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• EU door 'remains open', Macron tells May – video

  13-06-2017 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  The French president, Emmanuel Macron, says the door is still open to Britain remaining in the EU at a joint press conference with Theresa May. The comment comes a week before May plans to begin Brexit negotiationsEmmanuel Macron says door to remain in EU is open to BritainContinue reading...
  
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• Macron leaves door open to UK staying in EU

  13-06-2017 22:35
  French president warns May the longer talks go on, the harder a return
  
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• David Cameron calls on Theresa May to embrace ‘softer’ Brexit

  13-06-2017 22:30
  Former PM says his successor should ‘listen to other parties’ over how to leave EU
  
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• Diane Abbott reveals illness and hits out at 'vicious' Tory campaign

  13-06-2017 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour frontbencher reveals that type 2 diabetes forced her to take break and expresses disappointment at Theresa May for ‘negative’ campaignDiane Abbott has accused the Conservative party of unleashing the most vicious and negative general election campaign in her memory, expressing her disappointment that a female prime minister had singled her out as a national target.And in her first interview since stepping aside because of illness at the end of the campaign, the Labour frontben
  
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• EU door remains open until UK departs, Macron tells May – as it happened

  13-06-2017 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Follow all the day’s events in and around Westminster as Labour holds its PLP meeting and the Tories continue shoring up their defencesSign up to the Guardian’s Morning Briefing and start the day one step aheadThe Tory factions May must appeaseCorbyn urged to reappoint existing shadow cabinetSupport our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporter or making a contributionSir John Major’s World at One interview - SummaryAfternoon summary 9.16pm BSTThat’s all from politics l
  
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• Labour Won Much More Than The Under-25 Vote, Says YouGov

  13-06-2017 21:53
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s appeal appears to stretch well beyond the young people credited with fueling Labour’s election surge, a pollster has calculated as it suggests the Tories are only the most popular party among the over-50s.
  YouGov, one of the few pollsters to predict a hung parliament before the vote, has produced a new analysis that indicates age is the “new dividing line” in British politics - with the older a voter the more likely they are to vote Tory.
  But perhaps most
  
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• 'Permanent campaign mode': Jeremy Corbyn lays plans for Labour victory

  13-06-2017 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader to tour Tory marginal seats in preparation for any potential collapse of Theresa May’s minority governmentPolitics live - all the latest developments as they happen
  Jeremy Corbyn has told buoyant Labour MPs that he will visit at least 65 Conservative marginal seats in preparation for the possible collapse of the Tory minority government and urged them to be a “government in waiting”.
  The Labour leader said Theresa May’s premiership had no mandate or legitima
  
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• Norway or no way? Can Efta fix it for Brexit Britain? | Letters

  13-06-2017 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Ian Rutledge on why we’ll probably end up relying on WTO rules; Stefan Wickham on Norway having their fish and eating them; Michael Gold on the Norwegian left’s opposition to the single market; David Beake on Oslo’s view of its ‘Nike deal’; Neil Addison on joining the EEA as a transitional optionIn your Brexit policy editor’s account of the “rapidly emerging consensus” in favour of the “Norway” route to leaving the EU while remaining in
  
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• Brexit may be the will of the people, but it comes at a cost | Letters

  13-06-2017 21:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Is the cost of Brexit worth it, asks Ian Bretman; no one should subvert the EU vote, writes Nick WrightWhile politicians of all parties understandably profess respect for the result of last year’s EU referendum, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the most viable and widely supported option for Brexit is one in which the UK remains in the customs union and has the best possible access to the single market. It is also becoming clear that immigration will continue at close to current l
  
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• Ways forward after a hung parliament | Letters

  13-06-2017 21:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Embrace minority government, says Bernard Porter; reform the electoral system, writes Hugh Legge; restore the cabinet, says Mike CarterLet Theresa May go on formally with her minority government, weak as it is (May: ‘I got us into this mess, I’m going to get us out of it’, 13 June). Domestic legislation should be initiated by any party and then voted on in the Commons, which will represent a return to our tradition of parliamentary democracy. For Brexit: set up a bipartisan com
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn To Tour 60 Tory Marginals As He Keeps Labour On 'General Election Footing'

  13-06-2017 21:01
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is to tour 60 Tory marginal seats as he puts Labour on “permanent campaign mode” in case Theresa May’s government falls.
  The Labour leader won huge cheers and applause as he hailed the party’s progress in winning 30 seats and depriving May of her Parliamentary majority in the June 8 poll.
  Addressing the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Tuesday night in the House of Commons, Corbyn declared that his top team was now “a Government in waiting”.
  
