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• £20bn funding boost for NHS dismays critics

  16-06-2018 23:45 via ft.com
  National Health Service to receive billions more over five years
  
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• Sinn Féin: No Brexit until border resolved

  16-06-2018 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald says border must be resolved for negotiations to progress.
  
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• Corbyn steals spotlight after Labour party’s ‘Jez Fest’

  16-06-2018 22:02 via ft.com
  Music festival boosts Labour leader after cost controversy
  
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• Jo Cox anniversary: Husband says murdered MP 'still centre of family'

  16-06-2018 15:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Brendan Cox pays tribute to his wife, two years after the Labour MP was murdered.
  
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• 'We're not Brexit rebels, we're pragmatic leavers,' says Tory MP

  16-06-2018 08:00
  Antoinette Sandbach says labelling her and other pro-Europe Tories as traitors is ‘ridiculous’Conservative MPs preparing to face down Theresa May next week are not rebels or traitors, but pragmatists who want to stop Britain going over a cliff edge, a leading member of the pro-Europe group has said.Antoinette Sandbach told the Guardian the media toxicity surrounding even the most basic scrutiny of Brexit was transforming British society. “We are not rebels. We are pragmatic lea
  
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• Parliament’s problem isn’t anti-Brexit protests outside. It lies within | Ian Jack

  16-06-2018 07:00
  Activists wanted answers from Arron Banks at his select committee hearing. But MPs just aped his smug jocularityOn every day that parliament has sat since September last year, Steven Bray has positioned himself across the road from Downing Street or the Palace of Westminster and shouted “STOP BREXIT!” whenever a suitable target presents itself: usually a black ministerial car ferrying a government politician between one place and the other. His voice is loud and commanding, and somet
  
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• Caroline Lucas on Heathrow and climate change: ‘The apocalypse is happening’

  16-06-2018 07:00
  The Brighton MP may be stepping down as co-leader of the Green party, but she is doing so to step up her fight against a third runway and to secure a ‘people’s vote’ on the EUThe last time I met Caroline Lucas, she was about to stand trial. The Green party co-leader was prosecuted in 2014 following an anti-fracking protest in Balcombe, West Sussex, and was due in court the week after we met, yet her spirits that day were remarkably high. If optimism has been the defining qualit
  
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• Metropolitan Police warns cuts will hurt ability to combat crime

  16-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Deputy commissioner says fewer officers may be sent to calls in London
  
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• May’s control of EU withdrawal rests on knife-edge vote

  16-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  PM aims to quell rebellion by pro-European Tories but next week’s vote will be tight
  
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• Upskirting law to be passed soon, says Theresa May

  16-06-2018 04:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM says she is "disappointed" the law failed to progress after her own MP blocked it.
  
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• The Brexit comic using satire to 'laugh at our leaders'

  16-06-2018 01:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Illustrator Mike Dicks started The Brexit comic to poke fun at the UK's political leadership.
  
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• Home Office looks at allowing cannabis oil prescription for epileptic boy

  16-06-2018 01:01
  Decision comes after Billy Caldwell, 12, was hospitalised due to ‘life-threatening’ seizuresThe Home Office has said it will “carefully consider” allowing a 12-year-old boy to be prescribed cannabis oil after he was admitted to hospital with “life-threatening” seizures following the confiscation of his supply.Billy Caldwell had his anti-epileptic medicine confiscated at Heathrow airport on Monday. If the decision is made to permit him to have the treatment, it
  
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