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• UK 'knew US mistreated rendition detainees'

  28-06-2018 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK tolerated "inexcusable" treatment of detainees, MPs find, amid calls for a judge-led inquiry.
  
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• Theresa May tells EU leaders: you are putting lives at risk over Brexit

  28-06-2018 23:05
  PM hits back over security co-operation after Brussels criticism of UK’s ‘split cabinet’Theresa May has issued a stark warning to EU leaders that their citizens’ lives will be at risk if they fail to show more flexibility on Brexit, as she struggled to regain the initiative at a bad-tempered summit in Brussels.The prime minister had earlier faced pointed criticism from a succession of leaders as they arrived at the European council meeting, in which they highlighted divis
  
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• Brexit: May says UK and EU want 'faster pace' on deal

  28-06-2018 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  The European Commission president says UK cabinet splits are making negotiations difficult.
  
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• Theresa May faces new conflict with defence secretary

  28-06-2018 22:18
  Gavin Williamson wants to rush through publication of defence reviewTheresa May will face pressure from the defence secretary to publish an interim report on the government’s defence review before the Nato summit later this month to demonstrate to international allies her commitment to the armed forces.Gavin Williamson is expected to attend talks with the prime minister and the chancellor at Downing Street next week where the Guardian understands he will make one final push for her to sign
  
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• Steve Bell on Theresa May's Brexit plans – cartoon

  28-06-2018 21:19
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• EU leaders offer Brexit compromise if May confronts Eurosceptics

  28-06-2018 19:31 via ft.com
  Bloc tells British PM they will respond positively if she shifts ‘red lines’
  
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• Brexit supporter Lord Ashcroft suggests firms move to Malta

  28-06-2018 18:58 via ft.com
  Former Tory deputy chairman offers advice to UK companies needing EU access
  
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• Theresa May criticised for lack of progress on Brexit as EU summit begins – as it happened

  28-06-2018 18:43
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the start of the EU summit in Brussels.Afternoon summary 5.43pm BST If I can deliver a humanitarian operation and it is cost appropriate and effective for me to seek the use of UK military assets to do so, then I will. The fact that my actions benefit another department is a reason for doing it, not a reason for not doing it. So, if there is spare capability in defence that development can use then we should do
  
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• FCA to overhaul ‘opaque’ charges on drawdown pensions

  28-06-2018 18:40 via ft.com
  Providers will have to display fees in a single figure under new proposal
  
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• UN to investigate Tory record on poverty and human rights

  28-06-2018 18:35
  Expert who angered Donald Trump to look into impact of budget cuts The United Nations has launched an investigation into poverty and human rights in the UK which will examine the impact of the austerity policies of Theresa May and David Cameron over the past eight years.The inquiry will be led by Prof Philip Alston, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, who angered the Donald Trump administration this month when he concluded after a similar visit to the US that t
  
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• Napping May scores own goal in face of Belgium Brexit striker | John Crace

  28-06-2018 18:31
  It was a slow-motion apocalypse as the prime minister dribbled incoherently at EU summitNot even catching a glimpse of Iain Duncan Smith in the Daily Mail cleverly comparing British business to Nazi collaborators – irony meters went off the scale – could spoil Theresa May’s morning. Flying to Brussels was the prime minister’s very own “me time”. A time when she could put her feet up and no one or nothing could get to her for an hour or so. Several members of h
  
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• MPs demand five days to debate Brexit deal

  28-06-2018 18:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The Brexit committee says it will be "the most significant parliamentary debate in a generation".
  
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• The irremediable folly of a ‘no deal’ Brexit

  28-06-2018 18:04 via ft.com
  Claims that leaving the EU will boost growth rest on questionable assumptions
  
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• MP breaks House of Commons taboo by discussing her period

  28-06-2018 17:38
  Danielle Rowley highlights period poverty during debate on cost of sanitary productsAn MP has been praised for breaking a taboo by talking about being on her period during a debate over the cost of sanitary products, which many women cannot afford. Scottish Labour’s Danielle Rowley, who represents Midlothian, apologised for being late to a House of Commons women and equalities debate, saying she was on her period and it had cost her £25 so far this week.Continue reading...
  
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• Belgian PM gives Theresa May his team's shirt ahead of World Cup clash

  28-06-2018 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Belgian PM Charles Michel gives Theresa May his team's football shirt ahead of their countries' World Cup clash.
  
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• ‘I’m on my period,’ MP tells Commons – video

  28-06-2018 17:09
  Labour MP Danielle Rowley tells MPs she is on her period as she highlights the cost of sanitary products. During women and equalities questions, she told MPs: 'I would like to announce to you today and to the house, and perhaps you'll excuse me for my lateness, that today I'm on my period – and it's cost me this week already £25'  Continue reading...
  
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• Looking for love (or is it Brexit?) on all the wrong islands

  28-06-2018 16:57 via ft.com
  Imagine if certain British politicians were sent to a luxury paradise to seek romance
  
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• Revealed: Two-child benefit cap hits 70,000 families

  28-06-2018 16:54
  
  'Two-child limit' on benefit payments hit more than 70,000 families in its first year
  
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• Social care funding and back pay for sleep-in for carers

  28-06-2018 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Calls for the government to pick up estimated £400m bill to to cover back pay for carers who stay overnight looking after people.
  
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• Tinder app used by activists to spread party message

  28-06-2018 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The dating app Tinder has been used by political campaigners targeting younger people.
  
