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• Mobile phone operators told to fix ‘not spots’

  15-02-2019 22:55 via ft.com
  Rural districts’ frustration with poor signal spurs push for national roaming
  
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• May to return to Brussels in search of Brexit deal

  15-02-2019 21:13 via ft.com
  Divisions deepen as Europhiles round on Eurosceptic ‘party within our party’
  
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• Andrea Levy, novelist, 1956-2019

  15-02-2019 20:24 via ft.com
  A child of the Windrush generation who brought a new literary voice to British Jamaican life
  
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• Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change

  15-02-2019 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Students in cities around the UK walked out of school to call for action from the government.
  
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• Stormont: Sinn Féin says talks were a 'sham'

  15-02-2019 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  The British and Irish governments and five main Northern Ireland parties held talks aimed at restoring devolution.
  
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• Brexit uncertainty is costing the UK dearly

  15-02-2019 19:24 via ft.com
  Sluggish growth and parliamentary chaos points to further trouble
  
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• Martin Rowson on the future and the student climate strike – cartoon

  15-02-2019 19:00
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• Labour and Tory MPs in talks over setting up new centrist party

  15-02-2019 18:51
  Discussions could lead to new party consisting of six or more Labour MPs plus some ToriesIntense discussions are taking place at Westminster that could lead to the emergence of a newcentrist party consisting of six or more disaffected anti-Brexit Labour MPs along with the involvement of some Conservatives and the backing of the Liberal Democrats.Labour MPs reported that some of those involved had lobbied backbench colleagues they thought were sympathetic as to how they could “make the shif
  
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• Our destiny is in the hands of Rees-Mogg’s unfinished robot sidekick | Marina Hyde

  15-02-2019 18:36
  Steve Baker is still claiming the Malthouse compromise, the most ludicrously far-fetched option, is the solution to BrexitWhere are you on Steve Baker, on a scale of one to so-completely-over-him? The deputy chair of the European Research Group took to the airwaves today to warn mildly that parliament passing Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement would “collapse the government”. Furthermore, Baker complained: “I really do rather object to being called ‘hardline’.
  
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• British Journalist Goes Topless So People Will Remember Her Brexit Comments

  15-02-2019 18:33
  
  Brexit supporter Rachel Johnson bared her chest on TV in response to an academic who has been saying the plan leaves Britain naked.
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May's strategy unchanged despite Tory row over defeat

  15-02-2019 18:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM will return to Brussels “within days” as infighting continues in her party over the deal.
  
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• RBS/Brexit: miracles and portents

  15-02-2019 17:10 via ft.com
  Lender is healthy and paying fat dividends to taxpayers who bailed it out
  
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• Brexit: UK-US agree to preserve trading arrangements

  15-02-2019 16:59 via bbc.co.uk
  It allows businesses to continue trading as they do today, the international trade secretary says.
  
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• Thousands of UK children strike over climate change

  15-02-2019 16:32 via ft.com
  Youngsters block traffic in central London and dance in the road in global protest
  
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• Week in Review: If the govt really believes what it is saying, it has lost touch with reality

  15-02-2019 16:31
  
  Downing Street's statement following its latest defeat in the Commons is bordering on functionally insane.
  
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• Private probation firms in Wales and south west in administration

  15-02-2019 16:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Unions say they had warned about the "disastrous privatisation programme" four years ago.
  
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• Brexit: Questions over UK judges on European Court of Justice

  15-02-2019 16:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The president of European Court of Justice says he is waiting to hear from London when UK judges will stop sitting.
  
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• Children protest over climate change and environment

  15-02-2019 16:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Politics Live heard from some of those outside Parliament on what they wanted to achieve and why they were not in school.
  
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• Ross Thomson: 'No confirmation' inquiry into Tory MP has been dropped

  15-02-2019 16:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Aberdeen South MP Ross Thomson says he still cannot speak about the incident in a Westminster bar.
  
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• Ian Murray on Labour splits over Brexit policy

  15-02-2019 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  A Labour MP is asked about divisions in the party and reports some may leave the party over its handling of Brexit and anti-Semitism claims
  
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• Labour joins tussle over ‘unfair’ tax avoidance charge

  15-02-2019 15:24 via ft.com
  Treasury urged to turn its fire on scheme promoters
  
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• Tories squabble over no-deal after May’s defeat

  15-02-2019 15:16 via ft.com
  Divisions deepen as Europhiles round on Eurosceptic ‘party within our party’
  
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• Returning Isis brides expose inadequate legal armoury

  15-02-2019 15:09 via ft.com
  Britain must face an uncomfortable reality: some acts that should be illegal are not
  
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• MPs fiddle while business rages

  15-02-2019 14:58 via ft.com
  Companies forced to press the button on expensive and irreversible no-deal plans
  
