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• Education Secretary Damian Hinds challenged over funding

  07-06-2018 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Education Secretary Damian Hinds is challenged over schools funding in Reading on Question Time.
  
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• May to seek greater protection for women from online abuse

  07-06-2018 23:30 via ft.com
  Prime minister will urge leaders at G7 summit to put pressure on tech companies
  
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• Boris Johnson admits there may be a Brexit 'meltdown'

  07-06-2018 23:29
  Foreign secretary also said he increasingly admired President Trump in leaked recordingBoris Johnson has warned of a Brexit “meltdown” and branded the Treasury the “heart of remain” in unguarded comments at a private dinner.At the gathering of the Conservative Way Forward, a Thatcherite campaign group, he said exit talks were approaching a “moment of truth”. The foreign secretary said he believed Brexit will happen and would be “irreversible” but t
  
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• Theresa May offers Tory rebels compromise 'breathing space' over Brexit bill

  07-06-2018 23:04
  Prime minister is offering 28-day period if Brexit deal is rejected in effort to unify partyThe government has proposed a 28-day breathing space if parliament rejects Theresa May’s Brexit deal, as it looks for a compromise with Conservative rebels to avoid a string of defeats in the House of Commons.The EU withdrawal bill is returning to the Commons for 12 hours of debate next week — now spread over two days after protests from backbenchers over the prospect of an all-night sitting.
  
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• TSB chief Paul Pester under pressure after MPs question his future

  07-06-2018 21:57 via ft.com
  Committee has ‘lost confidence' in his ability to handle bungled switch in IT systems
  
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• Treasury select committee questions future of TSB chief Pester

  07-06-2018 21:57 via ft.com
  Nicky Morgan writes to bank chairman seeking ‘serious consideration’ of CEO’s position
  
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• May’s Brexit backstop fudge pulls Davis back from the edge

  07-06-2018 20:55
  Adding date to Irish backstop text concedes little but keeps Brexit secretary in the foldDavid Davis stepped back and forth from the brink and back again before many people in Westminster had even digested their breakfast on Thursday, in a tense showdown over the terms of the Brexit backstop to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland. May’s premiership has seen the resignations of four cabinet ministers, but to lose her Brexit secretary might have been the fatal blow. Yet Davis was mollifi
  
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• Theresa May ends Brexit standoff without fireworks

  07-06-2018 20:23 via ft.com
  Compromise on Irish border plan appeases David Davis
  
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• Crime and punishment: England’s tragic failure

  07-06-2018 19:25 via ft.com
  Mostly out of sight, the criminal justice system cannot be out of mind
  
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• Brexit: what is the UK's backstop proposal?

  07-06-2018 19:25
  The whole of the UK could remain in the customs union for a time after transition in order to prevent a hard border in IrelandBoth the UK and the EU are determined to avoid a hard border – physical infrastructure, officials, checks – between Northern Ireland and the republic after Brexit. The government believes the key to doing this is a comprehensive free trade and customs agreement, but the EU fears Theresa May’s red lines of leaving the single market, customs union and ECJ
  
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• Stop ‘bums on seats’ arts courses, warns universities minister

  07-06-2018 19:05 via ft.com
  Sam Gyimah says ‘threadbare’ courses linked to lower earning power
  
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• Senior EU leaders cast doubt on UK's Brexit backstop plan – as it happened

  07-06-2018 18:53
  Michel Barnier joined by Guy Verhofstadt in questioning plan unveiled on Thursday. Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenGovernment Brexit backstop plan - Snap summary and analysisBarnier raises doubts about UK Brexit backstop planAfternoon summary 5.53pm BST5.42pm BST It was rather overshadowed by everything else, but Sir Vince Cable, the Lib Dem leader, gave a speech this morning containing a plan to reform public sector outsourcing. Here are his key proposal
  
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• Liam Fox is asked: Who governs Britain tonight?

  07-06-2018 18:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The International Trade Secretary is asked whether Theresa May is still in charge of the government.
  
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• Home Office prevented asylum seeker's urgent cancer treatment

  07-06-2018 18:18
  Woman with advanced breast cancer was deemed ineligible for free NHS careA 38-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer was denied potentially life-saving chemotherapy for nearly six weeks after the Home Office deemed her ineligible. Kelemua Mulat, who has metastatic breast cancer in her abdomen and bone cancer in her spine, was refused urgent hospital treatment on 27 April after a Home Office official decided her asylum claim did not meet strict criteria. Continue reading...
  
