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• May demands two-hour rule to counter terrorism online

  19-09-2017 23:32
  UK PM calls on internet groups to act more quickly in blocking extremist content
  
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• Owen Jones Interviewed Alastair Campbell And Everyone's Talking About It

  19-09-2017 23:24
  
  In what was billed as a re-match after their clash in the pages of a glossy magazine earlier this year, columnist and darling of the Left, Owen Jones, has interviewed former Tony Blair spin doctor Alastair Campbell.
  The tension between the two rests on the pair representing the warring factions of the Labour Party - put crudely, the Corbynistas and the Blairites
  So the fast-talking Jones grilling Campbell, an uncompromising figure, had box office potential. Little wonder the Guardian had the cam
  
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• Theresa May Cuts UK Aid To Myanmar Military As Aung San Suu Kyi Fails To Condemn Human Rights Abuses

  19-09-2017 23:19
  
  Theresa May has cut off UK aid for the Myanmar military until the campaign of violence against the Muslim Rohingya has ended. 
  In the most significant sign of pressure on the regime yet, the Prime Minister has voiced alarm at the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives across the border to Bangladesh.
  There has been international outcry at frequent reports of Rohingya persecution by soldiers, including villages being burned and landmines planted at the border. 
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• Boris Johnson: I won't quit over Theresa May's Brexit speech

  19-09-2017 23:08
  Exclusive: In wide-ranging interview with the Guardian, foreign secretary says story about him quitting is a ‘great snore-athon’ Boris Johnson has insisted he will not be resigning from the cabinet over Brexit but said he hoped the prime minister would avoid hitching the UK too closely to the European Union after its departure.In an interview with the Guardian in New York, the man who last year fronted the Vote Leave campaign said it was about time people heard what he had to say on
  
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• Theresa May prepares €20bn EU budget offer

  19-09-2017 22:30
  Florence speech set to see attempt to tackle European demands on Brexit divorce bill
  
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• Takeover Panel to follow up acquisition promises

  19-09-2017 21:21
  Purchasers of UK companies will need to show they kept their word
  
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• Sean Spicer Labelled 'Modern Day Goebbels' By Actor Jason Isaacs In Brutal Emmys Takedown

  19-09-2017 20:29
  
  British actor Jason Isaacs has proved not every celebrity was rushing to embrace Sean Spicer, labelling Donald Trump’s former Press Secretary a “modern day Goebbels” after his appearance at the Emmys.
  The former White House press secretary made an unexpected appearance at the 69th annual Emmy Awards, wheeling a podium similar to the one used on Saturday Night Live to mock him.Others shamed stars for ‘mobbing’ Spicer as they posed for p
  
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• Boris Johnson Should Be Knighted For 'Positive' Brexit Intervention, Says Jacob Rees-Mogg

  19-09-2017 20:24
  
  Boris Johnson should be knighted for his Brexit intervention, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.
  The Foreign Secretary has caused a major row with his Cabinet colleagues after his 4,000 word article outlining his vision for leaving the EU overshadowed Theresa May’s imminent speech in Florence on the subject.
  He has been accused of preparing a leadership challenge, slapped down publicly by other ministers and ambushed in a lift by journalists who demanded to know whether he was resigning.Rees-Mogg,
  
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• Boris Johnson Should Be Knighted For 'Positive' Brexit Intervention, Jacob Rees Mogg

  19-09-2017 20:24
  
  Boris Johnson should be knighted for his Brexit intervention, Jacob Rees Mogg has said.
  The Foreign Secretary has caused a major row with his Cabinet colleagues after his 4,000 word article outlining his vision for leaving the EU overshadowed Theresa May’s imminent speech in Florence on the subject.
  He has been accused of preparing a leadership challenge, slapped down publicly by other ministers and ambushed in a lift by journalists who demanded to know whether he was resigning.Rees Mogg,
  
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• Vince Cable: I can lead Lib Dems back to power

  19-09-2017 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The Lib Dem leader attacks the "masochism" of Brexit as he closes the party's annual conference.
  
