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• Grenfell Tower firm has housing contract terminated

  27-09-2017 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Councillors said the tenant management organisation "no longer has the trust of residents".
  
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• Property experts warn Corbyn’s rent caps would damp investment

  27-09-2017 21:53
  Estate agents say Labour’s proposals could hurt tenants by restricting supply
  
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• Waugh Zone Special: Jeremy Corbyn's Conference Speech

  27-09-2017 21:11
  
  1. COMMON SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
  Jeremy Corbyn’s central theme today was that Labour represents a “new common sense” and “new consensus” in British politics. Cheekily stealing Tony Blair’s novel prefix (as well as his “many not the few” mantra), this “old” Labour socialist was determined to sound reassuringly reasonable. And his overarching argument was that the public are not just sick of recent Tory cuts, but also the entire “ne
  
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• Former SNP MP to run for financial regulator post

  27-09-2017 20:47
  George Kerevan says he will publish contentious RBS report on his first day at FCA
  
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• Boeing UK contracts 'jeopardised' over Bombardier row

  27-09-2017 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Boeing's trade dispute with Bombardier could jeopardise its defence contracts, says UK defence secretary.
  
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• Gloom hangs over Bombardier’s Belfast operations amid tariff threat

  27-09-2017 20:29
  US proposal to impost punitive levies on jet sparks fears about jobs in N Ireland
  
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• Corbyn sets out stall to take on landlords and big business

  27-09-2017 20:22
  Labour leader eyes rent controls, greater state role in the economy and tax rises
  
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• Labour looks to limit fallout from any run on sterling

  27-09-2017 20:13
  Shadow chancellor plans to contain crisis in the event that victory triggers panic
  
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• Signs of hubris as Labour conference confirms Corbyn in command

  27-09-2017 19:21
  What a difference a year makes for a party leader once facing open rebellion
  
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• Labour conference confirms Jeremy Corbyn is in command

  27-09-2017 19:21
  What a difference a year makes for a party leader once facing open rebellion
  
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• Labour conference confirms Corbyn in command

  27-09-2017 19:21
  What a difference a year makes for a party leader once facing open rebellion
  
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• Labour should beware the cult of Jeremy Corbyn

  27-09-2017 18:16
  The UK opposition party has descended into hero worship over serious politics
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: neoliberalism is broken and we are now the centre ground

  27-09-2017 18:08
  ‘No social cleansing, no jacking up rents’: Labour leader invokes memory of Grenfell Tower in speech to party conferenceJeremy Corbyn has described the “chilling wreckage of Grenfell Tower” as a monument to a failed economic and housing system in the UK as he set out Labour plans for city-wide rent controls and a crackdown on gentrification projects.
  The Labour leader used his speech to his party’s first annual conference since stripping Theresa May of a parliamenta
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: We are the political mainstream now

  27-09-2017 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader promises rent controls and an end to "forced gentrification" in his big speech.
  
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• Oh, Jeremy Corbyn! I bet you think this song is about you: my week at Labour’s love-in

  27-09-2017 16:50
  The party’s conference was big on euphemisms for not winning the election and low on dissent, with everything unfortunate regarded as a conspiracy against Jeremy. What a difference a year makes!If you are a political archivist, there are two seriously covetable gigs in the world right now. The first is conceptualising the unprecedented annals facility that will one day be the Donald Trump Presidential Library. The second is collating the many different euphemisms for the Labour party havin
  
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• 'A Home Is A Human Right' : Labour Activist Hits Out As Homelessness Rockets In The UK

  27-09-2017 16:47
  
   A Labour activist delivered an emotional speech on homelessness after encountering a growing number of rough sleepers. 
  Jessie Jacobs told the party’s conference “a home is a human right” but homelessness had doubled under the Conservatives and she feared it would explode as Universal Credit was rolled out.  
  It comes after Jeremy Corbyn made housing a central plank of his keynote speech at the annual event in Brighton, where homelessness has hit a record high.&
  
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• A well-rehearsed Jeremy Corbyn delivers a cunning, mocking speech

  27-09-2017 16:36
  Labour’s leader seeks to position himself to the party conference as a PM in waiting
  
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• Corbyn speech: Idolised leader enthralls those who have seen the light

  27-09-2017 16:09
  
  No matter what his supporters say, there is something strange and unsettling about the treatment of the Labour leader
  
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• BBC Forced To Deny Anti-BBC Site's Claim Laura Kuenssberg Is 'Speaking At Tory Party Conference'

  27-09-2017 16:09
  
  The BBC has been forced to deny a leftwing website’s suggestion that Laura Kuenssberg was speaking at Tory Party conference.
  The broadcaster’s political editor has suffered online abuse and threats so severe that she has required a bodyguard during the Labour Party conference she is currently covering.
  The Canary, a website that repeatedly accuses the BBC of rightwing bias, wrote an article on Wednesday claiming that Kuenssberg was an “invited” speaker at a fringe event o
  
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• BBC Dismisses The Canary's Claim Laura Kuenssberg Is To Speak At Tory Party Conference