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• UK spymasters tolerated ‘mistreatment’ of terror suspects by US

  28-06-2018 16:32 via ft.com
  Report reveals new cases where British agents were complicit in rendition
  
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• Theresa May holds up Belgium football shirt in PR gaffe

  28-06-2018 16:21
  Prime minister has team’s top handed to her by Belgian counterpart They say sports and politics make uneasy bedfellows, and Theresa May will no doubt now agree. At the start of a summit of EU leaders in Brussels, the British prime minister was ambushed by her Belgian counterpart, Charles Michel, who presented her with a Belgium football team top ahead of the England v Belgium World Cup game.
  May held up the Red Devils’ strip, before realising that doing so might be considered a PR ga
  
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• Parliament may not have time to approve Brexit deal, MPs warn

  28-06-2018 16:00
  Cross-party committee says ‘time is not on our side’ amid slow-moving talks with EUA committee of MPs has warned that parliament may not have enough time to approve the UK’s exit from the European Union by March 2019 as Theresa May heads to Brussels for the latest round of the slow-moving divorce talks.The cross-party Brexit committee said that “even under the most optimistic outcome” of a divorce deal being agreed in October, there was not necessarily enough time f
  
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• £40m nuclear facility project for Wales announced

  28-06-2018 14:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The partnership between the Welsh and UK governments is on top of a £200m UK-wide sector deal.
  
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• MPs seek action against Dominic Cummings for 'contempt'

  28-06-2018 14:37 via bbc.co.uk
  MPs refer the case of former Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings to the privileges committee after his refusal to appear before a Commons committee.
  
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• A UK cabinet in disarray

  28-06-2018 13:55 via ft.com
  Chequers meeting looks set to be an unpredictable ministerial showdown
  
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• Constitutional law in UK and US is exciting, and that is bad

  28-06-2018 13:47 via ft.com
  Brexit and Trump raise troubling questions about the exercise of executive power
  
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• Queen's taxpayer-funded costs up 13% in 2017-18

  28-06-2018 13:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Public funds used by the Queen for official expenditure and duties went from £41.9m to £47.4m.
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast: Medical uses of cannabis

  28-06-2018 13:21
  
  All you need to know about the medical uses of cannabis
  
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• The Politics.co.uk Podcast: Medical cannabis

  28-06-2018 13:21
  
  All you need to know about the medical uses of cannabis
  
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• Half-empty super prison is ‘on track’, says UK government

  28-06-2018 12:29 via ft.com
  Experts insist small cells a trigger for disorder when jail is full
  
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• Rebellion grows over meaningful vote

  28-06-2018 12:22
  
  Influential committee of MPs throws weight behind demands for meaningful vote, amid signs critics could use govt moves against them.
  
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• Why I got into politics

  28-06-2018 12:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Five Westminster politicians on why they switched their chosen careers to politics.
  
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• UK population growth slows to decade low as migration falls

  28-06-2018 11:55 via ft.com
  ONS: drop in net migration in the year to June 2017 contributed to the slowdown in growth
  
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• Energy ministry's London offices are ruled energy inefficient

  28-06-2018 11:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Four of the department's eleven offices received the worst possible energy efficiency rating.
  
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• Broken system: Austerity sees domestic violence victims sent back to their abusers

  28-06-2018 09:48
  
  Abuse victims repeatedly failed from the system - life recover and rebuild options scarce or non-existent
  
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• Inside the Embassy: Trump doc shines a light on our bleak Brexit future

  28-06-2018 09:36
  
  Channel 4's documentary gave us unprecedented access to the diplomatic workings of one of our closest allies
  
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• FCA to overhaul ‘opaque’ charges on popular drawdown pensions

  28-06-2018 09:24 via ft.com
  Providers will have to display fees in a single figure under new proposal
  
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• Brussels steps up emergency planning for no-deal Brexit

  28-06-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Measures proposed on keeping Channel tunnel open and sustaining financial services
  
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• Is the EU punishing the UK?

  28-06-2018 05:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler explains.
  
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• Labour party received call for criminal record checks of candidates

  28-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Report urged background research months before election of MP accused of abuse
  
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• Hammond urged to approve £100m for UK rival to Galileo

  28-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Funding request signals Britain is serious on launching its own satellite system
  
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• Conservative hopefuls begin canvassing to replace Theresa May

  28-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Race to be next leader starts as ministers jockey for position at drinks parties
  
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• Arron Banks: Watchdog criticises charity set up by Leave.EU donor

  28-06-2018 02:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The Love Saves the Day Foundation risked misleading the public about its activities, regulator says.
  
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• What do European governments want from the EU Summit?

  28-06-2018 02:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Assessing the mood in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Budapest ahead of this week's get-together.
  
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• Young will pick up climate change bill, advisers warn

  28-06-2018 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Without action on climate change, the coming generation will pay much more to curb emissions, a UK report says.
  
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• Motor industry should be ‘ashamed’ over emissions

  28-06-2018 01:03 via ft.com
  Britain likely to miss legally binding carbon targets, say climate advisers
  
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• Charity linked to Arron Banks ‘risked misleading the public’

  28-06-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Watchdog’s findings raise further questions over Brexit donor’s financial affairs
  
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• UK eyes ‘mini nuclear plants’ to help sector survive

  28-06-2018 00:54 via ft.com
  Industry struggling to stay competitive against falling costs of renewables
  
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• Steve Bell on Prince William and Mahmoud Abbas – cartoon

  28-06-2018 00:24
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