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• Scarcity Of Women In Newspaper Journalism Laid Bare In Startling New Report

  19-09-2017 19:33
  
  The “woeful” lack of women in senior roles or writing front page stories at UK newspapers has been laid bare in a startling new report.
  Between June and July of this year, just 25% of front page bylines at national British newspapers were women’s while a paltry 34% of senior managers were female. 
  The study by Women In Journalism also shone a light on the type of assignments female journalists were handed “soft” stories in areas such as royalty, showbusiness a
  
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• Tipping the balance?

  19-09-2017 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's ruling body backs leadership-contest rule changes which could move things in Jeremy Corbyn's favour.
  
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• Donald Trump's UN Speech And 7 Astounding Contradictions

  19-09-2017 19:25
  
  Tuesday was a huge day for the President of the United States as he addressed for the first time, the hallowed ground of the United Nations General Assembly.
  True to form, Donald Trump pulled no punches as he outlined the sovereign right of all nations to exist untroubled, and then threatened to “destroy” North Korea.Whelp... I see why we need $700B in defense funding after threatening to decimate an entire country & warmongering at #UNGA #UnitedNations— Alt Fed Employee (@
  
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• Scotland and Wales demand changes to Brexit bill

  19-09-2017 19:05
  Devolved administrations propose amendments to stop a ‘power grab’ by Westminster
  
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• Vince Cable campaigns in underpowered prose

  19-09-2017 18:56
  The Liberal Democrat leader’s speech lacked dramatic flourish
  
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• Battle for attention

  19-09-2017 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  How can the Liberal Democrat leader get people to listen to what he has to say?
  
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• Scottish farmers call for curbs on pesticides to be eased after Brexit

  19-09-2017 18:14
  Farming union hopes to retain access to single market while streamlining regulations
  
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• Vince Cable speech: A tired contribution which misunderstands this moment in history

  19-09-2017 17:25
  
  Vince Cable is right about almost everything, but it doesn't matter.
  
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• China in the running to buy into new UK nuclear plant

  19-09-2017 17:21
  State-controlled China General Nuclear will bid for equity stake in Cumbria’s NuGen site
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Boost As Labour NEC Approves Plan To Hand More Power To Members

  19-09-2017 17:15
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s mission to hand more power to Labour members has received a major boost after the party’s ruling body agreed his sweeping reform plans.
  The leader’s plan to ‘democratise’ the party was approved by the National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday, and will now go forward for a vote at the annual conference in Brighton.
  Under the changes, party members are set to get three extra seats on the 35-strong body, with an extra place for trade unions too.
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• Donald Trump Threatens To 'Totally Destroy North Korea' In Speech To United Nations Leaders

  19-09-2017 16:39
  
  Donald Trump has said if North Korea does not abandon it’s nuclear weapons program he will have “no option but to totally destroy” the country.
  In a fiery speech to the United Nations general Assembly in New York the President referred to Kim Jong-Un as “rocket man” and said he “is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime”.Pres. Trump on North Korea: "Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime." https://t.co/a3VGUhtpiN p
  
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• Vince Cable Warns Lib Dems Will Not Succeed As 'Ukip In Reverse'

  19-09-2017 16:26
  
  Vince Cable has warned the Lib Dems they need a wider agenda than just opposing Brexit in order get back into power.
  In his keynote speech to his party’s conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday, the Lib Dem leader told activists to avoid becoming “Ukip in reverse”.
  “I want our party to lead the fight against Brexit,” he said. “But we should not be consumed by Brexit to the exclusion of everything else.
  “We are not a single-issue party. I see our futur
  
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• Conservative activists angered by Boris Johnson’s challenge to May

  19-09-2017 16:17
  Party grassroots question the ambitions of the foreign secretary
  
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• Cable calls for ‘fierce’ tax on overseas purchase of UK property

  19-09-2017 15:36
  Lib Dem leader extends party’s policies beyond resistance to Brexit with housing initiative
  
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• George Osborne Apologises To Theresa May For 'Freezer Bags' Jibe

