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• Back Theresa May or risk Labour government, Hunt warns Johnson

  02-10-2017 23:30
  In veiled warning to Boris Johnson, health secretary says Jeremy Corbyn could stop Brexit, while seeking to reassure EU workers that the NHS needs themJeremy Hunt has issued a warning to Boris Johnson that failure to swing behind Theresa May risks opening the door to a Labour government, which he claimed could stop Brexit in its tracks.The health secretary made the comments after being asked if he feared the foreign secretary was “looking at the top job”.Continue reading...
  
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• Work with 'gorgeous EU women', MP Craig Mackinlay says

  02-10-2017 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has been branded "misogynistic" and "patronising" by other MPs.
  
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• Tories Set To Become Unelectable As Older Voters Die Off Though 'Natural Wastage', Minister Warns

  02-10-2017 22:27
  
  A Tory minister has warned that his party’s voters are dying off and will reap the consequences of overseeing a Government system geared “against the under-40s”.
  Justice Minister Philip Lee forecast that the Conservatives could lose so many of their voters through “natural wastage” that they may never be elected again.
  Speaking to a fringe meeting in the party conference in Manchester, Lee claimed that younger voters were being asked to contribute to a “Ponzi
  
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• John McDonnell Says City Now Sees Jeremy Corbyn's Labour As 'Stabiliser Of Capitalism'

  02-10-2017 22:20
  
  John McDonnell has said the country is now in the “bizarre” situation where the City is looking to him and Jeremy Corbyn to “stabalise capitalism”.
  The shadow chancellor said Theresa May’s government was “imploding” as a result of internal warfare over Brexit.
  McDonnell was speaking to hundreds of supporters in Manchester Cathedral on Monday evening, a short walk from where the prime minister is hosting the Conservative Party’s annual conference.&
  
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• Tax-funded NHS a Ponzi scheme, says minister Phillip Lee

  02-10-2017 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Working people are paying into a system that may not exist when they need it, a Tory minister says.
  
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• Amber Rudd accuses tech giants of 'sneering' at politicians

  02-10-2017 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The home secretary says Silicon Valley should stop "sneering" at her attempts to fight terrorism online.
  
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• Nicola Jennings on the Tory party conference – cartoon

  02-10-2017 21:31
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• May's help-to-buy extension is another boon for housebuilders | Nils Pratley

  02-10-2017 21:29
  Throwing another £10bn at the subsidy scheme will do nothing to improve the UK’s underlying housing problemWhen former chancellor George Osborne launched his help to buy housing scheme in 2013, wise heads warned that, once a government starts subsidising mortgages, it will find it hard to stop.So it is proving. Another £10bn is to be thrown at help to buy, the government has said in a supposedly crowd-pleasing announcement. This is a 50% increase on the sum already spent. City
  
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• Monarch collapse: government denies it should have warned of airline's troubles

  02-10-2017 21:15
  Department for Transport defends actions as operation begins to repatriate 110,000 passengers and 1,858 staff lose jobsEverything you need to know about the Monarch collapseTell us how you have been affectedThe government has denied that Monarch Airlines customers should have been warned of the carrier’s financial troubles in the runup to its collapse, as an operation began to repatriate 110,000 passengers. Asked whether travellers should have been notified about over the problems –
  
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• In a Tory party torn apart by Brexit, the fever of schism burns | Polly Toynbee

  02-10-2017 20:50
  The cabinet is at loggerheads, the membership spooked by Corbyn. At this Conservative conference the ‘natural party of government’ is an utter shamblesThe civil war in the Tory party rages, yet these are still only opening skirmishes. Far worse is to come. Theresa May does all any leader of a benighted, broken party can do: procrastinate, drag her famous heels, duck and dive – until that unavoidable moment when the shape of Brexit finally emerges. Related: Business leaders give
  
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• Freewheelin' Phil and preacher Jacob take the Tories back to the future | John Crace

  02-10-2017 20:28
  Chancellor’s conference speech plumbs depths of desperation while Rees-Mogg delivers a Brexit sermon out on the fringe Sometimes you just have to take one for the team. The chancellor has a strong track record in delivering underwhelming speeches, but this year he was determined to excel himself. It was his duty. Not just to be averagely feeble but to be truly desperate. To make a speech that was so leaden, so empty of content, so lacking in hope that even the prime minister’s harshe
  
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• James Cleverly Warns Boris's Enemies: Underestimate Him At Your Peril

  02-10-2017 20:27
  
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  ‘Underestimate Boris Johnson at your peril’ is the warning from one of the Foreign Secretary’s longest-serving allies after numerous MPs urged him to get into line on Brexit.
  James Cleverly, who served as a London Assembly Member when Johnson was mayor of the capital, defended his former boss’s recent interventions on Brexit, and even suggested the Foreign Secretary’s own red lines could help Theresa May in neg
  
