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• Brexit: Senior Tory suggests vote could be delayed

  06-12-2018 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Graham Brady "would welcome" a delay in the Brexit vote if it would help resolve MPs' concerns.
  
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• Corbyn urges support for his Brexit plan as Commons vote nears

  06-12-2018 21:43
  Labour leader says ‘put all options on the table’ including a people’s vote if no general election is possibleJeremy Corbyn called on MPs of all parties to vote down Theresa May’s deal and back his alternative plan for Brexit, as campaigners for a second referendum urged him to get “off the fence” and endorse a fresh public vote.Labour’s leader, writing in the Guardian, said that the party’s “comprehensive customs union plan” should be
  
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• Brexit: ITV scraps plans for TV debate between leaders

  06-12-2018 21:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The channel had invited Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn to go head-to-head in a debate on Sunday.
  
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• Vehicle hires face extra security in terror clampdown

  06-12-2018 20:28 via ft.com
  Code aims to prevent cars and vans being used as potential weapons
  
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• Vehicle hires face additional security checks

  06-12-2018 20:28 via ft.com
  Mandatory code aims to prevent terrorists from weaponising cars and vans
  
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• Welsh Labour leadership: Mark Drakeford set to be Wales’ first minister

  06-12-2018 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The pro-Corbyn finance secretary wins the Welsh Labour leadership election with 53.9% of the vote.
  
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• The Guardian view on the Brexit backstop: getting Ireland wrong again | Editorial

  06-12-2018 19:54
  History is repeating itself as English Conservatives once again fail to understand the Irish dimension of their doctrinaire political obsessionsOstensibly, Theresa May went on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday to address all the listeners. In reality, however, her aim was to reach an audience of fewer than 200. The people she wanted to influence are the Conservative MPs who hold her government’s future in their hands next Tuesday in the votes on her Brexit deal.Mrs May’
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour could do a better Brexit deal. Give us the chance

  06-12-2018 19:53
  All options, including an election or another referendum, will be on the table if Theresa May’s botched Brexit is defeatedThe botched Brexit deal that Theresa May has put to parliament this week is a monumental and damaging failure for our country. Instead of the sensible agreement the prime minister could have negotiated, it is a worst-of-all-worlds deal that works for nobody, whether they voted leave or remain.Instead of taking back control, it gives up control. Instead of protecting job
  
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• Ecuador says UK has given ‘guarantees’ for Assange to leave embassy

  06-12-2018 19:53
  President Lenín Moreno said Ecuador has received written assurances UK would not extradite Assange to face death penaltyEcuador has received written assurances from the UK government that it would not to extradite Julian Assange to any country where he would face the death penalty, the country’s president, Lenín Moreno, has said.In a live radio interview on Thursday, Moreno said that the WikiLeaks founder now had sufficient guarantees to leave Ecuador’s embassy in the U
  
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• UK paper casts doubts over ‘settled status’ for EU citizens

  06-12-2018 19:27 via ft.com
  Stricter cut-off point proposed in event of a no-deal Brexit
  
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• Steve Bell on Theresa May's offer of a vote on the backstop – cartoon

  06-12-2018 19:24
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• Taskforce to oversee cladding removal is not ready, admits minister

  06-12-2018 18:45
  James Brokenshire says team promised in June to make safe high-rise towers is still not activeA government taskforce announced in June to help make safe privately owned tower blocks wrapped in combustible Grenfell-style cladding has still not started work, the housing secretary, James Brokenshire, has admitted.Only five of the 183 high-rise private apartment blocks found to have unsafe cladding have so far been repaired as disputes continue between freeholders and leaseholders over who should pa
  
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• Corbyn ally Mark Drakeford to be new Welsh first minister

  06-12-2018 18:20
  Welsh Labour head says that under him the party will follow ‘radical socialist traditions’The next first minister of Wales will be Mark Drakeford, an experienced politician who describes himself as a 21st-century socialist and is a keen backer of Jeremy Corbyn.Drakeford, 64, won the race to replace Carwyn Jones as leader of Labour in Wales and should be confirmed next week as the fourth person to hold the post. Continue reading...
  
