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• Former chief whip: Corbyn was "the greatest rebel ever"

  23-07-2017 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Labour Chief Whip Baroness Armstrong describes Jeremy Corbyn as "the greatest rebel ever".
  
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• Nicola Jennings on the presenter pay gap – cartoon

  23-07-2017 20:35 via theguardian.com
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• Best Deleted Tweets By Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump's New Communications Director

  23-07-2017 20:27
  
  Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump’s newly-appointed communications director, has attempted to downplay previous fall-outs with his new boss - by deleting tweets that might be seen as critical of the US President.
  The Wall Street millionaire had previously called Trump a “hack politician”, but made clear on Friday that the President brings it up “every 15 seconds” as he apologised once again for the remark and the pair appeared to let bygones be by
  
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• The Guardian view on Brexit and farming: outlook unsettled | Editorial

  23-07-2017 19:34 via theguardian.com
  In his first speech last week, the new Defra secretary Michael Gove called Brexit ‘the unfrozen moment’. But that may not mean the sunlit uplands lie ahead for agricultureThe “unfrozen moment” Michael Gove, the new Defra secretary, called the impact of Brexit on agriculture and the environment in his first speech last week. It’s a deft description of the potential for transformation that leaving the EU offers, which is undoubtedly what Mr Gove intended. But it also
  
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• Liam Fox demands meeting with BBC over 'negative' Brexit stories

  23-07-2017 19:23 via theguardian.com
  Lib Dems accuse minister of ‘blatant attempt at intimidating’ broadcaster with letter to director generalLiam Fox has demanded a meeting with the BBC’s director general in a letter where he complains that the corporation consistently runs negative stories about the economic effects of Brexit.The international trade secretary wrote to Tony Hall to ask for a face-to-face meeting about the coverage, which the Liberal Democrats said was the behaviour of “a tin-pot dictator&rd
  
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• Ruth Davidson calls for capitalism 'reboot'

  23-07-2017 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The Scottish Conservative leader also warns the UK government must show greater leadership.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Student debt write-off not a commitment

  23-07-2017 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour leader says he was "unaware of the size" of student debts when promising help during election.
  
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• Liam Fox Dubbed A 'Tinpot Dictator' After Accusing BBC Of Anti-Brexit Bias

  23-07-2017 17:56
  
  One of the Conservative government’s chief Brexiteers has been labelled a “tinpot dictator” after accusing the BBC of “wilfully” ignoring good news stories about Brexit.
  The Sun on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph have reported Liam Fox, the International Trade Secretary, has written to the BBC complaining that it has chosen not to report on figures published by his department showing “positive economic data”.
  “I cannot recall a single time in rece
  
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• A reformed EU, not Brexit, offers best hope of more progressive UK | Letters

  23-07-2017 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to Larry Elliott’s piece claiming that Brexit was the most effective way to challenge capitalism’s worst excessesLarry Elliott (Why the moaning? If anything can halt capitalism’s fat cats, it’s Brexit, 21 July) mentions the EU’s state aid rules as a stumbling block towards the pursuit of progressive economic policies. As someone who has been teaching and researching this subject for over a decade, I find Mr Elliott’s comments unfounded. It is w
  
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• Liam Fox launches fresh drive on US-UK trade deal

  23-07-2017 14:37 via ft.com
  Trade secretary warms to idea of post-Brexit transition deal with EU
  
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• Fox warms to idea of post-Brexit transition deal with EU

  23-07-2017 14:37 via ft.com
  Trade secretary’s comments are fresh confirmation that cabinet has pulled together
  
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• While Hammond looks for a magic money tree, Labour has found one | Larry Elliott

  23-07-2017 14:35 via theguardian.com
  If the chancellor is to fund higher spending without increasing borrowing, he will need revenue – step forward, Prof Avinash PersaudFor Spreadsheet Phil, the numbers look bad. Growth is weakening. Higher inflation means debt interest payments are rising. The recent election showed a nation heartily sick of austerity. There are pressures for higher public-sector pay.The one big initiative announced by Philip Hammond in his year or so as chancellor was to move the annual budget from the spri
  
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• Being in single market is dependent on EU membership, says Corbyn – video

  23-07-2017 14:23 via theguardian.com
  Jeremy Corbyn says a Labour government would leave the single market because it is ‘dependent on membership of the EU’. The Labour leader told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that his party wanted ‘tariff free trade access to the European market and a partnership with Europe in the future’Watch the full episode on BBC iPlayerLabour would leave single market, says Jeremy Corbyn
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• Sunday Show Round Up: Corbyn's Brexit 'Lie' And The Return Of Phillips V Rees-Mogg

  23-07-2017 14:22
  
  The Andrew Marr Show
  During the paper review, Tory MP Anna Soubry nailed her colours to the mast about the future of her party, describing Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson as “a remarkable woman and I hope very much one day will be a remarkable Tory leader”.Liam Fox repeated his conversion to a two-year post-Brexit transitional period this morning.
  The International Trade Secretary had previously talked of such an arrangement lasting a few months, but now says an extra 24 m
  
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• Consultation on changing legal gender to be launched

  23-07-2017 14:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Justine Greening launches a consultation to "reduce the stigma faced by the trans community".
  
