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• Brexit: Tory MP Leadsom says broadcasters should be patriotic

  23-06-2017 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Coverage of Brexit could be more "helpful", Tory MP Andrea Leadsom tells Newsnight's Emily Maitlis.
  
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• BBC Newsnight: Andrea Leadsom Suggests Emily Maitlis' Brexit Questions Aren't 'Patriotic'

  23-06-2017 22:53
  
  “It would be helpful if broadcasters were willing to be a bit patriotic” - @andrealeadsom tells @maitlis after being questioned on Brexit pic.twitter.com/8GjtxbVUF4— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) June 23, 2017
  Andrea Leadsom has suggested journalists should be “patriotic” rather than question Brexit negotiations, in an extraordinary BBC Newsnight exchange that left the interviewer fuming.
  The leading Brexiter and former candidate for prime minister, whom Theresa Ma
  
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• Can Brexit be stopped? The answer is in our hands | Jonathan Freedland

  23-06-2017 20:30
  
  One year on, the certainties of the leave case are collapsing. We’re no longer shackled to that verdictOne year on, the political weather has changed and suddenly a once unthinkable question can be asked: might Brexit be stopped?The obvious shift is in the power of a government whose animating mission was meant to be British departure from the European Union. Put simply, Theresa May sought a mandate for hard Brexit and didn’t get it. That leaves the forces of leave weakened, and rema
  
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• Martin Rowson on the anniversary of the vote for Brexit – cartoon

  23-06-2017 20:28
  
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• Police eye manslaughter charges over Grenfell Tower fire

  23-06-2017 20:26
  Detectives reveal that tower block’s cladding and insulation failed safety tests
  
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• Fears for residents as cladding on 14 tower blocks fails fire tests

  23-06-2017 20:26
  
  Camden, Manchester and Plymouth among nine local authorities where buildings failed safety tests after Grenfell Tower blazeCladding panels from 14 tower blocks in nine local authorities have failed urgent fire safety tests being carried out after the Grenfell Tower blaze, raising concerns for the safety of thousands of residents.Councils announced plans to rip down cladding on buildings in Salford, Portsmouth and two London boroughs, Islington and Hounslow, as a precautionary measure. The emerge
  
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• Brexiter Gisela Stuart Condemns 'Vacuous' EU Referendum And David Cameron For Calling It

  23-06-2017 20:05
  
  A leading Brexiter has attacked David Cameron’s decision to call last year’s “vacuous” EU referendum.
  Labour’s Gisela Stuart, who was in a minority of the party’s MPs who backed Leave, said the vote last year was “not good democracy” because no one in Government had been ready to implement a vote to leave and the groups that campaigned for it were immediately disbanded.
  When asked whether she would have preferred Cameron had not called the ref
  
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• The Guardian view on Brexit: Wrong then, wrong now, wrong in the future | Editorial

  23-06-2017 19:55
  
  Twelve months after the EU referendum, Theresa May’s latest Brussels trip reveals that the EU is leaving Britain behind, not the other way roundIn one of the several low points of her stunningly inept general election campaign, Theresa May warned that Jeremy Corbyn would be “alone and naked” in the Brexit negotiating chamber. This week, though, it is Mrs May herself who has been revealed as Brexit’s empress with no clothes. Everything about her performance in Brussels ove
  
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• The Guardian view on al-Jazeera: muzzling journalism | Editorial

  23-06-2017 19:55
  
  In the Arab world, freedom of speech is being curbed to stop old and new media from raising questions about the way in which countries are run. This is wrongIn the conservative autocracies of the middle east, Qatar, a wealthy gas-rich emirate, has built up a reputation as a maverick, epitomised by its ownership of the al-Jazeera satellite television channel, which has often infuriated many Arab leaders. Since the TV station gave voice to the Arab spring, many autocrats no doubt wished it would b
  
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• Labour did well and can do even better | Letters

  23-06-2017 19:55
  
  The Labour party is at its best when it knows electoral victory and progressive legislation are within reach, says David WinnickMartin Kettle’s piece on the electoral support Labour has yet to win (Corbyn’s Labour has done well. To win power it needs to do far better, 23 June) follows the Ipsos-Mori analysis on how the country voted. There is no doubt Jeremy Corbyn energised a large number of voters, and not only the young, to support Labour and helped to destroy the Tory Commons maj
  
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• Labour MPs will back Nicky Morgan for Treasury select committee chair

  23-06-2017 19:48
  
  Remainer is thought to be favourite of MPs wanting to block prominent Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg from role during EU talksLabour MPs are set to back former cabinet minister Nicky Morgan for chair of the influential Treasury select committee, hoping to stop prominent Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg in his bid for the post.The committee’s former chair, Andrew Tyrie, who gave up his role when he stood down as an MP before the election, was known for his interrogation skills, especially his take-no-pri
  
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• Barclays reels from its costly Qatar cash call

  23-06-2017 19:33
  Side deals struck with the gas-rich state in 2008 have put the bank and four former executives on trial
  
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• 'Would I still vote Leave?'

