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• Donald Tusk calls Jeremy Hunt's Soviet jibe unwise and insulting

  04-10-2018 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The EU Council president criticises the foreign secretary for likening the EU to the Soviet Union.
  
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• Big Ben bongs for the first time since new year

  04-10-2018 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Big Ben's famous chimes ring out for the first time in months, to test it ahead of Remembrance Sunday.
  
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• Delays to disposal of NHS waste spark Cobra meeting

  04-10-2018 22:48 via ft.com
  Emergency committee convenes after alarm is raised over private contractor
  
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• Tusk hits back at Hunt over EU-Soviet comparison

  04-10-2018 19:45 via ft.com
  UK foreign secretary’s language ‘as unwise as it is insulting’ says European Council president
  
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• DUP would reject 'hybrid Brexit backstop'

  04-10-2018 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Nigel Dodds says the party would not support a reported UK plan for a separate hybrid economic model for Northern Ireland.
  
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• Commerzbank employee wins London discrimination case

  04-10-2018 19:01 via ft.com
  Compliance officer said large parts of her job were given away while on maternity leave
  
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• Russia 'tried to hack Foreign Office', says British diplomat

  04-10-2018 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Intelligence officers also targeted the lab investigating the Salisbury poisoning, a UK diplomat says.
  
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• Would a ‘deal dividend’ ease austerity?

  04-10-2018 18:28 via ft.com
  Philip Hammond’s suggestion has more logic to it than a ‘Brexit dividend’
  
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• No 10 at odds with Treasury over agency pay

  04-10-2018 17:25 via ft.com
  PM’s wish to appease anger over job insecurity sits badly with business groups
  
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• West hits back at Russian spy activities

  04-10-2018 16:29 via ft.com
  Seven alleged agents indicted in US after Dutch say cyber attack was foiled
  
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• No-deal Brexit threatens access to new medicines, says regulator

  04-10-2018 16:20 via ft.com
  UK agency acknowledges costs to business of additional regulatory hurdles
  
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• Drugs regulator warns on no-deal access to medicines

  04-10-2018 16:20 via ft.com
  Agency admits costs to business of additional regulatory hurdles
  
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• Immigration rules for parents abroad with children in UK

  04-10-2018 15:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Two mothers explain why their partners who live abroad are not allowed to join them in the UK and raise their children as a family.
  
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• Adam Fleming and mystery insect on BBC Politics Live

  04-10-2018 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Correspondent Adam Fleming was getting into the detail of Brexit talks when a mystery guest joined him from Brussels.
  
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• Tourism bosses issue visitor tax warning

  04-10-2018 13:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Industry bodies warn that a tourist tax on visitors could send business revenues "off a cliff".
  
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• Police union brings action against pay rise cap

  04-10-2018 11:45 via ft.com
  Move comes as FDA, Prospect and PCS unions challenge on pay rises for civil servants
  
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• Police federation brings action over pay awards

  04-10-2018 11:45 via ft.com
  Move comes as FDA, Prospect and PCS unions challenge level of civil service rises
  
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• FCA retreats from ban on pension transfer fees

  04-10-2018 11:00 via ft.com
  Regulator accused of kicking contentious charging model into ‘long grass’
  
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• Roadmap to chaos: How a general election could happen by accident

  04-10-2018 09:45
  
  The weird intricacies of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act could create an unplanned general election, even if no-one really wants it
  
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• Johnson and the flight to English nationalism

  04-10-2018 06:04 via ft.com
  Gradualists and moderates are a dwindling band in the Conservative party
  
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• Ireland backs May’s plan for all-UK customs union

  04-10-2018 05:06 via ft.com
  Support from Dublin lifts hopes of breakthrough in Brexit talks
  
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• May's end of austerity claim 'not credible', says Labour

  04-10-2018 02:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Labour says an end to government cuts is about as likely as the PM winning Strictly Come Dancing.
  
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• UK blames ‘reckless’ cyber attacks on Russia’s GRU

  04-10-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  London steps up pressure on Moscow after Salisbury novichok poisoning
  
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• SFO seeks recovery of London homes with Uzbek links

  04-10-2018 00:42 via ft.com
  Fraud Office issues claim on assets of Gulnara Karimova in further move on dirty money
  
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