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• Shadow minister and five Labour PPSs resign to defy whip over Brexit – as it happened

  13-06-2018 22:43 via theguardian.com
  PMQs verdict: resilient May sees off Corbyn’s attempts at ridicule
  How MPs are voting on the EU withdrawal bill amendments – at a glanceHighlights from EU withdrawal bill debateAfternoon summary 9.40pm BST9.31pm BST The government won the eighth vote, removing the Lords amendment on environmental protection, by 320 votes to 296 - a majority of 24.An alternative government amendment on environmental protection went through on the nod. Continue reading...
  
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• UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites

  24-08-2026 20:16 via theguardian.com
  London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructureAI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv.Private companies will also be given access to the vast trove of data from Ukraine’s Avengers AI lab to help build new systems, the first agreement of its kind in the UK. Contin
  
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• Reform would evict social housing tenants over unkempt gardens

  24-08-2026 19:40 via theguardian.com
  Plan part of a wider policy to remove foreign nationals from social homes and prioritise young British-born couplesSocial housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform UK government, the party has announced.Lee Anderson, the party’s chair, said that if Reform came to power it would insist that those in social rented homes would be required to keep their properties decorated and gardens looked after. Continue reading...
  
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• Burnham rules out early election as he admits UK faces ‘challenging’ financial outlook

  24-08-2026 19:24 via ft.com
  Prime minister stops short of ruling out tax increases in October’s Budget, saying his policies will be ‘funded’
  
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• UK seeks to tighten security of supply chains after Iran-linked cyber attack

  24-08-2026 19:13 via ft.com
  Potential veto poses challenge for energy companies reliant on Chinese supplies
  
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• Burnham says UK with Ukraine ‘all the way’ despite ‘outrageous threats’ from Russia – Europe live

  24-08-2026 18:46 via theguardian.com
  Coalition of the Willing condemns Russian strikes on Ukraine, pledges to work on ‘constraining Russia’s war chest’Here’s the full quote from Kremlin’s Peskov, via AFP:“Britain is methodically and regularly throwing oil on the fire and methodically and regularly plotting schemes to prevent even the slightest progress in the peace process.” Continue reading...
  
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• Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP

  24-08-2026 18:41 via theguardian.com
  Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory contentRupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain, is on course to earn as much from the social media platform X as he does from his salary as an MP, after surging income from posts that include demands for mass deportations.Lowe has earned £932 an hour for his posts on X, formerly Twitter, since the start of the year, according to his own declarations in the regi
  
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• Burnham hands secret missile technology to Ukraine – The Latest

  24-08-2026 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Andy Burnham is making his first foreign visit as prime minister to Ukraine, marking the country’s independence day. Burnham will use the trip to announce that the UK government will declassify information about missiles to help Ukraine build its own. Lucy Hough speaks to senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTubeLuke’s new book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest is out on Thursday Continue reading...
  
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• How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start | Polly Toynbee

  24-08-2026 17:31 via theguardian.com
  Michael Gove calls the axing of his Tory strategy ‘bringing back stupid’. He doesn’t seem to care that it did more harm than good GCSE results day was marked with the usual front pages filled with pictures of beaming students. What you didn’t see was the invisible third of 16-year-olds in England who failed their maths and English GCSEs, the obstacle to their future.That’s 360,000 failed in a system designed by Michael Gove as education minister to mark out winners
  
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• No 10 says glorification of dangerous driving ‘for clips and entertainment is utterly disgraceful’ – UK politics live

  24-08-2026 16:58 via theguardian.com
  Downing Street repeats calls for social media platforms to review content and policies as companies urged to uphold legal dutiesLee Anderson, the Reform UK MP for Ashfield, is first up to speak. He says young people in his constituency – and in many areas across the country – have “absolutely no chance” of securing council housing or social housing. He says that Reform’s government would “put British people first” in a housing system he characterises as
  
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• Survivors of violent crime criticise MoJ for not explaining offender restriction zones

  24-08-2026 15:48 via theguardian.com
  Campaigners accuse ministers of trying to grab headlines with announcement before a working system is readySurvivors of violent crime and families of victims have criticised the UK government for announcing “world first” plans to introduce restriction zones for serious offenders freed from prison within a few weeks without spelling out how they would work.Key campaigners who have championed the idea of the zones, designed to “lock” offenders into specific areas, accused t
  
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• Reform UK’s ‘Farage Fest’ went ahead without permission from council

  24-08-2026 15:02 via ft.com
  Organisers face potential enforcement after rally to celebrate leader’s Clacton by-election win was denied an events licence
  
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• Andy Burnham condemns Russia’s ‘outrageous threats’ to UK during Kyiv visit

  24-08-2026 13:01 via ft.com
  Prime minister pledges to back Ukraine on long-range missiles
  
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• Policing needs independence — but politicians must still set priorities

