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• Government faces contempt debate over Brexit legal advice

  03-12-2018 23:44 via ft.com
  Speaker agrees move after opposition parties unite in protest
  
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• Crossrail seeks ‘hundreds of millions’ in new bailout

  03-12-2018 22:32 via ft.com
  London mayor accused of misleading public over delays and cost overruns
  
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• FCA’s Brexit warning shows direction of travel

  03-12-2018 20:55 via ft.com
  Somewhat late in the day, the regulator has woken up to some geographic realities
  
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• Competition watchdog warns of hit from no-deal Brexit

  03-12-2018 20:35 via ft.com
  Crashing out could force choices between vetting M&A and protecting consumers, says CMA 
  
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• Competition watchdog warns not ready for no-deal Brexit

  03-12-2018 20:35 via ft.com
  Crashing out could force choices between vetting M&A and protecting consumers, says CMA 
  
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• Brexit deal has ‘unattractive elements’, Cox admits

  03-12-2018 20:26 via ft.com
  Attorney-general urges MPs to back withdrawal agreement in crunch Commons vote
  
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• Our politicians are bickering on the edge of the Brexit abyss | Rafael Behr

  03-12-2018 20:10
  The only question worth asking is should we still do Brexit. The rest is a distractionLet the chronicles of this turbulent time record how the prime minister and the leader of the opposition agreed that Britain should leave the European Union, so they argued instead about which channel should host an argument between them. Theresa May wants to defend her Brexit deal on the BBC; Jeremy Corbyn prefers to attack it on ITV. It is the perfect culmination of British politics since the referendum: a co
  
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• Fun and games and hiding from MBS at the G20 summit | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  03-12-2018 19:58
  New friends are made, old friends are reunited – and Donald Trump thinks he’s on I’m a Celebrity …Remember last year’s G20 summit, when Angela Merkel started grinding on people when Kraftwerk came on? And Christine Lagarde got trashed and started telling maths-based jokes and nobody knew what she was on about?This year’s was just as much a hoot, rivalling a D12 after-show or one of B*Witched’s legendary house parties. Fun and games in Buenos Aires with
  
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• The Guardian view on disability and the arts: time for change | Editorial

  03-12-2018 19:45
  Britain’s cultural organisations are letting down those with disabilities – as artists, leaders and audience membersFor years, the arts in the UK have made diversity a priority and, gradually, this is paying off. On stage, audiences are used to black actors taking on roles in Shakespeare plays; gender-blind casting is gaining ground; black and minority ethnic leaders are slowly being appointed to major roles – such as, recently, Kwame Kwei-Armah at the Young Vic and Madani Youn
  
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• Ben Jennings on Donald Trump and climate change – cartoon

  03-12-2018 19:41
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• Online pleas and AI for judges: minister reveals UK law reform plans

  03-12-2018 19:10
  Lucy Frazer believes people will embrace digital justice as they have online datingCourt cases conducted by email, more pleas made online and judges helped by artificial intelligence are likely to feature in the next stage of digital law reform, the justice minister Lucy Frazer has revealed.In an interview with the Guardian at the start of an international conference on legal technology, the politician responsible for the Ministry of Justice’s £1.2bn modernisation programme said that
  
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• The Brexit divide will be politics’ new cold war

  03-12-2018 18:23 via ft.com
  Remain and Leave have already become deeply entrenched aspects of UK political identity
  
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• Backstop only way to get working deal, says Brexit negotiator

  03-12-2018 18:01 via ft.com
  Olly Robbins says N Ireland arrangement ‘slightly uncomfortable necessity for both sides’
  
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• How dare these Conservative MPs make festive visits to food-banks? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  03-12-2018 17:09
  People are going hungry because of Tory policy – yet these MPs beam at the camera and pretend it has nothing to do with them
  I’ve always found the Conservative facility for audaciously brazening out acts of sheer human callousness to be verging on the sociopathic. I wouldn’t go so far as to say they are like the serial killers who taunt the families of their victims, but there is something bloodcurdling about such politicians’ willingness to visit, say, a homeless shelter
  
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• Backstop only way to get working Brexit deal, says May’s negotiator

