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• Len McCluskey: Labour does not have anti-Semitism issue

  26-09-2017 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Len McCluskey says claims the leadership was condoning anti-Semitism, racism and misogyny were designed to "bring Jeremy Corbyn down".
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Claims 'Broken System' Of Tory And Labour Governments To Blame For Grenfell Disaster

  26-09-2017 23:01
  
  The next Labour government will end the “broken” political and economic system that caused the Grenfell disaster, Jeremy Corbyn is set to declare in his keynote party conference speech.
  Vowing that he was ready to “govern differently”, Corbyn will declare on Wednesday that both Tory and Labour governments oversaw a hollowing out of public services that led directly to the tower block fire that killed 80 people.
  The Labour leader will close the conference in Brighton by c
  
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• PFI discredited by cost, complexity and inflexibility

  26-09-2017 22:09
  Innovative model for providing public infrastructure has fallen out of favour
  
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• Ending Free Movement Is 'Kowtowing To Xenophobia' Claims Clive Lewis Amid Immigration Row

  26-09-2017 21:44
  
  Labour MPs who want to end free movement will be “kowtowing to xenophobia” it was claimed as an immigration row swept across the party conference.
  Former Shadow Cabinet Minister Clive Lewis argued there was no economic argument for the ending of free movement after Brexit, and any attempt to restrict immigration from the EU will lead the UK to a “darker place.”
  Yet high-profile MPs Lisa Nandy and Stephen Kinnock both called for the end of free movement, claiming too many
  
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• Labour: Len McCluskey says party does not have anti-Semitism issue

  26-09-2017 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Claims leadership condones anti-Semitism are designed to "bring Corbyn down", union boss says.
  
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• Labour votes through rules to tackle anti-Semitism

  26-09-2017 20:23
  Activists call for further action to prove Britain’s opposition is serious about problem
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour is united around economic plan

  26-09-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader says his party backs his "different" strategy and is ready for another election.
  
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• Labour MP Rupa Huq Wants A Change In The Law To Stop Protests Outside Abortion Clinics

  26-09-2017 19:50
  
  A Labour MP wants to force a change in the law to stop protests being staged outside abortion clinics.
  Rupa Huq is planning to table an amendment to new domestic violence legislation being brought about by the government, which would see “buffer zones” created around family planning centres.
  She told Labour conference delegates at a fringe event examining safety for women and girls that there were longstanding issues with protesters “weaponising rosary beads” outside a c
  
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• Grenfell Shows Tories Are 'Not Human Beings', Says Kensington Labour Activist

  26-09-2017 19:45
  
  The Tory Government are “not human beings” and “need to be removed” from office, a woman grief-stricken by the Grenfell Tower fire has said. 
  Portia Thaxter, a Labour member from Kensington, made an impassioned speech at the party conference in Brighton, telling delegates she lost four friends in the blaze on June 14. 
  Laying the blame squarely at the door of the “procedures and methodologies”of Government, she said the UK had a “responsibility
  
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• Labour plan gambling levy to fund addiction treatment

  26-09-2017 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  A levy on bookmakers would be spent on treating problem gamblers, deputy leader Tom Watson says.
  
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• Uber faces sex discrimination case in UK

  26-09-2017 19:21
  Female driver says the way the ride-hailing app operates puts women at risk
  
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• Labour will let women claim pensions earlier

  26-09-2017 18:51
  Party conference told that hasty change had left some people ‘in dire straits’
  
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• UBS warns on ‘significant’ shift out of UK by March

  26-09-2017 18:25
  Investment bank calls for quick agreement on Brexit transition deal
  
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• UBS to shift staff if no Brexit transition deal by March

  26-09-2017 18:25
  Investment bank warns of move out of UK in absence of‘definite guidance’
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: It's right to plan for run on pound

  26-09-2017 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader says it's right to be carrying out "war games" planning for government.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Says John McDonnell 'Right' To Plan For Run On The Pound Under Labour

  26-09-2017 17:35
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has said it is “right to look at all these scenarios” after John McDonnell said Labour might have to prepare for a run on the pound if it became the government.
  The Labour leader told the BBC the shadow chancellor was right to be prepared for people taking money out of the country.
  McDonnell last night told a fringe meeting near the Labour Party conference in Brighton that “war game-type scenario-planning” was being undertaken.“What if there is a run
  
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• In full: Jeremy Corbyn interview with Laura Kuenssberg

  26-09-2017 17:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the full interview with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the 2017 Labour Party conference.
  