  24-08-2026 10:34 via ft.com
  Home secretaries have tended to delegate and forget policy decisions
  
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• Thames Water creditors would launch board shake-up if utility avoids nationalisation

  24-08-2026 08:35 via ft.com
  Move is aimed at reassuring government there would be a change of leadership under their ownership
  
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• Thames Water creditors plan board shake-up if utility avoids nationalisation

  24-08-2026 08:35 via ft.com
  Move aims to reassure government there would be a change of leadership under their ownership
  
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• Treasury brings in expert to review business rates for UK pubs and hotels

  24-08-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  Jerry Schurder will consult industry and report in time for recommendations to be implemented at next revaluation in 2029
  
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• Treasury asks ‘guru’ to review pubs and hotels’ claims of unfair taxes

  24-08-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  Jerry Schurder will consult industry and report in time for recommendations to be implemented at next revaluation in 2029
  
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• Burnham visits Ukraine with pledge of support for long-range missile construction

  24-08-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  UK prime minister will shrug off warnings from Russia in first overseas visit
  
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• Burnham to pledge support for long-range missile construction in Ukraine

  24-08-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  UK prime minister will shrug off warnings from Russia in first overseas visit
  
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• The Guardian view on Andy Burnham’s foreign policy: work in progress | Editorial

  23-08-2026 19:30 via theguardian.com
  The prime minister has focused on domestic affairs since coming to office. But at a time of global disruption, he will need to define Britain’s place in the worldA run of volatility in domestic British politics in recent years has tracked a period of global turbulence, and yet foreign policy over the same period has been an area of relative stability. What little is known about Andy Burnham’s approach to international relations expresses more continuity with Sir Keir Starmer’s
  
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• Starmer considered letting 100,000 young Europeans come to UK every year

  23-08-2026 16:24 via ft.com
  British officials reveal sweeping Brussels negotiating plan drawn up in former premier’s last days in office
  
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• The PM is promising to fix our everyday annoyances – and I have a list to get him started | Emma Beddington

  23-08-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Andy Burnham hopes we’ll forget the big stuff if he sorts out our minor frustrations and low-level gripes. Pothole politics hasn’t won me over yet, but I know some changes that couldThis is a vulnerable confession, but I spend way too much time on the social media of the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Whether he is seemingly effortlessly speaking Mandarin, hanging out with kids or charmingly accepting that he should wear a cycle helmet, the man with the million-watt smile is my
  
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• Healey’s first Budget is a chance for radical change

  23-08-2026 14:00 via ft.com
  Two good reasons why this chancellor has a better chance than I had of boosting public-sector productivity
  
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• Burnham to allow English mayors to ‘call in’ big local planning decisions

  23-08-2026 11:29 via ft.com
  Shake-up is intended to promote growth and take on ‘Nimby’ opposition to projects
  
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• When I first moved to Glasgow from India, I felt welcomed and included. Now I just feel scrutinised | Sanghmitra Singh

  23-08-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The city that used to be full of kind strangers is increasingly witnessing racist disorder. I hope it can find its way back to its old friendlinessScottish people have always been known for their friendliness. “We’re not like the south of us,” they say, referring to England. The official slogan of Scotland’s largest city, “People make Glasgow”, appears everywhere – on T-shirts, buildings, bus stops and mugs. And when I first moved to Scotland from India
  
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• ‘Pretty shambolic’: new EU border checks cause stress for UK travellers

  23-08-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Britons report that EES digital entry and exit system has led to frustration, visa mix-ups and long queuesOn top of fears about extreme heat and possible jet fuel shortages, Britons planning summer holidays in the EU this year had another thing to worry about – long queues and waiting times caused by the bloc’s new border checks.The EU digital entry and exit system (EES), which requires non-EU citizens to register and be photographed and fingerprinted on arrival and departure from th
  
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• Drill, Burnham, drill? The oil basin that is a totem for Trump – and a headache for Britain’s new PM

  23-08-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  North Sea oil, once the driving force of the UK economy, may be dwindling but it remains a symbol of prestige and a rich resource for political debateWhen oil was first discovered off the north-east coast of Scotland in September 1969, industry folklore has it that the duty superintendent on the rig carefully poured it into a pickle jar commandeered from the canteen and took it back to Amoco’s Great Yarmouth office in Norfolk. There, it was emptied into an ash tray, sniffed and then set al
  
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• Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?

  23-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches
  
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• ‘We fear lessons will not be learned’: Chloe Moffat’s parents on their fight to hold Treasury to account

  22-08-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Couple considering suing for wrongful death after coroner found disciplinary process materially contributed to suicideWhen a coroner ruled this month that the Treasury “materially contributed” to Chloe Moffat’s death, her parents breathed out in bittersweet relief. For a year, David and Anne Moffat had been forced to become detectives in the worst case any parent could have to solve: why their daughter took her own life.Chloe, 26, went to her job as a personal assistant at the
  
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