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• Lockheed chosen to launch Britain’s commercial space age

  15-07-2018 23:31 via ft.com
  Company allocated grants of £23.5m to develop remote site in Scotland
  
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• Theresa May faces rebellion from Brexit hardliners in customs bill vote

  15-07-2018 22:00
  Hard Brexit supporters led by Jacob Rees-Mogg may trigger no-confidence vote in daysTheresa May faces a concerted rebellion from the hard Brexit wing of the Conservative party on Monday, as MPs unhappy with her Chequers compromise prepare to mount a show of strength by voting for their amendments on the customs bill.The party’s European Research Group says it will reject any last attempts at compromise by Number 10 as they hope to force May to change course over Brexit or risk a no-confide
  
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• Theresa May is teetering. But her fall will not end the crisis | Matthew d’Ancona

  15-07-2018 19:47
  Though the prime minister has been a profound disappointment, she is only the symptom of a deeper malaiseTheresa May’s expression is hard to read at the best of times, and almost impenetrable at the worst. So it proved on Sunday when she made her second appearance in less than a month on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. Was the embattled prime minister boldly channelling Marshal Ferdinand Foch during the first Battle of the Marne in 1914: Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situatio
  
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• Ben Jennings on the aftermath of Donald Trump's UK visit – cartoon

  15-07-2018 19:37
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• Why the kid gloves for Trump, when it’s gloves off for the EU? | Nesrine Malik

  15-07-2018 19:18
  Fawning over Trump is supposed to be realpolitik, while a conciliatory attitude to Europe would never do. That’s madnessIf leaving the EU was meant to be an exercise in self-belief, pride and patriotism, Donald Trump’s visit seems to have led some members of the political class to temporarily mislay these noble notions. The government that received him did not seem like a majestic keeper of the national flame, but a diminished, kowtowing embarrassment. It was a state visit of constan
  
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• May faces Commons reckoning over cross-border trade bill

  15-07-2018 19:01
  Crucial legislation will put PM’s hard-won Chequers deal to the test in parliamentTen days after the Chequers summit, a parliamentary reckoning beckons. It may not sound particularly exciting but the remaining stages of the taxation (cross-border trade) bill in the Commons on Monday represent a critical moment for Theresa May’s premiership.
  Can the prime minister steer her Brexit legislation through parliament past the Labour-Tory remainer alliance and the increasingly angry hard Bre
  
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• Minister resigns after sending constituents explicit messages

  15-07-2018 18:56
  Andrew Griffiths ‘deeply ashamed’ as he quits role as minister for small business A government minister has resigned following allegations that he sent two female constituents “depraved” sexual messages.Andrew Griffiths, the Conservative MP for Burton and Uttoxeter, whose wife gave birth to their first child in April, said in a statement he was “deeply ashamed” and was “seeking professional help to ensure it never happens again”. Continue reading..
  
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• Theresa May: Donald Trump told me to sue the EU

  15-07-2018 16:35
  PM reveals president’s Brexit advice was not to negotiate with the bloc at allTheresa May has revealed that Donald Trump advised her to “sue the European Union” rather than negotiate with the 27-country bloc, in a private conversation that the US president referred to during his visit to the UK on Friday.The prime minister was asked on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show what the “brutal” Brexit negotiating advice was that Trump had talked about in their joint pres
  
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• Theresa May: Five things from her Andrew Marr show interview

  15-07-2018 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Trump, immigration, leadership, EU law and 'cutting out David Davis' - here are five things the Prime Minister revealed.
  
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• Theresa May tries to revive Brexit plan amid Conservative onslaught

  15-07-2018 15:52 via ft.com
  Prime minister reveals Trump urged her to ‘sue the EU’ and scrap negotiations
  
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• May attempts to revive her Brexit plan amid Tory onslaught

  15-07-2018 15:52 via ft.com
  Prime minister reveals Trump urged her to ‘sue the EU’ and scrap negotiations
  
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• How did Trump go from bad joke to good bloke in the UK press?

  15-07-2018 15:00
  Enthusiasm for the US president in parts of the UK press is a very real threat to democracySuddenly, Donald Trump is not such a bad man. A large portion of Britain’s media betrayed an increasing measure of enthusiasm for the US president even before the Sun devoted seven pages on Friday to its “world exclusive interview”.Although it meant the rest had to play catch-up, with the Daily Mail carrying a lame page imagining what Trump would say to May, they didn’t take long to
  
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• UK Conservative minister quits over sexual misconduct

  15-07-2018 14:42 via ft.com
  Andrew Griffiths apologises after sending messages to two female constituents
  
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• Conservative minister quits over sexual misconduct

  15-07-2018 14:42 via ft.com
  Andrew Griffiths apologises after sending messages to 2 female constituents
  
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• Cambridge discovers the economic benefit of clustering | Richard Partington

  15-07-2018 14:31
  Victorian concept of the ‘industrial district’ could protect the UK from the worst of BrexitThere are tourists punting on the river and cyclists thronging the street. On this summer day, many of the trains have been cancelled or face severe delays. It’s more than a century since the Victorian economist Alfred Marshall taught at Cambridge University – where the economics library still bears his name – yet he would still recognise plenty of things about the city today
  
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• Theresa May hits back at David Davis over Chequers plan for Brexit

  15-07-2018 12:58 via ft.com
  Prime minister reveals Trump urged her to ‘sue the EU’ and scrap negotiations
  
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• Theresa May's Brexit plan crosses red lines - Jacob Rees-Mogg

  15-07-2018 12:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Jacob Rees-Mogg tells the BBC that the prime minister's Brexit plan goes against promises she made.
  