  19-09-2017 15:32
  
  George Osborne has issued a partial apology for his “intemperate” remark that Theresa May should be chopped up and put in freezer bags.
  The former Chancellor used a leader article in the London Evening Standard, which he now edits, to offer an olive branch to the Prime Minister.
  Osborne came under attack from Tory and Labour MPs last week after it was claimed that he had told friends he “will not rest” until May is “chopped up in bags in my freezer”.
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• Suicide Rate Three Times Higher Among Construction Workers, Union Warns

  19-09-2017 15:21
  
  Construction workers are three times more likely to take their own life than the rest of the population, disturbing figures show.
  Data from the Office for National Statistics revealed 1,419 people working in skilled building trades died as a result of suicide between 2011 and 2015 - significantly higher than those working as corporate managers or directors and more than 10 times those working in health and social care.
  Experts have warned the nature of the construction trade - long hours, isola
  
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• Boris Johnson denies cabinet Brexit split

  19-09-2017 15:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The foreign secretary says he will not be quitting and that the government is "working together".
  
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• Lib Dem conference delegates on a possible Prime Minister Cable

  19-09-2017 15:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Do the Lib Dem party faithful agree that their leader could soon be prime minister?
  
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• Scottish and Welsh governments set out Brexit bill amendments

  19-09-2017 15:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The Scottish and Welsh governments are working together on amendments to the EU withdrawal bill.
  
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• What is the point of Dexeu?

  19-09-2017 15:04
  Olly Robbins’s move to Number 10 may sound the death knell for Brexit department
  
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• What is the point of Brexit department?

  19-09-2017 15:04
  Olly Robbins’s move to Number 10 may sound the death knell for Dexeu
  
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• Boris Johnson, Ambushed By Reporters In New York, Says He Will Not Be Resigning

  19-09-2017 14:59
  
  Boris Johnson has insisted he is not resigning from the cabinet, amid reports he is prepared to walk out over Theresa May’s Brexit plan.
  The foreign secretary was ambushed by journalists in New York after he returned from a run.
  Asked if he was going to resign, Johnson said: “No.”
  “We are a government working together, we are a nest of singing birds,” he added. 
  The Daily Telegraph reported earlier on Tuesday that Johnson would quit the government before the w
  
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• Public inquiry needed into UK's £200bn debt crisis, say senior MPs

  19-09-2017 14:50
  Select committee chairs join leading figures voicing concern over impact of debt on households already facing squeezeTell us: what’s your experience of being in debt? The chairs of two powerful parliamentary committees have urged the government to set up an independent public inquiry into the £200bn of debt amassed by households.The call by Rachel Reeves, the Labour chair of the business select committee, and Frank Field, the Labour head of the work and pensions select committee, com
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Ridicules Piers Morgan With A Spanish Tweet Confirming He Snubbed GMB Presenter

  19-09-2017 13:40
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has scored a late winner in his footballing feud with Piers Morgan after confirming he snubbed the TV presenter in a conversation with an Arsenal star.
  The Labour leader took to Twitter to ridicule the Good Morning Britain host over the encounter with Spanish fullback Hector Bellerin at last week’s GQ Man of the Year Awards.
  Corbyn revealed that he had deliberately spoken Spanish to the defender in order to shut fellow Arsenal fan Morgan out of the chat.
  His tweet followed a
  
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• Number of UK workers on zero hours contracts falls

  19-09-2017 13:28
  First decline since 2011 adds support to Bank of England rate-rise hawks
  
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• As Brexit looms, migrant workers go on picking Britain’s berries

  19-09-2017 13:13
  Eastern Europeans still see money to be made on UK farms despite migration crackdown fears
  
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• School nurses could be forced to deny migrant children treatment under new rules

  19-09-2017 13:05
  
  New rules mean school nurses and health visitors could be forced to turn children away
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's caution on Labour rule changes

  19-09-2017 12:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's ruling body is considering leadership-contest rule changes which could move things in Jeremy Corbyn's favour.
  
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• 'Fundamental' Review Of Social Housing To Be Carried Out In Light Of Grenfell Tragedy, Sajid Javid Announces

  19-09-2017 12:43
  
  A “top-to-bottom” review of social housing is to be carried out, Sajid Javid announced today in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy.
  The Communities and Local Government Secretary revealed the plan as he told a conference of social landlords many of those who lived in the West London tower block were treated like “problems that needed to be managed” after raising safety concerns.
  Javid argued the review of social housing was needed as it was less likely such a blaze would h
  
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• Liberal Democrat year: Tim Farron to Vince Cable

  19-09-2017 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The Liberal Democrats picked up a few seats in the 2017 election, and gained a new leader without a leadership contest.
  
