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• Brexit: Lord Hattersley says people should get vote on PM's deal

  12-01-2019 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  The former Labour deputy leader says Britons have "a right" to vote on the PM's Brexit deal.
  
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• Parliament is slowly taking back control of Brexit

  12-01-2019 19:00 via ft.com
  But there remains much to do if it is stop Britain leaving the EU with no-deal
  
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• Into the Brexit abyss – cartoon

  12-01-2019 19:00
  Led by the DUP and the Tory right, Theresa May and her deal plunge to their doom Continue reading...
  
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• Who are the UK yellow vest protesters?

  12-01-2019 18:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Anti-austerity and pro-Brexit protesters are battling over the mantle of the French gilets jaunes.
  
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• Police arrest James Goddard on suspicion of public order offences

  12-01-2019 14:15
  Pro-Brexit ‘yellow vest’ activist detained outside tube station over Westminster incidentsJames Goddard, the “yellow vest” activist at the centre of controversy over the harassment of MPs and journalists outside parliament, has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of committing public order offences. The pro-Brexit activist was arrested outside St James Park tube station in west London on Saturday in connection with incidents that happened in Westminster on Monday, the M
  
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• Grayling under fire as serious crimes committed on parole soar by 50%

  12-01-2019 14:00
  Ex-justice minister’s probation reforms have led to huge rise in serious offences, data showsThe number of rapes, murders and other serious crimes committed by offenders on parole has risen by more than 50% since reforms to probation were introduced four years ago, according to official data that has triggered calls for the government to rethink its plans for another shake-up of the service.Serious further offence reviews – which take place when a convicted offender under supervision
  
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• Grayling claim Brexit block could boost far right is 'gutter politics'

  12-01-2019 12:53
  MPs accuse transport secretary of dangerous scaremongering in attempt to prop up PM’s dealChris Grayling’s claim that blocking Brexit could lead to a rise in far-right extremism is dangerous scaremongering and a desperate attempt to shore up the prime minister’s Brexit deal, campaigners and MPs have said.The transport secretary told the Daily Mail that Britain would become a less tolerant and more nationalistic society if it failed to leave the EU. He said reversing the referen
  
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• ‘We're reactivating the people’s army’: inside the battle for a hard Brexit

  12-01-2019 11:00
  With Westminster gridlocked, Nigel Farage has spent the past four months mobilising his troops at Leave Means Leave rallies around the countryA huge queue snakes around Bolton Wanderers football club, but this is no regular Saturday. These supporters are here for a political rally. It is mid-September 2018, and Leave Means Leave has just started a tour of Brexit Britain. This cross-party pressure group was formed in 2016 to ensure a “clean Brexit” – in other words, a hard one.
  
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• I’m a remainer. So why do I feel more and more sympathy for leave voters? | Joseph Harker

  12-01-2019 09:00
  Anti-Brexit campaigners really do act like a ‘metropolitan elite’, with little or no interest in northern and working-class peopleThe outcome of the 2016 referendum horrified me. Despite my doubts about the European Union as an institution (its remoteness, lack of democracy, and inflexibility in dealing with crises such as the eurozone debt), I was, and remain, convinced that it’s better for nations to work together to deal with problems than apart.Since then, the chaotic fallo
  
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• Ministers consider ending jail terms of six months or less

  12-01-2019 08:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Sentences under six months are long enough to damage you and too short to heal you, says minister.
  
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• The puzzle of how many Brits abroad there really are

  12-01-2019 02:23 via bbc.co.uk
  The phrase "Brits abroad" conjures up images of retirees in the sun, but the reality is complex.
  
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• How is Dublin preparing for a possible no-deal Brexit?

  12-01-2019 01:40 via bbc.co.uk
  The Irish government wants its close relationship with the UK to continue after Brexit.
  
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• Green party failed to properly investigate child abuser – report

  12-01-2019 01:22
  David Challenor twice acted as election agent despite having been arrested and charged
  The Green party should have looked more carefully into the background of a man who twice served as one of its election agents despite having been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, according to an independent report.David Challenor, whose daughter Aimee was a rising star within the party, was jailed for 22 years in August for a series of crimes committed in the attic of the family h
  
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