All news by author: Sam Blewett

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Labour refuses to say if it still supports £28bn green investment pledge
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has repeatedly refused to set out whether she is standing by her commitment to spend £28 billion a year on green investment
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MP claims Tory slapped him on head and called him a 'b*****d' in Commons bust-up
Andrew Bridgen, who joined the Reclaim Party after being kicked out of the Conservatives, demanded that Tory Crispin Blunt apologises over the disagreement in Parliament
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Rishi Sunak weighs up watering down climate change plans as Europe burns
The Prime Minister faces pressure from the Tory right to row back on Net Zero pledges - but Friends of the Earth say doing so under political pressure would be "inexcusable" as wildfires tear through Europe, America, and Asia
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Lee Anderson had row with expelled Tory and dad of Game of Thrones star
Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson told ex-Tory councillor Sebastian Leslie to 'come outside and we'll sort it out' in row about MP Andrew Bridgen being kicked out of the party for comparing Covid jabs to the Holocaust
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Nearly six in ten voters think politicians don't show enough compassion
Data from YouGov reveals 57% believe leading politicians should show more compassion, compared with 9% who say they are already too compassionate
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Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban small boat migrants from claiming asylum ‘unworkable'
Suella Braverman and the Prime Minister will on Tuesday unveil their plans to remove and ban asylum seekers from re-entry if they arrive in the UK through unauthorised means
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Braverman accused of 'dangerously flirting with ideologues' over Windrush
Actor David Harewood today said the decision to drop three key reforms brought in following the Windrush scandal was 'awful', while Baroness Floella Benjamin said the move would cause 'even more pain and hurt'
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Mega-rich Tory Nadhim Zahawi 'agrees to pay 30% penalty' to settle tax dispute
Reports emerged today claiming that Mr Zahawi agreed to settle a £3.7 million sum with an additional 30% penalty - with an expert suggesting this means he admitted carelessness