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• Tories Promote Theresa May But Downplay 'Conservatives' On General Election Adverts

  04-05-2017 22:58
  
  Theresa May’s personal popularity with the voters is forming a centrepiece of the Tory general election campaign as the party downgrades its own name and image on leaflets and adverts.
  A string of newspaper adverts have appeared in key marginal seats in recent days with the words ‘Theresa May’ given the most prominence and ‘Conservative’ relegated to the small print.
  The ‘Presidential’-style tactic is part of the party’s overall move to capitalise
  
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• UK Election Countdown: a little local difficulty

  04-05-2017 19:54 via ft.com
  35 days to go: Labour’s day of dawning
  
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• Number hit by benefit cap trebles

  04-05-2017 18:55
  
  Cuts to the overall benefit cap see surge in numbers affected with fears over impact on tenants and children
  
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• Call for truce in Brexit war of words

  04-05-2017 18:09 via ft.com
  Negotiations that are already difficult could become impossible, warns Donald Tusk
  
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• Brussels calls for truce in Brexit war of words

  04-05-2017 18:09 via ft.com
  Negotiations that are already difficult could become impossible, warns Donald Tusk
  
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• UK seeks to tackle housing shortage with investment trust funding

  04-05-2017 18:06 via ft.com
  Government share purchase designed to help drive construction of thousands of homes
  
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• Prince Philip's Retirement Quickly Descends Into Election Row Between Labour And Tory Candidates

  04-05-2017 17:42
  
  It only took two hours for Prince Philip’s retirement to descend into a political argument.
  The Duke of Edinburgh will cease public engagements in the autumn, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday, triggering an outpouring of well-wishing for the 95-year-old’s 70 years of Royal service.
  Almost immediately after the announcement was made, Labour’s Chi Onwurah, who is fighting to defend her Newcastle Central seat, tweeted to say he had “retired in financial security&rdquo
  
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• Len McCluskey Aide Dan Carden Favourite To Replace Steve Rotheram As Liverpool Walton MP, Sources Claim

  04-05-2017 17:36
  
  An aide to Unite boss Len McCluskey looks on course for a safe Labour seat in the general election amid increasing speculation that MP Steve Rotheram will step aside, HuffPost UK has been told.
  Dan Carden, who works for the general secretary of Britain’s biggest trade union, is now favourite to take Liverpool Walton once the selection process is opened.
  Rotheram is set to announce his decision to quit Westminster on Friday if, as expected, he wins the first ever election of Liverpool&rsqu
  
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• Brexit Briefing: EU Want Some, Do EU?

  04-05-2017 17:35
  
  All you need to know from the world of Brexit this week.You can sign up for this briefing by clicking here, and you’ll receive it straight to your inbox every Thursday afternoon.
  If you like what you read, make sure you subscribe to our Commons People podcast here for even more analysis about what goes on in Westminster.Theresa May Is That Lairy Mate Who Wants To Fight Everyone After A Few Too Many Shandies “Every stray word and every hyped up media report is going to
  
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• Brexit dinner: live leaking from the second sitting

  04-05-2017 17:15 via ft.com
  Tweets from a London-hosted meeting between Juncker and May
  
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• Marine Le Pen Egged During French Presidential Election Campaign Appearance

  04-05-2017 14:52
  
  Marine Le Pen has been egged during a public appearance on the French Presidential election campaign trail.
  The French National Front (FN) party candidate had arrived at Dol-de-Bretagne, France, and was surrounded by bodyguards, TV cameras and angry demonstrators.
  As she was talking to a man in the crowd eggs began to pour down on her and her entourage and she was hurriedly escorted inside.En déplacement à #Dol-de-Bretagne, @MLP_officiel accueillie par des jets d’œ
  
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• Why a deal on EU citizens will prove tricky

  04-05-2017 14:41 via ft.com
  Issue is far more complicated than UK prime minister likes to portray
  
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• Tories seek election gains from long march across Britain  

  04-05-2017 14:35 via ft.com
  Two decades after poll humiliation, the party is putting itself back on the map
  
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• Tories await election gains from long march across Britain

  04-05-2017 14:35 via ft.com
  Two decades after poll humiliation, the party is putting itself back on the map
  
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• The MPs who can ensure a Corbynite succeeds Corbyn

  04-05-2017 14:34
  
  Labour's Corbynite grouping is likely to have enough supportive MPs to hold onto the leadership after the general election - but only if it chooses the right candidate.
  
