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• UK faces prospect of lowering VAT threshold after Brexit

  24-12-2018 15:42 via ft.com
  London will no longer be able to use veto to keep current limit for small companies
  
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• Corbyn has given up on Europe. For the good of Britain, we cannot | David Miliband

  24-12-2018 13:38
  As Labour subscribes to the government’s dangerous Brexit fantasies, a people’s vote is now the only way to ensure stabilityThe debate about Brexit has entered a new and potentially chaotic phase. Britain has already suffered an economic and reputational hit from the Brexit saga. Investments are on hold, jobs are being moved, the pound has lost value. Britain has come to be seen as a political risk rather than a force for stability. If our leaders continue to peddle illusions about t
  
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• Gatwick 'no drone' police comment 'miscommunicated'

  24-12-2018 13:18 via bbc.co.uk
  A government source said Sussex Police accepted that there had been "poor communications".
  
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• Theresa May's post-Brexit immigration plan explained

  24-12-2018 12:53 via ft.com
  How UK's 'white paper' plan would work and why it faces criticism from business
  
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• Sadiq Khan calls for release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

  24-12-2018 12:51
  London mayor calls for Briton jailed in Iran to be freed before 40th birthday on Boxing DayThe mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has thrown his weight behind calls for a British woman jailed in Iran to be released ahead of her 40th birthday on Boxing Day.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in April 2016. Continue reading...
  
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• My life as an oracle

  24-12-2018 12:00 via ft.com
  I made my biggest mistakes by succumbing to optimism but my gloomy bets have come in
  
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• How to get through Christmas without Brexit causing your breakup | Kate Thompson

  24-12-2018 11:41
  Despair about the political process sometimes mirrors relationships. Perhaps start reparation round the dinner table?Christmas can put stress on couples at the best of times: John Lewis ads and idealised memories from the Christmas of childhood hang over us. Now, in addition to the pressure to create a perfect Christmas, ignoring the credit card balance and calorie counting, couples are also likely to have to negotiate their way through at least one extended family Brexit debate.According to a 2
  
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• Queen calls on UK to overcome ‘deeply held differences’

  24-12-2018 11:40 via ft.com
  Monarch uses Christmas message to say goodwill ‘needed as much as ever’
  
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• What Labour can learn about Brexit from California: think twice | David Adler

  24-12-2018 11:01
  Local left activists have realised that seceding would abandon the US to the right. The UK left must not fall into that trapImagine for a moment that you live in a large federation of states – some small and some large, some richer and some poorer – held together by a strong central authority. While preaching the importance of democracy, the central authority frequently undermines the will of its member states. While preaching the value of hospitality, the central authority construct
  
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• 2018 highs and lows: Theresa May's 'no-Brexit' miscalculation

  24-12-2018 09:30
  
  The prime minister said the magic words and suddenly the People's Vote was set free.
  
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• Labour would 'radically transform economy' to focus on climate change

  24-12-2018 08:00
  Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey says economic and social regeneration must be part of transition to low-carbon futureA future Labour government would oversee an economic revolution to tackle the climate crisis, using the full power of the state to decarbonise the economy and create hundreds of thousands of green jobs in struggling towns and cities.Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary who is driving the party’s climate agenda, said the UK’s “entire so
  
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• Year in a word: Vassalage

  24-12-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Britain’s bright future out of the bloc is being tarnished by the will of Brussels
  
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• 2018: Year in Review

  24-12-2018 05:59 via ft.com
  It was a rollercoaster 12 months with Brexit and Donald Trump dominating the headlines
  
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• May and Corbyn deliver Christmas messages

  24-12-2018 05:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM highlights the military's work in Syria, while the Labour leader applauds those who help others.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Sadiq Khan in Iran jail release call

  24-12-2018 01:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Sadiq Khan makes a plea for a British-Iranian woman to be freed and returned home for Christmas.
  
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• Queen tells nation to put aside differences in Christmas message

  24-12-2018 01:01
  With Britain divided by Brexit, monarch will say peace and goodwill needed ‘as much as ever’The Queen will use her Christmas Day broadcast to say the Christian message of “peace on Earth and goodwill to all” is needed “as much as ever”.With parliament deeply divided over Theresa May’s Brexit deal and military conflicts raging in parts of the world, the monarch’s words are likely to resonate with many. Continue reading...
  
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