Politics

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Rishi Sunak trying to 'fundamentally change reality' with Rwanda 'fiction'
Tyrone Steele, interim legal director at law charity Justice, said Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda Bill "has tried to fundamentally change reality" - amid warnings it won't tackle a huge asylum backlog
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Ex-Tory minister pleads for UK to engage with Taliban amid 'another 9/11' fear
Tobias Ellwood said that the majority of Taliban members aren't fundamentalists, claiming many join the group for social and tribal reasons
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Tories gave Paula Vennells £17,500 Government job despite Post Office scandal
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was 'mistake' that ministers did not remove Paula Vennells from her role on the board of the Cabinet Office sooner
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HS2 bill shoots up by billions as Birmingham leg costs four times more than said
HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'
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Wrongly convicted Post Office workers will be cleared under new law, Sunak says
Rishi Sunak made the long-awaited announcement at Prime Minister's Questions after a public outcry in the wake of the ITV drama 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office'
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Tory Minister blasted over 'Government give up' in TV clash with ex-postmaster
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake sparked anger after he said it's not right for people to "make up their minds based on a dramatisation" as he was confronted by former Post Office workers who were victims of the Horizon scandal
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Carol Vorderman backs petition for Post Office hero Alan Bates to get an honour
Television star Carol Vorderman, who is the presenter of the Pride of Britain Awards, is leading calls for 'tenacious' campaigner Alan Bates to receive at least a CBE
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Give Alan Bates an honour for exposing Post Office scandal - sign petition here
Thousands of people have signed our petition demanding that former postmaster Alan Bates get a knighthood or CBE for his decades-long fight to expose the Post Office scandal
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Rishi Sunak faces Commons showdown on Rwanda scheme as Tory right-wingers revolt
At least nine former Cabinet ministers, including Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, are seeking to amend the Rwanda Bill during crunch debates next week
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Ex-Post Office boss Paula Vennells could be made to return bonus, minister says
Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake admitted it was a mistake to award Paula Vennells a CBE in 2019, despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart by the greatest miscarriage of justice in British history
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Fujitsu still gets contracts worth £100m-a-year despite Post Office scandal
Since 2012 – more than a decade after the Post Office accounting scandal began – the public sector has awarded Fujitsu almost 200 contracts worth £6.8billion in total, analyst says
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Top Tory mocked for saying baby's teeth start growing 18 months before birth
Dame Andrea Leadsom made the baffling remark during a debate on the chronic shortage of NHS dentists, with MPs told Taylor Swift tickets are easier to get than an appointment
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Tories vote to keep Rwanda costs secret as Labour asks what they're hiding
Labour Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper estimated that the Government has pledged almost £400million to Rwanda, with additional payments of around £200,000 per person sent there
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Alan Bates must get honour now ex-Post Office boss has given up CBE, MPs say
The ex-postmaster Alan Bates who led the decades-long fight to expose the scandal previously said he would not accept an award while former Post Office boss Paula Vennells had a CBE
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David Cameron refuses to say if two British hostages still in Gaza are alive
In a two-hour long grilling by MPs, Foreign Secretary David Cameron said he was 'worried' Israel might have breached international law in the Middle East conflict
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Fujitsu should stop getting taxpayer millions after Post Office scandal, say MPs
Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is still being allowed to bid for lucrative Government work even after its faulty Horizon software led to innocent postmasters being sent to jail
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Cheap holidays and birthdays not excuse to skip school, warns Bridget Phillipson
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said it was a 'mark of disrespect' for kids to miss class for no good reason and warned it harms their life chances and disrupts other children's learning
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Rishi Sunak's wife gives up childcare shares after PM conflict of interest row
Akshata Murty has donated her stake in Koru Kids to charity months after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued a humiliating apology for not telling MPs about her shares
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Ex-Post Office boss Vennells will hand back CBE after 1.2million sign petition
The former Post Office boss Paula Vennells was awarded a CBE in 2019 to services to the organisation despite hundreds of workers' lives being torn apart over the Horizon IT scandal
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Over 200,000 demand general election now as 'squatter' Rishi Sunak puts off vote
Tens of thousands of people have signed the Mirror's petition calling for a general election now to allow voters deliver their verdict on the last few years of Tory chaos
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Sadiq Khan will roll out free school meals for all primary kids for second year
London Mayor Sadiq Khan unveiled £140 million plans to extend universal free school meals for the 2024/25 school year, after piloting the approach in state-funded primaries across the Capital from September
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'No child should suffer the indignity, pain and disadvantage of hunger'
London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals he will fund 'lifeline' universal free school meals for primary pupils for another year after a pilot in the Capital's schools
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Landlords face crackdown over dangerous damp and mould under Awaab's Law
The Housing Secretary Michael Gove said the law will force landlords to fix homes 'within strict new time limits and take immediate action to tackle dangerous damp and mould to help prevent future tragedies'
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'School attendance crisis a legacy of not just Covid but a decade of austerity'
'Children’s attendance suffers if parents cannot afford transport to school, properly fitting uniforms or learning materials, or they have unsuitable living arrangements,' writes NAHT General Secretary Paul Whiteman
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Parents to register home-schooled kids under Labour plan to curb absence crisis
Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson vowed to crack down on long term absence after the number of children repeatedly missing class shot up following the pandemic