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• Theresa May's London Attack Speech In Full: 'Evil Will Not Drive Us Apart'

  22-03-2017 23:53
  
  Theresa May has said the people of London will not allow the “voices of hate and evil to drive us apart” in the wake of the terrorist attack in Westminster on Wednesday.
  In a speech in Downing Street, the prime minister praised the “exceptional bravery” of police during the attack and said any attempt to defeat the values that Parliament stands for are “doomed to failure”.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related... + articlesList=58d2d715e4b0b22b0d19631c,58
  
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• Terror attack on UK parliament leaves 5 dead and 40 injured

  22-03-2017 23:47
  Police officer stabbed and alleged assailant shot dead after car ploughs into pedestrians
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon sees 'sense of solidarity' with London after attack

  22-03-2017 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expresses her concern for those caught up in the terrorist attack at Westminster.
  
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• London attack: May condemns 'sick and depraved terrorist attack'

  22-03-2017 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prime minister says people will go on with their lives as normal and Parliament will continue to meet.
  
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• Theresa May’s statement on London terror attack

  22-03-2017 22:45
  ‘Any attempt to defeat our values through violence and terror is doomed to failure’
  
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• Westminster Attack: How The Terror Unfolded Before Our Eyes

  22-03-2017 21:41
  
  It was the day everyone at Westminster had been dreading.  
  The Houses of Parliament, with their iconic ‘Big Ben’ clocktower, are the defining symbol of Britain across the world. And as such, the prime target for any terror attack.
  The building, itself a Royal Palace made up of both Victorian gothic and Medieval halls, is no stranger to threats against the state.
  But while tourists focus on Guy Fawkes’ attempted plot to blow the building up more than 400 years ago, older
  
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• Attack On Westminster: How The Terror Unfolded Before Our Eyes

  22-03-2017 21:41
  
  It was the day everyone at Westminster had been dreading.  
  The Houses of Parliament, with their iconic ‘Big Ben’ clocktower, are the defining symbol of Britain across the world. And as such, the prime target for any terror attack.
  The building, itself a Royal Palace made up of both Victorian gothic and Medieval halls, is no stranger to threats against the state.
  But while tourists focus on Guy Fawkes’ attempted plot to blow the building up more than 400 years ago, older M
  
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• How terror arrived at the gates of parliament

  22-03-2017 20:21
  Chaos as Commons is locked down, May is whisked away and an MP tries to save officer
  
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• Commons locked down and May whisked to safety

  22-03-2017 20:21
  Foreign Office minister, who lost a brother to terrorism, tends to dying policeman
  
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• Terror attack on UK parliament leaves 4 dead and 20 injured

  22-03-2017 19:59
  Police officer stabbed and alleged assailant shot dead after car ploughs into pedestrians
  
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• London attack fits increasingly familiar pattern

  22-03-2017 19:25
  Method used recalls earlier terrorist actions in Berlin and Nice
  
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• Call to give fathers allocated leave to improve uptake

  22-03-2017 19:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Parliamentary committee hears paternity leave has woeful take-up rate because many fathers fear damaging their careersMen should be given father-only parental leave to tackle the “very, very low” take-up rate, experts have told MPs.
  Dads who want to be more involved in their children’s lives fear damaging their careers and denting their family’s income if they ask for flexible hours or parental leave, a hearing on working fathers heard.Continue reading...
  
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• Centrica hands chief a 40% pay rise

  22-03-2017 19:21
  Details come at sensitive time for industry as government weighs up action on tariffs
  
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• 'Sweetheart Deal' Councillor Quits Key Tory Position After Social Care Row

  22-03-2017 19:08
  
  The council leader accused of striking a “sweetheart deal” with the Government over social care funding has today quit a key Tory role on an influential national body.
  Surrey County Council’s David Hodge today announced he was stepping down as Conservative Group Leader on the Local Government Association (LGA), just hours after surviving a vote of no confidence at his own authority.
  The Huff Post UK has learned Hodge was under increasing pressure by fellow Tory councillors to q
  
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• EU's chief negotiator challenges Theresa May directly over Brexit talks

  22-03-2017 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Michel Barnier responds to PM’s claim she would be willing to walk away from talks by saying repercussions would be seriousThe EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has challenged Theresa May directly over her claim that she would be willing to walk away from the negotiating table, saying that failure to reach a deal would have serious repercussions for the UK.
  In what he conceded were candid comments in only his second public statement on Brexit since he took up the position
  
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• Confusion spreads inside UK Parliament as terror unfolds

  22-03-2017 19:02
  MPs and businessmen told to keep away from glass doors and windows in case of explosion
  
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• Westminster Attack: How Labour MP Mary Creagh Ordered Westminster Tube Station To Close

