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• Lib Dems seek end to pay cap for emergency services

  25-06-2017 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Lib Dem leader says public workers deserve more after their efforts during recent crises.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Tells Michael Eavis He'll Be Prime Minister 'In Six Months'

  25-06-2017 22:20
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has signalled he would scrap the UK’s nuclear weapon as soon as possible and thinks he’ll be Prime Minister by Christmas - at least that’s what Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis said the Labour leader told him.
  The festival legend let slip details of his conversation with the Islington North MP after his rapturously received appearance on Saturday.
  Corbyn’s comments on taking residency in Number 10 reflect his new-found post-election confidence, an
  
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• Sixty Tower Blocks Fail Fire Cladding Safety Tests After Grenfell Blaze

  25-06-2017 18:53
  
  Sixty high-rise buildings in 25 local authority areas have failed fire cladding safety tests, the Government has said.
  The announcement by the Department for Communities and Local Government also revealed that failure rate remains 100%. Downing Street announced last week 600 buildings were to be checked.  60 buildings across 25 local authority areas, listed below, have now failed a combustibility test. Failure rate is still, shockingly, 100% pic.twitter.com/XBwaTTVsZ7— Joel Taylor (@
  
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• Brexit: David Davis 'pretty sure' of free trade deal

  25-06-2017 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Brexit secretary also backs Theresa May and agrees a leadership contest would be "catastrophic".
  
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• John McDonnell Says Grenfell Tower Victims Were 'Murdered By Political Decisions' Over Decades

  25-06-2017 18:18
  
  The victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster were “murdered by political decisions” made by politicians over decades, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has warned.
  Speaking at an event at Glastonbury Festival, the Hayes and Harlington MP criticised the failure to build houses and cuts to the fire service that “contributed to those deaths”.
  The Grenfell Tower disaster took the lives of 79 people, with flammable cladding widely blamed for helping to fuel the bl
  
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• Parliament cyber-attack 'hit up to 90 users'

  25-06-2017 18:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fewer than 1% of 9,000 parliamentary accounts were affected, says the House of Commons.
  
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• May urged to timetable Heathrow’s third runway

  25-06-2017 17:51
  Peer says a decision is needed to show Britain is ‘still open for business’
  
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• Battersea developers cut their affordable housing commitment

  25-06-2017 16:04
  Local council agrees to 250 fewer affordable homes on the site leaving total at 386
  
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• Welby: Cross-party approach would 'draw poison' from Brexit

  25-06-2017 16:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Justin Welby calls for a cross-party commission to help negotiate Britain's exit from the EU.
  
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• Anti-Brexit MPs rally across parties to push for ‘soft’ option

  25-06-2017 15:26
  Talks are taking place in parliament’s tea rooms, corridors and bars between Remainers
  
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• Sunday Show Round Up: Tory Grandees Turn On 'Calamitous' Theresa May

  25-06-2017 15:22
  
  The Andrew Marr Show
  Labour’s ‘benefit freeze’ policy was as clear as mud during the election campaign, and Marr tried to get to the bottom of it again this morning.
  Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Debbie Abrahams was again unclear if the policy - set to run until 2020 - would definitely be axed should a Labour find itself in office before then.Would Labour end benefits freeze? @Debbie_abrahams says it is not costed but they are "looking" at it #marr pic.twitter.com/4K1exQAQ
  
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• Gordon Wilson

  25-06-2017 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The douce, precise lawyer - who nevertheless sustained fire in his belly for independence.
  
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• Former SNP leader Gordon Wilson dies

  25-06-2017 14:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  His successor Nicola Sturgeon describes the former Dundee MP as a "passionate advocate for Scotland".
  
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• Labour 'would look to' end household benefit cap

  25-06-2017 13:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A shadow minister says any future Labour government would uphold a court ruling against the cap.
  
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• David Davis urges Tory MPs to end leadership plotting

  25-06-2017 13:46
  Brexit secretary concedes that Theresa May is ‘under a lot of pressure’
  
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• 'Admit It, It Was A Mistake!" Peston Loses His Cool In Bizarre Interview With Priti Patel

  25-06-2017 13:20
  
  ITV’s Political Editor Robert Peston was left dumbfounded today as Tory Cabinet Minister Priti Patel repeatedly answered questions about the General Election by talking about the EU referendum.
  In an interview on Peston on Sunday, the International Development Secretary refused to accept that Theresa May’s decision to call the recent election was a mistake, as “we are now in a position where we are leaving the European Union.” 
  The decision to leave the EU was taken
  
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• Hackers attack UK parliament’s email system

  25-06-2017 13:00
  Fears over blackmail surface as 10,000 Westminster accounts locked down
  
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• Hackers attack parliament’s email system

  25-06-2017 13:00
  Fears over blackmail surface as 10,000 Westminster accounts locked down
  
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• David Davis Admits He's Not Sure The UK Will Get A Brexit Deal

  25-06-2017 12:28
  
  David Davis is “not 100% sure” the UK will get a free trade deal with the EU after Brexit, he admitted today.
  The Brexit Secretary, who kicked off negotiations with Brussels on Monday about the terms of the UK leaving the EU, rowed back from previous claims that the UK was “guaranteed to get a deal” once it leaves the bloc.
  He instead suggested the EU could offer a deal which does not give the UK a customs deal similar to the current arrangement - which could place huge
  
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• Brexit: What David Davis thinks of his EU counterpart

  25-06-2017 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What David Davis thinks about the EU's chief Brexit negotiator.
  
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• ‘Back soft Brexit,’ unions urge Labour

  25-06-2017 09:25
  
  50 senior party figures tell party leader Jeremy Corbyn ‘to fight unambiguously for membership of the single market’Jeremy Corbyn was under pressure from across the labour movement last night to support a softer form of Brexit as the TUC joined senior party figures in calling for Britain to retain the option of staying in the single market.The unions’ intervention followed a call from Hilary Benn, the Labour chair of the Brexit select committee, who wants the party leadership t
  
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• Free trade deals for 'poorest countries' to be maintained post-Brexit

  25-06-2017 02:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government commits to maintaining duty-free imports for 48 developing countries.
  
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• Theresa May begins Britain's withdrawal from the EU – cartoon

  25-06-2017 01:05
  
  Chris Riddell on the start of Brexit negotiations, one year on from the referendum Continue reading...
  
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