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• PM pledges help for young people on fees and housing

  30-09-2017 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  The Conservative Party conference will see the announcement of policies aimed to win over young voters
  
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• Jolt for Tories as poll suggests under-45s switching to Labour

  30-09-2017 22:01
  Conservative minister admits party a ‘huge turn-off’ for younger voters, backed up by Opinium survey resultsPhillip Lee: My party has to changeMore than twice as many voters under the age of 45 think Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party is now “on their side”, compared with those who believe the same about Theresa May’s Tories, according to new polling that will send shockwaves through the Conservative party.The survey for the Social Market Foundation (SMF) by Opinium
  
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• 'Hang The Tories' Banner Triggers Horror And Disgust Ahead Of Manchester Conservative Conference

  30-09-2017 21:34
  
  Police have removed a banner over a bridge in Salford that said “hang the Tories”, as people arriving for the Conservative Party conference reacted with horror and disgust.
  The banner included two mannequins in suits hanging from nooses and red flag. Tory MP Mike Fabricant said of the people who hung it: “Those aren’t protestors, they’re fascists.”What a charming welcome to Manchester and the Conservative Party Conference.
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• Brussels investigates UK over deported EU citizens

  30-09-2017 21:14
  Home Office accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over rights of free movement despite Theresa May’s promise to protect EuropeansThe European commission is examining the increased detention and deportation of EU citizens from Britain and has warned it will take “appropriate action” against Theresa May’s government if it believes the rights of EU nationals are being compromised.Detentions and enforced removals of EU citizens from the UK have risen sharply since the Bre
  
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• Capitalism must be revolutionary to defeat Jeremy Corbyn   

  30-09-2017 19:06
  The Labour opposition can only be defeated by a guerrilla army arguing for enterprise
  
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• Ukip Leader Henry Bolton Says British Culture Is 'Buried' By Islam And Immigration

  30-09-2017 17:50
  
  Ukip’s unknown new leader has said Islam leaves Britons feeling “buried” and claimed multiculturalism is “swamping” British identity, in a speech setting out the party as a nationalist voice.
  Henry Bolton, who shocked many by winning the leadership on Friday, said the country should be “proud to be called British” in his maiden conference speech, which dismissed suggestions Brexit will make the party irrelevant. 
  By the time he spoke in To
  
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• Brexit transitional period unacceptable, says new UKIP leader

  30-09-2017 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  UKIP's new leader Henry Bolton says the Tories "cannot be trusted" to take Britain out of the EU.
  
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• Donald Trump Attacks Puerto Ricans Who 'Want Everything Done For Them' Amid Hurricane Maria Devastation

  30-09-2017 16:00
  
  Donald Trump has attacked Puerto Ricans who “want everything done for them”, as the US Government intervenes to help the American territority’s people after Hurricane Maria.
  The Category Five hurricane knocked out power, cut off running water and killed at least 16 people so far on the island, home to 3.4 million Americans, when it struck a week ago. It also damaged a dam that created the risk of flash flooding. Its officials have accused Washington of not moving fast enou
  
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• UK must be prepared for no deal on Brexit, says new UKIP leader

  30-09-2017 14:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Henry Bolton says it is crucial Britain is prepared to walk away from the EU.
  
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• Boris Johnson Reportedly Caught On Camera Reciting Colonial Poem In Burmese Temple

  30-09-2017 12:30
  
  Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has reportedly been caught on camera part-reciting a colonial poem in a Burmese temple before being stopped by an ambassador.
  Johnson was said to have begun quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Burma, the Press Association reported.
  The poem by Rudyard Kipling is written through the eyes of a retired British serviceman in Burma, also known as Myanmar, which Britain colonised for more than a century.
  
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• Boris Johnson Caught On Camera Reciting Colonial Poem In Burmese Temple

  30-09-2017 12:30
  
  Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on camera part-reciting a colonial poem in a Burmese temple before being stopped by an ambassador.
  Johnson began quoting the opening lines of Mandalay during a visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the capital of Burma, the Press Association reported.
  The poem by Rudyard Kipling is written through the eyes of a retired British serviceman in Burma, also known as Myanmar, which Britain colonised for more than a century.The Guardian, reporting on t
  
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• Scottish business group steps up plans to oppose referendum

  30-09-2017 12:27
  Pro-Union body warns against complacency despite fading expectations of second poll
  
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• Hammond ponders giveaways ahead of Conservative party conference

  30-09-2017 12:14
  Chancellor under pressure from Tory MPs to woo voters while avoiding tax hikes
  
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• Brexit: Boris Johnson urges two-year transition time limit

  30-09-2017 11:23 via bbc.co.uk
  The foreign secretary intervenes again on Brexit, detailing four "red lines" in a Sun interview.
  
