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• Karen Bradley says Northern Ireland abortion law should not be imposed

  05-06-2018 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Two MPs recall their own abortion experiences as the Commons debates reform in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Universal broadband speed plan 'unambitious', say Lords

  05-06-2018 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Lords say a planned minimum broadband speed is too low and may constrain economic activity.
  
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• Labour suggests softer approach to Brexit

  05-06-2018 20:25 via ft.com
  Party proposes amendment calling for ‘full access’ to EU’s ‘internal market’
  
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• Swansea tidal lagoon: £200m offer from Welsh Government to get it built

  05-06-2018 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  First minister steps in as reports suggest the UK government may pull the plug on energy project.
  
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• Heathrow Airport: Cabinet approves new runway plan

  05-06-2018 17:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers say "the time for action is now" with MPs set to vote on expansion in the coming weeks.
  
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• Met police tests new ways to combat moped-riding thieves

  05-06-2018 16:56 via ft.com
  Officers use technology to predict crime spots as shrinking roster and cuts drive efficiency push
  
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• UK economy set for rebound after fast service sector expansion

  05-06-2018 15:46 via ft.com
  PMI figures follow encouraging manufacturing and construction surveys
  
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• Economy set for rebound after fast service-sector expansion

  05-06-2018 15:46 via ft.com
  PMI figures follow encouraging manufacturing and construction surveys
  
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• Gordon Brown warns of Brexit 'paralysis'

  05-06-2018 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The former prime minister says party leaders have not yet grasped the challenges of Brexit.
  
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• Theresa May prepares her Irish backstop

  05-06-2018 14:46 via ft.com
  Three key questions concerning PM’s plan for maintaining invisible customs border
  
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• UK gives go-ahead for Heathrow third runway plans

  05-06-2018 14:11 via ft.com
  Grayling says government to deliver project, rejecting proposal by airlines
  
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• Stop Brexit campaign

  05-06-2018 13:30 via bbc.co.uk
  A well-funded national campaign to stop Brexit is getting under way - who is behind it?
  
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• Met police chief says 'naive' to think police cuts haven't contributed to rising violent crime - Politics live

  05-06-2018 11:35
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 10.35am BST My colleague Lisa O’Carroll has been covering the Treasury committee hearing where bosses from from the ports of Calais and Zeebrugge, and from Getlink (formerly Eurotunnel, have been giving evidence on Brexit. Here are some of her tweets.TReasury committee quizzing Eurotunnel, Calais and Zeebrugge ports... Benoit Rochet, Deputy CEO, Port of Calais, Joachim Coens, CEO, Port of Zeebrugge, and John Keefe, D
  
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• The arts world sees working-class people as a problem to be solved

  05-06-2018 11:07
  Publicly funded art is still dominated by a privileged elite who fail to engage the majority of the populationFrom Edward Bond’s generation of working-class writers to the flowering of companies that relied on enterprise allowance in the 1980s, theatre is often at its best when there is a broadening in the backgrounds of those who are making it. The majority of artistic directors, producers and chief executives in British theatre are still white, privately educated men. A hugely disproport
  
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• Give MPs a free vote on Heathrow expansion, says Justine Greening

  05-06-2018 10:29
  Ex-minister says opponents of third runway should be allowed to have their sayThe government must allow a free vote on Heathrow expansion plans to allow ministers and MPs to represent their constituents, the former education secretary Justine Greening has said.Greening, a fierce critic of the plans, said ministers such as Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, should be allowed to register their long-held opposition to a third runway without breaking collective cabinet responsibility. Continue re
  
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• Blink-and-you'll-miss-it Commons vote shows Brexit govt's contempt for parliament

  05-06-2018 10:14
  
  Twelve hours put aside for Brexit bill shows Theresa May has lost all confidence in the project.
  
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• Jeremy Hunt is the longest-serving health secretary? How did that happen? | Katy Balls

  05-06-2018 09:00
  Despite crisis in the NHS, the minister is marking a milestone in the job, as some ask whether he might one day be party leaderIn the five years and 275 days in which Jeremy Hunt has served as health secretary, the Conservative politician’s name has for some become cockney rhyming slang for a four-letter word beginning with c. Some don’t even bother to stick to that. A host of newsreaders – from the Today programme to Sky News – have managed to simply use Hunt’s cru
  
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• Heathrow expansion set for divisive Commons vote

  05-06-2018 08:54 via ft.com
  Plans for third runway expected to be approved by cabinet on Tuesday
  
