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• Row over 'staggering' failure to pick woman for Bank of England MPC

  31-05-2018 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Treasury chooses only man on the shortlist to join the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
  
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• British Overseas Territory citizenship rules 'still unfair'

  31-05-2018 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Children of unmarried British Overseas Territory citizens still face discrimination, say MPs and peers.
  
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• Corbyn wades into Chuka Umunna 'unpaid intern' row

  31-05-2018 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour backbencher comes under fire over an ad for an unpaid student placement in his London office.
  
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• Conservatives under fire for failing to tackle party's Islamophobia

  31-05-2018 19:39
  Sayeeda Warsi backs Muslim Council of Britain’s call for inquiry over ‘more than weekly incidents’The Conservatives have been accused of failing to take the issue of Islamophobia seriously by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which is calling for an independent inquiry into a problem it said had “poisoned” sections of the party.Conservative party officials insisted they were treating the issue seriously, but the MCB cited nine cases of anti-Islam sentiment from T
  
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• Young women more likely to suffer abuse by partners

  31-05-2018 17:59 via ft.com
  UK data reveal 16 to 24-year-olds most at risk of physical, emotional or financial harm
  
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• Strike price for Wylfa nuclear plant far lower than Hinkley Point

  31-05-2018 17:57 via ft.com
  Ministers expected to announce outline agreement next week
  
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• No wonder people on benefits live in fear. Supermarkets spy on them now | Jay Watts

  31-05-2018 17:08
  It’s bad enough that we demonise the poor and disabled – now they can’t even leave their homes or use social media in peaceUntil a few years ago, if a patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia told you that they were being watched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), most mental health practitioners would presume this to be a sign of illness. This is not the case today.The level of scrutiny all benefits claimants feel under is so brutalthat it is no surprise
  
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• George Osborne is too compromised to edit the Evening Standard | Grant Feller

  31-05-2018 17:07
  All journalism features bias, but the former Tory minister has too many business interests for his newspaper to be trustedA few months ago I was thrown off a jury. Not because I am an argumentative pain in the backside, which I am. But because I knew one of the barristers. A group of us were being assessed for jury suitability, and he and I both immediately made it clear that our friendship represented a serious conflict of interest. Though I would have attempted to be scrupulously honest and un
  
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• Scotland faces five years of anaemic economic growth

  31-05-2018 17:03 via ft.com
  UK spending cuts, Brexit and immigration curbs blamed on GDP forecast of less than 1%
  
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• Tax-efficient EIS schemes hit by investment fall after rule changes

  31-05-2018 17:02 via ft.com
  Number of investors drops 15 per cent in scheme designed to boost high-risk companies
  
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• Can the Tories reach young voters? – Politics Weekly podcast

  31-05-2018 17:00
  Jessica Elgot is joined by Will Tanner, Katy Balls and Rebecca Lowe to discuss a raft of new Conservative thinktanks formulating plans to connect with young voters. Plus author David Graeber discusses meaningless work and his new book Bullshit JobsAt the launch of a new Tory thinktank, Ruth Davidson summed up one of the biggest problems her party faces at the next election: “Sometimes the Tories just look a bit dour. A bit joyless. A bit authoritarian.” This observation and the fact
  
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• MPs call for exclusion zones around abortion clinics to stop protests

  31-05-2018 16:34
  Home secretary urged to follow lead of Ealing council in effort to prevent harassmentDozens of MPs are demanding Sajid Javid introduce exclusion zones outside abortion clinics in England and Wales to prevent protesters from harassing women, ahead of a court case that could see the sole existing safety area scrapped.Rupa Huq, who represents Ealing Central and Acton, accused the home secretary of sitting on a review started by his predecessor Amber Rudd, which she and 160 other MPs and peers from
  
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• Chief prison inspector warns on Exeter’s ‘unequivocally poor’ state

  31-05-2018 16:05 via ft.com
  Action urged after convicts’ safety found to have worsened significantly since 2016
  