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• Questions to answer as the Tories flounder | Letters

  02-10-2017 20:11
  The Tories’ free market philosophy has failed, writes Steve Munby. Norman Gower and Pat Brandwood unpick Theresa May’s tuition fees pledge. Plus letters from Anthony Lawton and Valerie CrewsThe picture Matthew d’Ancona paints is one of voters falling out of love with the free market policies his party believes in (Only the shock therapy of truth can save May’s party, 2 October). What his account misses is that we are going through a paradigm shift, similar to that of the
  
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• Spending watchdog to probe Learndirect funding

  02-10-2017 20:10 via ft.com
  Investigation follows report showing serious failings in adult training business
  
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• The Guardian view on Monarch’s collapse: the market at work | Editorial

  02-10-2017 20:08
  The chancellor wants voters to back the Tories as the party of free markets. But he can’t ensure that capitalism delivers for allAt the Conservative party conference in Manchester, where the chancellor Philip Hammond was extolling the virtues of free markets, the day’s big example of markets at work – the failure of Monarch – did not rate a mention. The airline went into administration hours before Mr Hammond spoke on Monday morning, at the least disrupting the holiday pl
  
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• Business leaders give lukewarm response to Hammond's speech

  02-10-2017 19:56
  Chancellor announces no new policies and uses Tory conference speech to attack Corbyn and Labour’s economic recordBusiness groups have given a lukewarm reception to Philip Hammond’s main speech to the Conservative party conference in which he announced no new policies and spent much of the address attacking Jeremy Corbyn.In a speech with an unusually strong focus on the opposition, the chancellor called the Labour leader “a clear and present danger” to prosperity and like
  
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• Boris Johnson Told To 'Keep His Bloody Mouth Shut' By Tory MP As Brexit Backlash Continues

  02-10-2017 19:33
  
  Tory anger over Boris Johnson reignited today as one MP told him to “keep his bloody mouth shut” and Scottish leader Ruth Davidson suggested she would sack him.
  The Foreign Secretary continued to overshadow the Conservative party conference in Manchester as he faced fresh criticism for setting out new demands for a swifter Brexit. 
  Irritation with Johnson erupted over his latest intervention - when he warned the post-Brexit transition should last “not a second longer&rdqu
  
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• A welcome, if thin, vision of a free-market Britain

  02-10-2017 19:20 via ft.com
  The chancellor is right on Labour party but detail and courage are needed
  
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• Donald Trump's Las Vegas Shooting Speech Offers God And Platitudes - But Doesn't Call Out Guns

  02-10-2017 18:52
  
  Donald Trump has condemned the Las Vegas mass-shooting as an “act of pure evil” and said he is “praying” for “peace”, “unity” and “healing”.
  But the President did not make any mention of guns, or the laws that allow Americans easy access to them, or the motives of the killer.
  At least 58 people were killed and hundreds more injured when Stephen Paddock, 64, leaned out of a window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino a
  
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• Conservative conference 2017: Ruth Davidson suggests she would have sacked Boris Johnson over Brexit articles - Politics live

  02-10-2017 18:45
  Rolling coverage of the events at the Conservative party conference, including the speech by Philip Hammond, the chancellorPhilip Hammond’s morning interviews - Summary and analysisHammond’s speech - Snap verdictAfternoon summary 5.45pm BST 5.25pm BSTJacob Rees-Mogg is attracting huge audiences at his fringe meetings at the conference. These are from the latest.Moggmania at Leave Means Leave event #CPC17 pic.twitter.com/hWneTbzYOJMogg's latest fringe is so packed and so hot, someone
  
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• 'Tories lie consistently': students on Theresa May's tuition fee plans

  02-10-2017 18:30
  The PM has vowed to freeze fee levels and review student funding. But has it changed how her party is viewed on campus? Theresa May tackled the topic of tuition fees at the Conservative party conference in Manchester. In an attempt to woo younger voters, she said low-earning graduates would benefit from a delay in their student loan repayments. She also vowed to freeze fee levels. Related: Tuition fee repayment earnings threshold to rise to £25,000Continue reading...
  