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• Steve Bell on John Major's view of a Tory/DUP deal – cartoon

  13-06-2017 20:59 via theguardian.com
  
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• DUP Deny They're 'Homophobes' After Deluge Of Criticism Of LGBT Rights Stance

  13-06-2017 20:54
  
  The DUP’s leader has insisted her party are not “homophobes” as their track record of opposing LGBT rights comes into the limelight.
  The 10-MP party, largely unknown to the British public outside Northern Ireland, is in talks with the Tories to prop them up after they lost their majority in Theresa May’s snap election.
  The DUP has resisted LGBT rights in Northern Ireland, as well as reforming the province’s draconian abortion laws.
  The party has repeatedly voted dow
  
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• The Guardian view on the Tory government: coalition of chaos | Editorial

  13-06-2017 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  A blistering attack from a former PM, ministerial resignations and moves to soften Brexit all feature in another extraordinary day at WestminsterJohn Major, the former Conservative prime minister, warns in the strongest terms against a deal with the Democratic Unionists, and calls for “facts, not idle hopes” on Brexit. Inflation surges to a four-year high as sterling continues its post-referendum fall. The European commission reveals rule changes likely to hit the City. The shop stew
  
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• The election’s biggest losers? Not the Tories but the media, who missed the story | George Monbiot

  13-06-2017 20:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Trapped in their hall of mirrors the broadcasters and press wrote off Jeremy Corbyn. They have to change and reflect the world they report onThe election was a crushing defeat – but not for either of the major parties. The faction that now retreats in utter disarray wasn’t technically standing, though in the past it has arguably wielded more power than the formal contestants. I’m talking about the media. Related: The Sun and Mail tried to crush Corbyn. But their power over poli
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn says Labour in 'permanent campaign mode'

  13-06-2017 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn says the party must stay disciplined and ready for a new election at any time.
  
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• Recalling Michael Gove is an act of environmental vandalism | Ed Davey

  13-06-2017 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  I used to sit in cabinet meetings with the new environment secretary. He couldn’t help playing to his Tory climate-sceptic audiencePerhaps Theresa May has a sense of mischief after all. Putting Michael Gove in charge of the Department of the Environment is much like putting a wolf in charge of the chicken coop. To say that the Gove pulse is unlikely to race too much faster over environmental concerns would, from my experience of working with him, be an understatement. He probably regards g
  
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• As with everything Brexit, the battle for the City will be messy | Nils Pratley

  13-06-2017 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Brussels has retained a nuclear option: the possible relocation of the £880bn-a-day euro clearing businessIt was billed as the first big Brexit battle for the City of London. Would Brussels launch a raid on London’s lucrative business of clearing €1tn (£880bn) a day of euro-denominated trades, which is what former French president François Hollande wanted when he said “those who seek the end of Europe” needed to be taught “a lesson”? Or would
  
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• Labour 'ready to offer strong and stable leadership' Corbyn tells MPs – video

  13-06-2017 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader jokes with parliament that he looks forward to the Queen’s speech, ‘just as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated’, and goes on to offer ‘strong and stable leadership’. Corbyn was speaking in the House of Commons during the first sitting since the general electionMay strikes conciliatory tone as Corbyn gently mocks her ‘coalition of chaos’Continue reading...
  
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• John Major: Tory-DUP deal risks jeopardising Northern Ireland peace

  13-06-2017 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Former PM warns Theresa May against seeking alliance with unionist party as its leader says negotiations going well • Politics live - all the latest developments as they happenTheresa May has been warned by Sir John Major that striking a deal with the Democratic Unionist party could put the “fragile peace” in Northern Ireland at risk. The former Conservative prime minister said a deal with Arlene Foster’s party could risk alienating armed republicans and loyalists, and cau
  
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• Ukip MEP resigns amid investigation into alleged misuse of funds

  13-06-2017 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Roger Helmer, known for controversial views on climate change, rape and homosexuality, will stand down in JulyRoger Helmer, a key member of Ukip’s top team, is resigning from the European parliament, ahead of a demand to repay around £100,000 of EU money for alleged misuse of public funds.The veteran politician, known for his controversial remarks on climate change, rape and homosexuality, is standing down from the European parliament on 31 July, after an 18-year career as an MEP. Co
  
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• Maybot's reboot stumbles as PM struggles with self-deprecation

  13-06-2017 19:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Seldom can a prime minister have appeared quite so diminished on first day back in parliament after a general electionSic transit gloria mundi. Only a few of the most loyal Tory backbenchers could bring themselves to raise a lacklustre cheer as the Maybot entered the chamber for the re-election of the Speaker, while the father of the house, Ken Clarke, was greeted with full-throated roars from both sides of the house. Seldom can a prime minister have appeared quite so diminished on a first day b
  
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• UK chancellor under pressure to cancel spending cuts

  13-06-2017 18:59
  Concerns over austerity add to Treasury workload as economy slows and Brexit negotiations start
  
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• Polls: How wrong?

