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• Labour grandees call for Jeremy Corbyn to embrace softer Brexit

  29-07-2017 23:00
  Neil Kinnock and Charlie Falconer back Britain retaining single market membership, while insiders threaten to trigger rebellion at party conferenceJeremy Corbyn is under pressure from Labour grandees to embrace a softer Brexit plan, with party insiders threatening to trigger a rebellion over the issue at its autumn conference.Senior Labour peers, including the former leader Neil Kinnock, former shadow justice secretary Charlie Falconer, and former chairman of the parliamentary Labour party Dave
  
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• EU migrants make up over 20% of labour force in 18 British industries

  29-07-2017 23:00
  An analysis of ONS figures finds fruit and vegetable processing and the hotel industry among sectors of the economy facing worst damage if free movement of people endsA unique and detailed analysis has revealed which sectors of the economy would suffer most from a radical reduction in EU migration to Britain.According to a GMB study of figures produced by the Office for National Statistics, in at least 18 specialist industries EU workers constitute more than 20% of the labour force. And many oth
  
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• Britain can use EEA as comfortable waiting room before Brexit

  29-07-2017 20:19 via ft.com
  The UK economy needs clarity about what will happen in March 2019
  
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• Sadiq Khan Says Brexit Result Could Be 'Trumped' By Labour Manifesto Pledge On Remaining In EU

  29-07-2017 14:31
  
  Brexit could be halted if Labour used its next general election manifesto to commit to not leaving the EU, or holding a second referendum, Sadiq Khan has said.
  In a pointed intervention after days of conflicting signals on Brexit from senior Labour figures, the Mayor of London insisted he was an “optimist” about the chances of the UK staying in the EU, the Press Association reported.
  Khan said Labour needed to be clear on its stance, telling the Guardian: “For it to have credib
  
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• UK farmers are addicted to subsidy, says government adviser

  29-07-2017 13:24
  Oxford economist Dieter Helm said that the agriculture industry enjoys benefits ‘nobody else in the economy gets’Tax breaks for farmers have caused a “subsidy addiction” and are used to avoid inheritance tax, a government adviser has claimed.Economist Dieter Helm, chair of the Natural Capital Committee, which advises the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), called for a review of the current taxation rules for farmers and said the agricultural secto
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci's Wife Files For Divorce Over His 'Naked Political Ambition', Reports Claim

  29-07-2017 12:43
  
  Anthony Scaramucci’s wife has filed for divorce over the controversial new White House communication director’s “naked political ambition”, reports have claimed. 
  According to the New York Post, Scaramucci’s wife Deidre Ball has called it quits on their three year marriage following his “ruthless quest” to get close to Donald Trump, whom she “despises”. 
  A source told the Post’s Page Six: “Deidre has left him and filed
  
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• Sadiq Khan: ‘I'm not sure what Donald Trump's beef is with me’

  29-07-2017 10:03
  It’s been a tough few months for London and a tricky first year for mayor Sadiq Khan. He talks about terrorism, Brexit and those Trump tweetsSadiq Khan did not expect, or hope, to mark his first anniversary as mayor of London like this. It has been a shattering couple of months for the city: the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge, London Bridge and Finsbury Park mosque, followed by the fire at Grenfell Tower. “It’s been an awful time,” he says. “The worst weeks of
  
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• Fire brigade leaders suspended over 'old boys' club' allegations

  29-07-2017 08:50
  Report into Avon service found perception that bullying and harassment was ‘endemic’The chief fire officer of Avon fire and rescue and his deputy have been suspended in the wake of a report criticising both the service and the authority responsible for its oversight.
  The Home Office report noted suggestions the fire authority was an “old boys’ club”, while Kevin Pearson, who became chief fire officer in 2001, had been “unchallenged and not held properly to acc
  
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• AstraZeneca chief demands clarity on post-Brexit landscape

  29-07-2017 08:02 via ft.com
  Soriot says pharma group will ‘wait to see’ before key decisions on further UK investment
  
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• While May's away: Hammond leads cabinet reshuffle on Brexit policy

  29-07-2017 08:00
  Announcements by Amber Rudd and the chancellor, notably that of a three-year transition deal, mark a significant development in EU policyTheresa May was buying sunglasses in Italy, Boris Johnson was making jokes about boomerangs in Australia and Liam Fox was fending off questions about chlorinated chicken in Washington.With MPs of all stripes jetting off for holidays and foreign trips to mark the official start of parliamentary recess this week, the political news was meant to die down. Continue
  
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• Graduate anger mounts over ‘nightmare’ Student Loans Company

  29-07-2017 08:00
  Our story last week about the SLC quadrupling someone’s interest rate sparked a new wave of complaints• Share your stories of working while studying at universityWhen Gary Ashworth moved to Botswana in 2013 to try to start a design business, he immediately told the Student Loans Company that he would be out of the UK. Despite updating the company with his earnings, as requested, last year he discovered that £930 was being demanded by a firm of debt collectors.The reason for this
  
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• Government adviser urges review of farmers' tax-breaks

  29-07-2017 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  An economist says the current system is extremely wasteful and there is a "subsidy addiction".
  
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• Government looks to speed up small business rates relief

  29-07-2017 02:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Months on from April's new tax regime, many companies are still waiting for bills to be adjusted.
  
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• North Korea: are missiles capable of hitting New York City?

  29-07-2017 00:12
  Experts believe Pyongyang’s missiles are capable of striking LA, Chicago or even New York – but Trump’s scattergun approach to diplomacy does not bode wellWhen North Korea claimed to have conducted its first test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier this month, defence analysts warned that the missile could have reached Alaska. Related: North Korea issues challenge to Trump by firing new missile into Sea of JapanContinue reading...
  
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