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• Benefit advisers like me are turning to food banks – and so are other council staff

  30-09-2017 11:12
  I lie awake at night worrying about money. All public sector workers need a pay rise, not just police and prison staff I work as a housing benefit adviser for a local authority in the West Midlands. Every day I meet and help people who need assistance paying their rent, and sometimes I have to give bad news to those who do not qualify for any help, because their income is slightly above the amount we are told a family can live on.
  Many people get upset when they are given this news, but what mos
  
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• UK should be prepared to ditch talks with EU, says new Ukip leader

  30-09-2017 10:33
  Henry Bolton, who was elected leader of party on Friday, warns against ‘endless negotiations’ over BrexitThe new Ukip leader has said he does not believe the UK government will reach a deal with Brussels over the country’s departure from the European Union and should be prepared to ditch negotiations.Henry Bolton, a former solider and Thames Valley police officer, was elected leader of the rightwing party during its annual conference on Friday, beating a populist anti-Islam can
  
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• Boris Johnson Intervenes On Brexit Again Ahead Of Tory Party Conference

  30-09-2017 10:33
  
  Boris Johnson has intervened on Brexit yet again, putting Theresa May under fresh pressure ahead of the Tory party conference.
  The foreign secretary told The Sun that any transition period following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU must not last “a second more” than two years, insisting there must be no “monkeying around”.
  He said the UK should not have to abide by any new EU rules during the transition period, and that Britain should not make payments to Brussels af
  
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• Boris Johnson increases pressure on May with fresh Brexit intervention

  30-09-2017 09:47
  Foreign secretary told the Sun there can be ‘no monkeying around’ about withdrawal from the EUBoris Johnson has said any post-withdrawal transition period must not last “a second more” than two years, while some senior Conservatives have said Britain should walk away from Brexit negotiations by Christmas if no serious progress is being made.The foreign secretary’s latest comments on Brexit have put Theresa May under renewed pressure on the eve of the Tory party conf
  
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• Animal cruelty sentences to rise to five years in prison

  30-09-2017 08:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The tougher sentences will be given to "those who commit the most shocking cruelty towards animals".
  
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• 'Get Together And Throw Shapes' How Young Tories Are Trying To Save The Party

  30-09-2017 08:00
  
  “For a long time I kept it quiet,” says 21-year-old Ellie King, adding: “I didn’t stand up for things. I would leave it because I couldn’t be bothered with the fuss.”
  The great taboo of which Ellie speaks is that she is Conservative Party member.
  The Warwick University student is one of the minority of under 25s who preferred Theresa May to Jeremy Corbyn in the June election, with just 6% of Tory voters coming from that age group.
  And it’s not as if the
  
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• Why it was no picnic growing up as the son of a Tory MP

  30-09-2017 07:15
  Having a prominent Conservative as a father was tough at a Labour-supporting school in the 70s and 80s and even though I’m 52 with children, I still keep quiet about who he wasHave you ever seen such a happy family? All mucking in together to wash the car on a weekend, deeply engaged in conversation while we work. No, neither have I, but this is all part of the job of being the child of an MP. I’m the child second from right with a sponge, doing my bit of election propaganda when my
  
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• Ryanair’s crisis shows the true cost of the low-cost revolution | Gwyn Topham

  30-09-2017 07:00
  The airline’s cancellation fiasco is just one example of how companies such as Amazon and Uber are unbundling their costs – and their responsibilitiesRyanair chief executive Michael O’Leary, in his cheerfully blunt way, frequently used to assert that the only customer service that really counted was getting passengers to their destination on time and for the cheapest fare. That definition appeared to have softened when in 2013 it promised to be nicer to its customers: a bit mor
  
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• Labour's galvanising conference in Brighton

  30-09-2017 06:00
  The UK opposition party gathered for their annual conference this week and it was a success for leader Jeremy Corbyn. But how united is the party behind the scenes?
  
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• Unlikely duo behind the multimillion hit facing British bookmakers

  30-09-2017 05:04
  Former spin-doctor and casino game inventor lead attack on fixed-odds betting terminals
  
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• Taking control of rent

  30-09-2017 03:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to introduce rent controls, but how would they work?
  
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• Pay for public sector pay rise by getting rid of staff, says Boris Johnson

  30-09-2017 01:40
  Foreign secretary says minimum wage is ‘not enough’ and adds that his party has to engage with Labour’s ‘leftwing nonsense’Boris Johnson has said public sector workers should be given a pay rise but suggested the move could be paid for by cutting the number of state employees. The foreign secretary said the minimum wage of £7.50 an hour, which will rise to £9 by 2020, is “not enough”.Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘red lines’ undermine Theresa May

  30-09-2017 01:23
  Intervention on eve of Tory conference scuppers premier’s plan to reassert control
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Brexit ‘red lines’ move undermines Theresa May

  30-09-2017 01:23
  Intervention on eve of Tory conference scuppers premier’s plan to reassert control
  
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• At the Monster Raving Loony party conference in Blackpool – in pictures

  30-09-2017 01:03
  The main parties’ annual shindigs have plenty of news coverage – less well-known is the meet-up of the protest voters’ alternative Continue reading...
  
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• Labour Demands £1.1bn Post-Grenfell Rescue Package For Social Homes

  30-09-2017 01:00
  
  Theresa May should green-light a “post-Grenfell rescue package” and use £1.1bn set aside for starter homes to build social housing instead.  
  Labour has demanded radical change to social housing policy in the UK after the North Kensington tower block inferno killed at least 80 people and shone a light on glaring inequalities council tenants face. 
  Ahead of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester next week, Shadow Housing Minister John Healey branded May&r
  
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• Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple

  30-09-2017 01:00
  Foreign secretary’s impromptu recital of colonial-era poem was so embarrassing the UK ambassador was forced to stop him The foreign secretary has been accused of “incredible insensitivity” after it emerged he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January.Boris Johnson was inside the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist site in the capital Yangon, when he started uttering the opening verse
  
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