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  13-12-2017 14:47
  Remember that feeling of counting down the days to your next birthday as child? How that three quarters at the end of ‘8 and three quarters’ meant so much?. If you’ve got siblings, the age difference can feel like the defining factor in access to late nights, not tidying your room and other “grown up things”. But at some point there’s a change where we become a bit more vague about our age. The number that we were once so proud of defining us at the start, the
  
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• Channel Tunnel freight trains to restart after London depot deal

  25-02-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  Network Rail will take control of Barking site that could replace the equivalent of more than 100,000 lorries from UK roads
  
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• Reeves aims to reassure business with ‘boring’ Spring Statement

  24-02-2026 20:00 via ft.com
  UK chancellor will argue that her plan is starting to bear fruit
  
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• Government policies have fuelled youth unemployment, Bank of England says

  24-02-2026 19:53 via ft.com
  Increases to minimum wage rates and payroll tax ‘have had a particular effect on young people’, chief economist says
  
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• Mandelson's lawyers deny he was planning to flee abroad

  24-02-2026 19:36 via ft.com
  Statement comes after former cabinet minister arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
  
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• Northern Ireland faces funding crunch despite latest UK bailout

  24-02-2026 18:33 via ft.com
  Precarious finances highlighted as most parties reject draft multiyear budget plan
  
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• Reform UK plans to use £500bn of council pension assets to invest in British businesses

  24-02-2026 18:31 via ft.com
  Deputy leader hails ‘huge opportunity’ to create sovereign wealth fund, but experts give sceptical response
  
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• MPs back release of files about hiring of former prince as UK trade envoy

  24-02-2026 16:15 via ft.com
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor denounced in House of Commons as ‘rude, arrogant and entitled’ man
  
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• Government backs release of documents around hiring of former prince Andrew as trade envoy

  24-02-2026 16:15 via ft.com
  Lib Dems use parliamentary device to push for release of files relating to his appointment in 2001
  
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• Criminal cases set to rise until 2030 despite abolition of jury trials

  24-02-2026 15:35 via ft.com
  Justice secretary David Lammy defends proposals to shake up court system in England and Wales
  
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• Criminal cases in England set to rise until 2030 despite abolition of jury trials

  24-02-2026 15:35 via ft.com
  Justice secretary David Lammy defends proposals to shake up court system
  
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• Court backlogs won’t fall to pre-Covid levels for a decade despite axing juries

  24-02-2026 15:35 via ft.com
  Justice secretary David Lammy defends proposals to shake up court system
  
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• Reform UK plans to use £500bn assets of council pensions to invest in British businesses

  24-02-2026 15:23 via ft.com
  Deputy leader hails ‘huge opportunity’ to create sovereign wealth fund, but experts give sceptical response
  
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• Russian ‘illicit oil traders’ exposed by email blunder placed under UK sanctions

  24-02-2026 13:25 via ft.com
  Apparent network of energy companies’ vast reach revealed by FT
  
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• Labour fights for its soul in Manchester

  24-02-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Party’s historic power in Gorton and Denton will not stop towns of ‘underpromised ambition’ from demanding change
  
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• Lib Dems push for full disclosure around hiring of former prince Andrew as trade envoy

  24-02-2026 09:58 via ft.com
  Party will use parliamentary device to push for release of files relating to his appointment in 2001
  
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• Mandelson released after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office

  24-02-2026 08:20 via ft.com
  UK peer under investigation after relationship with Jeffrey Epstein revealed in US justice department documents
  
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• What has Reform learnt from its first taste of power?

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  After grabbing hundreds of local council seats from Labour and the Conservatives, the populist party has faced a reality check
  
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• UK PR executive left role after US embassy raised concerns over online posts

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Gavin Megaw’s exit from Hanover followed complaint by embassy to American Pharmaceutical Group
  
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• UK government accused of shelving fraud report

  24-02-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Recommendations in independent review include doubling the maximum sentence to 20 years
  
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• Lord Mandelson arrest - how did we get here?

  24-02-2026 04:02 via bbc.com
  It comes after the ex-Labour minister was accused of passing sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Lord Mandelson released on bail after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office

  24-02-2026 03:25 via bbc.com
  The Metropolitan Police says a 72-year-old man has been released on bail pending further investigation.
  
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• Reform vows to overhaul pension schemes for new local government workers

  23-02-2026 23:14 via bbc.com
  Reform plans to end more generous defined benefit pension schemes for new local government workers if it wins office
  
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• Schools budget to get £3.5bn top-up for special needs education in England

  23-02-2026 20:19 via ft.com
  Bridget Phillipson unveils plan to improve Send provision, promising more money alongside contentious reforms
  
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• ‘Labour are now irrelevant here’: Greens eye Manchester by-election victory

  23-02-2026 19:53 via ft.com
  Party led by Zack Polanski is bookmakers’ odds-on favourite to win Gorton and Denton on Thursday
  
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• UK says 'nothing is off the table' in response to US tariffs

  23-02-2026 19:34 via bbc.com
  Downing Street says discussions are ongoing following US President Donald Trump's announcement of a 15% global tariffs.
  
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• Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

  23-02-2026 19:08 via ft.com
  Move comes after details of peer’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein revealed in US justice department documents
  
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• Watch: Peter Mandelson led away by police from Camden home

  23-02-2026 18:56 via bbc.com
  The Metropolitan Police said a 72-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
  
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• Starmer’s ethics adviser to investigate minister over probe into journalists

  23-02-2026 18:08 via ft.com
  Josh Simons accused of hiring public affairs company to discover sources of leaks when he ran Labour Together
  
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• PM orders ethics investigation into minister over Labour Together claims

  23-02-2026 18:03 via bbc.com
  Josh Simons ran the think tank when it commissioned a report which investigated the background of a journalist.
  
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