  13-06-2017 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Opinion polls were not a good guide to the election result, but were they very wrong?
  
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• Theresa May confirms start date for Brexit talks after pressure from EU

  13-06-2017 18:49 via theguardian.com
  
  After a chaotic few days the Conservatives have said UK team is ready to meet Brussels counterparts on Monday 19 June Brexit talks can now start on Monday after Britain bowed to EU pressure for a formal opening to their long-awaited negotiations rather than first holding “technical discussions” between officials.After a day in which the UK government battled to restore confidence in its crisis-hit Department for Exiting the European Union (DexEU), Theresa May confirmed her team was r
  
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• A Tory-DUP deal is a destructive pact that makes no sense at all | Martin Kettle

  13-06-2017 18:38 via theguardian.com
  
  In the scrabble for a majority, Theresa May seems to have again rushed into an unnecessary response, overlooking the unionists’ cumbersome baggage“I’m the person who got us into this mess,” Theresa May told Tory MPs on Monday, “and I’m the one who will get us out of it.” The prime minister is right about the first half of that statement. But she is wrong about the second half. She has not learned from her humbling at the polls last week. In April, she ru
  
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• Unseated: the Sinn Féin MPs whose absence strengthens May's hand in Commons

  13-06-2017 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Irish republican party says likely DUP deal to prop up Tories in the Commons will not change its stance of not participating at WestminsterPost-election fallout: live updatesSinn Féin remains adamant that its seven newly elected MPs will not take their seats in the House of Commons, despite the sudden shift in political geography that has thrust the Irish republican party’s unionist rivals into the role of kingmakers in Theresa May’s minority Conservative administration.Sinn F
  
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• Labour Party Membership Soars By 35,000 In Just Four Days - After 'Corbyn Surge' In 2017 General Election

  13-06-2017 18:30
  
  Labour’s party membership has soared by more than 35,000 in just four days since Jeremy Corbyn’s “surge” in the general election, HuffPost UK can reveal.
  Party insiders said that the total membership now stands at 552,000, up from 517,000 when last recorded.
  The rise in numbers came after Corbyn gained 30 extra seats in the election on June 8, denying Theresa May her Commons majority.
  Party regions have reported a big leap in membership numbers since last week, with many
  
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• Labour Party Membership Soars By 33,000 In Just Four Days - After 'Corbyn Surge' In 2017 General Election

  13-06-2017 18:30
  
  Labour’s party membership has soared by more than 30,000 in just four days since Jeremy Corbyn’s “surge” in the general election, HuffPost UK can reveal.
  Party insiders said that the total membership now stands at 550,000, up from 517,000 when last recorded.
  The rise in numbers came after Corbyn gained 30 extra seats in the election on June 8, denying Theresa May her Commons majority.
  Party regions have reported a big leap in membership numbers since last week, with many
  
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• Ministers leave UK Brexit department in sign of tension with May

  13-06-2017 18:18
  Ministry in charge of EU departure faces shake-up days before talks start
  
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• Disarray in Britain’s Brexit department as two ministers leave

  13-06-2017 18:18
  Ministry in charge of UK’s departure faces shake-up days before talks start
  
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• Sleepwalking towards a chaotic Brexit

  13-06-2017 18:12
  The likelihood that there will be no deal is now even higher than before the election
  
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• A hung parliament? It’ll be the 1970s again, and people will die | James Graham

  13-06-2017 18:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The last time the ruling party had such a wafer-thin mandate it was a recipe for chaos and extreme stress. My play This House may need a sequelWe’ve been here before, and it wasn’t fun. People died. As a playwright, I may be prone to dramatic exaggeration – but in this instance, I don’t think so. Related: A deal with the DUP will be painful for Theresa May, and put peace at risk | Peter HainContinue reading...
  
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• Corbyn could have been PM with 'progressive' votes – Lewis and Lucas

  13-06-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Joint article says Labour leader could have won landslide victory if party had agreed more pacts with Greens and Lib DemsJeremy Corbyn could have been prime minister with a landslide majority if every “progressive” vote had counted, according to Labour’s former defence spokesman Clive Lewis and the Green party co-leader, Caroline Lucas.In a joint article for the Guardian, Lucas and Lewis, who is tipped for a return to Labour’s frontbench, write of their frustration that s
  
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• Theresa May Has Just Promoted The Man Who Could Have Destroyed Her

  13-06-2017 17:59
  
  He played a vital role in securing Brexit, helping to organise Tory eurosceptics into a lean, mean fighting machine that ultimately led to the downfall of David Cameron.
  And after the dire election result, Steve Baker had another Prime Minister’s fate in his hands.
  As head of the powerful, 80-strong European Research Group, Baker only needed to give the word and a horde of Brexit-backing MPs would have turned on Theresa May and destroyed her premiership.
  May realised this, and has taken t
  
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• Hung Parliament: What's going on

  13-06-2017 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Confused about the current political situation in the UK? Here's a guide to what's going on.
  
