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• Jeremy Corbyn publishes tax return, revealing total income of £114,342

  05-03-2017 21:44
  
  Labour leader publishes summary to website on the same day chancellor Philip Hammond said he has ‘no intention’ of revealing his tax returnsJeremy Corbyn has published details of his tax return, hours after the chancellor, Philip Hammond, said he would not be releasing his. The Labour leader revealed that his total income for 2015-16 was £114,342 and that he paid £35,298 in tax, according to a tax summary published on his website. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, ha
  
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• Bana Alabed Writes To Theresa May Asking To Help Syria's 'Dying Children'

  05-03-2017 20:53
  
  The seven-year-old girl who has tweeted about the horrors of her life in war-torn Syria has written to Theresa May asking the UK to send “medicine, doctors, water and milk” to help save “dying children”.
  Bana Alabed wrote the letter with her mother, Fatemah, in a desperate plea for help as a UN humanitarian agency today warned months of clashes in the county’s crowded northern battlefields have displaced 66,000 people.
  To date, the UK Government has resisted a seri
  
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• Tory MP Warns Theresa May Against 'Catastrophic' Housing Benefit Cuts To Under-22s

  05-03-2017 19:00
  
  Theresa May is facing a potential backbench revolt over housing benefit cuts after one Tory branded the changes as “catastrophic”.
  David Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, today warned that the decision to scrap the benefit for under-22s would “pull the housing rug from vulnerable young people.”
  Huff Post UK understands other MPs are also angry with the policy, which was slipped out by the Government on Friday.
  While the measure was part of the Tory’s
  
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• Review of tax for self-employed tipped for Budget

  05-03-2017 18:55
  Treasury fears changes to labour market costing it billions in lost revenue
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Publishes Tax Return To Pile Pressure On Chancellor Philip Hammond

  05-03-2017 18:17
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has published details of his tax return in an effort to force Tory Chancellor Phillip Hammond to do the same.
  The Labour leader reveals he earned £114,342 in 2015-16, and paid £35,298 in tax, according to a summary of his tax affairs published on his website. His Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has already made public his return.
  It comes as Hammond has refused to publish details of his earnings ahead of this week’s Budget.
  Labour thinks anyone earning
  
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• Clive Lewis: Never say never over Labour leadership

  05-03-2017 17:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MP who quit Labour frontbench over Brexit says he is annoyed at speculation about his ambitions.
  
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• Northern Irish parties prepare for new electoral reality

  05-03-2017 16:39
  Talks to be shaped by new Sinn Fein challenge to Unionist dominance
  
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• Vocational training shake-up 'most ambitious since A-levels'

  05-03-2017 16:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government says its technical training reforms are needed to prepare for a post-Brexit future.
  
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• Budget 2017: No 'spending sprees', Hammond warns

  05-03-2017 15:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chancellor says the economy needs "gas in the tank" and acknowledges pressure on social care.
  
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• York MP Rachael Maskell speaks out over online death threats

  05-03-2017 14:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour's Rachael Maskell says she received death threats around the time her colleague Jo Cox was murdered.
  
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• Sunday Show Round Up: EU Citizens Rights, Budget Rumours And Ukip Wars

  05-03-2017 14:37
  
  The Andrew Marr Show
  Ukip leader Paul Nuttall was first up on the Marr show today. He was originally booked in for last week, but went off on holiday to lick his wounds following his failure to win the Stoke by-election.
  If his plan was to disappear for a week so questions about his backstory would fade away, he was wrong - and there’s a full write up here.
  Nuttall claims he has been the victim of an “orchestrated smear campaign” from Labour suggesting he wasn’t at Hillsb
  
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• Assembly election: Simon Hamilton says Arlene Foster should not step aside

  05-03-2017 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster has the "full support" of her party, ex-DUP minister Simon Hamilton says.
  
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• Exclusive report: Islamist Terrorism in the UK

  05-03-2017 14:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Sunday Politics has had sight of a major new report into Islamist Terrorism in the UK.
  
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• Paul Nuttall: UKIP 'mess' will take time to sort out

  05-03-2017 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UKIP's leader urges his party to "stick together" after rows between key figures.
  