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• European stocks suffer worst slide since Brexit vote

  06-12-2018 18:19 via ft.com
  London, French and German benchmark indices down 3%
  
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• Ministers and NHS England chief at loggerheads over targets

  06-12-2018 18:00
  Exclusive: Simon Stevens is pushing back against demands for specific improvements linked to £20.5bn cash boostThe head of the NHS and the government are at loggerheads over how much the health service can be improved for the £20.5bn extra Theresa May has pledged to give it, the Guardian can reveal.Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, has been having major disagreements behind the scenes in recent weeks with Downing Street, the Treasury and Department of Health and Soci
  
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• Disagree with May’s Brexit deal? Fine, but be honest about the alternatives | Anand Menon

  06-12-2018 17:23
  The prime minister’s plan has myriad flaws, but many critics are arguing for the impossibleHeaven knows, there are myriad problems with the deal negotiated by the prime minister. A compromise intended to reconcile a badly divided parliament ended up alienating most MPs. Yet what would these opponents of the deal suggest as an alternative? Pose this question, and the crass dishonesty of much of the Brexit debate becomes all too apparent.It’s only fair to start by saying that there are
  
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• Brexit: all you need to know about the meaningful vote

  06-12-2018 16:51 via ft.com
  The scenarios that could play out after MPs vote on the Brexit agreement
  
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• Stephen Lloyd quits Lib Dem group of MPs over Brexit

  06-12-2018 16:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd will defy party orders and vote in favour of Theresa May's Brexit deal.
  
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• Barricades in Paris make bankers think again

  06-12-2018 16:16 via ft.com
  Frankfurt suddenly looks more attractive amid the ‘gilets jaunes’ protests
  
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• Lower voting age to six to tackle bias against young, says academic

  06-12-2018 15:59
  Prof David Runciman says ageing population is creating a democratic crisisThe head of politics at Cambridge University has called for children as young as six to be given the vote in an attempt to tackle the age bias in modern democracy.Prof David Runciman said the ageing population meant young people were now “massively outnumbered”, creating a democratic crisis and an inbuilt bias against governments that plan for the future. Continue reading...
  
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• Tommy Robinson threatened with legal action over 'bully' video

  06-12-2018 15:51
  Far-right campaigner posted video identifying and interviewing boy accused of bullying Syrian refugee The far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson is being threatened with legal action after he posted a video identifying the alleged bully accused of assaulting a Syrian refugee child at school.Last week, footage was posted online showing the 15-year-old Syrian boy, who can only be identified as Jamal, being allegedly assaulted. Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit Vote Explained: Here's What Happens If Theresa May Loses

  06-12-2018 15:48
  
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• I drafted article 50. We can and must delay Brexit for a referendum | John Kerr

  06-12-2018 15:45
  Every EU state would agree to extend article 50 for a people’s vote on a bad deal or the one we’ve gotPeople once dreamed of a Brexit that would give Britain more control and free us from paying anything to Brussels, while opening up the prospect of huge new trade deals and “the exact same benefits” we have today as EU members.Now, in the cold light of a Brexit dawn, we have a withdrawal agreement that will see the European court handing down rulings binding on the UK for
  
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• Norway Plus versus a second referendum

  06-12-2018 14:32 via ft.com
  If Theresa May’s deal dies, MPs will be left with only two alternatives to a disorderly exit
  
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• In charts - what could happen after Brexit vote?

  06-12-2018 14:24 via bbc.co.uk
  MPs will vote on the proposed Brexit deal, agreed by the UK and the EU, on 11 December.
  
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• You want a people’s vote on Brexit? Be careful what you wish for | Ellie Mae O’Hagan

  06-12-2018 14:22
  Comments attributed to Len McCluskey are right: leavers will feel betrayed by any removal of the dream they were soldHello, and welcome to another day of gazing into an abominable black hole and wondering when it was that life suddenly seemed devoid of meaning – or, as I believe this process is more commonly known, Brexit negotiations.Today we discuss the possibility of a second referendum, which the government is unequivocally ruling out, and about which the Unite leader, Len McCluskey, h
  
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• There is a bigger Brexit issue than the backstop

  06-12-2018 14:08 via ft.com
  The difficulties over the Irish border derive from a broader uncertainty
  
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• Universal credit’s ‘minefield’ of rules discourages work

  06-12-2018 13:45 via ft.com
  Payments made in arrears leave single parents struggling to manage
  
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• Britain must accept real trade-offs for any kind of Brexit

  06-12-2018 13:28 via ft.com
  Politicians have thus far shirked their responsibility to explain choices to the public
  
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• Boris Johnson apologises to MPs for failing to declare income in time

  06-12-2018 12:28
  Watchdog says former minister failed to register money from Telegraph column and booksBoris Johnson has offered MPs a “full and unreserved apology” over the late declaration of more than £52,000 in income.He made the apology to the House of Commons having been told to do so after he repeatedly failed to register payments from his newspaper column and books within the set time limit. Continue reading...
  
