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• Corbyn dismisses calls for change as eighth MP quits

  19-02-2019 23:30 via ft.com
  Labour leader shrugs off defections and insists his policies are ‘very popular’
  
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• Tory MPs wooed by independent parliamentary group

  19-02-2019 21:18 via ft.com
  Former Labour members hope to recruit Europhile Conservatives to their cause
  
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• Tories on edge after Labour splitters show a path for Europhiles

  19-02-2019 21:18 via ft.com
  Chuka Umunna appeals to MPs disillusioned with Brexit stance and ‘Blukip’ influence
  
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• May drops Malthouse plan ahead of Brussels talks

  19-02-2019 21:18 via ft.com
  EU officials fear PM is running down clock to March 29
  
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• May ditches Malthouse plan ahead of Brussels talks

  19-02-2019 21:18 via ft.com
  EU officials fear prime minister is running down clock to March 29
  
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• Taking Shamima Begum's citizenship risks making her a martyr | Robert Verkaik

  19-02-2019 21:14
  Whatever her alleged crimes, there is every reason to try Shamima Begum in the UK where justice can be seen to be doneThe decision to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship will turn a young British woman into a martyr.In the same way Guantánamo Bay became a recruiting sergeant for extremism, cases like that of Begum will serve only to radicalise more young British Muslims. Continue reading...
  
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• MPs fear May could exploit Labour split to call early election

  19-02-2019 20:37
  Despite the Tories’ plan for a 2022 vote, cross-party concern remains over a snap pollLabour and Conservative parliamentarians are anxious that the new breakaway group formed by Luciana Berger and Chuka Umunna has increased the chances of Theresa May calling an early election.On the Labour side, MPs and peers were worried that the prime minister would be tempted to exploit a split in the opposition if more of their number defected to the new political group. Continue reading...
  
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• Honda's decision is a vote of no confidence in Britain’s future

  19-02-2019 20:09
  There is a sense that while the Swindon plant’s days were numbered, Brexit tipped the balanceHonda claims Brexit had nothing to do with the decision to shutter its Swindon plant, but almost nobody seems to be buying it.The consensus among industry pundits is that it suits Honda to avoid dipping its toe into the toxic pool of Brexit. Continue reading...
  
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• Honda says up to 7,000 jobs at risk from closure of UK plant

  19-02-2019 20:00 via ft.com
  Carmaker says electric cars and small size of Europe market responsible for shutdown
  
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• The choice is clear for Labour MPs. Stay with Corbyn or leave the party | Rafael Behr

  19-02-2019 19:57
  The idea of a ‘broad church’ makes no sense when its congregants don’t profess the same political faithThere is a phrase that has a lot of currency among Labour MPs who hate the direction their party has taken under Jeremy Corbyn. They say they will “stay and fight”. The vow is sometimes taken in private, sometimes declared on social media alongside a plea for others to do the same. It has become so familiar that its meaning is rarely interrogated.But what is this f
  
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• At times like these, Corbyn is his own worst enemy | John Crace

  19-02-2019 19:44
  The Labour leader refuses to change tack. After all, a stopped clock is right twice a dayIt was the merest hint of an olive branch. A chink in the denial. During a rather tetchy and uninspired speech at the annual conference of the manufacturing trade organisation, Make UK, Jeremy Corbyn did just about manage to squeeze out, by way of a passing aside, that he was disappointed a small number of MPs had decided to take a different path. Then it was back to the business at hand.The Labour leader ha
  
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• MP introduces bill to ban dog meat consumption

  19-02-2019 19:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Conservative MP Bill Wiggin says the bill is important to stop China consuming dog meat.
  
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• Steve Bell on the seven MPs who have resigned from Labour – cartoon

  19-02-2019 19:32
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• UK attacks Germany over Saudi arms ban

  19-02-2019 19:28 via ft.com
  Jeremy Hunt writes to Berlin to warn of damage to British defence sector
  
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• Hunt protests to Berlin over Saudi arms embargo

  19-02-2019 19:28 via ft.com
  Foreign secretary warns of damage to British defence industry from exports ban
  
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• Honda sounds a further Brexit warning to Britain

  19-02-2019 19:24 via ft.com
  Leaving the EU will imperil decades of success in UK carmaking
  
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• Conservatives being 'manipulated by Brexit zealots', ex-PM Major to warn

  19-02-2019 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir John Major will urge a "mainstream majority" of Tory and Labour MPs to stop the UK leaving next month.
  
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• Sturgeon urges EU citizens to stay in Scotland after Brexit

  19-02-2019 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Nicola Sturgeon tells members of the French Parliament about efforts to get EU citizens to stay in Scotland.
  
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• EU blasts Hungary 'fake news' on migrants

  19-02-2019 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The EU Commission condemns Hungary's right-wing government over a new poster campaign.
  
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• Brexit concerns, BoA's Europe moves, Citi's tech plans and London property investment

  19-02-2019 18:01 via ft.com
  David Crow and guests discuss how banks are preparing for Brexit, including Bank of …
  
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• Brexit: UK will apply food tariffs in case of no deal

  19-02-2019 17:51 via bbc.co.uk
  Michael Gove has promised to protect farmers from cheap food imports.
  
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• Ruth George sorry for claiming ex-Labour MPs may have Israeli backing

  19-02-2019 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Ruth George apologises for suggesting seven MPs who quit the party may have Israeli backing.
  