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• RBS to pay much bigger dividend than expected

  15-02-2019 14:32 via ft.com
  Bank warns bad loans likely to increase in 2019 as political uncertainties bite
  
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• Churchill would have relished the uproar over his legacy

  15-02-2019 14:21 via ft.com
  Unbridled mutual abuse has been the stock in trade of British politics for generations
  
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• UK spy chief says Russia poses ‘standing threat’ to the west

  15-02-2019 14:00 via ft.com
  MI6 head Alex Younger warns Moscow should expect an ‘assertive response’
  
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• RBS warns of Brexit harm as profits double

  15-02-2019 13:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Profits jump at the bank, but it warns the economy faces a heightened level of Brexit uncertainty.
  
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• Brexit: EU-Irish solidarity 'will not diminish', says Varadkar

  15-02-2019 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The Irish prime minister says those hoping relations with the EU will demise are in for a "nasty surprise".
  
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• And the award for most incompetent minister goes to … | John Crace

  15-02-2019 13:04
  Chris Grayling and Liam Fox appear to be trying to outdo each other as they seek coveted titleJoanna Lumley has come in for criticism for reading out a bad script badly as host of the Baftas. An embarrassment I missed, as the new series of Endeavour – featuring a great nod to the creator of Morse near the end, with a poster on the wall of the police station for the retirement of “Mr C Dexter” complete with a photo of the man himself – started on ITV. Quite why broadcaster
  
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• I swallowed the Brexit lies. Now I regret telling curry house workers to vote leave | Oli Khan

  15-02-2019 12:55
  With Indian restaurants in crisis, Boris Johnson and Priti Patel said we would be able to employ more chefs from south Asia• Oli Khan is the secretary general of the Bangladesh Caterers AssociationOne of the many myths and mysteries of the 2016 referendum campaign is that people from the south-east Asian community backed a leave campaign that was so often linked to bigotry. Related: Who killed the curry house? | Bee WilsonContinue reading...
  
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• Ex-transport minister Michael Portillo on Chris Grayling

  15-02-2019 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The current transport secretary is criticised by a former Conservative transport minister.
  
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• The arts were supposed to champion diversity. What went wrong? | Clive Nwonka

  15-02-2019 12:31
  Arts Council England’s annual report on diversity reveals a sector, despite the rhetoric, still steeped in inequalityIn February 1999, the Macpherson report into the death of Stephen Lawrence made 70 recommendations for eradicating institutional racism within the police. Although the arts, culture and media sectors were not a target of the report, we can similarly trace the uptake of what would later become known as cultural diversity within these institutions – particularly at a tim
  
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• This angry, embittered parliament has been defeated by Brexit | Anand Menon

  15-02-2019 12:10
  Last night’s votes not only failed to break the deadlock – they exposed the bad blood between MPs more clearly than everSo the ERG does it again, and scuppers the prime minister’s plans. Anna Soubry emerged from the chamber last night visibly enraged and talking of a complete lack of leadership. And meanwhile, over the aisle, the tensions and bad blood in the Labour party are there for all to see. Parliament is angry, tensions are running high – and that’s a problem
  
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• BBC's This Week to end as host Andrew Neil steps down

  15-02-2019 10:34 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC's late-night political programme will not return, as host Andrew Neil decides to step down.
  
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• Brexit: What trade deals has the UK done so far?

  15-02-2019 10:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK says it want to replicate the EU's trade agreements "as far as possible".
  
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• Shamima Begum: IS teen's return to UK 'could be prevented'

  15-02-2019 09:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The home secretary says those who left Britain to join IS were "full of hate for our country".
  
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• Friday, February 15

  15-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  The US government will be funded, but the president plans to declare a national emer…
  
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• Brussels official calls IAG Brexit plan ‘absurd’

  15-02-2019 05:55 via ft.com
  Airline group criticised for counting UK shareholders as EU investors after Britain leaves bloc
  
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• EU should trust UK on clearing post-Brexit, says BoE

  15-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Brussels plans more direct oversight of derivatives trades cleared by London’s trio
  
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• Carney’s ‘canary in the coal mine’ moment

  15-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Hundreds pack the Barbican to hear the Bank governor ratchet up his Brexit warning
  
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• Cabinet Office halts apprenticeships over budget cuts

  15-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Training provider says reduction in funding cap means scheme no longer covers costs
  
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• Brussels rejects plea for dual-listed London trading

  15-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  EU asset managers warn they could move to UK because of commission’s stance
  
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• Scots and Welsh ministers quiz Treasury on post-Brexit cash

  15-02-2019 01:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Derek Mackay and Rebecca Evans want answers on funding after Brexit, budgets and public sector pensions.
  
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