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• Brexit: Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron hold talks

  03-08-2018 21:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May is seeking to persuade the French president to get behind her Brexit proposals.
  
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• Anti-Semites don't speak for me, says Jeremy Corbyn

  03-08-2018 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader makes a fresh attempt to draw a line under the anti-Semitism row engulfing his party.
  
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• Carolyn Harris: Corbyn backs under fire MP in gay slur row

  03-08-2018 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour MP is at the centre of as row over claims she used a gay slur in a comment to a ex-aide.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour is not a threat to Jewish life in Britain

  03-08-2018 19:14
  Labour leader admits party has been too slow in tackling antisemitism within its ranksI will root antisemites out of Labour | Jeremy Corbyn
  Jeremy Corbyn has broken his silence over the antisemitism row engulfing Labour, acknowledging the party has “a real problem” over the issue but strongly rejecting the idea that it poses any threat to the Jewish community in the UK. Related: I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me | Jeremy CorbynContinue reading...
  
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• Calls to sack MP who texted Tories on harder Chequers plan

  03-08-2018 18:33 via ft.com
  Pressure mounts on defence secretary’s aide over support for ERG amendments
  
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• I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me | Jeremy Corbyn

  03-08-2018 18:30
  Yes, there is a continuing problem. But the party will do whatever it takes to safeguard the Jewish communityI have spent my life campaigning for recognition of the strength of a multicultural society. Britain would not be Britain without our Jewish communities. Our country would be unimaginable without the immense contribution made by Jewish men and women to every part of our national life, from art to science, industry to politics, in peace and in war.Jewish people have also been at the heart
  
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• Voters able to sign Paisley petition in three locations

  03-08-2018 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  A by-election will be triggered if the petition is signed by 10% of constituents in North Antrim.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Amazon's UK tax bill – cartoon

  03-08-2018 18:07
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• A Waco week, as Corbynistas do politics in the paranoid style | Marina Hyde

  03-08-2018 18:03
  Labour’s leader should ignore mawkish messages of support and stop seeing inflexibility as a virtueThe trouble with spending much of the week watching the online campaign to free Tommy Robinson, as I did, is that you then can’t stop seeing it. There’s such a distinctive style to these messages of support, collated under the #FreeTommy hashtag. Mawkish, rather wallowing in victimhood, and frequently cultish. But there is more to the shtick than a cocktail of self-righteousness a
  
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• The Guardian view on creative workers: Britain needs them | Editorial

  03-08-2018 17:53
  The chaos over Womad visas shows the dangers for the UK’s arts, culture and economy after BrexitThis week came the news that acts at this year’s Womad had been cancelled, owing to artists’ difficulties in obtaining visas under the Home Office’s “hostile environment”. This is not an issue confined to the world music festival. It has been causing problems for British cultural organisations for years. Applying for visas is often a humiliating strain for artists a
  
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• EU's Brexit stance shows signs of softening

  03-08-2018 17:43 via ft.com
  Barnier hints at shift to help May push Brexit deal through parliament
  
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• Carney: No-deal Brexit risk 'uncomfortably high'

  03-08-2018 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The Bank of England chief says the risk of the UK leaving the EU with no deal is "uncomfortably high".
  
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• Why is Frank Field still an MP for the Labour party? | Lynsey Hanley

  03-08-2018 17:14
  The member for Birkenhead parted company with Labour’s core values long before rebelling over BrexitTo follow the career and pronouncements of Frank Field is to guarantee a lifetime of banging your head against the nearest table in abject misery. Field, Birkenhead’s indefatigable representative for almost 40 years, was one of four Labour MPs who voted last month with the government to prevent Britain joining a post-EU customs union, on the grounds that working-class voters “gav
  
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• Brexit: Duncan Smith on Carney's trade deal comments

  03-08-2018 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The former Conservative leader takes issue with some comments from Bank of England governor Mark Carney over Brexit.
  