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• Senior Conservatives urge May to delay Brexit vote

  06-12-2018 12:20 via ft.com
  Head of backbench Tory MPs’ group warns there is no point ‘losing heavily’
  
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• May dismisses talk of delay to Brexit vote

  06-12-2018 12:20 via ft.com
  UK government faces revolt from many Tory MPs and DUP over EU withdrawal deal
  
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• UK cracks down on investor visas

  06-12-2018 10:59 via ft.com
  Scheme to be suspended over concerns it is being used for money laundering
  
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• I'm Broken, Britain: One tribunal meeting decides my austerity fate

  06-12-2018 10:45
  
  Impossible choices as the austerity system cuts home
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May 'looking at MPs' role on backstop'

  06-12-2018 10:41 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May tells the BBC she is "talking to colleagues" about their concerns over her Brexit deal.
  
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• PM Theresa May 'There's no deal without a backstop'

  06-12-2018 10:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM tells Radio 4's Today programme that the backstop would be part of any deal.
  
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• Gambling firms agree 'whistle-to-whistle' television sport advertising ban

  06-12-2018 09:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Britain's leading gambling companies voluntarily agree to a "whistle-to-whistle" television advertising ban.
  
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• UK PM Theresa May dismisses idea of second referendum

  06-12-2018 09:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May rejects suggestions that the UK should vote in a further referendum, saying the public's already made its decision.
  
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• Road less travelled: pro-remain Tory takes Brexit plan to Clacton

  06-12-2018 08:00
  MP Giles Watling faces uphill task selling Theresa May’s Brexit deal to his constituents – and he hasn’t made up his own mind yetAs a remain-voting Conservative MP in one of only two places to ever send a Ukip representative to Westminster, Giles Watling faced an arguably uphill task anyway in selling Theresa May’s Brexit deal to his constituents in Clacton-on-Sea.But on this weekday afternoon walkabout there are more complications. First, the woman to whom Watling has be
  
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• Brexit views: 'Anarchy on the streets?'

  06-12-2018 07:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Voters in Bedford share their views on Brexit with the Today Programme's Nick Robinson.
  
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• How working-class children ended up paying for the financial crisis | Owen Jones

  06-12-2018 07:00
  From special educational needs funding to youth centres, post-crash cuts have wrought havoc in Britain’s poorest communitiesA decade ago, the banks and their powerful allies tipped much of the western world into crisis. They were never going to pay for it: in Britain, a Conservative party they kept financially afloat has made sure of it. The richest 1,000 families resident in Britain – bankers and financiers among them – have more than doubled their net worth during an era of a
  
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• Theresa May has lost control of Brexit

  06-12-2018 06:01 via ft.com
  This is what happens when parliamentary democracies shuffle off responsibility
  
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• Switzerland faces stark choice on EU integration deal

  06-12-2018 06:01 via ft.com
  Moves on institutional framework agreement will have implications for Brexit Britain
  
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• Christmas ‘ghosts’ are gifts for investors

  06-12-2018 06:01 via ft.com
  These bull market scare stories are already priced in
  
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• Strong London office market confounds Brexit predictions

  06-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Roughly £12bn of space changed hands in first three quarters of 2018
  
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• London mayor under fire over Crossrail probe conflict

  06-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Choice of ex-auditor KPMG to look into £16bn project questioned by former minister
  
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• How the EU could renegotiate the Brexit deal

  06-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Options include clarifications, tweaking the political declaration and bigger changes
  
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• Brexit uncertainty makes pound ‘impossible’ to trade

  06-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Investors are shying away from making big bets on the UK currency
  
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• Investor visa scheme halted in money laundering crackdown

  06-12-2018 04:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers are suspending a "gold-plated" scheme offering foreigners a fast-track to settling in the UK.
  
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• Brexit legal advice shows ‘indefinite’ nature of backstop

  06-12-2018 04:41 via ft.com
  ‘A backstop is forever not just for Christmas’
  
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