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• Second vote to stop Brexit is credible, says Article 50 author

  24-05-2018 23:13 via ft.com
  Lord Kerr backs campaign for fresh referendum so ‘prodigal son’ could stay in EU
  
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• Brexit: UK official warns EU over talks 'insult'

  24-05-2018 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  A senior EU official describes the UK's negotiating position as a "fantasy", after talks in Brussels.
  
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• Damian Hinds insists on 2020 vision for tech education

  24-05-2018 22:11 via ft.com
  Education secretary ignores official’s advice to delay start of new qualifications
  
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• Carney warns of impact of ‘disruptive Brexit’

  24-05-2018 21:10 via ft.com
  Monetary alert comes as UK-EU talks descend into acrimony over security links
  
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• Carney issues stark warning on post-Brexit policy

  24-05-2018 21:10 via ft.com
  How UK exits EU could mean tolerating inflation or slamming on monetary brakes, says BoE governor
  
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• Boris Johnson targeted by Russia prank caller

  24-05-2018 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  In a recording posted online, the prank caller pretends to be the new prime minister of Armenia.
  
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• UK 'chasing a fantasy' in Brexit talks, top EU official warns

  24-05-2018 20:34
  Senior official involved in talks says EU will not negotiate under threat, after a fraught week in BrusselsThe EU has accused the British government of “chasing a fantasy” and warned that it will not negotiate under threat, after a fraught week of Brexit talks in Brussels that have raised serious concerns about the future of the negotiations.The whole approach of the UK government to the discussions was castigated by a senior EU official involved, who further warned that the bloc wou
  
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• Brexit: UK wants £1bn back from EU if it is excluded from Galileo

  24-05-2018 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK steps up its war of words with the EU over being shut out of new satellite navigation system.
  
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• Barristers step back from escalating legal aid strikes

  24-05-2018 19:27 via ft.com
  Breakthrough as justice ministry offers additional £15m funding
  
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• Boris Johnson caught out by phone call from Russian pranksters

  24-05-2018 18:47 via ft.com
  Foreign Office blames Kremlin for 18 minute conversation with bogus Armenian PM
  
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• Windrush hotline uncovers up to 5,000 migrants hit by scandal

  24-05-2018 18:20 via ft.com
  Cooper casts doubt on new Home Office scheme to tackle the problem
  
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• Labour 'would be neutral in Irish border poll'

  24-05-2018 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn says he is not asking or advocating for a border poll but would ensure the GFA is implemented.
  
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• Young: I was targeted by twitter mob

  24-05-2018 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The Spectator columnist says he was accused of actions by MPs that were "completely untrue, just completely malicious and false".
  
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• Julian Lewis MP rails against 'silent rogue cyclists'

  24-05-2018 16:43 via bbc.co.uk
  MP Julian Lewis suggests all cyclists should be required to have a bell fitted to improve safety.
  
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• Scotland sets target of cutting greenhouse gases by 90% by 2050

  24-05-2018 16:25 via ft.com
  Nicola Sturgeon claims the most ambitious climate change goals in the world
  
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• A Leaver writes: politicians have ruined my Brexit

  24-05-2018 15:59 via ft.com
  It has all gone horribly wrong for the man behind the Vote Leave team
  
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• Brexit puts EU citizens at greater risk from terror, says Davis

  24-05-2018 15:49 via ft.com
  UK and Brussels must agree new way to tackle crime together, minister warns
  
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• Former UK ambassador to EU takes on the ‘buccaneering blather’

  24-05-2018 14:44 via ft.com
  Ivan Rogers critical of both Leavers and Remainers for ‘delusional’ propositions
  
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• UK navy responded to Russian military ships 33 times last year

  24-05-2018 14:25 via ft.com
  Britain forced to adapt to ‘new age of warfare’ and resurgence of Moscow’s assertiveness
  
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• Royal Navy intercepted Russian military ships 33 times in 2017

  24-05-2018 14:25 via ft.com
  Moscow’s increased aggression under Putin brings ‘new age of warfare’ for Britain
  
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• Grenfell inquiry: tributes to victims continue for fourth day - live

  24-05-2018 14:25
  Commemorations continue to be paid to the 72 people who lost their lives in the fire last JunePortraits of all those who died in Grenfell Fire12.44pm BST The inquiry has now adjourned for lunch and will come back at 2pm. 12.44pm BST Finally, of his sister, 22-year-old Husna Begum, Mohammed Hakim said:“She was the epitome of adventure and spirit. She marvelled at the universe and had a burning desire to travel and learn as much about the world as possible.I can say with my hand on my heart
  
