• Nigel Farage Hints He Does Want A Knighthood Amid Bitter Row With Douglas Carswell

  01-03-2017 11:21
  
  Nigel Farage has hinted he would like knighthood amid a bitter row between the former Ukip leader and its MP Douglas Carswell.
  Yesterday, Carswell was summoned to a meeting with Ukip’s chairman after it was reported he thwarted an attempt to award Farage a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list.
  Asked this morning if he did wanted to be made Sir Nigel Farage, the former Ukip leader replied coyly: “Not particularly.”
  However pressed by BBC Radio 4’s Today pr
  
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• Donald Trump's Joint Session Speech And 11 Times It Actually Made Sense

  01-03-2017 11:06
  
  Donald Trump has surprised the world once again, but this time by actually sounding like a president. 
  Speaking in front of Congress on Tuesday evening he gave Republican congressional leaders a rallying cry and even a roadmap for the future as they try to push through a sweeping and divisive agenda, including changes to healthcare and taxes. 
  House Speaker Paul Ryan declared the speech as a “home run” and even critics were surprised at the measured and sometimes even conci
  
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• Murdoch's 21st Century Fox bid for Sky should be rejected, minister told

  01-03-2017 10:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners say market shares of Sky and UK newspapers mean takeover bid should be turned down on competition groundsRupert Murdoch’s bid to take control of the whole of Sky through his entertainment business 21st Century Fox should be rejected on competition grounds alone, according to research to be published on Wednesday.In a submission to the minister considering the bid, campaigners at the Media Reform Coalition and online activist network Avaaz argue that the overall market shares of
  
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• Donald Trump 'Delays UK State Visit' Following Protests Over Travel Ban

  01-03-2017 10:34
  
  Anti-Trump campaigners have claimed a “huge victory” following reports that the US President’s state visit to Britain has been postponed until later this year.
  The trip has reportedly been delayed until October so Donald Trump can avoid protests. It was expected to take place in June. Trump’s proposed state prompted more than 1.8 million people to sign a petition calling for it to be cancelled following the Republican billionaire’s Muslim travel ban.
  Polit
  
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• The Waugh Zone March 1, 2017

  01-03-2017 10:01
  
  The five things you need to know on Wednesday, March 1…1) FIRST CUCK-COUP OF SPRING
  It’s PMQs day again and the first day of spring. And although it may seem like years ago already, this is the first chance for the Prime Minister to crow in the Commons about the stunning Tory victory in the Copeland by-election.
  In a shrewd tactic, the Conservatives have delayed the swearing-in for Trudy Harrison until today, allowing her a prime slot straight after PMQs to take the oath of allegia
  
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• Nigel Farage: Carswell stopping Ukip becoming radical anti-immigration party

  01-03-2017 09:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukip spat continues as party’s former leader says MP is trying to turn it into mainstream party with bland messageUkip’s former leader Nigel Farage, has accused the party’s only MP of preventing it from becoming a radical anti-immigration party.In an increasingly hostile war of words with Douglas Carswell, Farage said the Clacton MP who defected from the Conservatives to Ukip in 2014, had undermined his attempts to equate EU membership with increased levels of immigration. Cont
  
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• London bashing won't fix Britain

  01-03-2017 09:15
  
  Britain has plenty of problems - London isn't one of them
  
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• Ukip's Douglas Carswell Under Investigation By Party Chiefs

  01-03-2017 09:07
  
  Douglas Carswell’s future in Ukip is subject to an “ongoing” investigation by party chiefs, The Huffington Post UK can reveal.
  Yesterday afternoon, party chairman Paul Oakden met with Ukip’s only MP to establish if he had thwarted a bid to get Nigel Farage a gong in the New Year’s Honours list.
  Carswell strongly denied the accusation, despite leaked emails showing him suggesting Farage should get a lower grade honour – such as an OBE or MBE “for service
  
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• Am I posh? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Edward Tew

  01-03-2017 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesNo one asks if they are posh because they actually think they are. Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn’t rush down to breakfast every morning, silk Turnbull & Asser pyjamas billowing, and immediately ask his valet to check the internet just to make doubly sure.The reason people ask this question is because although no one would really want to be descri
  
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• May faces likely defeat in Lords over rights of EU citizens

  01-03-2017 08:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Peers support Labour amendment to Brexit bill to protect European residents in UK after article 50 is triggeredThe Conservative government is likely to be defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of securing the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, despite a last minute plea from the home secretary, Amber Rudd.Peers are lining up to support a Labour party amendment – which now has the formal backing of a Conservative, a Liberal Democrat and a crossbencher – calling on ministe
  
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• Post-Brexit UK research needs bolder action from this timid government

  01-03-2017 08:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Government rhetoric about ‘global Britain’ is not matched by its limp response to proposals for securing the future of research and higher educationTheresa May’s Lancaster House speech on Brexit resounded repeatedly with declarations of her ambition to foster a new ‘global Britain’, a term mentioned no less than twelve times. But what precisely are her government’s plans for UK research, which has been launched into a fog of uncertainty by the EU referendum? D
  
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• Firms bidding for government contracts asked if they back Brexit

  01-03-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Department for International Trade says tech companies should have the right ‘cultural fit’ if they want to be hired Contractors bidding for work with the government are being asked to affirm that they back Brexit.Liam Fox’s Department for International Trade (DIT) has inserted a clause into advertisements inviting tech companies to bid for work, saying that in order to have the right “cultural fit” for the task, they must “be committed to the best possible ou
  
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• More than politics, Theresa May’s true strength is her grasp of British culture | Rafael Behr

  01-03-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While John Major and Tony Blair struggle with their Brexit defeat, the prime minister has read the national mood and is successfully navigating itSo John Major and Tony Blair are on the same team now. It could be one of those movies that give ageing Hollywood action heroes a valedictory outing (in cinema-trailer bass). “Once they were rivals. Everyone thought they were out of the game. But there was one last job to do, and this time they’d be in it together…”And the
  
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• Liberal Democrats given £1m to further pro-EU cause

  01-03-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Anti-Brexit mainstream party on road to recovery after paying dearly for coalition role
  
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• EU citizens struggle with application to stay in UK after Brexit

  01-03-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Foreigners living in Britain left in ‘limbo’ by onerous red tape for residence
  
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• ‘Death tax’ part of social care reform proposals

  01-03-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Panel of experts reporting to PM to address ageing population
  
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• Brexit: UK has 'moral responsibility' to Gibraltar, peers say

  01-03-2017 02:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Peers say the overseas territory's interests must be protected during EU exit negotiations.
  
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• Carswell never really left Tories, says Farage, amid defection rumours

  01-03-2017 01:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Ukip leader renews call for party to expel Clacton MP while reports claim Carswell angling to return to Tory fold
  Nigel Farage has intensified his war of words with Ukip’s only MP, Douglas Carswell, by insisting that Tory defector Carswell never really left the Conservatives.The former Ukip leader again urged colleagues to expel the Clacton MP after an extraordinary day of public backbiting in the party. Continue reading...
  
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