  23-06-2017 19:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A year on from the EU Referendum one Leave supporter reflects on the historic vote
  
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• Northern Ireland’s women deserve equality. That’s why I’m challenging abortion law | Stella Creasy

  23-06-2017 18:51
  
  This week the supreme court upheld a ruling that means Northern Ireland’s women have to pay for terminations in England and WalesThe fight for equality isn’t just about what is attacked. It is also about what is ignored. As the Conservatives continue to struggle to strike a deal with the DUP to stay in power, MPs now ask if continuing to deny the rights of Northern Irish women to equal treatment is a price Britain should be willing to pay. Related: We are the invisible victims of the
  
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• Headliner David Miliband fails to turn Ed's show into radio gold | John Crace

  23-06-2017 18:44
  
  Miliband brothers’ long-distance reunion goes from Eve of Destruction to nuclear apocalypse – but otherwise escapes conflict Toilets and death metal had only been the warm-up acts during Ed Miliband’s week standing in for Jeremy Vine on Radio 2. Now for the headliner: the reunion with his brother, David. Even if it was a reunion at 3,000 miles. No need after all for the horse’s head that Ed had brought into the studio specially that morning.“In a moment I’m go
  
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• Boris Johnson for PM? David ‘bra size’ Davis? Or the Fox? Place your bets | Marina Hyde

  23-06-2017 18:43
  
  Is Britain trapped in a never-ending Conservative leadership race, or could it all turn out to be a bad dream?There is some dispute as to who first described the male libido as like being chained to a madman. Certainly, Kingsley Amis described the eventual loss of his as a relief: “For 50 years, it was like being chained to an idiot.” For Britain, no such unshackling is at hand. Barring the Blairite interregnum, Britain has been chained to the insatiable Eurosceptics of the Cons
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Teen workers should get £10 an hour

  23-06-2017 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leader suggests Labour's £10-an-hour living wage pledge should extend to 16-year-olds.
  
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• Brexit talks 'will not consume EU', Angela Merkel warns Britain

  23-06-2017 17:57
  
  EU leaders dismiss Theresa May’s offer on citizens’ rights as inadequate while summit seeks to focus on terrorism and defenceThe German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has warned Theresa May that the EU will not allow itself to be consumed by the Brexit negotiations, as the British prime minister’s offer on citizens’ rights was dismissed by Europe’s leaders as vague and inadequate.Emerging from a two-day summit in Brussels, where the issues discussed ranged from tackling
  
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• Can May's minority government last? Politics Weekly podcast

  23-06-2017 17:21
  
  Jessica Elgot is joined by Anne Perkins, Dawn Foster and Rafael Behr to discuss Theresa May’s modest legislative agenda and the government’s faltering response to the Grenfell Tower disaster. We also hear from a cross-party selection of new MPs on their first week in parliamentIt is a year since Britain voted to leave the EU and, after a turbulent 12 months in politics, Theresa May has been in Brussels to offer a new deal on European citizens’ rights as one of the first moves i
  
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• Ed Miliband Interviews Brother David On Radio Two In First Public Conversation Since 2010

  23-06-2017 17:20
  
  The Miliband brothers have had a frosty relationship since Ed unexpectedly seized the Labour leadership in 2010, denying David the chance to realise pundits’ claims he was a prime minister in waiting.  
  On Friday, they were not speaking.
  But this time the breakdown in communication had nothing to do with old grudges.
  The pair’s London-to-New York phone connection broke up during a live BBC Radio 2 phone interview.
  The symbolism was not lost on people.In a moment of wonderful iro
  
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• Brexit: EU leaders says UK offer could 'worsen situation'

  23-06-2017 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Tusk says offer to EU nationals could "worsen the situation" as Theresa May defends her plan.
  
