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• Jewish newspapers unite against Labour 'threat'

  25-07-2018 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  They say a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would pose an "existential threat to Jewish life".
  
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• Arron Banks: Questions raised about Brexit donor’s links to Russia

  25-07-2018 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  A close associate of the Brexit donor Arron Banks has raised questions about whether he had business contacts with Russia.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Jacob Rees-Mogg and the impacts of Brexit – cartoon

  25-07-2018 20:49
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• MP Fiona Onasanya accused of lying about speeding

  25-07-2018 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Fiona Onasanya is charged with perverting the course of justice and is due at the Old Bailey in August.
  
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• Britain has shirked its duty in the case of Isis ‘Beatles’

  25-07-2018 20:33 via ft.com
  The home secretary is asking the US to do the UK’s dirty work
  
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• Demand for high-skilled migrants overtakes new UK limits

  25-07-2018 19:52 via ft.com
  Visa cap for non-EU workers still being hit despite taking medics out of quotas
  
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• Demand for high-skilled migrants overtakes new limits

  25-07-2018 19:52 via ft.com
  Tier 2 visa cap still being hit despite taking medics out of quotas
  
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• UK academics set to pay more into pension fund to plug gap

  25-07-2018 18:07 via ft.com
  Universities have been locked in a bitter battle with staff over ‘defined benefit’ pensions
  
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• Academics face paying more to plug £8.4bn pension fund gap

  25-07-2018 18:07 via ft.com
  Contributions need to rise by nearly 4 percentage points, warns scheme’s provider
  
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• Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes raising funds to appeal against fine

  25-07-2018 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Darren Grimes, who was fined £20,000 by the Electoral Commission, wants to fight the decision.
  
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• Does the Treason Act need updating?

  25-07-2018 16:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Two MPs want the 1351 Act to be brought into the modern day.
  
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• Housing becoming even less affordable for first-time buyers

  25-07-2018 16:45 via ft.com
  Prospective buyers in London forced to spend 13 times their annual earnings
  
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• Europe should offer Theresa May’s Brexit plan a helping hand

  25-07-2018 12:54 via ft.com
  Both sides have an interest in avoiding a no-deal exit
  
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• NHS contract with Capita could have put patients at risk

  25-07-2018 12:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The outsourcing of NHS England's back office tasks was a "shambles" according to a committee of MPs.
  
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• UK Supreme Court denies woman speedy divorce

  25-07-2018 11:44 via ft.com
  Tini Owens loses appeal but judges call on parliament to consider reform of law
  
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• Supreme Court denies woman speedy divorce

  25-07-2018 11:44 via ft.com
  Tini Owens loses appeal but judges call on parliament to consider reform of law
  
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• Simon Thomas resigns as Plaid Cymru Welsh Assembly Member

  25-07-2018 11:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Thomas had been AM for Mid and West Wales since 2011.
  
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• Irish Deputy PM says UK can't afford a no-deal Brexit

  25-07-2018 11:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Simon Coveney described talk of the UK "crashing out of the EU" as "bravado".
  
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• Brexit: UK cannot afford not to have a deal, says Irish government - Politics live

  25-07-2018 11:21
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenSimon Coveney’s Today interview - Summary 10.21am BST Q: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday has been criticised. It has been said that protectionism isn’t the way forward.McDonnell says Corbyn was not proposing protectionism. He was talking about using procurement to support British manufacturing jobs. Those workers then pay taxes, so the government benefits. 10.16am BST Radio 5 Live is now playing its inter
  
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• McDonnell calls for swift end to Margaret Hodge disciplinary action

  25-07-2018 10:45
  Shadow chancellor says MP’s anger was down to ‘complete misunderstanding’ of party’s antisemitism codeJohn McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has said there needs to be a swift and amicable resolution to disciplinary measures taken against Margaret Hodge for accusing Jeremy Corbyn of racism and antisemitism.McDonnell said Hodge’s anger at the Labour leader was due to her “complete misunderstanding” of the party’s new code of conduct on antisemitism.
  
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• In full: What you might have missed on MPs' final day

  25-07-2018 10:31 via bbc.co.uk
  From an MoD mistake to a social rent U-turn - what the government got out before the summer recess.
  
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• Pollwatch: The Chequers effect

  25-07-2018 09:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Opinion polls have been static for most of the year - but that's changed since the Chequers deal
  
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• Setback for UK frigate programme

  25-07-2018 09:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Ministry of Defence restarts competition for work on the Type 31e programme after receiving no acceptable bids.
  
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• Labour: government must say if blacklists are still in place

  25-07-2018 08:00
  Jon Trickett says civil servants deserve to know if they are monitored for political beliefsLabour has called on the government to clarify whether secret blacklists are still in place monitoring the political views of civil servants, trade unionists, councillors and others.Jon Trickett, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, said both former and current civil servants deserved to know how long the blacklist, established during the Thatcher era, was maintained, and whether one exists today.Conti
  
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• NHS: New health secretary Matt Hancock says use more apps

  25-07-2018 07:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Matt Hancock, who replaced Jeremy Hunt as health secretary, tells Newsbeat there is "loads to do" with apps in the NHS.
  
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• British and Irish ministers to hold London conference

  25-07-2018 07:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The conference symbolises the failure of the governments and NI parties to overcome the political logjam.
  
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• It feels like 1976. And that long, hot summer didn’t end well | Andy Beckett

  25-07-2018 07:00
  The sense of ease in Britain over those months was not a total delusion. Yet the year brought huge political upheavalJust like this year’s, the heatwave in 1976 arrived as Britain seemed to be approaching an economic and political abyss. During the spring and early summer, as the sun began to hammer down and the usual rain failed to fall, and the reservoirs began to shrink, the pound was lurching downwards on the markets. For almost three years, under Tory and Labour governments, the econo
  
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• Conservatives? No – Brexit has shown us what they really are | George Monbiot

  25-07-2018 07:00
  They are no longer defending traditional values of national character and continuity, but rather catering to big businessIt’s a remarkable thing to witness: senior Conservatives attacking big business. It is not just Boris Johnson exclaiming “fuck business” – it is their furious and sustained response to the corporations threatening to disinvest after Brexit, exemplified by the resignation of the Welsh Conservative leader after his attack on Airbus.Most remarkable &n
  
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• Tighter rules on foreign investment have China in their sights

  25-07-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Britain seeks to clamp down on Beijing’s pursuit of sensitive technologies
  
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• Number of raids by Serious Fraud Office triples

  25-07-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  SFO taking ‘increasingly aggressive stance’ in pursuit of white collar criminals
  
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• Juncker vs Trump

  25-07-2018 01:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Both sides have already slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of imports, but more is at stake.
  
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• Firms failing to tackle sexual harassment, says MPs

  25-07-2018 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Businesses, government and regulators need to make tackling sexual harassment at work a priority, say MPs.
  
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• MPs urge employers to tackle workplace sexual harassment

  25-07-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Combating problem deserves ‘same emphasis’ from government as money-laundering
  
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• Cash point begging ban approved by city council

  25-07-2018 00:32 via bbc.co.uk
  A bid to ban intimidating begging around cash machines in Newport wins backing.
  
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