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• Anger as Brexiter Nigel Lawson applies for French residency

  31-05-2018 16:05
  Former Vote Leave chair ridiculed for leading anti-EU campaign while continuing to live in FranceNigel Lawson, a former chair of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum and one of tens of thousands of Britons living in France, is to apply for his official French residency card.The former chancellor said he had started the process of applying for one of the cards, known as a carte de séjour, which British expatriates are being encouraged to obtain to help bolster their rights afte
  
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• Baroness Warsi: Conservatives must act on Islamophobia

  31-05-2018 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  The ex-party chairman's warning follows the Muslim Council of Britain's call for "racists" to be removed.
  
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• Abramovich’s Chelsea shelves plan for new football stadium

  31-05-2018 15:12 via ft.com
  Russian oligarch owner’s UK immigration status is still in doubt
  
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• BBC to show Tessa Jowell's final days of cancer battle

  31-05-2018 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The documentary will feature footage of the former culture secretary a week before she died of cancer.
  
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• Conservatives must deal with Islamophobia in party, says Warsi

  31-05-2018 14:19
  Peer backs Muslim Council of Britain’s call for inquiry over ‘more than weekly incidents’The Conservative party has to stop denying it has an issue with Islamophobia, its former chair, Sayeeda Warsi, has warned after the Muslim Council of Britain called for an independent inquiry into the issue.In a letter to the current party chair, Brandon Lewis, the MCB said there were “more than weekly incidents” of Islamophobia within the Conservatives, mentioning nine alleged
  
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• UK set to back construction of a new nuclear plant in Wales

  31-05-2018 14:12 via ft.com
  Ministers expected to announce an outline agreement next week
  
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• Scotland declines to introduce misogynistic harassment law

  31-05-2018 13:55
  Campaigners criticise proposal to specify gender only as an aggravation to hate crimesCampaigners calling for an end to violence against women have expressed disappointment after an independent review of hate crime laws in Scotland stopped short of recommending a new offence of misogynistic harassment.The retired judge Lord Bracadale, who was commissioned by the Scottish government to undertake a root and branch review of hate crime legislation at the end of 2016, has proposed that gender should
  
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• Brexit: 31 politicians - mostly Labour - call for vote

  31-05-2018 13:51 via bbc.co.uk
  A group of 31 mainly Labour MPs, AMs and council leaders says the Brexit deal must not be left to MPs.
  
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• Green leaders

  31-05-2018 13:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The Green Party of England and Wales has had many leaders - even if they did not describe themselves as such.
  
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• Ex-ministers press Theresa May for 'sensible' Brexit

  31-05-2018 13:04
  Amber Rudd, Justine Greening and Damian Green urge PM to ignore fringe viewsTheresa May is facing renewed pressure to listen to moderate voices within her party over Brexit after three former cabinet ministers lobbied the prime minister at No 10 to seek a “sensible” deal for leaving the EU.May met Amber Rudd, Justine Greening and Damian Green at Downing Street on Wednesday, and they told her the majority of Conservative MPs wanted a compromise deal with the EU. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit: Northern Irish police ask for more funds to protect border

  31-05-2018 12:30
  Police federation calls for recruitment of hundreds of officers amid terrorism fearsUp to 500 officers would need to be recruited and decommissioned police stations reopened to protect the post-Brexit border on the island of Ireland.
  Rank and file police warned on Thursday that the 6,621-member Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was not adequately staffed to enforce even a soft frontier after the UK exits the European Union next year.Continue reading...
  
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• UK pensions regulator chief to step down after criticism from MPs

  31-05-2018 11:15 via ft.com
  Lesley Titcomb had come under fire over handling of Carillion’s collapse
  
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• 'We won't hang around' on cutting high overdraft fees

  31-05-2018 10:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Financial Conduct Authority boss says high fees will be 'tackled' by end of year
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast - vaping

  31-05-2018 10:34
  
  Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Lion Shahab, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at UCL, and Christopher Snowdon, Author and Head of Lifestyle Economics at the IEA, to discuss what vaping really is all about.
  
