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• Britain concedes it will have to pay EU exit bill

  13-07-2017 21:28
  First explicit acknowledgment of liabilities likely to avert Brexit talks clash
  
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• Brexit: The UK's key repeal bill facing challenges

  13-07-2017 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers hail a historic moment - but Labour and the Scottish and Welsh governments are unhappy.
  
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• Brexit: UK could be 'associate' of EU nuclear body

  13-07-2017 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brexit Secretary David Davis says an "arbitration body" will be agreed to govern the new arrangement.
  
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• Donald Trump's Defence Of His Son Has One Massive Glaring Hole

  13-07-2017 20:27
  
  Donald Trump has defended his son in person for the first time over a meeting with a Russian lawyer, the details of which were made public by Don Jr when he tweeted a series of emails on Tuesday.
  Speaking at a press conference in Paris, the President said he had done nothing wrong and anyone in the same situation would have done the same.
  Trump was responding to a reporter who quoted his nominee for FBI Director, Christopher Wray, who said yesterday that anyone in an election campaign team who r
  
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• Britons' rights in Europe 'must not surpass rights of EU citizens in UK'

  13-07-2017 20:08
  
  Swedish minister Ann Linde says lack of reciprocity would be unfair and demands ‘concrete negotiating positions’ from UKThe Swedish minister for EU affairs has said it would be “unfair” for Britons to have more rights in Europe than EU citizens in the UK, as currently proposed by Theresa May.Ann Linde warned that the UK must offer the EU reciprocity in its approach to citizens’ rights, and said Theresa May’s government was putting the final Brexit deal at risk
  
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• Brexit Briefing: Jeremy Corbyn Calls Theresa May's Brussels Bluff

  13-07-2017 20:04
  
  You can sign up for this briefing by clicking here, and you’ll receive it straight to your inbox every Thursday afternoon.If you like what you read, make sure you subscribe to our Commons People podcast here for even more analysis about what goes on in Westminster. 1) The Great Repeal Bill Could Lead To A Great Parliament Showdown.The Government’s much anticipated Repeal Bill was published today (the ‘Great’ has been dropped due to austerity - or parl
  
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• Summer finance bill to water down digital tax plans

  13-07-2017 19:42
  Businesses will be ‘coaxed, not compelled’ into online filing
  
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• Student Loan Company suspends chief pending investigation

  13-07-2017 19:33
  Steve Lamey took up the role just over a year ago
  
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• Donald Trump Adds A New Weird Handshake To His Repertoire When In Paris

  13-07-2017 18:55
  
  Another day, another awkward Donald Trump handshake.
  The US President is on Thursday in France to mark 100 years since America intervened in the First World War, and his latest trip to Europe will provide respite from the mounting pressure back home over Russian interference in last year’s election.
  Trump and First Lady, Melania, met French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, at Les Invalides - the site of Napoleon’s tomb.
  While Trump and Macron displayed more warmth t
  
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• UK public finances face twin threat from Brexit and downturn, says OBR

  13-07-2017 18:53
  
  Budget watchdog warns country is in worse shape to withstand recession than on the eve of 2007 financial crashBritain’s public finances are in worse shape to withstand a recession than they were on the eve of the 2007 financial crash a decade ago and face the twin threat of a fresh downturn and Brexit, the Treasury’s independent forecaster has warned.The Office for Budget Responsibility – the UK’s fiscal watchdog – said another recession was inevitable at some point
  
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• In full: May interview

  13-07-2017 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett about the general election.
  
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• Maybot's 'little tear' interview: a masterclass in robot ethics | John Crace

  13-07-2017 18:20
  
  The administrators had installed an empathy function, but it crashed on conflict with the PM’s default settingsThe preparations had gone on all the previous night. Installing an empathy function into the Maybot’s operating system had proved a great deal trickier than the administrators had imagined. Time and again, the update had appeared to load satisfactorily only to end with a spinning circle of doom. Finally, just minutes before the Maybot was about to begin her first broadcast i
  
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• Treasury delays plans to fully digitise business tax returns

  13-07-2017 18:19
  Smaller businesses will be able to move online at a pace ‘that is right for them’
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon claims Brexit repeal bill is a 'power grab'

  13-07-2017 18:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first minister says it is still not clear what new powers will come to Holyrood after Brexit.
  