  22-03-2017 18:43
  
  Labour MP Mary Creagh has told of how in she ordered staff at Westminster Tube to shut the station down as the attack outside parliament unfolded.
  The former shadow cabinet minister was walking through the tunnel from the Portcullis House office building into the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday afternoon when she saw armed police officers nearby.
  “I saw people running towards me,” she told BBC News. “Penny Mordaunt ran up and said ‘there’s shots being fired, we n
  
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• Westminster attack — in pictures

  22-03-2017 18:35
  Emergency services react to a suspected terror incident close to the UK parliament
  
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• London Taxi Company opens £325m UK electric car plant

  22-03-2017 16:42
  Carmaker receives £80m government funding boost
  
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• UK parliament in lockdown after terror incident

  22-03-2017 16:17
  Police officer stabbed and alleged assailant shot after car mows down pedestrians
  
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• UK warned of queues and shortages if Brexit talks fail

  22-03-2017 16:02
  EU negotiator lays out the consequences of failing to reach a deal
  
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• UK-based airlines told to move to Europe after Brexit or lose major routes

  22-03-2017 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Fears for UK jobs as EU officials say airlines will need to move base and majority of shareholders to fly routes within EuropeEU chiefs have warned airlines including easyJet and Ryanair that they will need to relocate their headquarters or sell off shares to European nationals if they want to continue flying routes within continental Europe after Brexit. Related: Goldman Sachs to move hundreds of staff out of London due to BrexitContinue reading...
  
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• BA and Easyjet laptop ban 'in force by Saturday'

  22-03-2017 15:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Passengers on certain flights will have to put tablets and e-readers in their hold luggage.
  
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• Corbyn: PM pursuing grammar schools 'vanity project'

  22-03-2017 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says Theresa May is pursuing a "vanity project" on grammar schools.
  
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• Free vote for MPs on Palace of Westminster restoration

  22-03-2017 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The prime minister confirms a free vote for MPs on restoration works at the Palace of Westminster.
  
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• Brexit’s Mr Make-or-Break it

  22-03-2017 15:06
  UK government faces a tough time if Martin Selmayr succeeds in setting tone for talks
  
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• PMQs: May gets personal with Corbyn over grammar schools

  22-03-2017 14:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May attacks Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for sending his son to a grammar school.
  
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• Treasury refuses to rule out pension tax relief cuts

  22-03-2017 14:46
  Government needs to plug £2bn hole created by U-turn on tax rises for self-employed
  
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• Liz Truss Castigated By Top British Judge For Daily Mail 'Abuse' Reaction To High Court Brexit Ruling

  22-03-2017 14:37
  
  Britain’s most senior judge has launched a scathing assault on Justice Secretary Liz Truss for her reaction to the landmark legal case over Brexit.
  Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas criticised Truss “severely” in a scathing outburst in Parliament on Wednesday.
  He hit back at the “abuse” levelled at judges - who were branded “enemies of the people” by the Daily Mail - for ruling Theresa May had to ask MPs before triggering EU exit clause Article 50.Lord Tho
  
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• Martin McGuinness: NI Assembly remembers former minister

  22-03-2017 14:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A special sitting of the NI Assembly remembers the former deputy first minister, who has died aged 66.
  
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• Justice secretary Liz Truss accused of failing judges

  22-03-2017 14:27
  Truss stood by while media pilloried ‘enemies of the people’, says Lord Thomas
  
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• Teachers' unions merge to make super-union

  22-03-2017 14:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The merged NUT and ATL will be called the National Education Union and will have nearly 500,000 members.
  
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• Corbyn accuses May of breaking Tory pledge on education funding

  22-03-2017 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  PM criticises shadow frontbenchers for sending their children to private schools as Labour leader says cuts betray a generationTheresa May has been accused by Jeremy Corbyn of breaching a Conservative manifesto pledge not to cut education funding, prompting her to launch a personal attack on the Labour frontbench for sending their children to private and grammar schools.The prime minister made the personal criticisms after Corbyn said her plans to shake up school funding would be “betrayin
  
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• Theresa May Accused Of Breaking Conservative Manifesto Pledge So Attacks Jeremy Corbyn's Family

  22-03-2017 13:58
  
  Theresa May launched a personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s family today after the Labour leader accused the prime minister of breaking a Conservative manifesto pledge on education spending.
  Speaking during prime minister’s questions, Corbyn criticised May for spending £320m on a “grammar schools vanity project” while at the same time proposing spending cuts for schools of 7% beyond 2020.
  The Labour leader said the planned cuts to school funding equated to &ldqu
  
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• What is the current mood among Labour supporters?