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• Politics Live - readers' edition: Thursday 31 May

  31-05-2018 10:07
  A forum where readers can discuss today’s politics and share links to breaking news and to the most interesting politics stories, blogs and tweets on the web9.07am BST I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.
  Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat
  
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• Muslim group calls for inquiry into Conservative party Islamophobia

  31-05-2018 09:55
  MCB writes open letter alleging there are ‘more than weekly incidents’ in the partySayeeda Warsi, the former Conservative cabinet minister, has backed calls by the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) for an independent inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservative party.In a letter to the party chair, Brandon Lewis, the group said there were “more than weekly incidents” of Islamophobia within the party. Continue reading...
  
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• Mythbusting the Browder arrest: How an Interpol Red Notice works

  31-05-2018 09:28
  
  There is currently considerable uncertainty around financier and Putin critic Bill Browder's arrest in Madrid.
  
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• UK companies using ‘pitiful’ excuses to keep women out of boardrooms

  31-05-2018 08:49 via ft.com
  Female directors likely to struggle with ‘extremely complex issues’, one business leader claimed
  
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• UK companies using ‘pitiful’ excuses for keeping women off boards

  31-05-2018 08:49 via ft.com
  Women likely to struggle with ‘extremely complex issue’, one business leader claimed
  
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• UK companies use ‘pitiful’ excuses to keep women out of boardrooms

  31-05-2018 08:49 via ft.com
  Female members likely to struggle with ‘extremely complex issue’, one business leader claimed
  
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• The answer to the menopause taboo? Start with a cafe | Libby Brookes

  31-05-2018 07:00
  In a bid to destroy stigma, women across Scotland have been galvanised to openly discuss symptoms and supportFor those who still think that the menopause is the punchline to a joke (albeit told by someone who has never experienced a night sweat), the advent of a men-only menopause awareness session at the Scottish parliament was the cause of some consternation. Organised by the Holyrood Women’s Network, and led by the Good Morning Britain regular Hilary Jones, last week’s Q&A aim
  
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• Hammond says UK will have to stick with new EU privacy rules

  31-05-2018 05:59 via ft.com
  Chancellor responds to criticism of GDPR by US commerce secretary on Silicon Valley tour
  
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• London law firms feel chill from icy relations with Russia

  31-05-2018 05:01 via ft.com
  Attack on Linklaters reflects changing climate in City towards Russian corporations
  
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• How Tommy Robinson won the support of the global alt-right

  31-05-2018 05:01 via ft.com
  The jailed activist was warning of the dangers of the far-right just five years ago
  
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• Arts outside the EU

  31-05-2018 02:00 via bbc.co.uk
  From Britain's film industry and political playwrights to touring musicians and Eurovision.
  
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• Protectionist racket?

  31-05-2018 01:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The EU is not the freest trader, but on many measures it is near the liberal end of the spectrum.
  
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• Parents 'not involved' in new free schools

  31-05-2018 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  Free schools have failed to live up to their original, innovative purpose, say researchers.
  
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• NHS hospitals ended the financial year almost £1bn in the red

  31-05-2018 01:03 via ft.com
  Big increases in patient numbers leave hospitals struggling to cope
  
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• Free schools not delivering on promise of innovation, study finds

  31-05-2018 01:02 via ft.com
  Think-tank urges government to clarify purpose of flagship programme
  
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• Children exposed to TV junk food adverts despite ban

  31-05-2018 01:02 via ft.com
  IFS study reinforces calls for extension of restrictions up to 9pm watershed
  
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• Muslim group tells Tories to 'remove Islamophobia from party'

  31-05-2018 00:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The Muslim Council of Britain calls for "racists and bigots" to be removed from the party.
  
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