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• Peers to rebel over ‘toothless’ post-Brexit green watchdog

  12-05-2018 21:33
  Former ministers condemn new body’s lack of power for legal action against governmentA former Tory cabinet minister is backing efforts to force through tough green laws after Brexit, amid anger over plans that would weaken environmental protections once Britain leaves the European Union.Four former environment and climate change secretaries from three parties told the Observer they had concerns about “toothless” plans announced by the government last week, which suggested the n
  
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• Students plan summer of defiance in push for ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit

  12-05-2018 21:30
  A nationwide campaign for a vote on the final deal is being organised on campusesIt is exam season at the University of Kent and students are longing for the academic year to be over. Many are flitting between revision and the exam halls on their 1960s campus. Others are sprawled on the lawns, poring over laptops and books, with Canterbury cathedral visible in the distance.These are anxious times for this generation of students. Many fear that, however well they may do academically, life after u
  
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• One million students join calls for vote on Brexit deal

  12-05-2018 21:30
  Protests ‘will dwarf action over tuition fees’ as May and Corbyn face mounting pressureStudent organisations representing almost a million young people studying at UK universities and colleges are today joining forces to demand a referendum on any final Brexit deal, amid growing fears that leaving the EU will have a disastrous effect on their future prospects.Predicting a young people’s revolt over the coming months, student unions – representing 980,000 students at 60 of
  
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• Complex rules for universal credit see one in five claims fail

  12-05-2018 21:00
  Thousands feared to be out of pocket after applications turned down for ‘non-compliance with the process’Fears are emerging over the complexity of the government’s new welfare system after data revealed that one in five applicants is being turned down because they are failing to comply with the application process.Ministers have already been forced to slow down the rollout of universal credit and to ensure that claimants receive their payments sooner after concerns that some we
  
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• Brexit votes call for defiance from Labour peers and MPs

  12-05-2018 19:00 via ft.com
  The party leadership should embrace the chance to keep the UK in the EEA
  
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• Thousands join TUC march over wages and workers' rights

  12-05-2018 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Thousands of people join a march in London over wages, workers' rights and public services.
  
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• TUC rally demands 'new deal' for workers and public services

  12-05-2018 18:21
  Government must change course or face strikes, unions say at London’s biggest march in yearsThe government faced calls for a major change of direction on public services, pay and jobs on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand a “new deal”.Jeremy Corbyn won huge applause from the crowds in Hyde Park when he pledged that the next Labour government would create a ministry to guarantee workers’ rights. Continue reading...
  
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• Abde​​l Hakim Belhaj rendition: ex-minister calls for inquiry

  12-05-2018 13:54
  Malcolm Rifkind says intelligence and security committee should investigate role of Labour ministers in 2004 rendition of LibyanThe former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the rendition of the Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj. Related: Jack Straw faces call to give evidence over role in Libyan renditionContinue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn must change course on EEA, says Lord Kinnock

  12-05-2018 12:56
  Former Labour leader says Corbyn’s objections to European Economic Area membership are based on ‘infantile leftist illusion’Jeremy Corbyn will commit a “serious evasion of duty” if he does not change course and back the UK retaining key aspects of the single market after Brexit, the former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said.In a strongly worded attack, the peer signalled that Labour MPs should defy Corbyn if he repeats instructions to abstain in parliamentary votes
  
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• Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn must change stance, says Lord Kinnock

  12-05-2018 12:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The ex-Labour leader says not backing staying in the EEA would be "a serious evasion of duty".
  
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• Listen: Brexit stalemate and tackling intergenerational unfairness

  12-05-2018 06:38 via ft.com
  Another week, another round of infighting about the customs union with no conclusion. How long can the Cabinet remain divided?
  
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• Scrap healthcare fees for non-EU staff in NHS, say nurses' leaders

  12-05-2018 01:01
  Charge of £200, affecting tens of thousands and splitting up families, is set to doubleNon-EU migrants working in the NHS should be exempt from health surcharges to help tackle the health service’s staffing crisis, nurses’ leaders are urging ministers. Nurses from outside the European Economic Area should no longer have to pay the £200-a-year surcharge now levied on all such migrants, as well as their spouses and children, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).C
  
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