  03-12-2018 15:49 via ft.com
  Olly Robbins says N Ireland backstop ‘slightly uncomfortable necessity for both sides’
  
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• US-China trade truce — and other key points from the G20 summit

  03-12-2018 15:46 via ft.com
  None of the fundamental problems between the two countries was really solved
  
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• Disabled candidates grant scheme to return for 2019 local elections

  03-12-2018 14:33
  Relaunch welcomed, but there are calls for expansion to help address under-representationPeople with disabilities are to be offered thousands of pounds to help them run for elected office in next year’s council elections as part of an effort to tackle under-representation in town halls.Grants averaging £4,000 will be made available to some to cover costs of campaign expenses including specialist transport, screen reader software, sign language interpretation and braille transcription
  
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• Brexit debate

  03-12-2018 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  MPs will spend five days debating Theresa May's Brexit deal - here's how it will work.
  
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• Extremist videos sour UK relations with US tech groups

  03-12-2018 13:22 via ft.com
  Britain accuses research website of refusing to remove violent Islamist content
  
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• The silence and lies behind Britain’s Brexit mess

  03-12-2018 13:20 via ft.com
  Politicians have been quiet or untruthful to voters since the 2016 referendum campaign
  
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• Regulator warns banks over Brexit moves out of City

  03-12-2018 13:17 via ft.com
  FCA urges lenders to limit number of clients transferred overseas
  
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• Brexit - eyes down for a game of history bingo

  03-12-2018 11:40 via ft.com
  The FT's Gideon Rachman looks how the UK-EU split has sparked a range of historical analogies
  
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• Sajid Javid defends noting the ethnicity of child grooming gang

  03-12-2018 10:57
  Home secretary says he welcomes immigration and denies playing on people’s fearsThe home secretary, Sajid Javid, has defended calling a convicted sexual grooming gang “sick Asian paedophiles”, arguing that noting the ethnicity of the perpetrators was a key element in tackling such crimes.Discussing wider issues of immigration on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Javid said his comments in a tweet in October, which prompted condemnation from other MPs, were “absolutely
  
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• We broke the Labour whip for a People's Vote

  03-12-2018 10:56
  
  Two Labour councillors on their act of rebellion and why Brexit trumps all other political priorities.
  
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• Brexit stockpiling helps shore up UK manufacturers

  03-12-2018 10:49 via ft.com
  Despite higher domestic demand, levels of optimism about the sector are falling
  
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• US-China trade truce shows who holds the upper hand

  03-12-2018 10:36 via ft.com
  Beijing has agreed to many concessions but Trump has merely agreed to postpone tariffs
  
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• Javid rules out immigration paper before Brexit vote

  03-12-2018 09:37 via ft.com
  Delay threatens May’s hopes of wooing Leave camp with tighter border controls
  
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• Home Office under fire over Commonwealth deportations

  03-12-2018 09:33
  Pressure grows after revelation little attempt made to inform deportees of Windrush taskforce
  Pressure is building on the Home Office over its failure to find 49 people deported to Commonwealth countries who may have been wrongfully expelled to inform them of the Windrush taskforce.The group, which had been held in UK detention centres, were flown to Ghana and Nigeria between March and September last year, before the Windrush scandal erupted. Continue reading...
  
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• No-deal Brexit would damage national security

  03-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Crashing out of the EU threatens the complex apparatus that keeps Britain safe
  
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• UKIP leader Gerard Batten survives no-confidence vote

  03-12-2018 04:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The party says it "does not endorse" Gerard Batten's appointment of Tommy Robinson as an adviser.
  
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• UK faces constitutional crisis over Brexit legal advice, Labour warns

  03-12-2018 04:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The government is under pressure to publish legal advice on the PM's deal, ahead of a Commons debate.
  
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• System Resistance Network: Neo Nazi group 'should be illegal'

  03-12-2018 01:58 via bbc.co.uk
  System Resistance Network preaches zero tolerance to non-whites and that homosexuality is a disease.
  
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• Windrush: Home Office criticised after deportees not contacted

  03-12-2018 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigners say the government lacks "decency" for not contacting Commonwealth citizens it deported.
  
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