Politics

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Older people to get free care so they can stay in own homes under Lib Dem plan
On the eve of the Liberal Democrat conference, Sir Ed told The Mirror the policy would help people in England struggling with 'really high costs' of social care
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Demand for free period products to be provided in GPs, refuges and food banks
An estimated 2.8million women and girls are living in period poverty, which is a lack of access to sanitary products and menstrual hygiene education or facilities
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Let us know if you think A-levels should be scrapped - vote in our poll
A-level qualifications will be scrapped and replaced with a new system called the Advanced British Standard (ABS) under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's proposed plans
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Labour promises 'Liz Truss law' to stop repeat of mini-Budget carnage
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged that a Labour government would ensure the budget watchdog cannot be 'gagged' as Liz Truss tried after her mini-Budget a year ago
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Bloody truth: Nuclear veterans sign up to join new legal fight against the MoD
More than 100 survivors and families have backed a new lawsuit against the MoD over missing medical records
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Question Time audience member says people on £200,000 are 'struggling'
The man argued that rich people cannot afford green policies as he defended Rishi Sunak's climate U-turn in an exchange with Fiona Bruce on BBC One's Question Time
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A-levels set to be scrapped as pupils forced to study maths for longer
Rishi Sunak want to replace A-levels with a new British Baccalaureate that would see children study more subjects, but Labour has dismissed the idea as an 'undeliverable gimmick'
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'King Charles' message about supporting Ukraine could not have been more timely'
Charles deplored Russia’s 'horrifying' invasion of Ukraine, amid fears that if Donald Trump wins the presidential election next year he will pull the plug on US military support
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'Tory refusal to negotiate in NHS strikes shows they don't care about our lives'
I support the doctors but ordinary people are affected by strike paralysis, unlike Tory ministers who go private, says Paul Routledge
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Tories 'complicit' in trophy hunting ban delay that lets killers off the hook
The Mirror-backed Hunting Trophies Bill is intended to stop British big game hunters bringing home body parts of animals, including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears
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David Lammy promises 'fundamental' shake-up of Brexit deal if Labour gets power
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned that Britain has been 'missing on the world stage' as he spoke to the Mirror in Washington DC where he will meet White House officials
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John Bercow will star in TV show The Traitors with Love Island's Ekin-Su
Former Commons Speaker John Bercow will be a contestant on the US version of The Traitors alongside Love Island winner Ekin-Su. He was shamed in a bullying report last year
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Tories choose former Russian government lobbyist as election candidate
The Conservative Party has chosen Nigel Gardner to run for the new Harpenden and Berkhamsted seat which has been created due to boundary changes at the next election
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Rishi Sunak accused of breaking ministerial code over climate speech
Ministers aren't allowed to use publicly-funded resources to spread political messages - like the slogan that appears both on the PM's lectern and the Tory party conference guide
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800,000 jobs put at risk by Rishi Sunak's climate chaos as Britain falls behind
The TUC warned Britain’s manufacturing heartlands are losing out because of Rishi Sunak's 'incoherent' and 'reckless' strategy after the PM announced a bonfire of climate plans
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Thousands demand a second Brexit referendum in new poll
Leaving the European Union has hardly been a success so far - which is why thousands of you want another shot at rejoining. "A lot of people were duped on the initial Brexit and are very unhappy about it", says one disgruntled Mirror reader
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Blast furnace wind down at Tata Port Talbot to start 'within months'
Talks have taken place between company executives and unions involved at Britain's biggest steelworks, where 3,000 jobs are due to go under a switch to electric arc furnaces
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Angry Tories tear chunks out of each other over fortunes in eco plan civil war
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch took aim at ex-minister Lord Goldsmith after he argued the country needs a general election following Rishi Sunak’s climate policy bonfire
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Should Liz Truss have access to the post-Prime Ministerial allowance - poll
Liz Truss has claimed around £23,000 from her post-Prime Ministerial allowance just five months after resigning from office. Should she have access to the public-fund award?
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No Rishi Sunak, you didn't 'scrap' meat tax, 7 bins and compulsory car sharing
The Prime Minister claimed that he was getting rid of "heavy handed" measures as he rolled back on green policies - but one of his own MPs said "nobody serious" was talking about them
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Tory donor whose firm got £160million in Covid contracts handed top trade job
David Meller was chair of sex pest scandal charity the Presidents Club. The businessman, who has donated nearly £70,000 to the Tories, has been appointed to the Board of Trade
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'The MoD is denying nuclear test veterans and their families the truth'
Surviving veterans are convinced exposure to radiation left them, and in some cases their descendants, with life-changing conditions such as myeloma and leukaemia
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'There is no future for our children without protections Rishi Sunak scrapped'
The Prime Minister has drastically reduced our country’s climate and environmental protections, saying green changes are too expensive for people during a cost of living crisis
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Rishi Sunak's green U-turn 'will put thousands of jobs at risk and hit bills'
The PM has pushed back a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2035, and he delayed the phase-out of gas boilers as critics line up to slam the move
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Rishi Sunak backtracks on cars and green policies amid Tory backlash
Rishi Sunak was branded "desperate and directionless" after tearing up green policies in a move which has opened up a fresh Conservative Party civil war