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• Michael Gove rises from ashes to join May government

  11-06-2017 23:37
  Post at environment suggests Tory civil war serial offender has been forgiven
  
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• How UK poll could push Brussels to change tactics

  11-06-2017 23:26
  Core Brexit plan seen as adaptable to electoral surprises
  
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• How UK poll could push Brussels to change Brexit tactics

  11-06-2017 23:26
  Core plan to leave EU seen as adaptable to electoral surprises
  
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• Michael Gove's Appointment As Environment Secretary Is Already Causing Alarm

  11-06-2017 22:43
  
  Michael Gove has made a dramatic comeback as Theresa May appointed the MP to the Cabinet in her post-election reshuffle.
  But questions have been raised about his new brief as Environment Secretary as critics pointed to his record on climate change and wildlife. 
  The former Justice Secretary was sacked by May when she became Prime Minister last year, and it seemed his frontline career was over while she remained in Downing Street.
  Yet during May’s increasingly wobbly General Election c
  
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• Jeremy Hunt's Unfortunate Name Is Causing Problems For Reporters Again

  11-06-2017 20:36
  
  The curse of Jeremy Hunt has struck again with two journalists mis-pronouncing his name in the most unfortunate way possible.
  Reporters have been stationed on Downing Street to report on Tory ministers coming and going as Theresa May reshuffles her Cabinet following her election humiliation.
  On the BBC’s rolling news channel, Ellie Price reflected on what might be happening with the Health Secretary ensconced in No 10.
  “We’re waiting to hear from Jeremy C*** ... Hunt and some o
  
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• Theresa May faces party showdown after disastrous election

  11-06-2017 20:34
  UK premier to meet angry MPs as former chancellor brands her ‘dead woman walking’
  
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• Philip Hammond is the politician to salvage a Brexit deal

  11-06-2017 20:11
  The chancellor has the experience and temperament for complicated negotiations
  
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• Any deal with the DUP has serious implications

  11-06-2017 19:35
  The Northern Irish party could bring down the Westminster government at any moment
  
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• UK general election delivers most diverse parliament in history

  11-06-2017 19:26
  Record numbers of female, non-white and LGBT MPs enter Commons
  
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• Police release 22 people arrested after Manchester bombing

  11-06-2017 19:02
  Appeal for public help tracking Salman Abedi’s white Nissan Micra
  
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• Britain’s chance to open serious debate on Brexit

  11-06-2017 18:46
  May’s rigid vision was inimical to the UK’s economic interest
  
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• 19 Politicians Whose Names Can Be Sung To Pop Songs

  11-06-2017 18:26
  
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• 10 Politicians Whose Names Can Be Sung To Pop Songs

  11-06-2017 18:26
  
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• Theresa May names Damian Green as second-in-command at No 10

  11-06-2017 17:25
  Pro-EU university friend will be unofficial deputy prime minister
  
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• Rise of Damian Green raises hopes for softer Brexit

  11-06-2017 17:25
  Theresa May switches to collective approach amid rubble of election
  
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• EU threatens year-long delay in Brexit talks over UK's negotiating stance

  11-06-2017 17:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive Theresa May to be told it would take 12 months to draft new mandate for Michel Barnier if she insists on discussing trade and divorce bill at same timeTheresa May is to be told the EU will take a year to draft a new mandate for its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, effectively killing the Brexit negotiations, if she insists on discussing a future trade relationship at the same time as the UK’s divorce bill.In a sign of growing impatience with the shambolic state of the British si
  
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• Election 2017: Damian Green appointed first secretary of state as May begins cabinet reshuffle – live

  11-06-2017 17:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments, as Theresa May begins naming her new cabinet• Support our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporter or making a contributionLunchtime summary 4.04pm BSTDavid Gauke has been appointed work and pensions secretary. He was chief secretary to the Treasury. This is from Number 10.The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of David Gauke as secretary of state for work and pensions. 3.57pm BSTJustine Greening, the education se
  
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• Conservative Eurosceptics back Theresa May to deliver hard Brexit

  11-06-2017 17:04
  Hammond and Davidson join calls for softer version in reopening of party divide
  
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• Theresa May appoints close ally Damian Green as first secretary of state