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• Donald Trump: Theresa May on the president's EU advice

  15-07-2018 11:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May reveals what President Trump suggested she should do when dealing with the EU.
  
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• ‘No deal’ Brexit planning gathers pace after Chequers meeting

  15-07-2018 10:24 via ft.com
  Eurosceptics insist on ‘more convincing threat’ to EU of disorderly departure
  
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• David Davis urges Theresa May to ditch Chequers plan for Brexit

  15-07-2018 10:01 via ft.com
  Former Brexit secretary says ‘halfway house’ puts UK democracy at stake
  
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• Declare an annual day to mark partition of India, MPs told

  15-07-2018 10:00
  Event would celebrate contribution to British society made by south AsiansThe television presenter Anita Rani will lead a delegation heading for the House of Commons this week to make the case for an annual day to commemorate the partition of India.Dr Binita Kane, whose father’s harrowing story was among those highlighted in a documentary presented by Rani last year, My Family, Partition and Me, has called for the day to both “remember the cataclysmic events of partition and celebrat
  
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• Britain must be able to control all regulations after Brexit

  15-07-2018 10:00 via ft.com
  It is dangerous to leave the EU but remain subject to its rules in which we have not have a say
  
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• Theresa May’s grand plan has left her stranded in no woman’s land | Andrew Rawnsley

  15-07-2018 09:00
  The prime minister simply hasn’t got the votes to push her Brexit proposals through parliamentLike a desiccated woman who is crawling across a scorching desert and thinks she has spotted a source of moisture, for a brief moment Theresa May tasted the sweet tang of relief from her miseries.She had about 72 hours of experiencing what it feels like to be a prime minister who is in control. This time last week, she had launched her Brexit plan and it had not instantly exploded on takeoff. EU l
  
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• No honour, no glory: adieu to Boris Johnson

  15-07-2018 09:00
  The former foreign secretary’s biographer asks if the political maverick has finally run out of roadAs a six-metre high blimp of a blond-haired baby in a nappy rose above Parliament Square in London on Friday, a casual observer might have been forgiven for imagining they had witnessed an inflatable Boris Johnson. After all, the former foreign secretary had not been seen in public since his resignation last week and, judging by social media, he is about as popular with voters (and presumabl
  
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• Britain’s Brexit dilemma: are Leavers losing faith?

  15-07-2018 09:00
  Two years on from the referendum, we find out if people in Stratford-upon-Avon would now vote differentlyOn the sun-drenched streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, Andy Martin, a Remainer from the farming community, says he doesn’t discuss Brexit with most of his friends, though he is surprised how many farmers voted out.“They all had the false sense that someone was telling them what to do. But there will always be someone telling them what to do. That’s life,” he said last wee
  
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• The dishonourable Boris Johnson has brought us to the brink of catastrophe

  15-07-2018 07:59
  Lord Carrington and the other foreign secretaries who resigned on matters of principle contrast starkly with today’s populistsThe resignation of Alexander (“Boris”) Johnson from the prestigious post of foreign secretary in Her Majesty’s government came on the very same day that his illustrious predecessor Lord Carrington died at the wonderful old age of 99.Johnson becomes the fourth foreign secretary to have resigned since the war – all of them since the arrival of
  
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• London and Dublin in talks over access to Ireland-domiciled funds

  15-07-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Fund groups want reassurance that regulators are preparing for UK to be third country
  
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• Peter Mandelson joins Brexiters in attack on May’s EU ‘humiliation’

  15-07-2018 00:16
  Labour peer says it would be better to crash out of the EU than back PM’s latest blueprintBritain’s former trade commissioner in Brussels, Lord Mandelson, is making common cause with hardline, anti-EU Tories, saying Theresa May’s latest Brexit blueprint would lead to “national humiliation” and leave the country in a worse position than if it turned its back on the entire European economic system.In an extraordinary intervention that shows that even the most ardent R
  
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• Steve Bannon: 'Now is the moment' for Boris Johnson to challenge May for PM

  15-07-2018 00:02
  Former Trump strategist interviewed by Daily TelegraphEx-foreign secretary is ‘like Trump … people dismissed him’Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon believes now is the time for Boris Johnson to challenge British prime minister Theresa May for her job, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday. Related: Trump adviser Roger Stone 'probably' American cited in Russia indictmentsContinue reading...
  
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