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• Brexit deal: Labour, Tory hard-Brexiters and DUP line up against May – Politics live

  13-11-2018 20:48
  Ministers invited to read document at No 10 this evening ahead of crunch Wednesday cabinet meetingCabinet members called in to sign off May’s Brexit dealBrexit, what next? - 6 key questions 7.48pm GMT The Remain-supporting London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, said is yet another prominent figure to criticise the terms to which Theresa May is thought to have agreed, saying they would represent a “bad deal for Britain which risks damaging jobs and growth for the next generation”. He said:Ca
  
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• Which Tory ministers might resign over May's Brexit deal?

  13-11-2018 20:25
  Departure of Dominic Raab would be big blow, and loss of Liam Fox a turning pointMinisters are being briefed on Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal before a crunch cabinet meeting on Wednesday, and there is speculation that some leave-supporting figures could resign. Here are five ministers who could be minded to make the leap. Continue reading...
  
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• Six key questions about Theresa May's Brexit deal

  13-11-2018 20:14
  Decisions that politicians have been avoiding since summer 2016 can no longer be postponedFinally, after months of procrastination, the government and parliament are reaching the point where choices about Brexit that ministers and MPs have been avoiding since the summer of 2016 can no longer be put off. Some key decisions could be taken within the next 24 hours; others in the run-up to the parliamentary vote (now expected mid-December, after an EU summit at the end of November).Here are the key
  
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• The DUP’s overreaching on Brexit could lead to a united Ireland | Dawn Foster

  13-11-2018 20:11
  The party won’t shift its position on the backstop but its voter base is starting to notice the downsides to being in the UKEach time I visit Dublin or Belfast, people immediately want to know about the state of play on Brexit. Can the Conservative party truly be as incompetent and divided as it seems to be? Or could the apparent chaos be a machiavellian ploy, with a diabolically clever plan to be unveiled in the final scene? Now the cabinet has been summoned to an emergency meeting tomorr
  
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• Brexiters line up against deal agreed with Brussels

  13-11-2018 20:00
  Hard-Brexit Tories immediately call for senior ministers to block withdrawal document agreed by UK and EU negotiators
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  Ministers have been summoned to an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday afternoon to sign off Theresa May’s final Brexit deal with Brussels, prompting hard Brexit Tories to call for senior ministers to block it. Related: Brexit: EU and UK negotiators agree withdrawal agreement text - Politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• Lord Lester harassment accuser urges others to speak out

  13-11-2018 19:55
  Jasvinder Sanghera reveals she was woman allegedly offered peerage for sexA campaigner against forced marriage has urged potential victims of sexual harassment in parliament to come forward, after she was revealed to be the woman at the centre of claims against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Lester.Jasvinder Sanghera, the founder of the charity Karma Nirvana, waived her anonymity to speak about the alleged incident in an interview with the Times on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Bell on May's supermassive black hole Brexit – cartoon

  13-11-2018 19:35
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• Task force to be sent to protect vulnerable children in Northamptonshire

  13-11-2018 18:15
  Government takes action after Ofsted criticises child services at crisis-hit county councilMinisters are to send in a task force to crisis-hit Northamptonshire county council after it emerged hundreds of vulnerable children were being placed at greater risk of harm because of rapidly deteriorating frontline child protection services..The move follows publication of a highly critical letter by Ofsted inspectors revealing that children referred to council social services were not effectively suppo
  
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• Labour MP deliberately misled police over speeding, court told

  13-11-2018 17:52
  Fiona Onasanya blamed former lodger for driving her speeding car, Old Bailey hearsA Labour MP deliberately misled the police and became “trapped in a number of lies” after blaming a former lodger for driving her speeding car, a court has heard.Fiona Onasanya, the MP for Peterborough, was accused at the Old Bailey of colluding with her brother to pervert the course of justice after her Nissan Micra was recorded driving over the speed limit in July 2017. Continue reading...
  
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• EU ratchets up pressure on UK with no-deal visa proposal

  13-11-2018 15:36
  Commission says Britons will only be given short visa-free visits if policy is reciprocated by UKThe EU has ratcheted up the pressure on Theresa May by publishing a fresh batch of no-deal plans including the warning that it will only allow UK nationals to make short visa-free visits to EU destinations if the policy is reciprocated by the British government. Related: Government seeks to avert Commons defeat by promising to publish legal analysis of Brexit deal - Politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• Carl Sargeant's widow wins high court bid to challenge inquiry into his sacking

  13-11-2018 15:07
  The Welsh politician was found dead four days after being removed as cabinet secretaryThe widow of a former Welsh government minister, who was found dead while he was facing sexual misconduct allegations, has won a high court bid to challenge the legality of an inquiry into his sacking.Bernie Sargeant was given the go-ahead for a full judicial review hearing by a judge in London on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Poll: one in five 'private' voters have changed their mind on Brexit

  13-11-2018 13:55
  Campaigners claim YouGov findings show MPs are failing to take account of people who do not discuss issue in publicLabour MPs in leave-voting areas who say they seldom meet voters who are having second thoughts on Brexit are failing to take account of the views of a “private majority” who have changed their mind, the People’s Vote campaign has claimed. Related: May faces risk of defeat on Brexit legal advice motion after Bercow refuses vote on compromise - Politics liveContinue
  
