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• Boris Johnson ought to be fired, furious Tories tell May

  16-09-2017 22:37 via theguardian.com
  Anger grows over foreign secretary’s newspaper article, viewed in Westminster as the start of a leadership bidSenior Conservatives have denounced Theresa May as “too weak” to unite her cabinet and run an effective government after she refused to sack her foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for breaking ranks over Brexit. Related: Boris Johnson slapped down by statistics chief over fresh £350m claimContinue reading...
  
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• Lib Dem conference: Cable urges 'exit from Brexit' vote

  16-09-2017 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The Lib Dem leader tells conference a second vote should be held when the outcome of talks is known.
  
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• Choke buy-to-let to help deliver home ownership for young voters

  16-09-2017 19:04 via ft.com
  The Tory dream of a property-owning democracy must be restored
  
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• Boris Johnson insists he is 'all behind' May over Brexit

  16-09-2017 18:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The foreign secretary insists he backs Theresa May after setting out his own vision for post-EU Britain.
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Brexit intervention is a challenge to Theresa May

  16-09-2017 13:30 via ft.com
  The UK foreign secretary appears to be challenging the prime minister's authority, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• Boris Johnson Repeats £350m For The NHS Claim In Telegraph Column

  16-09-2017 11:33
  
  Boris Johnson has once again repeatedly the now-infamous claim that leaving the European Union will save £350 million a week.
  In a 4,000-word column for the Daily Telegraph, the foreign secretary said set out his “vision for a bold, thriving Britain enabled by Brexit”.
  In it, he said: “Once we have settled our accounts, we will take back control of roughly £350 million per week.“It would be a fine thing, as many of us have pointed out, if a lot of that money w
  
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• Brexit: Boris Johnson repeats Leave's £350m for NHS figure

  16-09-2017 11:15 via bbc.co.uk
  The foreign secretary says money saved from exiting the EU could be put back into the NHS.
  
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• James O'Brien Explains Why Voters Have Been 'Conned' Over Brexit

  16-09-2017 09:00
  
  Is it just me or did we just not realise how fucking great everything was three years ago?I’ve barely had time to get comfortable in my seat, and LBC host James O’Brien is already on one of his famous rants - this time on how good life was before the EU vote, the general election, Donald Trump and the nuclear threat of North Korea.
  I meet the 45-year-old radio presenter at LBC’s Leicester Square studio, where over the last year or so, clips like that of a Leave voter stru
  
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• The night the BBC almost got wrong

  16-09-2017 07:15 via bbc.co.uk
  On the night of the assembly referendum, the Welsh and English BBC services briefly went their separate ways
  
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• Britain’s treatment of EU nationals is ‘appalling’, says Cable

  16-09-2017 05:01 via ft.com
  Lib Dem leader warns ‘exodus’ from Brexit Britain risks labour shortages
  
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• Theresa May heads to Florence, and unfreezing the pay cap

  16-09-2017 02:54 via ft.com
  The UK prime minister is set to give a big Brexit speech in Florence next week - what might she say and how important is it?
  
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• Five areas in England to pilot voter ID checks

  16-09-2017 02:43 via bbc.co.uk
  People in Woking, Gosport, Bromley, Watford and Slough will be asked to provide ID before voting as part of a trial.
  
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• Explainer: why UK terror threat has been raised to its highest level

  16-09-2017 01:48 via theguardian.com
  Conditions that allow the activation of Operation Temperer, putting troops on the streets, are agreed at the highest level The international terrorism threat to the UK has been raised to critical, meaning an attack is expected imminently, in the wake of the Parsons Green bomb attack in London. It is the highest of the five levels used to describe the threat.Alongside the increased terror threat, phase one of Operation Temperer has been activated, meaning that up to 5,000 armed troops can be depl
  
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• Voters to be asked for ID in trials of system to combat electoral fraud

  16-09-2017 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Identification to be shown in five areas in local elections next May in first pilot schemes, but critics fear it will cut turnoutVoters in five local authorities will need to show ID before they can vote in local elections next May, in a move aimed at combating voter fraud but which Labour and the Liberal Democrats have warned could disenfranchise thousands of people.Voters in Woking, Gosport, Bromley, Watford and Slough will be asked to show ID at polling stations before being issued with a bal
  
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• Boris Johnson: we will still claw back £350m a week after Brexit

  16-09-2017 00:48 via theguardian.com
  Foreign secretary revives Vote Leave’s controversial campaign message, insisting cash should go to NHSBoris Johnson has insisted that Britain will still claw back £350m a week after leaving the EU, with much of that money preferably being spent on the NHS, as he warned critics of Brexit against treating 17.4 million voters as fools. The foreign secretary repeated the controversial claim of the Vote Leave campaign in a 4,000-word article for the Daily Telegraph, in which he claimed th
  
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• Anas Sarwar launches campaign to be next Scottish Labour leader

  16-09-2017 00:43 via theguardian.com
  Contest to succeed Kezia Dugdale being coloured by factional disputes between leftwingers and moderatesNicola Sturgeon has presided over unacceptable levels of poverty, Anas Sarwar has said at his Scottish Labour leadership campaign launch in the first minister’s Glasgow constituency.
  Sarwar, the candidate with the largest support from Labour MPs and MSPs, insinuated he was the best-placed of the two candidates to defeat Sturgeon and her Scottish National party, and the best able to appeal
  
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• Boris Johnson outburst challenges Theresa May’s Brexit leadership

  16-09-2017 00:30 via ft.com
  Foreign secretary revives £350m NHS pledge, undermining PM days before crucial speech
  
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• 7 Stories You May Have Missed Because Of Friday's Terror Attack

  16-09-2017 00:10
  
  1) 100 Rampaging Prisoners Freed By Hurricane Irma Captured
  More than 100 criminals who escaped from a prison in the British Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma swept through have been captured, the governor of the islands said.British Royal Marines were deployed to help in the operation to round up the temporarily free inmates of Balsam Ghut prison, in Tortola on Thursday.
  Residents of the island had been “terrified” and claimed looting had been widespread.
  2) Possible Shady Goings
  
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