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• Lessons for May from the torrid battles of Callaghan’s era

  21-07-2018 19:00 via ft.com
  The dark days of seventies Britain contain clues about how to handle political rifts
  
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• All behind you, Boris Johnson – cartoon

  21-07-2018 19:00
  After the foreign secretary’s resignation, Chris Riddell gives his own take on David Low’s famous cartoon of Winston ChurchillContinue reading...
  
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• Government admits rabies poster gaffe

  21-07-2018 17:29 via bbc.co.uk
  A parody poster suggesting children with rabies should be shot was included in an internal magazine.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg says UK is heading for no-deal Brexit

  21-07-2018 13:28
  Comments from Tory MP and hardline leaver come after EU mauls Brexit white paper plansJacob Rees-Mogg has said Britain is heading for a no-deal exit from the EU, and that leaving on World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms is now likely.Presenting a phone-in on LBC, the prominent Tory MP and hardline Brexiter said: “I think we are heading to WTO and I think WTO is nothing to be frightened of. Continue reading...
  
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• UK business schools fill overseas MBA course gap

  21-07-2018 12:00 via ft.com
  Apprenticeship levy fuels growth for university schemes
  
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• Labour has got to solve antisemitism issue, says Eddie Izzard

  21-07-2018 08:00
  NEC member and comedian warns Corbyn he needs to ‘be strong on putting this to bed’Eddie Izzard has urged Jeremy Corbyn to put the antisemitism issue to bed, warning that Labour is losing the “perception argument”. The comedian, who recently won a seat on the party’s ruling national executive committee, said Labour risked not being ready to attack the government and its Brexit plans because of infighting over an international definition of antisemitism. Continue rea
  
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• Listen: The Brexit votes and Labour's antisemitism problem

  21-07-2018 07:45 via ft.com
  The amendment votes in the House of Commons, the likely fate of Theresa May's Brexit plan and the Labour Party's problem with antisemitism
  
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• May under pressure over Andrew Griffiths bullying allegations

  21-07-2018 07:00
  Former minister had been accused of sending abusive texts when he was promoted Theresa May is under pressure to explain whether she knew about allegations of “extreme bullying” against the disgraced former minister Andrew Griffiths when she promoted him to government within days of becoming prime minister.
  Griffiths, the prime minister’s former chief of staff who was forced to resign as a minister for sending hundreds of sexually explicit messages to two women, had been accused
  
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• Britain’s railway timetable disaster has been over 150 years in the making | Ian Jack

  21-07-2018 07:00
  Dickens was nearly killed by a train time mix-up. The Northern-Govia Thameslink chaos shows the system remains unreliableA poorly considered or mistakenly implemented railway timetable can have serious consequences, worse even than the recent sights of platforms crowded with disconsolate commuters who wait for trains that run late or never come at all, and in the meantime tell each other stories of peeved employers, missed domesticity and the infuriating cancellation of the 8.15. “Tim
  
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• Traffic wardens 'driven at deliberately' in council attacks

  21-07-2018 01:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Motorists drove at traffic wardens and a social worker was dragged into the road and kicked in the head.
  
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• Who's getting in?

  21-07-2018 01:36 via bbc.co.uk
  What an annotated guest list for a party at Number 10 reveals about Denis Thatcher.
  
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• Private documents reveal the secret life of Thatcher's teddy bears

  21-07-2018 01:01
  The former prime minister’s toys Humphrey and Mrs Teddy were rarely loaned Margaret Thatcher’s teddy bears Humphrey and Mrs Teddy were busy and often unable to come out and play, personal files from the prime minister’s time in Downing Street reveal.The documents, released by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation on Saturday provide fresh insights into the prime minister’s private life and the way her image was presented to the public. Continue reading...
  
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• Margaret Thatcher backed single market in draft Bruges speech

  21-07-2018 01:01
  Documents show that former leader looked forward to development of EU trade rulesMargaret Thatcher was not a proto-Brexiter but an enthusiastic supporter of the single market, according to draft versions of her celebrated 1988 Bruges speech. Often described as the moment the Conservative party proclaimed its disenchantment with Europe, the prime minister’s address in Belgium’s historic trading city has recently been reinterpreted as the beginning of the UK’s long road to withdr
  
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• Denis Thatcher vetted guest list for 1987 Tory election victory party

  21-07-2018 01:01
  Margaret Thatcher’s consort put ticks and question marks to show approval or suspicionDenis Thatcher, the ultra-loyal consort to the prime minister, vetted the entire guest list for a party to celebrate the Tories 1987 election victory, Downing Street files reveal.Documents released on Saturday by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation show Denis marked names with a red pen, dispersing ticks and question marks to indicate suitability or suspicion. The comic actor Eric Sykes received four ticks;
  
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