  27-09-2017 16:09
  
  The BBC has dismissed leftwing, pro-Jeremy Corbyn website The Canary’s suggestion that Laura Kuenssberg was speaking at Tory Party conference.
  The broadcaster’s political editor has suffered online abuse and threats so severe that she has required a bodyguard during the Labour Party conference she is currently covering.
  The Canary, a website that repeatedly accuses the BBC of rightwing bias, wrote an article on Wednesday claiming that Kuenssberg was an “invited” speaker a
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Conference Speech Snap Verdict: Ending The Re-Generation Game By Burying Blair

  27-09-2017 16:04
  
  It was 6,000 words long, lasted 75 minutes and was listened to by 1,500 people in a packed conference hall that delivered nine standing ovations. But for Jeremy Corbyn, his marathon speech to Labour conference was the very opposite of politics-by-numbers. This was big picture politics, with the traditional focus on new policies (there were few beyond the summer’s manifesto) replaced by an attempt to claim he was winning the argument against “neoliberal economics” that has domi
  
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• Who Is Roy Moore, The Republican Senate Nominee Backed By Nigel Farage

  27-09-2017 15:49
  
  Voters in Alabama elected conservative firebrand Judge Roy Moore as the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat on Tuesday, dealing a blow to Donald Trump who backed his rival...
  ... but a boon for Nigel Farage who took to a stage this week to trumpet the winner.
  Farage said: “I have absolutely no hesitation in putting my support and my backing behind a man like judge Roy Moore who has shown in his career that he will always put principle before his own career advancement.”
  But befor
  
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• 'It Gave People Hope!' Eddie Izzard And Labour MPs React To Jeremy Corbyn's Speech

  27-09-2017 15:42
  
   
  Jeremy Corbyn “gave people hope” with his barnstorming speech at the Labour Party conference, his MPs said. 
  The leader spoke to a packed conference hall in Brighton and pledged to end “forced gentrification”, the gender pay gap and wealth inequality if Labour won the next general election.This is what Eddie Izzard thinks of Jez's big speech. pic.twitter.com/sgajyplzoI— Ned Simons (@nedsimons) September 27, 2017
  Exiting the conference hall after the spe
  
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• Labour’s contortions over Brexit

  27-09-2017 15:39
  Some party members see the EU as a capitalist club, others want a second referendum
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn puts big business on notice for tax rises

  27-09-2017 15:35
  Labour leader signals greater state role in the economy and calls for rent controls
  
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• UK employers urged to report quickly on gender pay gap

  27-09-2017 15:26
  Only 1% of companies have published difference in salaries between male and female staff
  
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• Question Time Heckler Turned Labour Activist Could Challenge Amber Rudd At Next Election

  27-09-2017 15:07
  
  The Tory voter turned Labour activist who heckled Amber Rudd over tax credits on Question Time could challenge the Home Secretary at the ballot box, HuffPost UK can reveal. 
  Michelle Dorrell said it would be “awesome” to go “head to head” with Rudd in Hastings and Rye at the next election and that she has been asked by the local Labour branch if she would stand. 
  Rudd would be a huge scalp for Corbyn’s party and victory is within sight after her majority w
  
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• Task force calls for pooled pension ‘superfunds’ to ease pressure

  27-09-2017 15:02
  Proposal for employers to combine schemes to release liabilities more cheaply
  
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• Scottish Labour MSPs embroiled in row over leadership 'plot'

  27-09-2017 14:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Scottish Labour MSPs trade barbs over claims of a "plot" to replace Kezia Dugdale with Richard Leonard.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour Will End 'Social Cleansing' In UK

  27-09-2017 14:45
  
  Jeremy Corbyn declared war on “social cleansing” today as he set out plans to reform housing developments in the wake of the Grenfell tower tragedy.
  The Labour leader used his keynote speech at the party’s annual conference in Brighton to demand an end to “forced gentrification” of council estates across the UK.
  Corbyn revealed Labour would only allow the regeneration of estates if residents backed the changes in a ballot.
  Those living on the estates would be also b
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Uses Labour Conference Speech To Tell Daily Mail: Bring It On

  27-09-2017 14:35
  
  Jeremy Corbyn used his party conference speech to send a very clear message to the so-called “mainstream media”.
  The Labour leader, who enjoyed a two-minute standing ovation as he took to the stage in Brighton, made it plain he was not afraid of criticism from the press. 
  After sending a personal message to Theresa May, asking the prime minister to “take another walking holiday and make another impetuous decision”, he turned his attention to Daily Mail editor Paul D
  
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• Confident Corbyn slams Tory ‘coalition of chaos’

  27-09-2017 13:57
  Labour leader tells party conference that Conservatives are not “strong and stable”
  
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• 'NHS Cuts Are Costing Me My Freedom' Says Disabled Student Having To Fundraise For New Wheelchair

  27-09-2017 13:19
  
  A disabled woman focred to fundraise for a wheelchair which doesn’t cause her pain has appealed to Theresa May to look again at the impact of spending cuts.
  Rebecca Boot, a student at Aston University, told HuffPost UK she has resorted to crowdfunding a new wheelchair as the NHS is unable to carry out a new assessment of her needs.
  The 23-year-old has Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), which causes severe pain; and also suffers from fatigue, frequent dislocations, rapid heart rate, lig
  
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• Rollout of Universal Credit in Grenfell area halted until 2018

  27-09-2017 13:18
  
  The new benefit will not be fully introduced in North Kensington for another year
  
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• Labour conference: Delegates on befriending Conservatives

  27-09-2017 12:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Can Labour delegates reach across the political divide and be friends with a Tory?
  