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• Post-Brexit immigration white paper delayed until late autumn

  02-10-2017 18:25
  Immigration minister says final version of new policy will not emerge until a few months before Brexit dayThe government white paper on post-Brexit immigration policy, a draft of which was leaked to the Guardian in August, will not now be published until “late autumn”, the immigration minister, Brandon Lewis, has told a Conservative fringe meeting.
  Lewis confirmed that the final version will include a commitment that freedom of movement for EU migrants will end in March 2019 –
  
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• Michael Gove calls for views on setting up plastic bottle deposit return scheme

  02-10-2017 18:02
  Environment secretary says working group will look at how a deposit return scheme could help reduce plastic waste in England A deposit return scheme aimed at slashing plastic pollution has moved significantly closer after environment secretary Michael Gove said he would work with the industry to see how a scheme can be implemented in England.Gove, speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, announced a four-week call for views to inform how a deposit return scheme (DRS) would be
  
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• Tory MP Says Universal Credit Is 'Exacerbating' Foodbank Use And It Is 'Crazy'

  02-10-2017 18:00
  
  Universal Credit is the main reason people were flocking to foodbanks in record numbers, a Tory MP has admitted as he accused government of “frightening” incompetence.
  Kevin Hollinrake, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty, said it was “crazy” the welfare reforms were driving people to rely on charity as he slammed national and local government for “exacerbating a bad situation”.
  It comes as Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke co
  
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• Help to Buy adds £1bn to housebuilder valuations

  02-10-2017 17:44 via ft.com
  Government promises extra £10bn of subsidy for house purchases
  
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• What a picture – Boris Johnson and the Sun’s editor, running out of power | Jonathan Jones

  02-10-2017 17:41
  The strength is almost visibly seeping from the foreign secretary and Tony Gallagher in this photograph, as their mandate turns to dustWhy are they running and where are they going? Like naked mole rats scurrying endlessly in a plastic burrow, foreign secretary Boris Johnson and the Sun editor Tony Gallagher are photographed together. They’re seemingly in the belief that the Conservative party and its media allies have a destination, somewhere to get to, something urgent to do – othe
  
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• Tory MP Tells Jobless To Find Work On Farms So They Can Meet 'Loads Of Gorgeous EU Women'

  02-10-2017 17:38
  
  A pro-Brexit Tory MP has come under fire after telling jobless Britons to find work on farms so they can meet “loads of gorgeous EU women”.
  Speaking to a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Craig Mackinlay said the unemployed in big cities should “get on your bike and find a job” in rural areas.
  “I was struggling to think why wouldn’t a youngster from Glasgow without a job come down to the south to work for a farm for the summer
  
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• Student loans: educated guesses

  02-10-2017 17:25 via ft.com
  UK securitisation plan could be attractive to pension funds
  
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• Protester tells Jacob Rees-Mogg he's 'despicable' - video

  02-10-2017 17:17
  A protester confronts Jacob Rees-Mogg during a Conservative party conference event in Manchester. The man told Rees-Mogg people are 'dying' because
  of policies supported by the MP. Rees-Mogg engaged in a discussion with the protester, telling him to 'leave my despicability to one side'.Conservative conference 2017: anti-austerity protesters disrupt Rees-Mogg fringe meeting - Politics live
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• Rees-Mogg targeted by protesters over ‘despicable views’

  02-10-2017 17:05
  Tory MP challenged by activists over food banks, austerity and opposition to abortion at conference fringe meeting in ManchesterProtesters shouting “Tories out” have stormed a panel discussion with pro-Brexit Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg at a packed fringe event of 500 activists at Manchester town hall.Rees-Mogg received a standing ovation and loud cheers from the Conservative members in the room, but activists chanting with placards held up the start of the meeting for about 15 m
  
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• Philip Hammond: We must win 'clash of ideas' with Labour 'dinosaurs'

  02-10-2017 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Chancellor Philip Hammond says "bring on" the fight with Labour "dinosaurs" over capitalism.
  
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• Morrissey claims Ukip rigged leadership vote to stop anti-Islam activist

  02-10-2017 16:41
  Controversial singer makes comments on BBC 6 Music referring to Anne Marie Waters’ defeat in party electionsMorrissey has once again stirred up controversy by declaring his belief that the Ukip leadership election was rigged to ensure an anti-Islam activist did not win. The singer made the comments during a live appearance on BBC 6 Music to promote his new album Low in High School. Continue reading...
  
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• Universal Credit: Advance payments offered as rollout continues

  02-10-2017 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Those struggling to pay their bills will get quicker support after criticism of payment delays.
  
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• Philip Hammond attacks Jeremy Corbyn as ‘museum piece dinosaur’

  02-10-2017 16:05 via ft.com
  Chancellor says prospect of Labour government is spooking investors
  
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• Universal credit rollout will go ahead despite Tory MPs' call for delay

  02-10-2017 15:35
  Work and pensions secretary David Gauke confirms introduction of controversial benefit will continue as plannedThe government is to press ahead with its rollout of universal credit, the work and pensions secretary has confirmed, despite a last-minute appeal from Tory backbenchers for a delay.More than a dozen Conservative MPs had raised concerns with David Gauke’s department that claimants were being forced to use food banks because of the mandatory six-week wait to receive money. Continue
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg Confronted By Angry Protesters At Tory Conference

  02-10-2017 15:32
  
  Jacob Rees-Mogg was confronted by protesters as he prepared to speak at a Tory conference Brexit event.
  The group stormed Manchester Town Hall carrying ‘Tories Out’ banners as Rees-Mogg took to the stage and were greeted with loud boos from delegates, before the MP urged “let’s have a proper debate”.
  He then came down from the stage and spoke to two men, who challenged him on welfare cuts and the number of people using foodbanks, and a woman who questioned his views
  
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• May’s Boris conundrum

  02-10-2017 15:02 via ft.com
  Despite his popularity, prime minister might decide to demote foreign secretary
  
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• Boris Johnson casts himself as the real Brexit bulldog

  02-10-2017 14:38 via ft.com
  The British foreign secretary’s interventions are winning over some party members, writes Sebastian Payne
  
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• Where have all the young Tories gone?