  11-06-2017 16:58 via theguardian.com
  
  PM kicks off cabinet reshuffle aimed at shoring up her position, with another ally Greg Clark staying as business secretary• General election 2017 - live updates
  • Support our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporter or making a contributionTheresa May has appointed Damian Green, her close ally and longtime friend, as first secretary of state, as she kicks off a cabinet reshuffle aimed at shoring up her position in Downing Street. Related: Election 2017: Damian Green appointed first
  
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• Cabinet Reshuffle: Theresa May Makes Changes To Her Cabinet

  11-06-2017 16:52
  
  Theresa May has begun a reshuffle of her top team following the loss of her majority in the General Election.
  Long-term ally Damian Green has been appointed Cabinet Office Minister after previous holder Ben Gummer lost his seat last week. 
  Green has been moved from the Department of Work and Pensions, and is also now the first Secretary of State - meaning he deputises for May when she is out of the country.
  While Green has been moved, Greg Clark has been confirmed as Secretary of State for
  
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• Cabinet Reshuffle: Theresa May Demotes Liz Truss As She Makes Changes To Her Top Team

  11-06-2017 16:52
  
  Theresa May has begun a reshuffle of her top team following the loss of her Commons majority in the General Election.
  Liz Truss has been demoted from Justice Secretary to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and although she will still attend Cabinet she no longer has a department to run. 
  David Lidington will take over from Truss as Justice Secretary, having been promoted from Leader of the Commons.
  May’s long-term ally Damian Green has been appointed Cabinet Office Minister after previ
  
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• Cabinet Reshuffle: Michael Gove Makes A Sensational Return To The Cabinet

  11-06-2017 16:52
  
  Michael Gove is back in the Cabinet as Theresa May reshuffles her top team.
  The former Justice Secretary was sacked by May when she became Prime Minister last year, and it seemed his frontline career was over while she remained in Downing Street.
  Yet during May’s increasingly wobbly General Election campaign, Gove was frequently on television defending the Prime Minister, and it seems his actions have been rewarded.
  Gove is now Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary, with fellow Br
  
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• Manchester attack brings Muslim integration into focus

  11-06-2017 16:51
  Community leaders warn of growing divisions in city hit by Islamist bombing
  
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• Theresa May can put together a working government

  11-06-2017 16:41
  The prime minister has to move quickly to reassure colleagues, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• DUP demands soft Brexit in deal talks with Conservatives

  11-06-2017 16:33
  Northern Ireland party eager to minimise impact on province and south of the border
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon and SNP ‘damaged’ by election results in Scotland

  11-06-2017 16:32
  Nationalists lost 21 of the 56 Scottish seats they won in 2015
  
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• So Trump’s too scared to come to the UK. Who says protest doesn’t work? | Hugh Muir

  11-06-2017 16:25 via theguardian.com
  
  If he can’t bomb it or tweet against it, the US president’s cupboard of responses seems bare. So we are denied a spectacle but saved a distractionHow might President Trump react to a world leader who, afraid for his image, perhaps afraid for himself, refused to fulfil a promise to visit a loyal ally. He might fire off a tweet: “RAN from critics. A gift for crooked MSM. TOTAL pathetic loser!”But he won’t because the loser is him. He got to hold hands with Theresa May
  
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• Price of DUP deal likely to be economic aid and no vote on Irish unity

  11-06-2017 16:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory deal with DUP raises concerns in Dublin over Good Friday agreement and absence of ‘nationalist voice at Westminster’
  • General election 2017 - live updatesThe Democratic Unionists’ deal to shore up a minority Conservative government will be sealed this week with the emphasis on an economic aid package for Northern Ireland and an assurance of no referendum on Irish unity. Ten DUP MPs are likely to help Theresa May form a new administration on a “confidence and su
  
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• Can Jeremy Corbyn reunite his party? | Helen Lewis

  11-06-2017 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  He has proved he is a great campaigner, but can he bring unity to Labour and win over dissenters?Two Ks tell the story of Labour’s success in the general election – Kensington and Kirkcaldy. Two years ago, the party lost so badly that many wondered if there was any route back to power for it at all. Its support had retreated to English cities and Wales; it held only a single seat in Scotland and in the south-west of England. To form a government, Labour either needed to overturn the
  
