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• Theresa May to deliver big cash injection to NHS

  14-06-2018 23:47 via ft.com
  Raising health spending by 3-4 per cent could add up to £6bn a year
  
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• Tory rebellion back on after MPs reject May's Brexit amendment

  14-06-2018 21:20
  Fresh showdown looms after redrafted wording on ‘meaningful vote’ deemed ‘unacceptable’ Theresa May is heading for a fresh showdown with Conservative rebels next week after they rejected a government-drafted amendment to the EU withdrawal bill.The former minister Anna Soubry said she and her colleagues felt “badly let down” after they believed they had reached an agreement with the government – only to find the text had been redrafted at the last minute.
  
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• Government publishes amendment to EU withdrawal bill - Politics live

  14-06-2018 21:14
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenCarwyn Jones’ Brexit speech - SummaryAfternoon summary 8.14pm BST That’s it from me this evening. For a full report on the government’s amendment to the EU withdrawal bill, read this: Related: Tory rebellion back on after MPs reject May's Brexit amendment7.08pm BST High-stakes gamble, this... https://t.co/enafqP0Is1 Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May faces showdown with rebels over ‘no-deal’ Brexit

  14-06-2018 20:17 via ft.com
  Former attorney-general and at least a dozen Tories could join Labour to defeat PM
  
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• Theresa May woos bankers with UK visa changes

  14-06-2018 20:04 via ft.com
  Decision to remove doctors and nurses from system will ease recruitment for City, PM says
  
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• Playing chicken over the post-Brexit Irish border

  14-06-2018 18:41 via ft.com
  Britain and the EU may swerve towards a mutually beneficial, but politically hard, deal
  
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• NHS groups welcome immigration change for doctors and nurses

  14-06-2018 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  It follows warnings a cap on non-EU doctors and nurses made it hard to fill vacancies in the NHS.
  
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• Immigration cap on doctors and nurses to be lifted to relieve NHS

  14-06-2018 17:58
  Home secretary to relax rules from Friday, due to health service recruitment pressuresThousands more foreign medical professionals will be able to work in the NHS after the home secretary, Sajid Javid, confirmed the government would relax tough immigration rules first imposed by Theresa May.As revealed by the Guardian on Tuesday, doctors and nurses are to be excluded from the cap on skilled worker visas, meaning there will be no restriction on the numbers who can be employed through the so-calle
  
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• Grenfell memorial, Brexit brinkmanship and open Scotland – Politics Weekly podcast

  14-06-2018 17:12
  Pippa Crerar is joined by Jessica Elgot, Sam Lowe and Allie Renison to discuss a week of Brexit showdowns. Plus: Robert Booth on the Grenfell anniversary and Libby Brooks on why the SNP is promoting immigration as anti-immigrant sentiment grows elsewhere in EuropeAfter a dramatic week of Brexit brinkmanship in the Commons, what has actually changed? As Tory rebels and Brexiters both claim the other side blinked first, our expert panel will fill you in on what really happened – and what com
  
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• Don't panic! Brexit Dad's Army ready and willing to tell EU to sod off | John Crace

  14-06-2018 16:29
  David ‘Captain Mainwaring’ Davis and his team bear uncanny likeness to another home guardThe Royal Mail has done some expert trolling this week by announcing plans to release a set of Dad’s Army stamps. “Don’t panic! Don’t panic!” and “We’re all doomed!” might be just the kind of nostalgic messages being whispered within the government but ministers are keen not to let the good news spread to members of the general public. Careless talk
  
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• SNP promises more guerrilla tactics over Brexit powers

  14-06-2018 16:00
  Party threatens to cause trouble ‘day by day’ and accuses minister of ‘shafting’ Scotland The Scottish National party is threatening to keep up its guerrilla tactics at Westminster in protest against the government’s handling of Brexit and the powers of the Scottish parliament.The SNP leader in the Commons, Ian Blackford, accused the Scottish secretary, David Mundell, of “shafting” the people of Scotland by denying them a voice on the Brexit process.Cont
  
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• A House divided on Brexit

  14-06-2018 14:37 via ft.com
  Recent confrontations confirm UK politics is still dominated by internal party splits
  
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• SNP pledges more action over Brexit bill

  14-06-2018 14:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The party warns that its walk-out from PMQs was "not the end of the matter, this is the beginning".
  
