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• Top Tories in revolt against May over public spending

  01-07-2017 23:07
  
  Jeremy Hunt and Justine Greening tell PM it is time to ease austerity as poll shows party leader’s popularity plummetingTheresa May is facing a chorus of Tory demands for a radical overhaul of state funding for public services as cabinet ministers and senior Conservative MPs back higher pay for millions of NHS workers, more cash for schools and a “national debate” on student debt.The prime minister’s waning authority was highlighted as her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, a
  
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• Brexit minister linked to group that used loophole to channel £435,000 to DUP

  01-07-2017 22:12
  
  Conservative rightwinger Steve Baker under pressure over relationship with controversial Constitutional Research CouncilThe new minister for securing the UK’s departure from the EU is under pressure to clarify his relationship with the obscure organisation behind a controversial £435,000 donation to the Democratic Unionist Party during last year’s Brexit referendum.Steve Baker, a leading light on the Tory right, has also received £6,500 from the Constitutional Research Co
  
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• Poll finds that 60% of Britons want to keep their EU citizenship

  01-07-2017 22:10
  
  Cultural and business leaders join campaign to keep rights to live and work in EuropeSix out of 10 Britons want to keep their European Union citizenship after Brexit – including the rights to live, work, study and travel in the EU – and many would be prepared to pay large sums to do so, according to research led by the London School of Economics.Support for retaining the rights is particularly strong among 18- to 24-year-olds, 85% of whom want to retain their EU citizenship in additi
  
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• Northern Irish power-sharing agreement faces delays, warn Sinn Féin

  01-07-2017 21:22
  
  DUP show ‘no urgency’ to reach agreement, Gerry Adams tells Belfast crowd as parties disagree on Culture Act provisionsGerry Adams has warned that an agreement designed to bring back power-sharing, cross-community government in Northern Ireland is unlikely to happen by Monday.The Sinn Féin president said the Democratic Unionists were showing “no urgency” about dealing with the issues that led to the collapse of the last devolved regional government in Belfast at th
  
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• Northern Powerhouse regains post-election ‘momentum’

  01-07-2017 19:31
  Jim O’Neill optimistic over project’s future after PM’s previous indifference
  
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• Britain’s public services need reform and fiscal discipline

  01-07-2017 19:01
  Borrowing a little more will not radically improve the public sector
  
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• Corbyn tells anti-austerity demo he's 'determined to force new election'

  01-07-2017 18:44
  
  Labour leader addressing thousands at Parliament Square slammed what he called the Tories’ ‘hypocrisy’ for voting against lifting public sector pay capJeremy Corbyn said he was determined to force another election at an anti-austerity protest attended by thousands of people in central London.After marching through Oxford Circus and Regents Street, the crowd gathered in a packed Parliament Square to hear the Labour leader and other politicians and union leaders speak.Continue re
  
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• Northern Ireland's gay marriage ban is un-Christian, says minister

  01-07-2017 17:23
  
  Canon Charles Kenny tells Belfast rally that opposition to marriage equality is like old hostility to Protestants marrying CatholicsNorthern Ireland’s ban on gay marriage is as unjust and un-Christian as the historical sectarian taboo over Catholics and Protestants marrying, an Anglican minister has told an equality rally in Belfast attended by thousands.Canon Charles Kenny, who has been a Church of Ireland priest for almost 50 years, compared the opposition to same-sex marriage in the reg
  
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• Damian Green admits Tories may need to review tuition fees

  01-07-2017 16:49
  
  Theresa May’s top aide says student debt is ‘huge issue’ in speech urging Tories to modernise to win over Labour votersBritain may need to have a national debate on university tuition fees, Theresa May’s most senior minister has said after urging the Tories to modernise to win over young metropolitan voters who backed Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. Damian Green said the current system, with fees capped at £9,250 a year, allows UK universities to deliver high quality
  
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• Thousands march on Parliament in anti-government protest

  01-07-2017 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The organisers say they're marching for decent public services, jobs, housing and living standards.
  