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• 'George Osborne Should Shut Up!' Tory MP Hits Back As The Civil War Rages On

  11-06-2017 15:50
  
  'I would like to remind a few of my colleagues, if you keep rocking the boat then Corbyn will be in Downing Street' says Tory MP pic.twitter.com/R0GN6TdOeU— Sky News (@SkyNews) June 11, 2017
  George Osborne has been told to “shut up” by a Tory veteran after he described Theresa May as a “dead woman walking”.
  The former Chancellor made the comments on The Andrew Marr Show as he warned May would not be Prime Minister for much longer.
  Osborne’s words were echoed
  
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• DUP stance on loyalist paramilitaries called into question

  11-06-2017 15:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Arlene Foster criticised over response to loyalist violence, while voters welcome pact with May to keep out Labour and Sinn FéinDemocratic Unionist party voters out cheering an Orange Order parade as it passed Carrickfergus Castle at the weekend welcomed any electoral pact with Theresa May that would prevent Sinn Féin or Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from obtaining power.The annual re-enactment of King William’s 1690 landing at the County Antrim seaside town on his way to the
  
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• Who's who in the DUP: party members poised to prop up the Tories

  11-06-2017 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  What we know about the Northern Irish party’s 10 MPs and leader who could strike a deal with Theresa May • General election 2017 - live updatesWith a third of its members drawn from the Rev Ian Paisley’s staunchly Protestant Free Presbyterian church, it is perhaps unsurprising that recent research found more than half of the Democratic Unionist party “would mind a lot” if a close relative married someone from a different religion.Related: Election 2017: Theresa May s
  
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• Theresa May's election victory will prove pyrrhic indeed

  11-06-2017 15:25 via theguardian.com
  
  All Labour needs to do is sit back and watch as the Tory party tries to clean up its own mess for a changeWhen Theresa May called the general election at the end of April, the UK economy was struggling, inflation was on the rise and Brexit talks were looming. Seven weeks later, seemingly nothing has really changed.The economy is still struggling. May went to the country when Britain was officially the slowest-growing country in the European Union for the first time since the mid-1990s. It was an
  
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• White House Denies Donald Trump Visit To UK Has Been Put 'On Hold' Over US President's Protest Fears

  11-06-2017 15:19
  
  White House sources have denied claims that Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK has been put ‘on hold’ amid fears of mass street protests.
  The US President had been due to come to Britain at some point in the year following an invitation agreed by the Prime Minister in January.
  But Trump has reportedly told May that he will not make the trip as long as there is the threat of large-scale demonstrations that could disrupt it.
  The Guardian reports that the President informed the
  
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• Donald Trump Visit To UK Put 'On Hold' Amid US President's Protest Fears

  11-06-2017 15:19
  
  Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK has been put ‘on hold’ after he told Theresa May he was worried about mass street protests.
  The US President had been due to come to Britain at some point in the year following an invitation agreed by the Prime Minister in January.
  But Trump has reportedly told May that he will not make the trip as long as there is the threat of large-scale demonstrations that could disrupt it.
  The Guardian reports that the President informed the PM persona
  
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• George Osborne's revenge – like a large G&T – is best served ice cold | John Crace

  11-06-2017 15:08 via theguardian.com
  
  The election couldn’t have turned out any better for the former chancellor, who is enjoying smashing up the Maybot• General election 2017 - live updatesG eorge Osborne picked up the bundle of newspapers on the table in front of him and tossed them into the bin. He might have been asked on to the Andrew Marr Show to take part in a review of the papers, but frankly he couldn’t be bothered. That would be too much like work and George was officially on holiday. And it showed. No one
  
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• Theresa May squatting in No 10, says Emily Thornberry – video

  11-06-2017 14:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The shadow foreign secretary says the prime minister is squatting in Downing Street. Speaking on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Thornberry went on to express her concern about the government’s role in the Good Friday agreement given its new relationship with the DUP‘We cannot continue like this’ – Corbyn predicts another election this year – liveContinue reading...
  