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• A true progressive alliance would have made Jeremy Corbyn prime minister | Clive Lewis and Caroline Lucas

  13-06-2017 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  We felt a profound sense of dismay when Tories won by narrow margins. In seat after seat, progressive votes were wasted, because of our broken electoral systemThis was a bittersweet election. We rejoice at the fact the Conservatives have been pegged back and the landslide they presumed was theirs by right has been denied them. We are delighted that an alternative to austerity and nearly 40 years of free-market fundamentalism has secured 40% of the vote. We celebrate the exuberance and scale of t
  
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• City Network: We must have consensus on Brexit

  13-06-2017 17:53
  Leading business figures debate how the government should proceed
  
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• DUP leader Arlene Foster: 'Very good discussions'

  13-06-2017 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Democratic Unionist Party leader says a deal on backing the government could be reached "soon".
  
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• ‘There is no unwinnable seat now’ – how Labour revolutionised its doorstep game

  13-06-2017 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour’s election hopes were transformed by a flood of enthusiastic Momentum recruits. This is the inside story of how young volunteers allied with seasoned activists to unite a fractured partyAt 10am on the final Saturday before the election, on a hot early summer day in New Addington, on the outskirts of Croydon, between 50 and 100 people of all ages and backgrounds were milling around on the grass, slapping on sunblock and Labour stickers and clutching red folders. They slowly assembled
  
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• May strikes conciliatory tone as Corbyn gently mocks her 'coalition of chaos'

  13-06-2017 17:29 via theguardian.com
  
  PM makes brief address to Commons as Jeremy Corbyn says he is ready to offer strong and stable leadership in national interest• Politics live - all the latest developments as they happenTheresa May has marked her return to parliament with a notably more conciliatory approach, telling the new contingent of MPs that parliament should “come together in a spirit of national unity” to tackle issues such as terrorism and Brexit.In a brief address to the Commons following the re-electi
  
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• Theresa May Is Ruthlessly Trolled By Jeremy Corbyn As Parliament Returns

  13-06-2017 17:18
  
  The House of Commons has reconvened for the first time since the election and Theresa May was not given an easy ride.
  While her opponent Jeremy Corbyn was greeted with applause as he arrived to take his seat for the election of the Speaker, the PM’s entrance was more subdued and those on the benches behind her looked decidedly glum.
  Things got worse when she rose to speak following John Bercow’s unopposed re-election to the Chair before the Royal Mace had been replaced - a breach of
  
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• Lessons from the 1970s: how Theresa May can govern with no majority

  13-06-2017 17:12
  Facing the cliffhanger votes of the 1970s, the PM needs cross-party compromise
  
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• Is That...? Tory MP Caught Looking At Unparliamentary Picture In The Commons

  13-06-2017 16:47
  
  MPs staring at their phones and iPads while in the Commons is a typical sight these days, but one has just been caught looking at something rather unparliamentary. 
  In a snap from inside the Chamber posted on Twitter by Tory MP Anna Soubry, a colleague sitting in front of her is looking at a picture that appears to contain lot of flesh. Twitter users were quick to speculate on what the picture showed exactly, but one sharp-eyed Tweeter flagged up that it could well be ‘Showgirls
  
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• PM on Bercow: 'At least someone got a landslide'

  13-06-2017 16:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister manages a one-liner as Commons Speaker John Bercow is re-elected unopposed.
  
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• DUP-Tory Deal Prompts Women's Rights Groups To Send Open Letter To Theresa May

  13-06-2017 16:45
  
  Representatives of a number of women’s groups and medical organisations have written an open letter to Theresa May to urge her not to allow issues such as abortion to be used as a bargaining chip in a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
  Groups including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), The Fawcett Society, Mumsnet, Unite and the Royal College of Midwives have urged the prime minister not to “allow the clock to be turned back on women’s rights” as
  
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• Bercow dragged to Speaker's chair by Grant, Bottomley and McGovern

  13-06-2017 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs cheered as they voted John Bercow back to the office of Speaker of the House of Commons.
  
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• What are the challenges facing the UK after the election?

  13-06-2017 16:19
  Eight key questions dominating British politics after Theresa May’s poll setback
  
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• John Major warns against DUP deal as talks with Tories begin

  13-06-2017 15:53
  May negotiates with Northern Ireland party as former PM says peace process at risk
  
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• John Major warns against DUP deal as Arlene Foster and Theresa May talk

  13-06-2017 15:53
  Former UK prime minister says alliance could affect peace process in Northern Ireland
  
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