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• UK government takes £2.1bn loss with RBS stake sale

  05-06-2018 08:37 via ft.com
  Chancellor Philip Hammond defends move, saying proceeds will help reduce national debt
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: pressure just keeps piling on Theresa May

  05-06-2018 08:00
  Three weeks until EU summit and no workable solutions on Irish border and customs unionWelcome to the Guardian’s weekly Brexit briefing. If you would like to receive it as a weekly email, please sign up here. You can also catch up with our Brexit Means … podcast right here.
  Also, producing the Guardian’s independent, in-depth journalism takes time and money. We do it because we believe our perspective matters and it may be your perspective, too. If you value our Brexit coverag
  
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• Why would young people love a country that seems not to love them? | Zoe Williams

  05-06-2018 07:00
  The odds are stacked against millennials. Don’t count on their patriotism until that changesDespite growing concerns over wage stagnation and insecure work, far fewer young people are members of unions,” were the journalist Kamal Ahmed’s actual words on the Today programme, describing the wage gap between the over-30s and the young. Frances O’Grady, the TUC leader, is heroically patient in trying to keep the commentariat on track: this is no crazy paradox, that at the ver
  
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• Time to march. Because now it’s the Brexiters who are afraid | Polly Toynbee

  05-06-2018 07:00
  As the tide turns in favour of remain, the claim that the people’s will is being denied will need another vote to resolve itIs the date in your diary? The march for a people’s vote on 23 June marks the second anniversary of the Brexit referendum, that day of national meltdown and the harshest social rift of our lifetime. This week the Commons corridors are filled with intensive lobbying of MPs before next week’s pivotal Brexit votes. As amendments to the EU withdrawal bill are
  
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• Met police test new means to fight moped thieves in face of cuts

  05-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Officers use technology to predict crime spots as shrinking roster drives efficiency push
  
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• How Oxford and Cambridge can attract more black students

  05-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Universities should follow US lead in needs-blind admissions
  
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• European Space Agency proposes governance overhaul

  05-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Move to prevent UK blocking EU projects and stop Brussels creating rival body
  
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• Theresa May told to 'get a grip' on rail crisis by regional news titles

  05-06-2018 01:19
  Papers such as Liverpool Echo and Yorkshire Post express readers’ fury at service failureTheresa May is coming under pressure over the rail chaos in northern England as some of the area’s largest newspapers join together to demand that she “get a grip” on the government’s response.The news came after the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, faced calls to resign as he was questioned by MPs and announced an inquiry into the botched timetabling changes that have cause
  
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• Water company fat cats give Labour a soft target for nationalisation talk

  05-06-2018 01:01
  Remuneration committees have put too much stock in balance sheets over common senseThe GMB union makes a fair point about pay at the top of the privately owned English water industry. When a few individuals can collect almost £2.5m a year for running local monopolies, remuneration committees have spent too much time looking at consultants’ spreadsheets and too little employing common sense.Yes, these businesses are large, important and must spend serious sums on new infrastructure ev
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn calls for investigation of alleged Tory Islamophobia

  05-06-2018 01:01
  Labour leader, Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi and the Muslim Council of Britain press resistant home secretaryJeremy Corbyn has called for an inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within the Conservative party.
  The Tories have been under pressure since the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) called for an investigation, highlighting a range of claims including candidates and other representatives allegedly having far-right connections or sending offensive tweets. Continue reading...
  
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• Heathrow: Grayling to confirm final plan for third runway

  05-06-2018 01:01
  Transport secretary will set out proposals amid growing rift over expansion schemeChris Grayling is to confirm the government’s final plans for a third runway at Heathrow as the Tories prepare to impose a three-line whip in favour and Labour considers whether to remove its backing for the project.The transport secretary will set out his proposals for the expansion to senior colleagues on the cabinet’s economic subcommittee on Tuesday morning, before the decision goes to the full cabi
  
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• Britain risks a ‘blind Brexit’ because of Tory rifts, warns Mandelson

  05-06-2018 00:55
  Former commissioner doubts a deal with the EU will be agreed before crucial autumn deadlineBritain will not be able to negotiate a meaningful deal with the EU by the time of the key parliamentary votes on Brexit this autumn, putting the onus on MPs to tell the government they will not accept a “blind Brexit”, Lord Mandelson, the former EU trade commissioner, has said.He predicted MPs would demand the government seek the EU’s agreement for the UK to remain in the EU to give time
  
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