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• Labour plans for capital flight or run on pound if elected

  26-09-2017 17:30
  Party has to prepare for establishment backlash, says McDonnell
  
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• Gove Faces Showdown With UK Food Chief Over 'Terrifying' Lack Of Brexit Planning

  26-09-2017 16:59
  
  Michael Gove is set for a showdown meeting with the head of the Food and Drink Federation over the Government’s “terrifying” lack of planning for trade after Brexit.
  Ian Wright, director general of the body which represents the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, is planning to collar the Defra Secretary at next week’s Tory party conference to raise his industry’s concerns.
  With the UK set to leave the EU’s customs union after Brexit, there is risk of st
  
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• Gove Accused By UK Food Chief Of 'Terrifying' Lack Of Brexit Planning

  26-09-2017 16:59
  
  Michael Gove is set for a showdown meeting with the head of the Food and Drink Federation over the Government’s “terrifying” lack of planning for trade after Brexit.
  Ian Wright, director general of the body which represents the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, is planning to collar the Defra Secretary at next week’s Tory party conference to raise his industry’s concerns.
  With the UK set to leave the EU’s customs union after Brexit, there is risk of st
  
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• Tusk welcomes end of ‘have cake and eat it’ Brexit strategy

  26-09-2017 16:42
  EC president hails change of tone in Brussels negotiations
  
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• Nervous Bombardier workers in Belfast await competition ruling

  26-09-2017 16:25
  US commerce department due to give opinion on Boeing complaint against rival
  
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• Labour Member Explains Why He Took A Portrait Of Jeremy Corbyn Adorned With Fairy Lights To Conference

  26-09-2017 16:21
  
  Labour Party Conference has seen its fair share of interesting sights this year - but a huge portrait of Jeremy Corbyn, adorned with fairy lights and a tinsel halo, is probably near the top of the list. 
  First spotted on conference floor during Monday’s speeches, HuffPost UK caught up with Paul Dawson, the proud owner of the work of art, to ask why he brought it along.
  The 62-year-old, who joined Labour after Corbyn was elected leader in 2015, told us he wanted to “sha
  
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• Labour MPs Must Not Be 'Racist' To Win Over Working Class Votes, Warns Laura Pidcock

  26-09-2017 16:18
  
  Laura Pidcock has warned Labour MPs to reject the suggestion they need to be “racist” in order to appeal to working class voters
  “There is a bit of a conversation going at the minute in the Labour Party that I find a little concerning, that we are not appealing to working class people, and specifically white working class people,” she said.
  “To try and appeal to more working class people, we have to completely dismantle the notion we have to be racist.”
  The L
  
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• No middle way on trade for Brexit Britain

  26-09-2017 15:52
  UK quest for benefits of a close embrace with advantages of looser trade deal is futile
  
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• Brexit: Donald Tusk says not enough progress in talks

  26-09-2017 15:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Donald Tusk says he is pleased the UK's aim of "having cake and eating it" in Brexit talks is over.
  
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• Film-maker Ken Loach on Conservatives' economic record

  26-09-2017 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  One million food parcels were handed out by charities in 2016 says Ken Loach.
  
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• Labour's £10m pledge to tackle 'period poverty'

  26-09-2017 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The party pledges help for pupils in England who cannot afford sanitary protection.
  
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• UK in ‘live debate’ over doubling of trade quotas after Brexit

  26-09-2017 14:57
  Michael Gove admission’s welcomed by free-marketers but sparks concern for upland sheep farmers
  
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• Fresh UK cabinet squalls over the transition

  26-09-2017 14:55
  Ministers at loggerheads over how long Britain should abide by EU rules and regulations
  
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• Tony Booth: Till Death Us Do Part actor dies at 85

  26-09-2017 14:11 via bbc.co.uk
  He starred in programmes including BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part.
  
