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• UK travellers face Europe ban without Brexit deal

  12-09-2018 20:55 via ft.com
  Government papers set out potential disruption for passport holders
  
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• Leah Aldridge: Police find body parts of baby killed in 2002

  12-09-2018 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The family discovered police had twice retained body parts of baby Leah, shaken to death in 2002.
  
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• Theresa May sees hope of Brexit solution

  12-09-2018 19:53 via ft.com
  Prime minister cheered by Juncker’s positive words despite dismay of her hardline critics
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn aide investigated over Commons pass claim

  12-09-2018 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Parliament is investigating claims a Jeremy Corbyn aide is working in the Commons without security clearance.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg brushes off protest outside home

  12-09-2018 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  No 10 and the Archbishop of Canterbury criticise protesters who shouted at the MP's children.
  
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• UK subsidy change risks increasing imports, say farmers

  12-09-2018 18:59 via ft.com
  Michael Gove’s Green Brexit plan ‘ignores food production’, NFU warns
  
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• Arlene Foster warns government over NI talks mediator

  12-09-2018 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK should not "sub-contract" the process of finding someone to oversee talks, says Arlene Foster.
  
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• Karen Bradley comment taken 'out of context'

  12-09-2018 18:09 via bbc.co.uk
  In an interview with The House Magazine, Mrs Bradley said she 'did not understand' NI voting patterns.
  
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• Brexit: Tory MPs say technology key to avoiding hard Irish border

  12-09-2018 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  There is no need for physical checks if "established" procedures are used, Brexiteer MPs say,
  
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• Hammond: 'Shock' of financial crisis still with us

  12-09-2018 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK's chancellor admits peoples' incomes are suffering, but sees "light at the end of the tunnel".
  
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• Dundee opens V&A museum in bid to revive Scottish city

  12-09-2018 17:43 via ft.com
  V&A Dundee is centrepiece of £1bn redevelopment of the city’s notoriously ugly waterfront
  
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• Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens: Dangers of lack of male intimacy

  12-09-2018 17:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The lack of intimacy men have with themselves and others "manifests it in quite a destructive way" says a singer speaking out about the numbers of male killings and suicides.
  
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• Protesters shout at Rees-Mogg's children

  12-09-2018 17:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Protesters came to the London home of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith says he'd 'stamp on' any coup against Theresa May

  12-09-2018 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Iain Duncan Smith says anyone talking about challenging Theresa May should "grow up and leave the room".
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May will reconsider £39bn bill if there's no deal

  12-09-2018 16:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May says she will reconsider the divorce payment if the UK cannot agree a deal with the EU.
  
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• UKIP AM Caroline Jones quits party over 'far-right move'

  12-09-2018 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Caroline Jones says she is not comfortable with the direction the party is taking.
  
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• PMQs: Harrison and May on UK farming policy and exports

  12-09-2018 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The MP said Brexit means the UK can leave the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, and develop its own policy that is "right for our farmers and not for others"
  
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• European Parliament backs copyright changes

  12-09-2018 15:51 via bbc.co.uk
  MEPs vote for new laws despite opposition from US tech firms and the musician Wyclef Jean.
  
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• Labour's Tom Watson lost weight and 'reversed' diabetes

  12-09-2018 15:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's deputy leader reveals how he lost seven stone and 'reversed' type-2 diabetes.
  
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• Corbyn aides work in parliament without security clearance

  12-09-2018 15:43 via ft.com
  Labour leader’s senior adviser has been waiting 12 months for approval
  
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• No-deal Brexit: UK food exports could get stuck at borders - National Audit Office

  12-09-2018 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The government department responsible for food exports is not prepared for no-deal Brexit, auditors say.
  
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• 100 years of female MPs - and things have barely improved

  12-09-2018 15:35
  
  Reflecting on 100 years since women entered parliament
  
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• Labour's Tom Watson 'reversed' type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise

  12-09-2018 15:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour's deputy leader says he lost seven stone by cutting out sugar, fatty foods and beer.
  
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• Fresh call for smacking to be outlawed in the home

  12-09-2018 14:24 via bbc.co.uk
  There are many better ways of teaching right from wrong, educational psychologists say.
  
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• Why no one else is rushing for EU exit

  12-09-2018 14:10 via ft.com
  Biggest protection against another country leaving is the Brexit process itself
  
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• Juncker: EU will send additional 10,000 guards to borders

  12-09-2018 13:56 via bbc.co.uk
  The European Commission chief uses his address to call for more solidarity in tackling migration.
  