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• Don't worry your pretty head over Heathrow, Justine. It's under control

  07-06-2018 17:31
  Chris Grayling was in Europe so it was down to Jesse Norman to fob off Putney MP Greening over noise pollution The session opened with a minute’s silence for the fallen. The past week has not been kind to Chris Grayling. Chaos on the trains and the Heathrow announcement have reduced the transport secretary to a primal assortment of nervous tics. The power of coherent thought has long since gone and there are fears his speech functions may follow.Not that you would necessarily notice the im
  
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• Why the UK has backed F-35 fighter

  07-06-2018 17:27 via ft.com
  David Bond analyses how well the fighter jets will answer air defence needs
  
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• Learning by erring in the Brexit plans

  07-06-2018 16:23 via ft.com
  By setting out what it wants, UK steps closer to realising what it cannot have
  
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• Ireland stresses need for ‘progress’ on Brexit backstop

  07-06-2018 15:35 via ft.com
  ‘A great deal of work’ still needed, deputy PM Coveney says
  
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• Brexit paper publication appears to defuse Davis resignation threat

  07-06-2018 15:17 via ft.com
  Document says ‘Irish backstop’ customs plan should end by December 2021
  
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• Theresa May and David Davis kick the can down the road

  07-06-2018 15:02 via ft.com
  It is hard to see how a time-limited Irish backstop will be signed off by the EU
  
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• Brexit paper on Irish border to be published on Thursday

  07-06-2018 12:38 via ft.com
  Publication of crucial document follows tense talks between May and Davis
  
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• May is between a rock and a hard place over the backstop issue

  07-06-2018 12:20
  If the PM fails to mollify David Davis, his resignation could spell the end of her premiershipMany will be baffled by the latest cabinet row over Brexit, pitched as the most damaging yet for Theresa May. This particular showdown, however, is significant.First, because Brexiters fear that if David Davis fails to get his way, the UK could be permanently tied to the European Union even after it formally leaves. Second, because if the Brexit secretary walks, it could bring down the prime minister.Co
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast - Russian infowars

  07-06-2018 11:47
  
  Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by James Rodgers, international journalism lecturer, author and former BBC Moscow correspondent, and Jamie Bartlett, journalist and author of "The People Vs Tech", to discuss Russia's modern information warfare tactics.
  
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• UK Supreme Court dismisses challenge to N Ireland abortion laws

  07-06-2018 11:14 via ft.com
  Court rules it has no jurisdiction but five justices say law is incompatible with human rights
  
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• UK Supreme Court avoids ruling against N Ireland abortion laws

  07-06-2018 11:14 via ft.com
  Court rules it had no jurisdiction but five justices say laws incompatible with human rights
  
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• Supreme Court dismisses challenge to N Ireland abortion laws

  07-06-2018 11:14 via ft.com
  Court rules it has no jurisdiction but five justices say law is incompatible with human rights
  
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• Punishment beatings by public demand - the truth about welfare reform

  07-06-2018 11:03
  
  How the benefits system was turned into quasi-judicial punishment - and fails at everything else.
  
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• Mary Wilson dies at 102

  07-06-2018 10:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn leads tributes to Lady Wilson, who has died aged 102.
  
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• Brexit: Ministers meet over customs 'backstop' plans

  07-06-2018 10:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Brexit Secretary David Davis is concerned the customs backup plan could continue indefinitely.
  
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• Mary Wilson obituary

  07-06-2018 07:51
  An accomplished poet who brushed off the caricatures attracted by her life as the wife of prime minister Harold WilsonIn the widely recorded history of Harold Wilson’s years in British politics, his wife, Mary, appears as a rather shadowy figure, a fleeting form in the background of the latest crisis at No 10, seemingly intent on hastening back to the domestic obscurity she craved and for which she was mercilessly mocked by the satirists of that era. The reality was quite otherwise. Mary W
  
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• The Brexit myth of no-strings frictionless trade

  07-06-2018 06:01 via ft.com
  A single consignment of UK goods will face multiple hurdles on its way into the EU
  
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• UK business angered by lack of input on post-Brexit links with EU

  07-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Frustrated corporate leaders allege ‘zero formal consultation’ on white paper
  
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• Poor visibility on road to Brexit dismays carmakers

  07-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Industry laments delays and lack of clarity on plans to leave bloc
  
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• An English Parliament?

  07-06-2018 04:30 via bbc.co.uk
  As a BBC survey explores attitudes to a Englishness, has the moment for a parliament passed?
  
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• Calls for more women to give evidence at select committees

  07-06-2018 04:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Only a third of witnesses to appear in front of select committees over the past year have been women.
  
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• Brexit: Ministers meet over 'backstop' plans

  07-06-2018 04:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Publication of temporary customs proposals could be delayed after "push back" from David Davis.
  
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• Supreme court to rule on Northern Ireland abortion law

  07-06-2018 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The Supreme Court will rule on whether NI's abortion laws are incompatible with human rights laws.
  
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• Select committees need more female witnesses, say MPs

  07-06-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Women urged to come forward and express views on government policy
  
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