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• May falters in bid for voters to pressure Brexit MPs

  07-12-2018 23:00 via ft.com
  Despite PM’s energetic campaigning, party members in Tory heartlands are suspicious of her deal
  
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• Cashing in on potty panic as the safety net frays

  07-12-2018 23:00 via ft.com
  Teachers are having to fund clothes, shoes and travel costs for pupils in need
  
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• 9-Year-Old Boy Gets Nervous And Crawls Away from Queen

  07-12-2018 22:09
  
  A young boy was so overwhelmed when he met Queen Elizabeth II that he escaped in the most adorable way.
  
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• Patel comments on no-deal Brexit in Ireland criticised

  07-12-2018 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  But Tory MP Priti Patel says her comments "have been taken out of context by some".
  
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• Brexit: Still time to persuade MPs to back deal, says Matt Hancock

  07-12-2018 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers tour UK to sell PM's deal ahead of vote as Brexiteers say compromise bid is "meaningless".
  
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• Alternative ways to break Brexit impasse

  07-12-2018 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  Five lesser-known solutions to the deadlock in Parliament over Brexit.
  
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• Brexit damps private equity appetite for UK deals

  07-12-2018 20:26 via ft.com
  Volume of transactions tumbles as dealmakers await outcome
  
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• Switzerland risks EU sanctions threat over integration deal

  07-12-2018 19:37 via ft.com
  Failure to endorse closer alignment to bloc is snub to Brussels
  
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• Brexit’s twists and turns are baffling the markets

  07-12-2018 19:31 via ft.com
  Assumptions that no-deal exit risks have receded may be misguided
  
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• Paul Nuttall quits UKIP over Tommy Robinson role

  07-12-2018 19:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The former leader says UKIP's link with Tommy Robinson would "appall many Brexit voters".
  
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• Christopher Grayling may back 'flawed' TransPennine rail upgrade

  07-12-2018 19:16
  Exclusive: sources say DfT committee recommends delay-plagued route should not be fully electrifiedThe transport secretary is seriously considering a recommendation to spend almost £3bn on a “flawed” and “detrimental” rail upgrade in the north of England that will do nothing to improve reliability or air pollution on a slow and delay-plagued line, sources have told the Guardian.In recent briefings, Department for Transport officials have told stakeholders that its B
  
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• EU support for austerity opens door to far right, Corbyn says

  07-12-2018 19:14
  Failed neoliberal policies have caused hardship, Labour leader tells European socialists
  Jeremy Corbyn has told an audience of European socialists that EU support for austerity has caused hardship for ordinary people, and that unless something changes there is a risk that “the fake populists of the far right will fill the vacuum”.Speaking at the Congress of European Socialists in Lisbon, the Labour leader also said his party respected the result of the Brexit referendum and it was th
  
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• Martin Rowson on new fears about shortages after a no-deal Brexit – cartoon

  07-12-2018 19:01
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• Brexit: Campaigners seek judicial review of 2016 vote

  07-12-2018 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigners seek a judicial review of the Brexit process due to "corrupt practices" in 2016 vote.
  
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• No-deal Brexit: Disruption at Dover 'could last six months'

  07-12-2018 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Fresh government warnings about Channel ports are dismissed as "Project Fear" by Tory rebels.
  
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• Berkeley Group: Brex and mortar

  07-12-2018 18:07 via ft.com
  Housebuilder’s forward sales may be down, but markets had been braced for worse
  
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• Berkeley: Brexit pacemaker

  07-12-2018 18:07 via ft.com
  Housebuilder’s forward sales may be down, but markets had been braced for worse
  
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• Health sector faces 6-month drugs shortage in no-deal

  07-12-2018 17:29 via ft.com
  Pharma companies told to prepare for ‘significantly reduced access’ at borders
  
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• Switzerland risks EU financial sanctions over integration deal