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• If the government was wrong on the badger cull, can it reverse ferret? | Gaby Hinsliff

  13-11-2018 12:33
  Badgers are not the main culprits for the spread of bovine TB, a new scientific report shows. Ministers mustn’t ignore thisPoor old badgers. Not since the hunting ban has a wild animal evoked such fierce passions, both in farmers convinced they spread TB to cattle and wildlife lovers implacably opposed to a government-backed cull which will mean the deaths of more than 42,000 badgers this year. Only now it seems we may have been barking up the wrong tree all along. Related: Farming industr
  
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• Stan Lee's vision of multiculturalism defined the world outside our window

  13-11-2018 11:50
  
  The superhero creator, who died yesterday, brought a beautiful excess to his fictional universe.
  
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• UK withdrawal from Unesco would be historical and cultural vandalism | Emily Thornberry

  13-11-2018 11:37
  The international development secretary Penny Mordaunt is shamefully following the US down a road to isolationismIn 1985, a young MP – only two years in the job – stood up in the House of Commons to oppose the government’s plans to withdraw from Unesco, the UN agency created after the second world war to encourage global development and collaboration in the fields of education, culture and science. Responding to the Thatcher government citing Unesco’s bureaucratic and bud
  
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• Tory rebellion over fixed-odds betting terminals

  13-11-2018 09:04 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 20 Conservative MPs join opposition parties demanding a crackdown be brought forward.
  
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• Brexit talks in endgame, says Theresa May

  13-11-2018 08:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM, who will address her cabinet on Tuesday, says the negotiations are "immensely difficult".
  
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• Brexit weekly briefing: May's optimism shattered by another resignation

  13-11-2018 08:00
  Jo Johnson’s departure is just one of the snags in a week when the PM hoped for a breakthroughIt is make-or-break for Brexit negotiators this week. Until, of course, next week. As Theresa May inches tortuously closer to an apparent deal, we look back at the main twists and turns in our weekly Brexit briefing, which you can subscribe to for free here.Producing the Guardian’s independent, in-depth journalism takes time and money. We do it because we believe our perspective matters and
  
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• Brexit talks: remaining sticking points facing Theresa May

  13-11-2018 08:00
  Predictions that negotiations with EU were close to resolution have proven to be prematureTheresa May’s political weakness at home appears to have emboldened the European Union to make further demands in the Brexit talks. Some cabinet members thought that talks were close to being resolved last week, but the timetable has slipped as it has become clear that UK expectations had run ahead of themselves. Continue reading...
  
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• Russian trolls prey on the toxic way we do our politics | Rafael Behr

  13-11-2018 07:00
  The Kremlin’s target is not the outcome of specific votes, such as for Brexit or the US presidency, but to divide the westTo understand the current political frenzy on both sides of the Atlantic, it helps to know Tortuous Convolvulus. Unfamiliar with his work? Convolvulus was a spy, operating around 50BC, a specialist in psychological warfare. He was deployed by Julius Caesar against a stubborn Gallic rebellion, and his methods were not so different to those of Russian cyber-saboteurs agai
  
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• Can Theresa May deliver Brexit?

  13-11-2018 04:00
  Once Theresa May brings her Brexit deal to parliament it will face a crucial vote. The Guardian’s political editor Heather Stewart looks across the House of Commons at the warring groups the prime minister will need to win over to seal a deal before the deadline of 29 March 2019. Plus: Caroline Davies on Prince Charles at 70As Brexit negotiations continue in Brussels, the clock is ticking and the deadline for an agreement is looming. But when the dotted line is signed, Theresa May will the
  
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• Tommy Robinson not granted US visa in time for Washington visit

  13-11-2018 02:47
  Far-right activist will not be able to meet with Republican lawmakers in Washington this week The British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has not been granted a US visa in time to meet with Republican members of Congress in Washington this week, according to an organiser of the meeting.Robinson is the founder of the English Defence League (EDL) which in the past has staged violent demonstrations against Islam. Continue reading...
  
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• Call for abolition of 'not proven' verdict in Scottish law

  13-11-2018 01:01
  Country’s three-verdict system criticised for leaving accused innocent in the eyes of the lawA woman who won a landmark civil action after the criminal case against the man she accused of raping her on a university freshers’ week night out was found not proven is calling for the abolition of the controversial Scottish verdict that acquits an accused person but stops short of finding them not guilty.The former student, known as Miss M, is calling for the not proven verdict to be scrap
  
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• UK increases pressure on Saudis and UAE in Yemen ceasefire bid

  13-11-2018 00:19
  Jeremy Hunt in Riyadh after airstrikes reportedly kill 150 people in 24 hours in HodeidahSaudi Arabian leaders have been put under intense Western pressure to agree to a ceasefire in Yemen and open the path for political talks by ensuring the obstacles placed in the way of a previous round of UN sponsored talks are not replicated.As the joint Saudi-United Arab Emirates (UAE) offensive on the strategic port of Hodeidah continues, the UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, urged the Saudis not to risk
  
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