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• Love the idea of a universal basic income? Be careful what you wish for | Ellie Mae O’Hagan

  23-06-2017 16:36
  
  Yes, UBI could be an important part of a radical agenda. But beware: its proponents include neoliberals hostile to the very idea of the welfare stateFor some time now, the radical left has been dipping its toes in the waters of universal basic income (or unconditional basic income, depending on who you talk to). The idea is exactly as it sounds: the government would give every citizen – working or not – a fixed sum of money every week or month, with no strings attached. As time goes
  
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• Ed Miliband interviews brother David as guest presenter on Radio 2

  23-06-2017 16:31
  
  Brothers discuss refugee crisis and their own family history but not their relationship or LabourEd Miliband has conducted a reflective interview with his brother, David, at the end of a week-long stint guest-presenting the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. In their first joint public outing since Ed unexpectedly beat David to the Labour leadership in 2010, the brothers talked about the refugee crisis and their family history of persecution but stopped short of discussing Labour or their relation
  
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• Donald Tusk says May's offer on EU citizens is 'below our expectations' - as it happened

  23-06-2017 16:26
  
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenPolice reveal Grenfell insulation and tiles failed safety testsTheresa May makes ‘fair and serious’ offer on rights of EU citizensConservative party call centre ‘may have broken election law’How do you feel about the Brexit vote, one year on?3.26pm BSTThat’s your lot today. Here’s a summary: 3.15pm BSTOne year on from Britain’s vote to leave the EU, the anniversary of the referendum
  
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• Ed and David Miliband talk together publicly for first time in 7 years

  23-06-2017 16:21
  Former Labour leader interviews the Labour-leader-who-never-was for radio
  
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• Lessons from Burke on the origins of our present discontent

  23-06-2017 16:15
  We must be ready to combat the myths and delusions of revolutionary populism
  
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• As the Brexit vote turns one, leaving has never been more uncertain | Dan Roberts

  23-06-2017 16:07
  
  A year after the UK voted to leave the EU, the way forward is murky and the path to Brexit could turn into slippery slope to no exitOne year on from Britain’s vote to leave the EU, the anniversary of the referendum was overshadowed by fresh outbreaks of doubt.In Brussels, Theresa May’s farewell offer on EU citizenship was met with a shrug from commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and a chorus of voices urging Britain to stay. In Westminster, her own chancellor, Philip Hammond, is
  
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• Theresa May Looks Exhausted As She Leaves EU Summit In Brussels

  23-06-2017 16:06
  
  Theresa May looked exhausted as she emerged from the EU Summit in Brussels on Thursday evening.
  Video footage shows the PM trudging to her car alongside staff, after confirming none of the three million EU citizens living in the UK would be made to leave after Brexit.
  She reiterated the pledge at a press conference on Friday and said she also wants the same assurances for UK citizens living in Europe - of which there are about a million.  
  She said her ‘fair and serious offer’ -
  
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• The EU’s Brexit message: Europe is back

  23-06-2017 16:04
  But despite the show of unity, differences remain, writes Gideon Rachman
  
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• May hints that The Hague could guarantee EU citizens' rights

  23-06-2017 16:02
  
  PM appears to suggest using international court of justice, not the ECJ, as the arbiter for those in the UK after Brexit Theresa May has hinted at a compromise over the vexed issue of EU citizens’ future rights in the UK, suggesting they could be guaranteed in the international court of justice in The Hague.The UK will publish the full details of what May has called a “fair and serious offer” to EU citizens on Monday, following the EU’s own opening offer on the subject in
  
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• EU referendum result: Matthew Elliott from Vote Leave

  23-06-2017 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Matthew Elliott from the Vote Leave campaign looks at the way forward for a post-Brexit UK.
  
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• EU referendum Result: Lucy Thomas from Britain Stronger in Europe

  23-06-2017 15:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lucy Thomas from the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign looks at the way forward for a post-Brexit UK.
  
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• EU chief's one-word response to May's plan

  23-06-2017 15:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker isn't sure what the UK wants.
  
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• Police consider manslaughter charges over Grenfell

  23-06-2017 15:39
  Detectives reveal tower block’s cladding and insulation failed safety tests
  
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• Will the British change their minds on Brexit?