  07-12-2018 17:10 via ft.com
  Snub to Brussels in failure to endorse closer alignment to bloc
  
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• Revealed: the hidden global network behind Tommy Robinson

  07-12-2018 17:00
  Guardian investigation shows how cash, legal support and millions of tweets underpin anti-Islam activist - but Facebook removes his ‘donate’ buttonThe British far-right activist Tommy Robinson is receiving financial, political and moral support from a broad array of non-British groups and individuals, including US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls, a Guardian investigation has discovered.Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner who is leading a “Brexit betrayal&rdq
  
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• Brexit: Lib Dems to make Commons bid for another referendum

  07-12-2018 16:43 via bbc.co.uk
  But the People's Vote campaign says attempt to legislate for another referendum is premature.
  
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• Brexit: Leave Means Leave campaign prepares for another referendum

  07-12-2018 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Leave Means Leave chief says "we will win, and win bigger" if there is another Brexit vote.
  
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• Theresa May, a political survivor cornered by Brexit

  07-12-2018 16:12 via ft.com
  The UK prime minister’s sense of duty enables her to fight on friendless but she faces a crisis
  
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• Fiona Bruce confirmed to host Question Time

  07-12-2018 15:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The presenter says it is "an honour" to be asked to take over from David Dimbleby.
  
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• Former BoE officials warn of bank’s limited firepower

  07-12-2018 15:20 via ft.com
  Two ex-deputy governors say tax cuts may be needed in future as rate setting can only do so much
  
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• Brexit: Liz Kendall on Irish-style option for UK voters

  07-12-2018 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  One way to avoid a "Parliamentary fix-up" over Brexit would be an Irish-style "citizens' assembly of ordinary people" to set the questions, say Liz Kendall.
  
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• Expats ask High Court to declare Brexit vote invalid

  07-12-2018 13:24 via ft.com
  The case is based on findings that electoral spending rules were broken
  
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• Parliament prepares as power drains away from May

  07-12-2018 13:19 via ft.com
  Many of the prime minister’s colleagues feel they cannot vote to make Britain poorer
  
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• Ten ways Theresa May’s government has erred

  07-12-2018 13:13 via ft.com
  From setting out ‘red lines’ to calling a general election, the charge sheet is long — and not exhaustive
  
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• Comedian bitches about UK politics after mother's death

  07-12-2018 12:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A comedian who hated politics and found the subject boring explains how she became involved after her mother died of cancer.
  
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• All I want for Brexit is... : The view from Sheffield

  07-12-2018 12:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Shoppers and traders at Sheffield’s Christmas market outline what kind of Brexit they’d like politicians to secure.
  
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• Week in Review: All May's faults come home to roost

  07-12-2018 12:36
  
  Strategically inept, tactically misguided, presentationally catastrophic, and promoting a deal with nothing to recommend it.
  
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• No-deal Brexit report: 'Bodies may be uncollected'

  07-12-2018 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Congestion could also hinder journeys to school and affect food deliveries, a report warns.
  
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• Former minister Sam Gyimah on resigning over Brexit

  07-12-2018 12:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Looking at what MPs and voters want over Brexit, former minister Sam Gyimah reckons the deal on offer is not full of the festive cheer.
  
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• Brexit: Hancock confirms government could charter planes to fly medicines into UK in event of no deal – Politics live

  07-12-2018 11:49
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 10.44am GMT Senior Norwegian politicians and businesses figures have rejected Norway plus, the increasingly touted British cross-party plan for the UK to leave the EU but join Norway in a free trade trade area inside the EU single market, my colleague Patrick Wintour reports. Related: Norwegian politicians reject UK's Norway-plus Brexit plan10.21am GMT David Coburn, the Scottish Ukip MEP, is also quitting the party.Today,
  
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• UKIP: Scottish leader David Coburn quits over 'extremism'

  07-12-2018 11:33 via bbc.co.uk
  David Coburn says the party has been infiltrated by extremists and is now pursuing an "anti-Islam" agenda.
  
