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• Falconer demands emails in Labour anti-Semitism review

  04-03-2019 21:15 via ft.com
  Concern within party hierarchy over showing possible interference in disciplinary matters
  
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• UK attorney-general in last-ditch bid to end backstop impasse

  04-03-2019 21:10 via ft.com
  Big gap remains between EU and Britain as Geoffrey Cox tries to keep PM’s deal alive
  
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• Cox in last-ditch bid to end backstop impasse

  04-03-2019 21:10 via ft.com
  Big gap remains between EU and UK as attorney-general tries to keep PM’s deal alive
  
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• UK Treasury minister snubs loan charge inquiry

  04-03-2019 21:03 via ft.com
  Mel Stride refuses to attend parliamentary hearing on controversial tax
  
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• Hammond faces reconciling a two-sided UK economy

  04-03-2019 20:17 via ft.com
  Job records smashed and public borrowing down despite weak growth and falling investment
  
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• Child sexual abuse inquiry to assess merit of claims against politicians

  04-03-2019 19:08
  Westminster strand of IICSA opens amid criticism of ‘moral panic’ and ‘witch-hunts’The public inquiry into child sexual abuse has come under pressure to establish whether or not allegations against senior politicians are well founded, as its attention turns to the world of politics.Opening the Westminster strand of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) on Monday amid claims of “witch-hunts” and “moral panic”, the counsel for the i
  
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• Javid floats plan to make fighting violent crime statutory public health duty – as it happened

  04-03-2019 18:34
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenDowning Street lobby briefing - SummaryNo 10 hints government watering down its backstop demands from EUMinister admits £1.6bn for poor towns to be spent over next seven yearsAfternoon summary 5.29pm GMT [The future trade negotiation] is a much bigger task for London - for Whitehall and Westminster - than the negotiation we have just been through. It’s going to involve every department of state in depth from the
  
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• The world is in a bad way. Students need the skills to fix it | Tom Whyman

  04-03-2019 17:58
  A new ‘interdisciplinary university’ offering a polymath education could be a good idea. But it must go beyond glib and superficial solutionsAt a time when every week’s weird weather seems to bring fresh news of how manmade climate change could destroy everything we know and love, it seems almost trite to point out that the challenges we face as a society are vast and complex. Clearly, the next generation will need to be equipped to tackle them: but assuming that “tacklin
  
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• Ministers postpone bill debate to avoid likely defeat over tax havens

  04-03-2019 17:58
  MPs’ amendment would force crown dependencies to take action over money launderingMinisters have pulled a financial services bill from the House of Commons, fearing the government was almost certain to be defeated on an amendment requiring Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man to clamp down on money laundering.The Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell and Labour’s Margaret Hodge want the crown dependencies to introduce public share ownership records by December 2020, which the three territo
  
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• Brexiters are refusing to accept their victory

  04-03-2019 17:46 via ft.com
  Hardliners now pose the biggest threat to the UK leaving the EU
  
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• Fundraising drought suggests nerves over Brexit

  04-03-2019 17:38 via ft.com
  New UK bond deals drop 40% from last year while equity deals shrivel to zero
  
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• George Osborne’s policies took a wrecking ball to our public spaces – and our society | Suzanne Moore

  04-03-2019 17:35
  Shared civic spaces, such as libraries, make us all stakeholders in our community. But, since 2014/15, more than 12,000 public spaces have been sold, at what cost to our social fabric?What belongs to you and where do you belong? How do you know those things? More pertinently: how do you feel them? Where do you go that is a shared space with others and that in some vague way belongs to all of us and yet none of us individually? A car park, a library, a swimming pool, a community centre? Do you fe
  
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• Labour MPs scorn May’s towns plan as blatant Brexit ploy

  04-03-2019 17:29 via ft.com
  Critics say funds too small to make difference as PM hunts for support in meaningful vote
  
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• No link between knife crime and police cuts, says Theresa May

