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• Ferry group with no ships jettisons takeaway T&Cs

  03-01-2019 20:49 via ft.com
  Parts of website of Brexit company seemingly copied from food group and ‘put up in error’
  
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• Javid accused of trying to burnish leadership credentials

  03-01-2019 20:38 via ft.com
  Labour says ministers using migrant issue to bolster standing
  
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• Brexit: Varadkar and Merkel discuss May's Brexit deal in phonecall

  03-01-2019 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Irish and German leaders speak on the phone and agree draft Brexit deal will not be changed.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Sajid Javid's alien outlook – cartoon

  03-01-2019 19:54
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• MPs to discuss petition calling for mandatory TV election debates

  03-01-2019 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Petition calls for debates to become a "regular fixture" and mediated by an independent commission.
  
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• UK approach to asylum seekers needs a rethink

  03-01-2019 19:48 via ft.com
  Calling in the navy to patrol the English channel panders to populism
  
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• The Guardian view on Channel crossings: a failure of humanity, not controls | Editorial

  03-01-2019 19:36
  The increase in arrivals to the UK by small boats is alarming given the risks to the travellers. It does not constitute a ‘migration crisis’That adults and children are risking their lives to cross the Channel’s shipping lanes in small and flimsy vessels is frightening. That they seek a new home in Britain is not. The overreaction to the uptick in arrivals via this route has been extraordinary. The home secretary, Sajid Javid, cut short a holiday, declared a “major incide
  
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• Dublin says Brexit backstop must stay effective

  03-01-2019 19:34 via ft.com
  ‘We need to know what UK wants,’ says Varadkar after brainstorming call with Merkel
  
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• Brexit ferry firm Seaborne in terms and conditions gaffe

  03-01-2019 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Government defends Seaborne after it uses terms apparently intended for a takeaway food firm.
  
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• Gove warns of no-deal ‘turbulence’ for farmers

  03-01-2019 19:25 via ft.com
  Meat exports could face export tariffs of at least 40%, says environment secretary
  
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• Brexit will test resilience of the British economy

  03-01-2019 18:34 via ft.com
  But uncertainty over how Britain leaves the EU will not be enough to cause a downturn
  
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• Ryanair gains UK licence in case of no-deal Brexit

  03-01-2019 18:25 via ft.com
  Airline calls for UK and EU to agree transition agreement to avoid holiday disruption
  
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• Irish PM says he has escalated no-deal Brexit preparations

  03-01-2019 18:11
  Ireland planning as seriously for no deal as for May’s agreement, says Leo VaradkarThe Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has said his country is preparing for a no-deal Brexit as seriously as it is for Theresa May’s deal and warned that the EU’s existing offer must not change.In remarks that echoed EU comments earlier on Thursday rebuffing British hopes of further talks, Varadkar said European leaders were united behind the existing deal and that he and Angela Merkel had held
  
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• Fiona Onasanya is lucky. She’d be out of a job were it not for Brexit | Martin Kettle

  03-01-2019 17:10
  The disgraced MP has pledged to carry on despite her conviction. And Westminster is too preoccupied to remove herIt seems a strange thing to say about the disgraced Labour MP for Peterborough, but Fiona Onasanya is a lucky woman. Onasanya was found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice last month. She faces a prison sentence. She is contemplating the ruin of a career that included her public aspiration to become Britain’s first black female prime minister. I’m not sti
  
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• Charging forced marriage victims rescue fees is a Foreign Office racket | Pragna Patel

  03-01-2019 16:55
  Victims have no choice but to pay for protection when fleeing lives of horrific violence. These fees are wrong, and must endIn recent days the abhorrent practice of the Foreign Office whereby it forces British nationals who are victims of forced marriage abroad to pay for their protection and rescue has again hit the headlines. It is left to the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to say he wants “to get to the bottom of the issue”.But this is not a new issue that has only just come to l
  
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• Farmers warned of no-deal 'turbulence'

  03-01-2019 16:35 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Gove says without a Brexit deal, tariffs on food exports are a "grim and inescapable fact".
  
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• Labour members want another vote. Jeremy Corbyn shouldn’t fear that | Michael Chessum

  03-01-2019 14:31
  We on the left of the party see that ignoring the will of the grassroots is a route straight back to the political wildernessAt the outset of 2019, the Labour left faces both an unprecedented set of opportunities and, potentially, an unprecedented crisis. As Theresa May hurtles towards what should be certain defeat on her Brexit deal, and the divisions within the Conservative party deepen, the prospects for a transformative leftwing government this year look good. Even under the Fixed‑term
  
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• Two held over English Channel migrant crossings

  03-01-2019 14:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The government is attempting to step up sea patrols after an increase in crossings in small boats.
  