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• Labour offered to drop Margaret Hodge disciplinary action if she apologised

  03-08-2018 16:10
  MP who called Corbyn antisemitic publishes exchange of letters in which her lawyers dismissed suggestion as ‘bizarre’Labour offered to drop disciplinary action against Dame Margaret Hodge in the party’s antisemitism dispute, on the condition she issued an “appropriate apology”.
  The veteran Labour MP has published a three-page letter dated 25 July from the party’s general secretary, Jennie Formby, on her Facebook page. Continue reading...
  
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• Barnier has finally killed Chequers - and with it, the UK government

  03-08-2018 15:26
  
  The Chequers deal is finally dead
  
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• Jeremy Hunt vows to do all he can to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  03-08-2018 14:38
  UK foreign secretary makes promise after meeting husband of charity worker jailed in IranJeremy Hunt has promised to do everything he can to secure the release of a British-Iranian charity worker jailed in Iran, after meeting her husband.Richard Ratcliffe has not seen his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, or his daughter, Gabriella, since his wife’s detention in 2016. She was sentenced to five years in prison in 2016 after being accused of spying. Continue reading...
  
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• Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Hunt will do 'everything' for jailed mum

  03-08-2018 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Hunt has met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband to discuss the "desperate" situation.
  
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• Anti-Semitism claims

  03-08-2018 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  The roots of the row over Jeremy Corbyn's party and claims of anti-Semitism.
  
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• UK court overturns government cuts to legal aid fees for solicitors

  03-08-2018 13:29 via ft.com
  Changes that have hit pay of criminal defence lawyers ruled unlawful
  
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• Week in Review: The pain of austerity continues

  03-08-2018 13:00
  
  The impact of the Conservatives’ austerity measures is still being painfully felt across the country
  
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• The far right is at its strongest since the 1930s, and the media is helping | Owen Jones

  03-08-2018 12:38
  Prominent far-right figures being given airtime on the BBC, LBC and ITV are not being properly challenged on their viewsThe far right is on the march, and it is being legitimised and enabled by parts of the mainstream media. The shambolic interview of Raheem Kassam – sidekick to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage – by the BBC’s flagship Today programme was a striking case in point. This champion of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (or as he calls himself, Tommy Robinson) – a man whose co
  
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• Mark Carney says risk of a no-deal Brexit is 'uncomfortably high'

  03-08-2018 11:13
  Bank of England governor warns of higher prices if UK leaves EU without agreementMark Carney has warned that the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is “uncomfortably high” and will lead to higher prices, as Theresa May prepares to meet the French president, Emmanuel Macron, for talks.The Bank of England governor said both the UK and EU should “do all things to avoid” a no-deal scenario. He added that the banks had done the “stockpiling” and the country’s fi
  
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• Want the truth about alcohol? You won’t hear it from the government | Julian Baggini

  03-08-2018 11:00
  Official guidelines are based on morality, not evidence, so will never admit that there may be benefits to drug or alcohol useAlcohol has been getting a pretty bad health rap in recent years. Recommended weekly maximums have gone down from 28 units for men and 21 for women to 14 for both, which is not much more than a bottle of wine.Moderate boozers had a rare opportunity to raise a virtuous glass yesterday when research was published suggesting that complete abstinence in middle age was associa
  
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• BoE’s Mark Carney sees ‘uncomfortably high’ risk of no-deal Brexit

  03-08-2018 10:08 via ft.com
  Central bank governor’s remarks send sterling below $1.30 against the US dollar
  
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• Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 3 August

  03-08-2018 09:13
  A forum where readers can discuss today’s politics and share links to breaking news and to the most interesting politics stories, blogs and tweets on the web 8.13am BST I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.
  Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat
  
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• Sports minister Tracey Crouch: ‘What Brexit means is very personal’

  03-08-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  The Tory MP with a rebellious streak uses her allotment as an escape from today’s feverish politics
  
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• Homeowners face paying to remove Grenfell Tower-style cladding

  03-08-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  UK government keen to avoid funding remedial work on private sector blocks
  
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• Brexit threat to Parisians’ guilty pleasure of M&S sandwich

  03-08-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Complicated new border arrangements would make deliveries from UK unviable, retailer warns
  
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• Airport queues highlight UK’s border problems ahead of Brexit

  03-08-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Border Force under pressure after passengers suffer three-hour waits at passport control
  
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