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• MP abuse and the gig economy - Politics Weekly podcast

  13-07-2017 18:05
  
  Anushka Asthana is joined by Matthew Taylor, Boni Sones, Robert Booth and Sonia Sodha to discuss the abuse faced by politicians on social media and elsewhere and the government’s response to a new review of self-employment and the ‘gig economy’
  Subscribe and review: iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast & Stitcher and join the discussion on Facebook and TwitterA long-awaited review of Britain’s growing casual workforce landed this week with a series of recomm
  
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• Lord Adonis Launches Scathing Attack On 'Greed' Of Bath University Vice Chancellor Dame Glynis Breakwell

  13-07-2017 17:31
  
  Former education minister Lord Andrew Adonis has launched a scathing attack on university bosses over their “greed”, claiming some are being paid “more than three times the Prime Minister’s salary”. 
  Speaking in the House of Lords this afternoon [Thursday], Labour peer Adonis demanded that the government intervened to tackle the problem. 
  Research released in February revealed that university leaders now earn on average more than £277,000 a year.&nb
  
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• UK highlights risk EU will run without a transition deal

  13-07-2017 17:13
  Brexit Britain applies leverage on nuclear and judicial issues
  
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• Small print of repeal bill creates unprecedented new powers for Brexit ministers

  13-07-2017 17:11
  
  There has never been a bill like this before. Ministers are about to gain more power than they could have ever dreamed of.
  
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• Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn meets EU negotiator Michel Barnier

  13-07-2017 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Scottish and Welsh first ministers also hold meetings with Michel Barnier in Brussels.
  
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• Syria's future after the defeat of so-called Islamic State

  13-07-2017 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The advance of so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has had major implications for the UK.
  
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• MEP surprised over marmalade coverage

  13-07-2017 16:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A German politician said UK press coverage of his tongue-in-cheek comments about marmalade was an "odd experience".
  
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• Weak pound sees surge in tourists visiting UK

  13-07-2017 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More people are visiting the UK, but the fall in sterling has not discouraged Britons from going abroad.
  
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• Health the biggest risk to UK finances

  13-07-2017 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In its first ever look at the big risks facing UK finances, the fiscal watchdog pinpoints health costs.
  
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• Scottish and Welsh leaders brand repeal bill a 'naked power grab'

  13-07-2017 16:05
  
  Joint statement from Nicola Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones opens up new constitutional clash, with bill requiring legislative consentTheresa May is facing a fresh constitutional clash with the Scottish government after Nicola Sturgeon threatened to block the “great repeal bill”, dismissing it as a “naked power grab”.The bill requires the consent of the Scottish parliament and the Welsh assembly, but Scotland’s first minister and Wales’s Carwyn Jones issued a joint
  
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• The Tories have failed to fix the roof – and now rainclouds are looming | Larry Elliott

  13-07-2017 15:57
  
  The budget watchdog has warned over the threats debt, recession and Brexit pose to the UK’s financesIt was one of George Osborne’s most effective soundbites. Before, during and after the 2010 general election, the man who served as David Cameron’s chancellor for six years blamed his austerity measures on Labour’s failure to “fix the roof while the sun was shining”.What goes around comes around. The Office for Budget Responsibility was set up by Osborne in 2010
  
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• Scottish and Welsh governments threaten to refuse repeal bill legislative consent - Politics live

  13-07-2017 15:55
  
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including publication of the Brexit repeal bill, and Theresa May’s first proper broadcast interview since the general election5 things we’ve learnt from Theresa May’s Radio 5 Live interview 2.53pm BSTLiberty and Amnesty International have issued a joint statement opposing the repeal bill. They say:Today we take another huge step towards our withdrawal from the European Union – and the government ha
  
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• 'Simplistic and inadequate': readers on the 'great repeal bill'

  13-07-2017 15:06
  
  Guardian readers react to the publication of the EU (withdrawal) bill, which has been criticised by opposition partiesThe EU (withdrawal) bill, which will formally enact Brexit, was published on Thursday and immediately came under fire from opposition politicians. The bill, informally known as the great repeal bill, will not bring the EU charter of fundamental rights into domestic law on Brexit day, as Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary, Kier Starmer, had demanded. Continue reading...
  