  04-03-2019 17:23
  Met police say they cannot ‘magic officers out of thin air’ to deal with rise in stabbings
  Theresa May has dismissed claims that an increase in police numbers will help solve knife crime, insisting there is “no direct correlation” between the two.Speaking after a spate of knife violence, the prime minister said she would tackle the root causes of the crisis. However, as police officers and politicians called for more help to deal with the problem, May said it was not a qu
  
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• Tory MPs express unease over £1.6bn boost for poorer towns

  04-03-2019 17:12
  Guaranteed extra spending worth only 58p per person in east and south-east of EnglandThe government has come under immediate pressure from its own MPs over a £1.6bn funding boost for deprived English towns, as it emerged the guaranteed spending in some regions would amount to as little as 58p per person per year.The so-called Stronger Towns Fund, announced overnight, is billed as a chance to assist left-behind communities, but has been disparaged as a crude attempt to bribe Labour MPs repr
  
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• Liz ‘the Truss’: truly a politician for our times | Zoe Williams

  04-03-2019 16:55
  This self-aggrandising, sub-Thatcherite, Ayn Randophile Tory represents the new Westminster at its Trumpian worstThe rumour is that Liz Truss likes to call herself “the Truss” while speaking to colleagues, a horrifying echo of when Sajid Javid started calling himself “the Saj”. Since there is no surer way to discredit a politician, indeed, human being, than to alert the public to their self-aggrandisement, it sounds almost too bad to be true. It might have been invented b
  
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• Insurers prepare to issue emergency motor papers

  04-03-2019 15:38 via ft.com
  Industry body to open offices at ports for green cards in event of no-deal Brexit
  
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• Labour supports trials of consumption rooms to cut drug deaths

  04-03-2019 15:18
  Party considers helping users get off streets to safer spaces with access to treatment Drug consumption rooms should be piloted in an effort to reduce the record number of drug-related deaths in the UK, the Labour party has said.DCRs are supervised medical facilities present in seven European countries where drug addicts can take illicitly obtained heroin and cocaine safely, as well as being directed to social, health and recovery services. There have been no recorded deaths in a DCR. Continue r
  
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• Charities face scrutiny over investment policies

  04-03-2019 15:02 via ft.com
  Trustees seek ruling on whether they must divest from fossil fuels, junk food and payday loans
  
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• May’s Brexit ‘bribes’ will not be enough

  04-03-2019 14:50 via ft.com
  PM announces £1.6bn fund to help struggling communities across England
  
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• Hinds insists apprenticeship reform is working

  04-03-2019 14:12 via ft.com
  Minister acknowledges employers’ frustrations, but says concerns are being addressed
  
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• May delays vote on crown dependency transparency rules

  04-03-2019 13:09 via ft.com
  Amendment called for ownership registers for companies in Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man
  
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• Anger greets May delay to vote on crown dependencies

  04-03-2019 13:09 via ft.com
  Amendment called for ownership registers for companies in Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man
  
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• The Prodigy's Keith Flint Dies, Aged 49

  04-03-2019 12:59
  
  Flint was one of the founding members of The Prodigy, after meeting his bandmates on the underground rave scene in 1990.
  
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• I'm Broken, Britain: Austerity strips you of everything in the end

  04-03-2019 09:22
  
  The latest in a heart-wrenching and unflinchingly honest column on austerity's impact on disability benefits.
  
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• How would a no-deal Brexit affect the UK economy?

  04-03-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Key sectors likely to be hit include ports, food products and services
  
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• Call for government to oversee vehicle charging zones

  04-03-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  Vehicle hire lobby group says drivers of petrol and diesel cars face being taxed twice
  
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• Brexit uncertainty drives insurers to waste time and money

  04-03-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  From contract transfers to green cards, expensive preparations may prove unnecessary
  
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• Measures proposed to stop employers misusing NDAs

  04-03-2019 01:01 via ft.com
  Plans include ensuring agreements cannot prevent people reporting crime
  
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