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• Ousted Tory MP Ben Gummer's Ipswich office up for sale

  01-07-2017 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The author of the Conservative manifesto lost his seat of seven years by fewer than 1,000 votes.
  
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• Government to keep ‘close eye’ on Kensington and Chelsea

  01-07-2017 15:01
  Sajid Javid resists pressure to appoint commissioners after council leader resigns
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: Government to 'keep eye' on council

  01-07-2017 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sajid Javid says the process to select a new council leader "will be independent of government".
  
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• Theresa May urges DUP and Sinn Féin leaders to reach a deal

  01-07-2017 13:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May speaks to DUP's Arlene Foster and Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill in separate phone calls.
  
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• Ruth Davidson mystifies Twitter with Gillian Anderson stocking post

  01-07-2017 13:44
  
  Scottish Tory leader signs off on holiday with picture of X-Files star in stockings and stilettos, prompting a mixed responseThe Scottish Conservatives leader, Ruth Davidson, has raised eyebrows by posting a picture of the actor Gillian Anderson in lingerie on social media.Davidson, 38, posted the image of the X-Files star on Twitter before going on holiday for two weeks: Continue reading...
  
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• For Jeremy Corbyn's Right-Hand Man Ian Lavery, Control Of The Labour Party Is Just The Beginning

  01-07-2017 12:31
  
  His booming stump speeches, delivered in a broad Geordie accent, placed Ian Lavery firmly in the hearts and minds of Jeremy Corbyn loyalists on the campaign trail.
  Now the newly-crowned party chair, who represents Labour’s most northerly English seat, is the leader’s right-hand man in power and entrusted with forcing through reforms bitterly opposed by many of his colleagues.
  In a revealing interview with HuffPost UK, the former miner today opens up about an extraordinary election ca
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: government urged to take control of council

  01-07-2017 11:28
  
  Labour calls for commissioners to step in after Tory council leader steps down over severe criticism of handling of disasterThe government is facing calls to formally take control of Kensington and Chelsea council after its Tory leader said he and his deputy would step down amid criticism over the local authority’s response to the Grenfell Tower disaster.London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, was backed by shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne on Saturday in calling for commissioners to be
  
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• Vince Cable: Lib Dems should emulate tactics of Emmanuel Macron

  01-07-2017 09:00
  
  Former business secretary says anti-Brexit message did not resonate with voters and party needs to offer ‘hope and inspiration’Vince Cable, the only declared contender for the Liberal Democrat leadership, says his party should try to mimic the success of Emmanuel Macron in the French presidential race and offer “hope and inspiration”, after its anti-Brexit message failed to cut through at the general election.The 74-year-old former business secretary, who began his politi
  
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• Senior cross-party MPs consider holding vote on Murdoch's Sky takeover bid

  01-07-2017 09:00
  
  Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox hopes to complete takeover of Sky, but there are fears it will leave family with too much power over news agendaA group of senior cross-party MPs are exploring ways of holding a parliamentary vote on whether Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox should be allowed to pursue the takeover of Sky. Sir Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat leadership candidate, confirmed that there had been informal talks. “There is some thinking on it and I am up for it,&r
  
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• To make Brexit work, Britain needs to show Europe it cares | John Bruton

  01-07-2017 07:00
  
  The EU has bent over backwards for Britain during its membership. Now, during negotiations to leave, it is Britain’s responsibility to return the favour
  • John Bruton served as taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland from 1994-97The British government is perhaps discovering, after the first round of negotiations, that it needs a complete change of perspective if it is to make a success of Brexit. Above all, it needs to start seeing things through the eyes of the other 27 EU members &ndas
  
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• Conservatives must 'change hard' to win over young voters, Damian Green to say

  01-07-2017 06:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The First Secretary of State will tell Tories to modernise after the party lost its Commons majority.
  
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