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• Conservatives stick to their Brexit guns

  13-07-2017 15:05
  Politically weakened government keeps objectives despite internal divisions
  
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• UK government publishes landmark Brexit repeal bill

  13-07-2017 15:03
  Legislation will end supremacy of EU law in the UK
  
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• UK government faces ‘hell’ over landmark Brexit repeal bill

  13-07-2017 15:03
  Legislation will end supremacy of EU law in the UK
  
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• With UK sidelined, Macron forges unlikely alliance with Trump

  13-07-2017 14:44
  
  French president takes advantage of Brexit to flex muscles on world stage and forge own special relationship with USEmmanuel Macron, the dynamic French president, is emerging to be a great opportunist. After setting himself up initially as the Gaullist statesman prepared to speak truth unto American power over climate change and protectionism, he has spied an opening to forge an unlikely alliance with US president Donald Trump – a chance created by the Brexit and domestic political preoccu
  
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• Sebastian Gorka Interview With CNN's Anderson Cooper Is A Masterclass In Deflection

  13-07-2017 13:50
  
  Donald Trump’s Deputy Assistant was wheeled out in front of the American media yesterday, giving an absolute masterclass in how to speak for 10 minutes without saying anything of substance.
  Sebastian Gorka, the London-born former Breitbart editor with a bogus Ph.D, had stepped up to defend Trump Jr from accusations he was less than honest about emails that showed the Russian government was actively assisting his father in the 2016 election.@MSNBC Sebastian Gorka is obnoxious. I can't stand
  
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• Theresa May 'shed a tear' at election exit poll

  13-07-2017 13:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May tells the BBC it was a "complete shock" to see she was set to lose her majority.
  
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• Select committee choices show Tory moderates on the march

  13-07-2017 13:39
  Top positions go to those from the centre-right, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• UK university applications down for first time since 2012

  13-07-2017 13:24
  Decline driven by drop in students applying for nursing and from the EU
  
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• Brexit department lays out nuclear and justice stance for negotiations

  13-07-2017 13:17
  
  Department for Exiting the EU publishes position papers on Euratom treaty and European court of justiceThe Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has published position papers on the UK’s stance in the Brexit negotiations on the European atomic energy community (Euratom) and the role of the European court of justice (ECJ).Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit: Labour Vows To Defeat Government Over New 'Repeal' Bill's Sweeping Medieval Powers

  13-07-2017 13:14
  
  Theresa May is facing the threat of Parliamentary defeat over Brexit after Labour vowed to stop her from railroading a new EU ‘repeal’ bill through the Commons.
  The prospect of a major constitutional showdown loomed as it emerged that the flagship European Union (Withdrawal Bill) will give ministers sweeping powers over the shape of the UK’s exit.
  A new raft of so-called ‘Henry VIII powers’ will be handed to May and Brexit Secretary David Davis, allowing them to av
  
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• 'Great repeal bill' human rights clause sets up Brexit clash with Labour

  13-07-2017 12:52
  
  Government says it will not bring charter of fundamental rights into UK law, thus failing one of Keir Starmer’s ‘six tests’The government has set itself on a collision course with opposition parties by insisting that it will not bring the EU charter of fundamental rights into domestic law on Brexit day.The EU (withdrawal) bill – published on Thursday and known as the “great repeal bill” which will formally enact Brexit – includes a clause that says: &ldq
  
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• Theresa May says she shed a 'little tear' over election exit poll