  22-03-2017 13:35 via theguardian.com
  
  We want to hear from readers who support Labour on how they are feeling now and what they think the future holds for the party
  Membership of the Labour party is expected to fall below half a million for the first time since its peak under Jeremy Corbyn.The peak of party membership under Corbyn was 554,000 members as of last July, which had fallen to 528,000 by December. However, senior party figures warned at the time that this lower figure might not reflect the scale of people leaving the party
  
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• Two of the UK’s biggest teaching unions merge

  22-03-2017 13:16
  NUT and ATL to combine as National Education Union, with more than 450,000 members
  
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• George Osborne Boasts About Protecting Tatton Constituency From His Own Tory Cuts

  22-03-2017 13:04
  
  George Osborne has used an open letter to constituents to brag about his successes as a local MP - despite wielding the heavy axe of austerity for more than six years as Chancellor.
  The Tatton MP boasted he had been instrumental in twice stopping the closure of an A&E department at a local hospital.
  And he talked of having helped get a bypass through his constituency built - a feat “people had been trying for 70 years”.
  “We’ve improved the direct train services, got
  
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• Young People At Increased Risk Of Homelessness Because Of Welfare Cuts, Warns Report

  22-03-2017 12:55
  
  Young people are at increasing risk of being made homeless as the Government’s welfare reforms begin to bite, a report warns today.
  ‘The Homelessness Monitor’ cites rising unemployment, spiralling rents and declining benefit protection as a lethal cocktail for those struggling to afford rent – let alone a mortgage.
  The report, produced by homelessness charity Crisis and think tank The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, warns that councils across England are already struggling t
  
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• Ken Livingstone: Umunna ‘consciously undermining’ Corbyn

  22-03-2017 12:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former Labour MP and Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has told BBC 5 live that Chuka Umunna is "consciously undermining" Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Osborne says MP work ‘unaffected’ by Standard job

  22-03-2017 12:06
  Letter by former chancellor to constituents comes amid criticism over media role
  
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• Osborne says MP work ‘unaffected’ by Evening Standard job

  22-03-2017 12:06
  Letter by former chancellor to constituents comes amid criticism over media role
  
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• Ken Livingstone Calls For A Dozen Labour MPs To Be Suspended For Disloyalty To Jeremy Corbyn

  22-03-2017 11:47
  
  Ken Livingstone has called for “about a dozen” Labour MPs including Chuka Umunna and Wes Streeting to be suspended from the party for criticising Jeremy Corbyn.
  The former London mayor, who is himself currently suspended from the party for comments he made about Hitler, also said he would seek a judicial review if he is expelled.
  Livingstone, an ally of Corbyn, told BBC Radio 5 Live on Wednesday morning: “Those that have been most over the top I think should be suspe
  
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• MSPs expected to back call for second Scottish independence vote

  22-03-2017 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Holyrood is expected endorse First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second independence referendum in a vote later.
  
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• School governors point to 'diabolical' budget squeeze

  22-03-2017 11:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  School governors label budget squeeze 'diabolical', as new funding formula is considered in England.
  
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• The English left should stay out of the Scottish independence debate

  22-03-2017 10:38
  
  The left-wing activists pinning their hopes on Indyref2 need to find another battle.
  
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• London Taxi Company opens £300m UK electric car plant

  22-03-2017 09:56
  Carmaker received £80m government funding boost
  
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• Princess Anne: GM crops 'have real benefits'

  22-03-2017 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Princess Anne has told the BBC's Farming Today she believes gene technology has important benefits to offer in terms of providing food.
  
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• The Waugh Zone March 22, 2017

  22-03-2017 09:38
  
  The five things you need to know on Wednesday, March 22…1) INDEPENDENCE DAY
  Another PMQs looms. And as Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn square up over the despatch box, the former Home Secretary may well talk of the new aircraft laptop ban. A fresh terror threat forms a particularly poignant backdrop to the tributes to Martin McGuinness that are sure to feature too today. Will any Tory backbencher dare to raise Corbyn's support for Sinn Fein during the Troubles?
  But the big issue that is su
  
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• Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court Nominee, Asked Bizarre Question About Horses And Ducks

  22-03-2017 09:31
  
  Although it feels far longer, Donald Trump has only been President for two months.
  During this time there have been any number of mind-bending highlights but yesterday things took a turn for the ultra-surreal.
  Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was asked by an actual senator as part of his confirmation hearing:Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?
  Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake
  The bizarre question was asked by Arizona Senator Jeff Flake on behalf of his teenage son.
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• Lack Of Working Class Actors Shows Privilege Is More Important Than Talent, Warns Labour's Gloria De Piero

  22-03-2017 09:01
  
  Working-class actors and playwrights will today warn MPs of the difficulties they faced making it in the arts world compared to privileged stars such as Tom Hiddlestone and Damian Lewis.
  Former EastEnders and Coronation Street actress Michelle Collins and political playwright James Graham will give evidence to Labour’s investigation into access to the performing arts in Parliament this afternoon.
  The inquiry, instigated by Shadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson, will look into what the barri
  
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