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• Labour conference: Highlights of Corbyn leadership

  27-09-2017 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC archive looks back over some of highlights for Jeremy Corbyn and his party in the last 12 months.
  
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• Labour MP defends Prince Harry helicopter comments

  27-09-2017 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Emma Dent Coad says she was told Prince Harry cannot fly a helicopter.
  
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• UK 'disappointed' by Bombardier tax ruling

  27-09-2017 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  There are fears the US trade ruling could jeopardise jobs in NI, where Bombardier employs 4,100 people.
  
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• The Waugh Zone Wednesday September 27, 2017

  27-09-2017 11:22
  
  1. BROKEN BRITAIN
  When Jeremy Corbyn stands up at around 12.15pm to deliver his conference speech, he will look out at a party that has altered beyond recognition in the past two years.
  A massive influx of new members (who have driven the Momentum arm-lock on events this week) has obviously changed the nature of Labour. But Corbyn thinks that he can change the nature of politics too and that the radical manifesto of the summer is a springboard to even more bold policies. We are told he has at l
  
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• Rayner on public sector pay

  27-09-2017 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour promises to give public sector workers an inflation linked pay rise.
  
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• Forbidden love?

  27-09-2017 10:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Do Labour supporters at their party conference have Conservative-voting friends?
  
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• Paddy Power Betfair backs curbs on fixed-odds betting machines

  27-09-2017 10:22
  First big bookmaker to urge restraint on terminals known as ‘crack cocaine’ of gambling
  
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• Paddy Power Betfair backs curbs on betting machines

  27-09-2017 10:22
  Group is first big bookmaker to urge restraints on fixed-odds betting terminals
  
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• Owen Jones at the Labour conference: 'There's been a peaceful revolution under Corbyn' - video

  27-09-2017 10:13
  Owen Jones goes to the Labour conference in Brighton where he finds a party transformed since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader two years ago. There is renewed enthusiasm, energy and confidence. He says there has been a ‘peaceful revolution’ and people who were marginalised and alienated in politics are the new masters of Labour. But what happens next? Continue reading...
  
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• The Lib Dems have learned their lessons, it would appear that Labour hasn't

  27-09-2017 10:09
  
  The Lib Dems have learned that government is about compromise - can Labour say the same?
  
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• Labour MP Emma Dent Coad Hits Out At The Sun Over Coverage Of Anti-Royal Family Remarks

  27-09-2017 09:56
  
  A Labour MP has hit out at national media coverage of anti-Royal Family remarks she made at a party conference event.
  Emma Dent Coad described herself as “the Royal Family’s worst nightmare” and allegedly made fun of Prince Harry’s military service - prompting Barrow MP and Labour colleague John Woodcock to apologise on her behalf.
  But responding to coverage of her comments in The Sun, Dent Coad told HuffPost UK: “This front page coverage from The Sun response prov
  
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• Labour MP Apologises On Behalf Of Emma Dent Coad For Anti-Royal Family Remarks

  27-09-2017 09:56
  
  A Labour MP has apologised on behalf of one of his colleagues who made anti-Royal Family remarks and allegedly made fun of Prince Harry’s military service.
  John Woodcock said the comments made by Emma Dent Coad in which she described herself as “the Royal Family’s worst nightmare”, were “highly inaccurate” - but the newly-elected MP hit back, saying she is “allowed to have an opinion”.
  Dent Coad called for the Royals’ public funding to be sc
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour on the threshold of power

  27-09-2017 09:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader will tell his party conference the general election has "put the Tories on notice".
  
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• Theresa May's Lobbying Fails To Stop US Imposing 220% Tariff On Bombardier Plane

  27-09-2017 09:23
  
  Theresa May’s lobbying and “hand-holding” of Donald Trump has failed to stop the US imposing a massive interim tariff on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of Northern Ireland’s biggest employers.
  Thousands of jobs in the country are now at risk and the Prime Minister has been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” over the imposition of the punitive import duty.
  The US Department of Commerce (DoC) imposed an interim tariff of nearly
  
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• Bombardier Vs Boeing: Theresa May's Lobbying Fails To Stop US Imposing 220% Tariff

  27-09-2017 09:23
  
  Theresa May’s lobbying and “hand-holding” of Donald Trump has failed to stop the US imposing a massive interim tariff on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of Northern Ireland’s biggest employers.
  Thousands of jobs in the country are now at risk and the Prime Minister has been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” over the imposition of the punitive import duty.
  The US Department of Commerce (DoC) imposed an interim tariff of nearly
  
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