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• Len McCluskey's coming for me, says Tom Watson

  14-06-2018 13:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's deputy leader says Unite leader Len McCluskey is "powerful enough" to remove him.
  
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• Health staff to be exempted from UK visa cap

  14-06-2018 12:54 via ft.com
  Move is expected to free up 8,000 Tier 2 visas annually
  
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• Foie gras imports may be banned after Brexit, UK minister suggests

  14-06-2018 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  British farmers are already banned from producing the pate made by force-feeding ducks or geese.
  
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• EU 'using Galileo as negotiating tactic'

  14-06-2018 12:17 via bbc.co.uk
  A UK minister says the European Commission is using the Galileo sat-nav system as a negotiating tactic.
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast - abortion laws in Northern Ireland

  14-06-2018 11:46
  
  Politics.co.uk editor Ian Dunt is joined by Dr Ruth Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Medical Law at Queen Mary University, and Lisa Hallgarten, Policy Manager at Brook, to discuss abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Love it or hate it, the SNP stunt worked

  14-06-2018 11:14
  
  The SNP stunt was pure PR genius. It wasn't completely spontaneous, it was theatrical and entertaining, but that’s exactly what it needed to be.
  
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• Labour frontbencher who quit over EEA vote defends decision

  14-06-2018 10:42
  Laura Smith, who won her leave-voting seat by 48 votes, says constituents come firstLaura Smith, the Labour frontbencher who resigned in the biggest parliamentary revolt Jeremy Corbyn has faced since he became leader, has defended her decision to vote against remaining in the European Economic Area.Labour’s divisions on Europe broke out into the open on Wednesday night when, in an extraordinary breakdown of discipline, more than half the party’s backbenchers defied the party whip. Co
  
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• Farage's allies in Italy are normalising far-right politics

  14-06-2018 10:04
  
  Of Farage's various allies, the Italian's are perhaps the most complex.
  
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• Voting under way in Lewisham East by-election

  14-06-2018 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Voters in South East London are choosing a new MP to replace Labour's Heidi Alexander.
  
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• Immigration rules to be relaxed for non-EU doctors and nurses

  14-06-2018 08:57 via bbc.co.uk
  There is currently a cap on the number of non-EU doctors and nurses that can come to the UK.
  
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• UK retirees face state pension cuts after review uncovers errors

  14-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Overpayments and disparities discovered in records going back 40 years
  
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• Retirees face state pension cuts after review uncovers errors

  14-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Overpayments and disparities discovered in records going back 40 years
  
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• Plastic waste export tide turns to south-east Asia after China ban

  14-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Calls grow for recycling at home as more nations impose restrictions
  
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• Brexit fears give Lib Dems cause for hope in Lewisham by-election

  14-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Cable’s party confident of leapfrogging Tories into second place
  
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• Abuse of power: the truth about sexual harassment in Westminster

  14-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  As parliament struggles to reform, the FT meets victims of a culture of silence
  
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• Brexit warning from investment firm co-founded by Rees-Mogg

  14-06-2018 01:12
  Somerset Capital Management warns prospective clients about ‘considerable uncertainty’ during BrexitA City firm co-founded by the influential Conservative backbencher, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has set up an investment fund in Ireland and is warning prospective clients about the financial dangers of the sort of hard Brexit favoured by the Tory MP.London-based Somerset Capital Management (SCM) described Brexit as a risk in a prospectus to a new fund it launched in March, which has been markete
  
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• SNP MPs walk out of Commons in protest over Brexit debate

  14-06-2018 01:00
  PMQs descends into chaos as SNP leader is ejected in row over lack of time given to debate devolution The SNP has warned of a “complete breakdown” in relations between Edinburgh and London as their leader at Westminster launched a campaign of parliamentary guerrilla tactics to cause maximum disruption to Theresa May’s government.Ian Blackford, the party’s leader in the Commons, said it could no longer be “business as usual” between Holyrood and Westminster aft
  
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