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• The NHS 10-year plan: what we already know

  06-01-2019 20:27
  Changes will include a mental health overhaul and advances in diabetes careAs the government prepares to unveil its 10-year-plan for the NHS on Monday, here are some of the details we already know about. Continue reading...
  
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• Nicola Jennings on Theresa May's plans for her Brexit deal – cartoon

  06-01-2019 19:52
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• May battles to convince deal critics ahead of vote

  06-01-2019 19:46 via ft.com
  Prime minister refuses to rule out taking Brexit decision to Parliament multiple times
  
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• Green Investment Bank under fire for loss of UK focus

  06-01-2019 19:35 via ft.com
  Vince Cable says sale of GIB was ‘totally unnecessary and damaging’
  
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• Our uncivil war over Brexit was fuelled by deceit, not one oddball | Anne Perkins

  06-01-2019 19:19
  James Graham’s Brexit drama foregrounds the crucial role of Dominic Cummings. But there was more to it than thatRight on cue, as the witching hour of Brexit closes in, we are offered an opportunity to reflect on the forces that brought us to this state of national disarray and division. One of the most eye-catching things about James Graham’s drama Brexit: The Uncivil War (screened on Channel 4 tomorrow evening), is that David Cameron proved too dull to make the final draft. The auth
  
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• May’s backstop could lock Britain in a regulatory iron maiden

  06-01-2019 19:04 via ft.com
  The UK could be vulnerable to subsidies from EU states aimed at poaching businesses
  
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• Brexit: as parliament returns to work, what happens now?

  06-01-2019 18:53
  With 29 March approaching fast, and MPs due to debate Theresa May’s deal this week, there’s a lot to be doneLike Britain’s schoolchildren, many of whom will be returning to their classrooms after the Christmas break, MPs will spend Monday reacquainting themselves with their friends and reluctantly returning their attention to work.The task ahead of them is formidable – with Britain due to leave the European Union in less than 12 weeks’ time, parliament has neither a
  
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• UK parliament should use renovation to rethink its ways

  06-01-2019 18:03 via ft.com
  Westminster’s work habits are likely to change after seven years in temporary quarters
  
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• Rudd delays next phase of universal credit rollout

  06-01-2019 17:57 via ft.com
  UK government’s flagship benefit reform blamed for increasing poverty
  
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• Universal credit: Vote to extend benefit to three million delayed

  06-01-2019 15:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers scale back next phase of benefit system's expansion but insist project remains on track.
  
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• Labour is 'not enabling Brexit' - Jon Ashworth

  06-01-2019 15:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The shadow health secretary says the party is committed to voting against Theresa May's Brexit deal.
  
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• Brexit: May says vote on deal will go ahead as speculation mounts of delay

  06-01-2019 15:10
  PM says parliament may get more say on EU ties but warns critics risk harming democracyTheresa May has insisted she will go ahead with a crucial vote on her Brexit deal amid growing speculation that it could be delayed.The prime minister said she was seeking further clarification from the EU to address the concerns of MPs, as well as specific measures relating to the backstop on Northern Ireland before the vote in the week beginning 14 January. Continue reading...
  
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• May gives no guarantee on NHS waiting times despite extra £20bn

  06-01-2019 14:44
  PM admits performance in England is slipping as she fails to promise targets will be metTheresa May has refused to guarantee that the NHS will get back to delivering A&E care, cancer treatment and planned operations within key waiting times despite its £20bn a year funding rise.Asked on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday whether the targets would be met in future, the prime minister admitted the NHS’s performance was “slipping” and blamed its inability to prov
  
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• ‘Managed no deal’? That’s just more Brexit snake oil | Anand Menon

  06-01-2019 14:17
  Their delusional thinking finally exposed, the Brexiteers have pivoted. Don’t let this cuddly-sounding rebrand fool youHere we go again. As we return, haggard and hungover, from the Christmas break, the Brexit deal is heading back to parliament. And presumably the debate will also continue where it left off. Prepare for a succession of Brexiteers touting the idea of a “managed no deal” as an appealing alternative to either the deal on offer or the prospect of a no-deal outcome.
  
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• May warns of ‘uncharted territory’ if MPs reject her deal

  06-01-2019 13:50 via ft.com
  Prime minister refuses to rule out taking Brexit decision to Parliament multiple times
  
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• In full: PM's interview with Andrew Marr

  06-01-2019 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The prime minister is asked about the the Brexit vote in Parliament, which was pulled last month, and how much longer she plans to be her party's leader.
  