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• No-deal Brexit would severely disrupt UK farming, says Gove

  03-01-2019 14:13
  Environment secretary warns of tariffs and delays as NFU chief calls for firm guidanceA no-deal Brexit would spell severe disruption for the UK’s farming and food industries, and hardship for small farmers in particular, the environment secretary, Michael Gove, has said.Tariffs of as much as 40% would be slapped on British exports and products destined for the EU would be subject to a strict inspection regime, which would cause hold-ups and delays. Small farmers would be most at risk from
  
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• Hunt backs Javid in Channel crossings row

  03-01-2019 13:54
  Foreign secretary says priority is to discourage people from attempting risky journeyThe foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has backed Sajid Javid after the home secretary was criticised for questioning whether people crossing the Channel in small boats were “genuine” asylum seekers.Speaking in Malaysia, Hunt said: “I think the home secretary is right to say that as a country that is very proud of our tradition of granting asylum to people who need it, we also want to make sure th
  
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• It’s not just Windrush. Britain’s immigration scandal will grow in 2019 | Satbir Singh

  03-01-2019 13:36
  The arbitrary cruelty of the ‘hostile environment’ stretches beyond any one community. Brexit will only make it worseTasfin came to the UK in 1962 from Bangladesh, or what was then called East Pakistan. He was 19 years old. Orphaned during the brutal partition of India by the departing British, he had been working since the age of 12 for an American company in the port city of Chittagong. He made tea, unloaded containers, repaired cars and swept floors. And he eventually concluded th
  
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• Fuel prices: MPs call for petrol price watchdog

  03-01-2019 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Petrol stations are being accused again of ripping off motorists by increasing their profit margins.
  
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• BoE gender diversity boosted by double appointment

  03-01-2019 11:38 via ft.com
  Jayne-Anne Gadhia and Colette Bowe join committee that works to ensure UK financial stability
  
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• In Westminster, it’s still business as usual when it comes to bullying | Ava Etemadzadeh

  03-01-2019 10:30
  The damning report into Westminster’s toxic culture has effectively been ignored. When will MPs take this seriously?In September 2015, a young Conservative political activist named Elliott Johnson took his own life. In a letter found after his death, Johnson made allegations of bullying against the former Conservative parliamentary candidate, Mark Clarke, and others within the party (Clarke strongly denies these allegations). Sadly the culture of politics can be toxic, and many people cont
  
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• Why do Brexiters keep banging on about the Falklands?

  03-01-2019 07:02
  
  If it's Global Britain they're after, why do they seem so obsessed with dated military victories?
  
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• The Channel migrant ‘crisis’ is really a tale of British hypocrisy | Afua Hirsch

  03-01-2019 07:00
  Sajid Javid’s rhetoric on refugees has less to do with reason than with appeasing anti-immigrant feelingA lot of us have spent the past few weeks telling our children some fairly problematic stuff. That there’s an old man with a beard who breaks into our homes with a reindeer and watches them while they sleep. That it’s acceptable to talk about the ins and outs of a virgin’s womb. That there was a genocidal king who murdered newborn boys. I can’t think of any contex
  
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• Labour’s ambiguous Brexit stance is now untenable

  03-01-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Supporters prize Jeremy Corbyn’s authenticity, but oppose his hostility to the EU
  
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• Vincent Tchenguiz pushes back on UK leasehold reform

  03-01-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Tycoon’s company warns of ‘detrimental consequences to entire property market’
  
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• Raytheon inks contract to support RAF’s surveillance aircraft

  03-01-2019 01:02 via ft.com
  US group’s work on Shadow twin-turboprop planes to secure 200 jobs in North Wales
  
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• Hammond 'can raise £7bn a year by scrapping tax breaks'

  03-01-2019 01:01
  Resolution Foundation urges chancellor to tighten wealth taxation to boost public sectorPhilip Hammond could raise an additional £7bn a year for the Treasury by scrapping tax breaks for the richest in society and tightening up existing wealth taxes, research from one of Britain’s leading thinktanks shows.In a report prepared ahead of the chancellor’s government spending review, which is due later this year, the Resolution Foundation said that the additional funds could be raise
  
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• Javid calls in Royal Navy over migrants in Channel

  03-01-2019 00:10 via ft.com
  Home secretary questions whether those coming ashore are ‘genuine’
  
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