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• New ideas needed?

  19-09-2017 11:14 via bbc.co.uk
  After the compromises of government, Lib Dems are asking themselves if they need to be more radical.
  
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• Mhairi Black Defends Susan Calman Over Strictly Come Dancing Same-Sex Partner Row

  19-09-2017 11:06
  
  Mhairi Black has defended lesbian comedian Susan Calman over her decision to dance with a man on Strictly Come Dancing. 
  The gay SNP MP, 23, called the attacks on Calman by LGBT activists “unfair” but said BBC bosses should include same-sex dance couples on the show.
  Speaking to PinkNews, Black said: “People need to give Susan Calman a break – the criticism she’s faced has been really unfair.
  “She’s always been a champion for equality, she’s a
  
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• UK has ‘no capacity’ for quick new trade deals with smaller countries

  19-09-2017 11:01
  Trade minister Greg Hands says post-Brexit focus must be on big agreements
  
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• The Waugh Zone Tuesday September 19, 2017

  19-09-2017 10:50
  
  1. BORIS CAR LOVE
  Harry Truman’s legendary former Secretary of State Dean Acherson famously once declared that ‘Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role’. Until the last few days, Boris Johnson appeared to have lost the Foreign Office’s empire in the Brexit talks and hadn’t yet found a role to match his EU referendum influence. Thanks to Theresa May’s refusal to sack him for ‘back seat’ driving (copyright Amber Rudd), that may have
  
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• Boris Johnson would normally be sacked by now, says Ken Clarke

  19-09-2017 10:41
  Senior Tory accuses foreign secretary of exploiting parliamentary minority to make ‘dishonest’ claims in apparent leadership bid
  Boris Johnson would have been sacked from the cabinet by now if the Conservatives had a parliamentary majority, a senior Tory has said. Related: Boris Johnson wrong because Brexit likely to generate 'net fiscal loss', says IFS - Politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson article 'irrelevant nuisance' says Kenneth Clarke

  19-09-2017 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Conservative Kenneth Clarke criticises the foreign secretary over Brexit article
  
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• Ken Clarke: Boris Johnson exploiting May's weakness

  19-09-2017 10:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Pro-EU Tory MP Ken Clarke says Boris Johnson should have been sacked for his Brexit article.
  
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• Boris Johnson Deserves To Sacked As Foreign Secretary, Says Ken Clarke

  19-09-2017 10:14
  
  Boris Johnson deserves to sacked as foreign secretary for his public campaigning on Brexit, Ken Clarke has said.
  Speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, Clarke said the only reason Johnson was still in post was because Theresa May was so weak.
  “In any normal circumstances he would have been sacked the day after,” he said.May and Johnson are set for an awkward reunion in New York, as both attend the United Nations General Assembly following days of headlines abou
  
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• Boris Johnson Deserves To Be Sacked As Foreign Secretary, Says Ken Clarke

  19-09-2017 10:14
  
  Boris Johnson deserves to sacked as foreign secretary for his public campaigning on Brexit, Ken Clarke has said.
  Speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme this morning, Clarke said the only reason Johnson was still in post was because Theresa May was so weak.
  “In any normal circumstances he would have been sacked the day after,” he said.May and Johnson are set for an awkward reunion in New York, as both attend the United Nations General Assembly following days of headlines abou
  
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• Stephen King Has A Chilling Diagnosis For Donald Trump’s Mind

  19-09-2017 09:24
  
  Horror master Stephen King says Donald Trump’s latest activity on Twitter reveals much about the president’s mind. 
  On Sunday, Trump retweeted a GIF that was doctored to make it seem like he had hit a golf ball at Hillary Clinton and knocked her over. It wasn’t lost on King that Trump retweeted a user named “Fuctupmind.”
  The horror master wrote: 
  Trump thinks hitting a woman with a golf ball and knocking her down is funn
  
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