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• Grenfell-Hit Community To Declare 'People's Republic' As MP Calls For Royals' Funding To Be Scrapped

  26-09-2017 13:13
  
  Kensington’s anti-Monarch MP has declared herself “the Royal Family’s worst nightmare” as she revealed her constituents were collecting signatures for a people’s republic.
  Labour’s Emma Dent Coad, who wants an elected head of state, hit out at the BBC for “sickeningly gratuitous coverage of anything Royal” and said the ‘People’s Republic of North Kensington’ will be announced at Halloween.
  Dent Coad, who won the Kensington seat in
  
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• Labour should not be seduced by Lexit

  26-09-2017 12:39
  The left’s case on why the UK should leave the EU unravels under scrutiny
  
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• North Korean Nuclear War 'Could Be Sparked By Donald Trump's Ego'

  26-09-2017 12:33
  
  A former-Director of US Intelligence has claimed “egos” could the the factor that sparks conflict between the United States and North Korea.
  Speaking on Radio 4′s Today programme, John Negroponte said the escalation in rhetoric between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un “could cause one side or the other to feel they’ve been painted into some kind of psychological corner”.
  He added: “I’m concerned that it raises the risk of miscalculation perhaps on both
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn In Fresh Row With BBC After Refusing 'Today' Programme Interview

  26-09-2017 12:17
  
  Relations between Jeremy Corbyn and the BBC have hit a new low after he became the first Labour leader in decades not to conduct a ‘Today’ programme interview at the party conference.
  BBC sources told HuffPost UK that the flagship Radio 4 news show had expected Corbyn to carry out a live interview in Brighton on Tuesday morning - but it didn’t go ahead amid claims that Labour was unhappy with its treatment by the programme.
  Senior party sources insisted to HuffPost UK that the
  
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• David Cameron's role in the rise of the far right in Germany

  26-09-2017 12:05
  
  Failure of successive Tory leaders to face down the party's nationalist wing now haunts Europe
  
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• John McDonnell Looking At 'War-Game' Plans For A Run On The Pound If Labour Win Next Election

  26-09-2017 11:34
  
  John McDonnell has revealed Labour is looking at plans for what to do if there is a run on the pound if it wins the next election.
  Speaking at a Momentum organised rally on the fringes of the Labour conference in Brighton on Monday evening, the shadow chancellor said “war game-type scenario-planning” was being undertaken.
  According to Politics Home, McDonnell said Labour had to be prepared for an “assault” from elements of the establishment such as the City.
  “What
  
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• Liam Fox's 'Madhouse' Brexit Plan Will See UK Flooded With Low-Standard Food, Farming Union Warns

  26-09-2017 11:20
  
  Liam Fox’s “madhouse” claims of a free trade boom after Brexit will lead to the UK flooded with lower-standard food, one of the country’s top farming union officials has warned.
  Guy Smith, vice president of the National Farmers Union, claimed free trade was a “myth” as so many countries subsidise their agricultural sectors.
  International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has repeatedly talked up the benefits of free trade deals with countries such as the US and Canada
  
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• Labour's Jon Ashworth calls for £500m NHS winter bailout

  26-09-2017 11:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The shadow health secretary says the NHS is not prepared for a "serious winter" like the last one.
  