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• Gove opens way to food tariffs in no-deal Brexit

  19-02-2019 16:07 via ft.com
  Environment secretary says protection for sector will also involve quotas
  
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• Labour resignations: John McDonnell promises 'listening exercise'

  19-02-2019 16:05 via bbc.co.uk
  John McDonnell promises a "mammoth listening exercise", after the resignation of seven Labour MPs.
  
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• Protester charged with harassment

  19-02-2019 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  A protester involved in an incident outside Parliament with Tory MP Anna Soubry is facing criminal charges.
  
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• Corbyn dismisses calls for change after MPs quit

  19-02-2019 15:25 via ft.com
  UK Labour leader insists he has consulted widely on party policy
  
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• Britain's breakaway faction seeks to build 'a new politics'

  19-02-2019 15:25 via ft.com
  Seven opposition Labour MPs, dissatisfied with the polarisation of politics around B…
  
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• Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova On Trans Athletes Competing: 'Insane and Cheating'

  19-02-2019 15:07
  
  Sportswomen blasted the "disturbing, upsetting, and deeply transphobic" remarks, which appeared in The Sunday Times.
  
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• Who is Derek Hatton?

  19-02-2019 14:52 via bbc.co.uk
  A profile of the former Militant Tendency leading light who is rejoining the Labour Party.
  
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• Forced into illegality: Home Office health charge pulverises young people's hopes of a normal life

  19-02-2019 14:13
  
  A crushing increase in immigration health charges is destroying the lives of people who've lived here their entire lives.
  
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• UK’s splintering politics makes it more European

  19-02-2019 13:21 via ft.com
  System is fragmenting in similar ways in response to economic and social pressures
  
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• TripAdvisor suspends reviews on 'Brexit Party B&B'

  19-02-2019 13:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Reviews included the comments "breakfast means breakfast" and "couldn't wait to vote leave".
  
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• Honda says Brexit not to blame for UK plant closure

  19-02-2019 12:35 via ft.com
  Carmaker says electric cars and small size of Europe market responsible for shutdown
  
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• Brexit: Labour rift proves it cannot be relied on, Hunt tells EU

  19-02-2019 12:17
  Foreign secretary says deal can only be saved by addressing Tory and DUP concernsToday’s latest political developments - live updatesJeremy Hunt has seized on Labour’s split, claiming to European foreign ministers it proved that only concessions to win round Conservative rightwingers will get the Brexit deal through the Commons.During a frenetic day of lobbying in Brussels, the foreign secretary privately counselled his EU counterparts that the opposition could not be relied upon, ev
  
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• Other Japanese groups could follow Honda out of UK

  19-02-2019 12:09 via ft.com
  Changing trading conditions and Brexit made the carmaker’s Swindon plant unsustainable
  
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• Other Japanese companies could follow Honda out of the UK

  19-02-2019 12:09 via ft.com
  Changing trading conditions and Brexit made the carmaker’s Swindon plant unsustainable
  
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• Yvette Cooper: Man who made threats given caution

  19-02-2019 11:33 via bbc.co.uk
  A 59-year-old from Leeds is given a conditional caution over threats made to MP Yvette Cooper.
  
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• Chuka Umunna invites centrist UK MPs to join breakaway

  19-02-2019 10:56 via ft.com
  Rebel warns that launch will heap greater pressure on Labour party ‘to change course’
  
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• UK labour market bucks growth slowdown and Brexit fears

  19-02-2019 10:45 via ft.com
  Economy added 167,000 jobs in final quarter of 2018 despite wider uncertainty
  
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• Chuka Umunna hopes new party will be created by end of year

  19-02-2019 10:22
  Umunna, who was among seven MPs to quit Labour, hints that more MPs, including Tories, could follow suitFollow all the day’s political developments - live updates
  Chuka Umunna has said he hopes a new party will be created by the end of the year, after he and six other MPs quit Labour citing anger at the party’s Brexit policy and the issue of antisemitism. Related: Labour: Watson tells Corbyn he must change direction to stop party splittingContinue reading...
  
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• Honda to shut flagship UK plant in 2021

  19-02-2019 09:16 via ft.com
  Japanese carmaker to close the first factory in its 71-year history
  
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• Pro-EU Tories at odds over ‘spineless’ Hammond

  19-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Some opponents of no-deal want chancellor to take tougher stance as Commons vote looms
  
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• Momentum challenges ‘heir of Blair’ to be metro mayor

  19-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Pro-Corbyn group pushes to use position as test bed for ‘radical municipal socialism’
  
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• Labour warned more MPs 'thinking hard' about futures

  19-02-2019 02:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Leadership urged to act on concerns as two Tory MPs consider joining group formed by Labour rebels.
  
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• How Brexit hit the pound in your pocket

  19-02-2019 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The value of the pound has changed a lot over the past three years - making us all a little poorer.
  
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• Gove promises farmers safeguards in no-deal Brexit

  19-02-2019 01:02 via ft.com
  Pledges aim to calm fears over impact on food standards and import and export tariffs
  
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• UK to step up help to fight tax evasion in Africa

  19-02-2019 01:01 via ft.com
  Officials say move could deliver £40 in additional government revenue for each £1 spent
  
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• Fast fashion: 'Penny on a garment' to drive clothes recycling

  19-02-2019 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Clothing brands and retailers should pay per item to fund a £35m annual recycling scheme, MPs say.
  
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