  13-07-2017 12:39
  
  PM reveals she was devastated and did not see result coming in first lengthy broadcast interview since losing her majorityTheresa May has said she was “devastated” when she learned of the exit poll on election night that showed she had failed to win a majority and cried when her husband hugged her in condolence.In her first lengthy broadcast interview since last month’s election, the prime minister told BBC Radio 5 Live she knew the Conservative campaign “wasn’t goi
  
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• I felt devastated by election result, says May – video

  13-07-2017 12:39
  
  Theresa May tells BBC Radio 5 Live’s Emma Barnett about her reaction to the exit poll and election result during the recent UK general election. The prime minister said she had shed ‘a little tear’ over the result.Listen to the full interview on BBC Radio 5 Live’s homepageMay says she felt ‘devastated’ by election result and shed ‘a little tear’ - Politics live
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• All-disabled shortlists: that’s the way to make politics truly representative | Alice Kirby

  13-07-2017 12:27
  
  Only 1% of MPs are disabled, despite one in five of the population having a disability. The way to address this is simple• Alice Kirby is an activist and disability rights campaignerStephen Lloyd made history in the general election by becoming the first person selected from an all-disabled shortlist to win a seat. In fact, the shortlist, which was run last year by the Liberal Democrats in Eastbourne, East Sussex, in anticipation of a snap election, was the very first of its kind to be used
  
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• How May measures up one year on

  13-07-2017 11:39
  
  Theresa May marks first year as UK prime minister
  
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• Theresa May Shed A 'Little Tear' Over General Election Exit Poll

  13-07-2017 11:37
  
  Theresa May has revealed she shed a “little tear” after being told the result of the general election exit poll which was a “complete shock”.
  In an interview with BBC Radio 5′s Live’s Emma Barnett, the prime minister said she “felt devastated” and “didn’t see it coming”.
  “I don’t regret calling it,” May said of the snap election which lost the Conservative Party its overall majority. PM Theresa May tells #5l
  
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• UK government to publish Brexit repeal bill

  13-07-2017 10:51
  Legislation will end supremacy of EU law in the UK
  
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• Euratom is the perfect test case for revoking Article 50

  13-07-2017 10:40
  
  We urgently need to change course on Euratom - and doing so will prove Brexit can be reversed as well
  
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• UK Brexit plan 'could fall apart at first tap like chocolate orange'

  13-07-2017 10:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK spending watchdog warns Brexit could fall apart at first tap unless ministers are more "united".
  
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• The Waugh Zone Thursday July 13, 2017

  13-07-2017 10:02
  
  1. TICK TOCK
  It’s Theresa May’s first anniversary as Prime Minister today. But after her dire general election misjudgement, she looks less like a leader than a prisoner of history, her premiership held hostage by her own Cabinet, a hung Parliament and Brussels.
  May faces two rival countdowns, one on Brexit and one on her own leadership, and the only question is which bomb will go off first. And what may sting most for this proud feminist, who last year battled against the odds to se
  
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• UK university applications fall by 4%, Ucas figures show

  13-07-2017 09:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Figures show 25,190 fewer people have applied to UK universities this year.
  
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• Dear Jeremy Corbyn. Your meeting in Brussels is a chance to recast Brexit | John Palmer

  13-07-2017 09:39
  
  At your talks today with the chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, you must show yourself willing to reject Brexit and embrace radical EU reform• John Palmer is a former European editor of the GuardianDear Jeremy,Those of us who admire and support your leadership of the Labour party are delighted that you have arranged to have an “extensive” face-to-face meeting with Michel Barnier in Brussels today. This will provide a vital opportunity for you to get a clear and unvarnished sense
  
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• 'Chocolate orange' Brexit warning is overdone, says minister

  13-07-2017 09:32
  
  Exiting the EU minister shrugs off remarks from auditor general that there is a danger of government’s approach falling apartA Brexit minister has accused the head of the National Audit Office of using “overdone” language after he said that the government’s approach to leaving the European Union could “fall apart like a chocolate orange”.Steve Baker, an undersecretary in the Department for Exiting the EU, also urged opposition parties to back Thursday’s
  
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