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• Scotch versus Sturgeon as alcohol pricing fight returns to court

  23-07-2017 13:36 via ft.com
  Plan to tackle binge drinking with minimum price reaches UK Supreme Court
  
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• Labour would leave single market, says Jeremy Corbyn

  23-07-2017 13:05 via theguardian.com
  Labour leader says market membership is dependent on being in EU, but party would seek to mirror its benefits with trade dealA Labour government would leave the single market because it is “dependent on membership of the EU” but seek a trade deal that mirrored the free trade benefits, Jeremy Corbyn has said.The Labour leader’s explanation of his party’s Brexit policy was questioned by the former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, one of the party’s leading advo
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Insists Labour Never Promised To Write Off Student Debt

  23-07-2017 13:04
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour never committed to writing off existing student debt in the run-up to the General Election.
  The Labour leader was questioned by Andrew Marr on what exactly he meant when he said he would “deal” with student debt.
  During the election, the Islington North MP told NME: “I don’t see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively.”"I did not make a commitment
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Insists Labour Never Promised To Write Off Historic Student Debt

  23-07-2017 13:04
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has insisted Labour never committed to writing off historic student debt in the run-up to the General Election.
  The Labour leader was questioned by Andrew Marr on what exactly he meant when he said he would “deal” with student debt.
  During the election, the Islington North MP told NME: “I don’t see why those that had the historical misfortune to be at university during the £9,000 period should be burdened excessively.”"I did not make a commitment
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Is 'Parroting Lies' Over Brexit, Warn Lib Dems

  23-07-2017 13:02
  
  Labour Leader @jeremycorbyn rules out single market membership after Brexit. "The single market is dependent on membership of the EU" #marr pic.twitter.com/BQ8WEI7hf9— The Andrew Marr Show (@MarrShow) July 23, 2017
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is “parroting the lie” that the UK cannot stay in Single Market once it leaves the EU, the Lib Dems have claimed.
  The Labour leader today said the Britain would have to quit the Single Market after Brexit as membership was “inextric
  
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• Brexit: Liam Fox sets election deadline for EU transition

  23-07-2017 12:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Liam Fox says he would not want any interim arrangement after Brexit to "drag on" beyond 2022.
  
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• Donald Trump Says He Has 'Complete Power' To Pardon

  23-07-2017 12:15
  
  Donald Trump has declared he has “complete power to pardon”.
  In a series of Twitter messages, Trump aired renewed frustration with his attorney general, the special counsel leading the Russia probe, and Republicans in Congress who are struggling to advance his legislative agenda.While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us.FAKE NEWS— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 22, 2017So many
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: I never said we would write off student debt

  23-07-2017 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn says he didn't promise to write off student debt - despite saying he would "deal with" it.
  
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• Labour sounds alarm over rollout of universal credit rape clause into N Ireland

  23-07-2017 11:39 via theguardian.com
  Opposition calls for parliamentary debate, saying women risk being criminalised if two-child limit is imposed in region
  Labour is raising the alarm about a government attempt to extend to Northern Ireland a policy that imposes a two-child limit on universal credit recipients unless a woman can show she has been raped.The move could place Theresa May on a collision course with the Democratic Unionist party, on whom she is relying on for her minority Conservative government to win votes in Westmin
  
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• We can’t prepare to leave Europe until we know where we’re going | Andrew Rawnsley

  23-07-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  The battle for a transition deal seems to have been won. This resolves one argument, only to ignite many othersTick. Tock. We have now got to that scene in the Brexit movie where rivulets of sweat begin to drip down the faces of the crew. They have noticed that the clock is running down. It is nearly four months since Mrs May dispatched her letter telling the EU that Britain was leaving. Yet nothing has been agreed. The cabinet continues to quarrel about the ultimate shape of Brexit. The talks i
  
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• Let the north run its own powerhouse | Sarah Longlands

  23-07-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  If it’s all too complicated for those in Westminster, they should hand over the reinsIn the north of England, we know a little about trains. In 1825, when George Stephenson ran the first passenger steam locomotive along the Stockton and Darlington railway, little can he have thought that, for all his pioneering efforts, upgrading our crumbling infrastructure would prove such a national headache.The transport secretary, Chris Grayling, has decided that electrifying the TransPennine route is
  
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• Books for the beach – cartoon

  23-07-2017 01:05 via theguardian.com
  Chris Riddell on some essential political reading for the summer recess Continue reading...
  
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