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• Corbyn says open border in Northern Ireland is 'symbol of peace' - Politics live

  24-05-2018 14:16
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 1.16pm BST A duo of Russian pranksters with suspected links to the country’s security services say they managed to get through to the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and hold an 18-minute phone conversation with him by pretending to be the Armenian prime minister, my colleague Shaun Walker reports. Related: Russian pranksters discuss Putin and Skripal in call with Boris Johnson1.14pm BST The government shou
  
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• MPs demand to know how long UK will stay in EU customs union

  24-05-2018 14:00
  Brexit committee says PM must clarify whether UK will be in customs union after 2020 The government should urgently set out whether it plans to extend the UK’s transitional membership of the customs union beyond 2020, given the likelihood that no replacement plan will be ready in time, the Commons Brexit committee has said.In an often damning latest update on the progress of departure, the cross-party committee of MPs said it was “highly unsatisfactory” that nearly two years af
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast - the Royal family and political neutrality

  24-05-2018 13:57
  
  Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams and Ned Donovan, freelance journalist and "primogeniture nerd", to discuss the issue of political neutrality within the Royal family.
  
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• Stop scrimping, Theresa May – or the NHS’s 70th birthday will be its last | Polly Toynbee

  24-05-2018 13:36
  The NHS needs £2000 more per household to survive. But as long as they’re ahead in the polls, the Tories don’t seem to careThis is it. The bailiffs are at the door waving the red-ink bill. Pay up or else. For eight years the government has stuck the NHS bill behind the clock but now the crunch has come. Will July’s NHS 70th birthday be a celebration or a funeral? The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), grand truth-teller of fiscal facts, alongside the Health Foundation, a
  
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• Russian pranksters discuss Putin and Skripal in call with Boris Johnson

  24-05-2018 13:33
  One of the duo pretended to be the Armenian PM in 18-minute phone conversationA duo of Russian pranksters with suspected links to the country’s security services managed to get through to the British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and held an 18-minute phone conversation with him by pretending to be the Armenian prime minister.The duo released audio of the call, which they said took place last week, in which one of them pretended to be Nikol Pashinyan, the recently appointed prime minis
  
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• Is taking down white men like Josh Denny always a victory for equality? | Yassmin Abdel-Magied

  24-05-2018 13:22
  Humiliation, belittlement, dehumanisation: these are the tactics the oppressor uses. We need to be better than thatThose with the highest levels of privilege are often viscerally afraid of losing it. It’s the fear that if they relinquish power, the tables will turn on them, the terror that they will become the oppressed. This anxiety is not completely unfounded. If we’re honest, no one is above being corrupted or is immune to subjugating others, not even those who have been structura
  
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• UK makes Galileo satellite a condition for EU defence collaboration

  24-05-2018 11:58 via ft.com
  Exclusion from navigation system would hit trust needed for full security partnership, London warns
  
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• Justice secretary to launch prisoner employment strategy

  24-05-2018 10:51
  David Gauke hopes policy will improve prisoners’ work skills and prospects while in jailOffenders are to be prepared for employment from the day they enter jail under an overhaul of prison policy to be unveiled by the justice secretary.At a prison in London, David Gauke will launch an education and employment strategy aimed at improving prisoners’ skills while in custody. It will include proposals to increase the use of release on temporary licence (ROTL) for work placements, after a
  
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• Stop Brexit blather and face reality on trade, says ex-EU ambassador

  24-05-2018 10:38
  UK’s former chief EU diplomat Sir Ivan Rogers takes aim at PM’s Brexit strategy in speechBritain must face reality on post-Brexit trade rather than continue the “buccaneering blather” of hard Brexiters, the UK’s former chief EU diplomat Sir Ivan Rogers has said.Rogers, the former chief Brussels adviser to both David Cameron and Theresa May, took aim at the prime minister’s Brexit strategy in a speech on Wednesday, but also criticised the plans of both hardline
  
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• I miss Britain – but Brexitland could never be my home | Joris Luyendijk

  24-05-2018 10:00
  Brexit horror stories – like the ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship – remind me why we’ve returned to the NetherlandsWhen I moved back to the Netherlands this summer after six lovely years in Britain, I knew I was going to miss the place and that every now and then I would wonder if I had made the right decision. Everybody who voluntarily moves countries goes through this, and knows that these doubts can keep you awake all night. Related: Ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizens
  
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• Brits in Europe need free movement - even if David Davis won't fight for it

  24-05-2018 09:49
  
  The European parliament stated it would not sign off on the withdrawal agreement until Brits in the EU had secured their right to freedom of movement, but no-one from the said how this would be achieved.
  