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• Sean Spicer's 'It's A Wall Not A Fence' Argument Was Quite Something To Behold

  04-05-2017 14:27
  
  Sean Spicer spent five minutes of a White House press briefing yesterday trying to redefine what a wall is.
  In a presentation on border security, the Press Secretary conducted a show and tell in which he exhibited images of the current decrepit defences on the US-Mexico border.He declared: “This is what exists right now throughout our country.
  “You see a place where cars can literally create little things and drive over.
  “You’ve got places that can get burrowed under. Tha
  
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• How UK voters are switching parties after Brexit

  04-05-2017 14:19 via ft.com
  One in five Labour voters expected to desert the party, analysis shows
  
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• Brexit reshapes UK’s party allegiance in Tory election boost

  04-05-2017 14:19 via ft.com
  One in five Labour voters expected to desert the party, analysis shows
  
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• Woof, woof

  04-05-2017 13:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain takes to the polls, and the dogs go too, in the 2017 local and mayoral elections
  
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• 'I'm an ex-politician': David Miliband dampens talk of return

  04-05-2017 12:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Former Labour minister declines to rule out re-entering politics and praises Tony Blair’s intervention in Brexit debateDavid Miliband has described himself in an interview as “an ex-politician”, placing renewed doubt on whether the former Labour cabinet ministerhas any ambition to return to parliament.However, he declined to completely rule out coming back to politics, saying: “It’s better not to press the rewind button and think backwards. It’s better to take
  
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• Searching for the Muslim vote

  04-05-2017 12:11
  
  Both Labour and the Conservatives have work to do to win back the trust of Muslim voters at this election
  
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• Voter registration soars among students with 55% backing Labour

  04-05-2017 11:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Survey finds nine out of 10 students who are entitled to vote have now registered, in a potential boost for Jeremy CorbynHigh voter registration rates among students suggest their vote could play a significant part in next month’s general election, with more than half currently intent on voting Labour, according to a survey.More than nine out of 10 participating students (93%) who were entitled to vote had registered and most said they planned to use their vote on 8 June, offering some hop
  
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• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, To Step Down From Royal Duties, Buckingham Palace Announces

  04-05-2017 11:06
  
  The Duke of Edinburgh, who is 95, will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year, Buckingham Palace has announced.
  Prince Philip’s decision was taken with the support of the Queen.
  He will attend previously scheduled engagements until August but will not be planning any more.An announcement regarding The Duke of Edinburgh. https://t.co/SF1bgo68Un pic.twitter.com/TO9mR70xTk— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) May 4, 2017
  Only yesterday he attended Lord&rsqu
  
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• The Waugh Zone May 4, 2017

  04-05-2017 10:26
  
  The five things you need to know on Thursday, May 4…
  1) ME, MAYSELF AND I
  Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron sparred with each other last night, but the real issue here in Blighty is whether we are in the middle of our very own British Presidential election. That’s certainly how it felt yesterday as Theresa May appeared in Downing Street to effectively declare war on ‘Brussels’.
  The PM’s broadside at the EU was obviously aimed at Leave voters of all parties, but can
  
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• Brussels plans to saddle UK with EU nuclear waste

  04-05-2017 09:21 via ft.com
  Britain’s impending split from Euratom indicative of complexity of Brexit
  
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• Brussels lines up transfer of EU nuclear waste to UK

  04-05-2017 09:21 via ft.com
  Britain’s impending split from Euratom indicative of complexity of Brexit
  
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• Steve Bell’s If ... bombs away for Blair and Mandelson

  04-05-2017 08:10 via theguardian.com
  
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• Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and an election trapped in the past

  04-05-2017 06:07 via ft.com
  One leader pines for the 1950s, the other for the 1970s
  
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• Non-NHS groups net half of community care spending

  04-05-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  Private and charity providers play record role in nursing, health visits and therapy
  
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• Labour’s moderate MPs give up fight against Corbyn

  04-05-2017 06:00 via ft.com
  More than a dozen stand down for election rather than continue battling leader
  
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• Future crisis will test BoE severely, say system’s architects

  04-05-2017 05:00 via ft.com
  Governor has too much power, concludes panel in analysis of 20 years of independence
  
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• Bank of England would be sorely tested by another financial crisis

  04-05-2017 05:00 via ft.com
  Governor has too much power, concludes panel in analysis of 20 years of independence
  
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• EU immigration 'likely to continue for some years' after Brexit

  04-05-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Whitehall thinktank says it is unfeasible to fully create and implement a new immigration policy by the end of the two-year article 50 deadlineEuropean Union citizens will be free to come to the UK for several years after Brexit despite repeated promises from leave campaigners that restrictions would be swiftly introduced, a Whitehall thinktank has found. A report released on Thursday by the Institute for Government (IfG) warns ministers it will be “unfeasible” to create a new immigr
  
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