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• Villagers fight British army’s plan to ‘grab’ common land

  12-09-2018 13:32 via ft.com
  First attempt to enclose common land since 1914 has sparked outrage
  
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• Conservative Eurosceptics plot to remove May

  12-09-2018 13:25 via ft.com
  Meeting signals growing anger towards PM and her Chequers Brexit plan
  
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• Britain should be welcoming international students

  12-09-2018 13:24 via ft.com
  But those coming to study in the UK have been dragged into the immigration debate
  
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• Putin says men accused of Skripal attack are ‘civilians’

  12-09-2018 13:20 via ft.com
  Russian president says men not ‘criminal’ and urges them to tell their stories to the media
  
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• Eurosceptic group lays out proposal for trade across Irish border

  12-09-2018 11:59 via ft.com
  European Research Group suggests equivalence regime for agricultural products
  
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• Eurosceptic group lays out Irish border trade proposal

  12-09-2018 11:59 via ft.com
  European Research Group suggests equivalence regime for agricultural products
  
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• Challenging Theresa May’s leadership: an ‘act of sabotage’

  12-09-2018 11:54 via ft.com
  Tory Eurosceptics want a cleaner Brexit but they lack an alternative plan
  
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• EU membership has played to UK’s export strengths

  12-09-2018 11:45 via ft.com
  Leaving the union puts at risk what Britain does particularly well
  
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• McDonnell’s radical plans for British jobs market

  12-09-2018 11:00 via ft.com
  Labour risks alienating employers with efforts to tackle insecurity
  
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• 'The damage will be huge, the benefits illusory': Peer demolishes govt's Brexit trade plans

  12-09-2018 10:48
  
  Last night, Labour peer Lord Livermore systematically took apart Liam Fox's plan to rejig Britain's trading structure.
  
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• Brexiteers discuss Theresa May leadership challenge

  12-09-2018 10:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Gove warns against "loose talk" after Tory MPs openly discussed Theresa May's future.
  
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• UK business leaders urged to upgrade cyber security

  12-09-2018 05:02 via ft.com
  International cyber criminals pose as great a threat as Russia, says British spymaster
  
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• UK to replace EU farm payouts with transition scheme

  12-09-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Those providing greatest environmental benefit to get the most money
  
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• Tom Watson reveals he has Type 2 diabetes but has 'reversed' the disease

  12-09-2018 01:01
  Labour’s deputy leader says cutting out sugar has enabled him to come off medicationLabour’s deputy leader has revealed that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes but has “reversed” the disease by adopting a radically different diet that has meant he has come off medication.Tom Watson said he developed diabetes through being “overweight, deeply unfit, [and] addicted to sugar and fast foods”. Continue reading...
  
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• Gove hails plans to reward UK farmers for adopting green policies

  12-09-2018 01:01
  Payments under EU’s CAP will be replaced by subsidies based on environmental protectionsThe UK’s biggest landowners will see the payments they receive from the public purse fall sharply from 2021 in what would be the biggest shake-up of farming for decades.From 2021, a new system rewarding farmers for the public goods they provide will be phased in until 2027 when the last payments based on the amount of land farmed will be made. In place of the £3bn a year farmers currently re
  
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• East Coast rail failings laid bare by UK probe

  12-09-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Investigation highlights ‘over-optimism’ and government’s ‘unrealistic’ expectations
  
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• Defra's readiness for no-deal Brexit pilloried by Whitehall auditors

  12-09-2018 01:01
  Michael Gove’s department yet to comprehend scale of work it must complete, says NAOMichael Gove’s department will not be ready for a no-deal Brexit and does not yet understand the scale of work it must complete, an auditors’ report has found.After examining the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ preparations for Britain leaving the EU, the National Audit Office said Defra officials had failed to hire enough vets and this could severely disrupt exports of
  
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• MPs to debate allowing proxy votes for members with babies

  12-09-2018 01:00
  Harriet Harman-backed plan follows breach of pairing agreement by the Tories MPs are to push forward plans to give new mothers and fathers the right to nominate a party colleague to vote on their behalf in parliament.The Labour MP Harriet Harman said she expected a backbench business debate in October, where MPs could vote on plans for MPs to be able to register a proxy vote when they are absent with a newborn. Continue reading...
  
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• UK animal exports at risk from no deal Brexit

  12-09-2018 00:59 via ft.com
  NAO report warns of shortage of vets and lack of vessels to patrol fishing waters
  
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• Corbyn's questions

  12-09-2018 00:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour leader's questions are increasingly focusing on the UK's exit from the EU.
  
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