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• Brexit: PM says it would be 'uncharted territory' if deal rejected

  06-01-2019 12:46 via bbc.co.uk
  Theresa May told Andrew Marr that the 'search for the perfect deal' could get in the way of a good deal.
  
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• Theresa May promises ‘historic’ NHS reform

  06-01-2019 11:48 via ft.com
  PM says £20bn programme to be unveiled on Monday has been signed off across government
  
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• Ramsgate 'can not be ready' for Brexit ferries

  06-01-2019 11:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The councillor for the harbour area says the port will not have the facilities for planned cargo freight.
  
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• EU nurses give up on Brexit Britain as prospects dim

  06-01-2019 11:07 via ft.com
  ‘We are heading for catastrophe,’ NHS union warns as staffing crisis mounts
  
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• It’s the thought that counts with Brexit gifts | Stewart Lee

  06-01-2019 10:59
  Thank you, all my aunts, for the rabies vaccine, zombie knives and baked beans. They’re going in the Anderson shelter for the coming no-deal carnageThe new year slips in, tailgating quietly through the closing crack of the old, and the elderly Brexit-voting racist relatives you tolerated through gritted skull over the festive season, their presence turning Christmas into a three-dimensional LBC phone-in, to be survived only by the anaesthetic of alcohol, have departed.But blood is thicker
  
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• The rocky road to Brexit has made it a turbulent year in British politics.

  06-01-2019 10:36 via bbc.co.uk
  The rocky road to Brexit has made it a turbulent year in British politics. Jo Coburn - from the BBC's Politics Live - takes a look back at a seismic 12 months.
  
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• Brexit: The Uncivil War – four political insiders give their verdicts

  06-01-2019 10:00
  Commentator Andrew Rawnsley, Labour MP Gloria de Piero, activist Gina Miller and Leave campaign whistleblower Shahmir Sanni give their views on Channel 4’s new film about the EU referendum Continue reading...
  
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• To stop Brexit, Labour supporters will have to revolt against their leader | Andrew Rawnsley

  06-01-2019 09:59
  Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership with a promise that the will of the members would be paramountSince nearly all of his career has been spent in rebellion against his own party, I guess we should not be too surprised that Jeremy Corbyn seems so determined to defy it over Brexit. Labour members hate Brexit and they want it reversed. With parliament deadlocked and growing public support for taking the question back to the people, a large majority of Labour voters, and an even larger majority of Lab
  
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• Deal or no deal? Let the Brexit battle recommence

  06-01-2019 09:59
  The biggest poll since 2016 shows the mood in the country is polarisingAs the former cabinet minister sat at home trying to enjoy the last few days of relative peace before parliament reconvenes, there was a knock at the door. It was an enterprising tradesman, handing out his card. “Need any work doing?” he asked. The Tory MP declined, but the tradesman was undeterred. “We’ve got some great deals – better than Theresa May’s!” The former minister had to l
  
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• Caroline Lucas: ‘Parliament is a laughing stock. So we have to go back to the people’

  06-01-2019 09:00
  The Green MP has been a star performer in the Brexit debate and she says it’s time for cross-party action to avoid a national emergencyIn the pre-Christmas parliamentary shambles of pantomime refrains, bluster and obfuscation over Brexit, a handful of politicians stood out for crisp and persuasive performances.Along with Labour’s David Lammy and the Conservatives’ Anna Soubry, they included the sole MP from the Green party, Caroline Lucas, who won plaudits for highlighting the
  
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• Chris Grayling, I salute you as a titan of enterprise and innovation | Kevin McKenna

  06-01-2019 06:59
  Does it really matter if government hands out huge contracts to ferry firms with no ferries? Of course notThe ghastly and tribal nature of modern British politics was wretchedly laid bare once more over the so-called festive period. The unfair criticism of Chris Grayling, our transport minister, over his decision to award a vital, emergency ferry contract to a firm with no boats was, I feel, disproportionate and needlessly vindictive. Grayling assured us that Seaborne Freight would be ready to p
  
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• North Sea oil revival still demands investor courage

  06-01-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Sector leaner after weathering price crash but exploration at record low as majors depart
  
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• North Sea oil revival demanding courage from investors

  06-01-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Sector leaner after weathering price crash but exploration at record low as majors depart
  
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• Who rescues migrants in the Channel?

  06-01-2019 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  About 500 migrants attempted to travel to the UK on small boats in 2018.
  
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• Reality Check: Who rescues migrants in the Channel?

  06-01-2019 01:34 via bbc.co.uk
  About 500 migrants attempted to travel to the UK on small boats in 2018.
  
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