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• Gove calls on May to guarantee EU citizens right to remain in UK

  05-03-2017 13:28
  
  Pressure mounts on the PM within her own ranks to jettison an ‘unacceptable’ bargaining chip policyMichael Gove and other Tory Brexit campaigners on Sunday called on Theresa May to unilaterally guarantee the rights of 3.2 million EU citizens to remain in the UK, as they back a parliamentary report that brands the government policy as “unacceptable”.Gove is one of several pro-Brexit Tories on the all-party select committee on exiting the EU who say that May’s approac
  
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• Hammond rejects call for Budget splurge

  05-03-2017 12:39
  Apart from extra cash for social care, overall theme will be fiscal caution
  
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• Paul Nuttall Accuses Labour Of A 'Smear Campaign' Over Claims He Was Not At Hillsborough

  05-03-2017 12:30
  
  Ukip leader Paul Nuttall today claimed Labour is behind an “orchestrated smear campaign” to portray him as lying about being present at the Hillsborough disaster.
  The North West MEP, who failed to win the Stoke by-election last month, was forced to admit during the campaign that claims on his website he lost “close friends” at the tragedy were wrong.
  Together with other incorrect claims – including that he played professional football for Tranmere Rovers when he was
  
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• Philip Hammond vows UK will fight back if it gets bad Brexit deal

  05-03-2017 12:06
  
  Chancellor tells EU that Britain won’t ‘slink off like a wounded animal’ if no trade agreement is struck during article 50 talksPhilip Hammond has sent a warning to Britain’s European partners that Britain will “fight back” and not “slink off like a wounded animal” if it does not get the Brexit deal it wants. In combative language ahead of triggering the article 50 negotiations on terms of withdrawal, the chancellor said Britain would “do wha
  
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• UKIP's Paul Nuttall on Hillsborough, Tranmere Rovers and PhD claims

  05-03-2017 11:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Andrew Marr asks Paul Nuttall about reports he has not always been honest.
  
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• Theresa May Under Renewed Pressure Of EU Nationals' Rights In The UK

  05-03-2017 10:53
  
  A group of influential MPs has renewed pressure on Theresa May to provide an immediate guarantee over the rights of EU nationals in the UK.
  The Commons Exiting the EU Committee said the Government should act on its own and not wait for assurances over the position of British citizens in the EU.
  Ministers have said that while settling the status of EU nationals will be a “priority” in the forthcoming Brexit negotiations they need to be able to secure the rights of UK nationals at the
  
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• Tony Blair denies pitch to be Trump's Middle East envoy

  05-03-2017 10:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  His denial comes after a newspaper reported the ex-PM met Donald Trump's son-in-law and key adviser.
  
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• May urged to guarantee EU nationals’ rights

  05-03-2017 10:00
  Commons committee calls on prime minister not to use foreigners as ‘bargaining chips’
  
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• Tony Blair 'Seeking To Be Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy'

  05-03-2017 09:55
  
  Tony Blair has met with one of Donald Trump’s closest and most senior advisors in a move to become a US envoy to the Middle East, the Mail on Sunday has reported.
  The former prime minister has met with Jared Kushner three times since September to discuss politics, with the latest meeting last week taking place within the West Wing, according to the paper.
  Blair’s official spokesperson refused to answer questions around the reports last night, telling the Press Association: &ldqu
  
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• Tony Blair Denies Seeking To Be Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy

  05-03-2017 09:55
  
  Tony Blair has met with one of Donald Trump’s closest and most senior advisors in a move to become a US envoy to the Middle East, the Mail on Sunday has reported.
  The former prime minister has met with Jared Kushner three times since September to discuss politics, with the latest meeting last week taking place within the West Wing, according to the paper.
  But a spokesperson for the Tony Blair Institute this morning said: “The story in the Mail on Sunday is an invention.”
  L
  
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• ICO assessing political use of public's private data

  05-03-2017 09:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The watchdog says it assessing the data protection risks arising from the use of data analytics.
  
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• Ministers urged to protect rights of EU citizens in UK

  05-03-2017 04:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs say EU citizens who contribute to the UK economy should not live 'under a cloud of uncertainty'.
  
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• MSPs call for 'bespoke' Brexit deal for Scotland

  05-03-2017 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MSPs on Holyrood's Europe committee pen a report calling for a "bespoke" deal for for Scotland in Brexit talks.
  
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• The picturebook world of Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  Chris Riddell on the US president’s continuing Russian woes Continue reading...
  
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