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• Donald Trump's state visit to Britain put on hold

  11-06-2017 14:27 via theguardian.com
  
  US president told Theresa May he did not want trip to go ahead if there were large-scale public protestsDonald Trump has told Theresa May in a phone call he does not want to go ahead with a state visit to Britain until the British public supports him coming. The US president said he did not want to come if there were large-scale protests and his remarks in effect put the visit on hold for some time. Continue reading...
  
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• Osborne says Theresa May is a 'dead woman walking'

  11-06-2017 14:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Former chancellor blames election debacle on prime minister’s failure to communicate and a disastrous manifesto• General election 2017 - live updatesGeorge Osborne has called Theresa May “a dead woman walking” and suggested the prime minister would be forced to resign imminently.The former chancellor said he did not expect to back the prime minister for much longer. “I think we will know very shortly. We could easily get to the middle of next week and it all collapse
  
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• Hero’s welcome awaits Jeremy Corbyn at Durham Miners’ Gala

  11-06-2017 14:19
  Labour leader will be star attraction at annual display of working-class solidarity
  
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• Labour Won't Try To Keep The UK In The Single Market, Confirms Jeremy Corbyn

  11-06-2017 14:11
  
  Jeremy Corbyn says he wants a "jobs first" #Brexit and "tariff-free access" to the EU markethttps://t.co/YtRxj7c5C9 #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/rP8vPxmHUh— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 11, 2017
  Labour today confirmed it would support the UK leaving the Single Market amid questions over the future of Brexit. 
  The loss of Theresa May’s majority in Thursday’s election is deemed to have threatened the chances of a ‘hard Brexit’ – which would see the UK outside
  
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• New faces

  11-06-2017 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record number of women, LGBT and ethnic minority MPs are elected.
  
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• Election results 2017: The most diverse Parliament yet

  11-06-2017 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record number of women, LGBT and ethnic minority MPs are elected.
  
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• I had to quit my top job at Ukip – it’s just bland and anti-Muslim | Jonathan Arnott

  11-06-2017 13:40 via theguardian.com
  
  I’ve watched in disappointment bordering on despair as Ukip has ceased to be a radical alternative to the political establishmentMany people lazily define politics according to left and right, whether that’s to do with economics or authoritarianism. But over recent years, another axis has emerged – populism versus establishment. Right-populist parties have sprung up (eg in Sweden and the Netherlands), as have left-populist ones (eg in Portugal and Greece) and even centre-populi
  
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• Five steps for Theresa May’s salvation

  11-06-2017 13:39
  Voters have had enough of being bit-players in the Tories’ psycho drama on Europe
  
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• 'Confidence and supply': what does it mean and how will it work for the new government?

  11-06-2017 13:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Theresa May’s deal with the DUP will fall far short of a full-blown coalition, and is only a step away from minority government• General election 2017 - live updatesThe “confidence and supply” deal that Theresa May is trying to strike with the Democratic Unionist party is one of the most hand to mouth arrangements a minority government can use to keep it in power.This is not going to be a repeat of the David Cameron/Nick Clegg 2010 “rose garden” coalition. A &l
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour will call on other parties to defeat government

  11-06-2017 13:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader will press for amendments to Queen’s speech and says great repeal bill on transition from EU laws is ‘now history’• General election 2017 - live updates• Support our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporter or making a contributionJeremy Corbyn has said Labour will invite parties to defeat the government and vote for Labour’s manifesto in a “substantial amendment” to the Queen’s speech, as well as suggesting the party would als
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: 'I can still be prime minister'

  11-06-2017 13:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader says he will thwart the Tory minority government and is ready for another election.
  
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• Paul Nuttall 'hadn't read Ukip manifesto before TV debate'

  11-06-2017 12:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Former leader was not shown ‘bland, insipid’ manifesto in full before ITV debate, says outgoing general secretary• General election 2017 - live updatesFormer Ukip leader Paul Nuttall appeared on ITV’s flagship election debate without reading his party’s manifesto, Ukip’s general secretary has disclosed.Jonathan Arnott, the party’s constitutional affairs spokesman, said the “bland, insipid” policy plan was drawn up by Nuttall’s advisers b
  
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• Theresa May is ‘dead woman walking’, says George Osborne

  11-06-2017 12:26
  Former chancellor raises speculation that UK prime minister’s position is untenable
  
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