  23-06-2017 15:24
  The idea of reversing decision to leave the EU has not gained traction in the UK
  
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• Grenfell wasn’t an isolated tragedy. Poverty destroys many lives in Britain | Kamran Ahmed

  23-06-2017 15:24
  
  Working as a junior psychiatrist, I saw first-hand how policies that fail to protect the disadvantaged lead to ill-health, stress and reduced life expectancyA tragedy as gut-wrenching as Grenfell Tower has scarcely been seen during peace time in the UK. The negligence and cruelty of the decisions that caused it have sparked justifiable outrage. Concerns raised by residents were ignored and there are allegations that dangerous materials were used to cut costs and make the building look nice for t
  
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• Britain defeated in UN vote on Chagos Islands

  23-06-2017 14:55
  Case sent to International Court of Justice after 22 of 27 EU members withhold support
  
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• Regret, frustration, determination: how voters feel one year on from the Brexit referendum | Guardian readers and Carmen Fishwick

  23-06-2017 14:49
  
  It’s been a year since the UK referendum to leave or remain in the EU. We asked voters to tell us how they feel and what impact it’s had on their livesIt’s been almost a year since Britain voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. Since the vote, David Cameron has resigned, Theresa May became prime minister, article 50 was triggered, and the Conservatives lost their majority after calling a snap election earlier this month. EU leaders have described the UK’s opening Brexit off
  
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• With generation rent voting, could housing be a political game-changer? | Poppy Noor

  23-06-2017 14:46
  
  At the mercy of largely unregulated private landlords, young people are unable to save for their future. No wonder they are backing LabourThere has been much interest in young people in the aftermath of the election. Reporters have focused on a youth surge that may be the reason May lost her majority, with increased numbers of young voters turning out who seem to have largely opted for the Labour party.But could it be that this trend is in fact an indicator of the same old class politics? A YouG
  
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• Grenfell Tower: Fire started in Hotpoint fridge freezer, say police

  23-06-2017 14:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say outside cladding and insulation failed safety tests and they will consider manslaughter charges.
  
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• Week in review: Grenfell has shone a light on the failings of state support

  23-06-2017 13:58
  
  The government is having to protect survivors of Grenfell from its own policies
  
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• Brexit: May 'blocked unilateral offer for EU citizens' rights' last June

  23-06-2017 13:56
  
  Claim that then home secretary was sole cabinet minister to block move published in editorial in Evening Standard, edited by former chancellor George Osborne Theresa May was the sole cabinet minister to block a unilateral offer to EU citizens that they could remain in Britain in the days following the referendum, according to an editorial in the London Evening Standard.The paper, edited by former chancellor George Osborne, reports that David Cameron had prepared an offer to give EU citizens cert
  
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• Sturgeon: 'Devil in the detail' of EU citizens deal

  23-06-2017 13:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says "the devil is in the detail" of Theresa May's offer to EU citizens over Brexit.
  
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• May's Brexit offer

  23-06-2017 13:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May has unveiled her offer to EU citizens resident in the UK after Brexit - what does it say?
  
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• Woody Johnson: Trump picks NFL tycoon as UK ambassador

  23-06-2017 13:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The scion of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical giant has known the president-elect for years.
  
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• Majority of new Conservative MPs backed UK to remain in EU

  23-06-2017 13:29
  Party still leaning towards EU, suggesting flexibility over Brexit
  
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• Trump names Woody Johnson as UK ambassador

  23-06-2017 12:48
  Billionaire owner of New York Jets football team is veteran Republican donor
  
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• EU expats condemn Theresa May's 'pathetic' offer on Brexit rights

  23-06-2017 12:27
  
  Groups representing EU citizens in UK and Britons abroad unimpressed by prime minister’s Brussels proposalRepresentatives of EU citizens in Britain have branded Theresa May’s offer to guarantee their rights to remain in the country after Brexit pathetic and anything but “fair and serious”.A group representing Britons in Europe as well as EU citizens in the UK will meet officials in the Department for Exiting the European Union on Friday morning to tell them of their anger
  
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• McDonnell has shown his double standards by attending a Cuba Solidarity Campaign event

  23-06-2017 12:04
  
  John McDonnell should support Cuba's democratic left, not the dictatorship
  
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• Labour MP Laura Pidcock 'Would Love A Council House' But Says There Are None

  23-06-2017 11:48
  
  A generation of young people feel like “failures” as they can’t realise the “impossible dream” of buying their own home, a new MP has said. 
  Labour’s Laura Pidcock said affording the deposit for her first home is “out of reach”, even on her £76,000 MP salary, due to debt from university. 
  The North West Durham MP, who rents a property in the private sector, said she “would love a council house” but “there aren
  
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