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• The disability system is blocking people like Jaki from their benefits – literally | Frances Ryan

  24-05-2018 09:00
  Those most in need are being refused benefits because their disability means they can’t physically get to their assessmentIf you want a symbol of Britain’s benefit system, Jaki would be it. The 36-year-old spent her 20s in Essex grafting – taking on any job to provide for her four children, even shelf-stacking for 60 hours a week. By 25, she started to get sick – the joint condition Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and the constant pain of fibromyalgia, on top of epilepsy – u
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn risks IRA row with visit to Northern Ireland

  24-05-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Labour leader will journey to Irish border to discuss customs plan
  
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• Indian diplomat warns UK over skilled worker numbers

  24-05-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Migrants could fall sharply due to Home Office approach, deputy high commissioner says
  
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• Tax rises needed 'to prevent NHS misery'

  24-05-2018 02:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Influential economists argue 4% extra a year is needed - and tax rises are the only way to pay for that.
  
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• Brexit: UK's 'strong objections' to Galileo sat-nav exclusion

  24-05-2018 02:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The EU is warned the satellite dispute could hinder wider security co-operation after Brexit.
  
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• EU split over exclusion of UK from Galileo after Brexit

  24-05-2018 01:19
  France, Spain, Sweden and Netherlands among countries wishing to retain close ties on GPS system
  Divisions are emerging within the EU over the European commission’s decision to exclude the UK from the bloc’s new satellite navigation system, Galileo. A number of member states are said by sources in Brussels to have become sympathetic to the British cause regarding the handling of the issue by EU officials. Continue reading...
  
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• UK warned of generational choice on NHS funding

  24-05-2018 01:02 via ft.com
  Think-tanks say £2,000 a year extra needed per household to maintain free-to-use model
  
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• UK's new Sea Ceptor missile system enters into service

  24-05-2018 01:01
  Defence secretary says MoD having to come to terms with ‘new age of warfare’A new missile system to provide protection for the UK’s two aircraft carriers has entered into service, the defence secretary has announced.The Sea Ceptors, developed at a cost of about £850m and deployed aboard type-23 frigates, will offer a protective shield against missile attacks for the two carriers. HMS Queen Elizabeth is undergoing sea trials and HMS Prince of Wales is scheduled to be hande
  
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• The Guardian view on tax and the NHS: honesty is overdue | Editorial

  24-05-2018 01:01
  Politicians of all stripes have for too long avoided confronting hard truths about rising demand for health services and how to meet the costThere isn’t much about last year’s general election that Theresa May is in a hurry to revisit, least of all the plan to reform social care by a mechanism that came to be known as the “dementia tax”. The pitch was poor, but the concept deserved a fairer hearing. Outside the partisan frenzy of a campaign, it might have starte
  
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• ‘Solution’ to UK productivity puzzle is misconceived, study finds

  24-05-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Focus on boosting long tail of unproductive businesses will fail to narrow regional divide
  
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• NHS needs £2,000 in tax from every household to stay afloat – report

  24-05-2018 01:01
  Higher taxation is only way to address demands on buckling health service, thinktanks sayBritish households will need to pay an extra £2,000 a year in tax to help the NHS cope with the demands of an ageing population, according to a new report that highlights the unprecedented financial pressures on the health system.Two thinktanks – the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation – have said there can be no alternative to higher taxation if there are to be even mode
  
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• Corbyn presses May to end Stormont deadlock in Northern Ireland

  24-05-2018 01:01
  Labour leader to call for return of the British-Irish intergovernmental conferenceJeremy Corbyn is calling on Theresa May to reconvene the British-Irish intergovernmental conference, set up under the Good Friday Agreement, to help restore the power-sharing government to Northern Ireland.The proposal, due to be announced on Thursday, risks angering unionists as the high-level body, which last met more than a decade ago, would give Dublin a formal role in breaking the deadlock at Stormont.Continue
  
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• Brexit deal cannot include return to hard border - Jeremy Corbyn

  24-05-2018 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader will make a speech in Belfast later saying he will not tolerate a hard border.
  
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