  02-10-2017 14:29
  Young people have deserted the Conservative party, as they think it is on the side of homeowners and the rich. Is a cap on tuition fees really going to draw in the next generation of Tory boys?Name: Young Tories.Age: 18 to 29. Continue reading...
  
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• Philip Hammond's speech: what we learned

  02-10-2017 14:29
  There were funding pledges for help-to-buy and rail projects in the north but much of it was spent attacking Labour ‘dinosaurs’The chancellor pledged new investment in help-to-buy and the “northern powerhouse”, but much of Philip Hammond’s speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester was dedicated to a full-scale attack on Labour and the party’s economic policies. Continue reading...
  
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• Boris Johnson’s impatience over Brexit masks a fear of delay

  02-10-2017 13:48 via ft.com
  Once Britain falls into a midway membership zone, the chances of ever leaving wane
  
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• All ministers are sackable - Chancellor Philip Hammond

  02-10-2017 13:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The chancellor insists the cabinet is agreed on a Brexit transition of "around two years", despite talk of splits.
  
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• No, Bristol University hasn't just ditched sexual consent classes

  02-10-2017 13:45
  
  Controversial changes to consent classes are more positive than they first seem
  
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• Boris Johnson Snapped Running With Sun Editor Tony Gallagher In Manchester

  02-10-2017 13:32
  
  Boris Johnson has been photographed on a run with Sun editor Tony Gallagher on the streets of Manchester, where his colleagues are gathered for the annual Tory party conference.
  The foreign secretary, who has overshadowed the conference with rumours of a leadership bid, is a paid columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
  However, as HuffPost UK politics executive editor Paul Waugh points out in his Waugh Zone email this morning, “The Sun is seen as Johnson’s secret weapon (it was a cru
  
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• Cabinet is split over how Brexit should happen, Hammond admits

  02-10-2017 12:03
  Chancellor says there are differences over way UK should leave EU, but senior Tories, including Johnson, need to show unity
  • Politics live: all the latest news from the Conservative conferencePhilip Hammond has conceded that the cabinet is split over the implementation of Brexit and warned Boris Johnson that his interventions risk weakening the UK’s negotiating position.On the second day of the Conservative party conference, which has been dominated by the issue, the chancellor was u
  
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• Where is Labour's criticism of Putin?

  02-10-2017 11:28
  
  The likes of Corbyn and Thornberry have been very quiet on Russia
  
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• The Waugh Zone Monday October 2, 2017

  02-10-2017 11:12
  1. RUNNING SORE
  Boris Johnson was out running on the streets of Manchester this morning with a Gallagher. His jogging partner was not one of the Oasis brothers, but Tony Gallagher, editor of the Sun who now has a tradition of exercising with the Foreign Secretary before the conference day starts. And thanks to a new ConservativeHome poll putting him back in top spot as activists’ choice to be leader, Boris’s smile may be sunnier than ever. Acting as the party’s consc
  
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• Campaigners descend on London hospital to protest against new migrant NHS rules

  02-10-2017 10:51
  
  Activists took part in several actions against new ID checks and charging rules
  
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• Philip Hammond Warns Boris: No One Is Unsackable

  02-10-2017 09:11
  
  Philip Hammond has insisted “nobody is unsackable” just a day after Theresa May tried to laugh off questions of Cabinet indiscipline.
  During a round of interviews ahead of his speech at the Conservative Party conference, the Chancellor was repeatedly asked about the behaviour of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson - who has staged major interventions of Brexit and domestic policy in recent weeks.
  Hammond was clear that Cabinet members owed the Prime Minister their loyalty, and tried to
  
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• Philip Hammond: I Did Not Text Boris Giving Support For His Leadership

  02-10-2017 09:11
  
  Philip Hammond has denied texting Boris Johnson on the morning of the election offering him support for any leadership bid.
  The Sunday Times reported last month the Chancellor sent a message to Johnson as it became clear the Tories had lost their majority, backing him to take over if Theresa May quit as Prime Minister.
  Speaking on Good Morning Britain this morning, Hammond said the claim was “not true”, and the Foreign Secretary had agreed with him privately the reports were false.
  
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