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• Ukip's Paul Nuttall resigns over Tommy Robinson appointment

  07-12-2018 11:08
  Former party leader says use of Islamophobic campaigner is ‘catastrophic error’Ukip has lost its second former leader in three days over the party’s decision to appoint the far-right Islamophobic campaigner Tommy Robinson as an adviser.Paul Nuttall, who led the party during the 2017 election, said Ukip’s new links to Robinson were a catastrophic error that would tarnish Brexit. Continue reading...
  
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• Labour and Tory MPs joust over 'Norway plus' Brexit option

  07-12-2018 11:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Jo Johnson and Stephen Kinnock argue for and against an alternative Brexit option.
  
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• Holocaust memorial: Ex-MPs discuss plans with schoolchildren

  07-12-2018 10:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Schoolchildren: Holocaust memorial at Westminster could help MPs think about decisions.
  
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• Monday's Article 50 case will change the stakes in the Brexit battle

  07-12-2018 10:15
  
  Court challenge on how to reverse Brexit is going to produce an answer at the most decisive possible moment.
  
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• Norwegian politicians reject UK's Norway-plus Brexit plan

  07-12-2018 09:55
  Norwegian MP says it is not in either country’s interest for UK to use trade agreementSenior Norwegian politicians and business figures have rejected Norway-plus, the increasingly touted British cross-party plan for the UK to leave the EU but join Norway in a free trade trade area inside the EU single market.They attacked the idea as “neither in Norway nor the UK’s interest”. The UK would need Norway’s permission to join its Efta club. Continue reading...
  
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• Williams railways review to look at 'all options'

  07-12-2018 07:16 via bbc.co.uk
  John Lewis deputy chair Keith Williams does not rule out future rail nationalisation in the UK.
  
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• The teachers asking pupils to make the case for Christmas have a lesson for us all | Gaby Hinsliff

  07-12-2018 07:00
  Some basic truths are under threat, and we are out of practice at defending themChristmas is cancelled. There can’t be many headteachers who haven’t occasionally longed to type those three words and press “send”. ’Tis the season of precious teaching time disappearing down the plughole of nativity play rehearsals, carol services, and Christmas craft days that leave glitter trodden inextricably deep into the carpets. Is it really worth the hassle?But only Lady Lumley&
  
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• Our warring MPs should realise all Brexit roads lead to Norway | Simon Jenkins

  07-12-2018 07:00
  It’s increasingly clear there is only one deal that can be done. It may not be ideal, but it is workableFrom the moment Britain voted for Brexit in 2016, there was only one way to go. It was back to the European Free Trade Association (Efta), of which the UK was a member before 1973. Nothing else made sense. As a Eurosceptic, I voted to remain only because I thought it wrong for Britain to leave Europe’s one conclave of nations just when it was growing seriously unstable. The vote to
  
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• The Irish border and Brexit explained by @BorderIrish

  07-12-2018 06:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The Irish border has its very own Twitter handle - so we asked it all the things we want to know about Brexit.
  
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• Beyond Brexit: more uncertainty for investors

  07-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Whatever happens in Parliament this week, expect a rollercoaster ride for your finances
  
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• Your Brexit questions answered by FT experts

  07-12-2018 05:59 via ft.com
  Who are the winners and losers and is there any way Brexit won't happen? FT writers answer your questions
  
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• Brexit explained: you asked, our experts answered

  07-12-2018 05:59 via ft.com
  Who are the winners and losers, and is there any way Brexit won't happen? FT writers answer your questions
  
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• Leave campaign plans quietly for second referendum

  07-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Lynton Crosby aide working behind the scenes with Eurosceptics on strategy for new vote
  
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• Brexit backstop dispute reopens Scottish question

  07-12-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  SNP says deal gives Northern Ireland advantage as Tories worry about UK integrity
  
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