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• Firefighters' Union Chief Threatens To Boycott Grenfell Tower Inquiry

  26-09-2017 11:00
  
  The public inquiry into Grenfell Tower should be boycotted if firefighters and survivors deem it “a pointless stitch-up”, the boss of the Fire Brigades Union has said. 
  Matt Wrack said his members would be prepared to walk away if the government-ordered probe into the tragedy does not go far enough in establishing how it was allowed to happen.
  He told Labour Party conference delegates that “any serious inquiry” should lay bare any relevant political and policy decis
  
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• The Waugh Zone Tuesday September 26, 2017

  26-09-2017 10:51
  
  1. BIG MAC GOES LARGE
  John McDonnell was in his element yesterday, using his commanding position as Shadow Chancellor (and as one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies) to win an even bigger ovation than last year.  He rammed home not just his radical renationalisation plans, but also his main political message that he’d long predicted the pollsters and pundits were wrong, and said he’d been proved right by the Corbyn ‘surge’ at the general election.
  I wrote 
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Delights Fan At Brighton Table Tennis Club

  26-09-2017 10:21
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has been praised for his “authenticity”, after a touching moment with a young supporter was caught on film.
  The Labour leader, who was in Brighton for his party conference, visited Brighton Table Tennis Club, which offers sessions to young people, those aged 50+, adults with learning disabilities and children in care.
  He stopped for a few rallies with some of the club members 
  Harry Fairchild, was clearly a fan of the Islington North MP, breaking into the “Oh
  
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• Body Language Experts Explain Prince Harry’s Strange Pose With Melania Trump

  26-09-2017 10:07
  
  A picture is worth a thousand words. But some onlookers apparently thought this one, of Prince Harry and Melania Trump at the Invictus Games in Toronto over the weekend, is worth 666. 
  Harry and the first lady posed for a series of photos together before sitting down for a chat. Trump stood with her arms at her sides, while Harry’s hand was half-tucked into his jacket in a very unusual way: His ring and middle fingers were tucked inside his coat alo
  
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• Labour Calls For £500m Bailout For NHS Winter Crisis As Questions Swirl About PFI Announcement

  26-09-2017 09:49
  
  Theresa May should pump half a billion pound into the NHS to avoid a looming winter crisis for the NHS, Labour has said. 
  Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworrth said the bailout fund was needed to protect patients who rely on overstretched services. 
  During a BBC interview, Ashworth also appeared to row back on pledges Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell made during his speech to “take back” all health services from any PFI (private finance initiative) deals. 
  He said
  
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• Donald Trump Duped By Fake Iranian Missile Test, Officials Say

  26-09-2017 09:28
  
  An Iranian missile test that provoked an angry Twitter response from Donald Trump never actually happened according to US officials.
  The video in question, published by Iran’s state-owned Press TV, purported to show the launch of a Khoramshahr on Saturday, and was lauded by Iran’s leadership and seen as a response to the President’s confrontational UN speech earlier in the week.Video: #Iran successfully test-fires new ballistic missile
  Details: https://t.co/eKHi0jXnED pic.
  
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• Uber Could Remain On London's Streets For 'More Than A Year' - Despite Licence Ban

  26-09-2017 09:26
  
  Uber could remain on London’s streets for more than a year - despite being banned by the capital’s transport body last week. 
  Transport for London (TfL) announced in a shock ruling on Friday that it would not be renewing the ride-hailing app’s operating licence, which is due to expire at the end of the month. 
  Pointing towards Uber’s approach to reporting serious crimes and how criminal record checks are carried out, TfL said Uber was “not fit and proper
  
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• Labour In Fresh Anti-Semitism Row As Speaker Calls For Free Speech To Cover Holocaust Denial

  26-09-2017 08:46
  
  Labour faces fresh claims of anti-semitism after a speaker at a party conference fringe event said freedom of speech should cover Holocaust denial. 
  Israeli-American author Miko Peled said members should support the freedom to “discuss every issue, whether it’s the holocaust, yes or no, whether it’s Palestine liberation - the entire spectrum.
  “There should be no limits on the discussion.”
  He said freedom of speech should protect the right to ask “Holocaus
  
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• Labour Is Still In Danger Of Turning Its Back On Traditional Voters, MPs Say

  26-09-2017 00:08
  
  Labour is still in danger of abandoning its traditional support base despite exceeding expectations in the general election, according to MPs.
  Jess Phillips, Lucy Powell, Steve McCabe and Angela Eagle said the party has to do much more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies before the next election if it is to have any hope of winning power.
  Speaking at a party conference fringe event, Phillips, who has represented Birmingham Yardley since 2015, said ac
  
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