Politics

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'There's no place in politics for this abusive Tory but Labour can't ignore him'
Keir Mudie says he is worried as the Labour Party appears to be quiet after the latest comment made by Tory MP Lee Anderson as staffers think his views are too extreme to engage with
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'Tories must get to grips with asylum backlog and end the small boats nightmare'
Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister Stephen Kinnock writes for The Mirror as a horrifying new Channel tragedy saw six die on a small boat and amid chaos in the Tories' policies toward asylum seekers
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Tories refuse to disclose cost of failed legal fight with Covid Inquiry
Labour demanded Rishi Sunak’s government 'come clean about the shameful waste' of public money blown on the attempt to block the unredacted release of the ex-PM's messages
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Ban cruel snares used to kill animals as Glorious Twelfth starts shooting season
Campaigners at the League Against Cruel Sports wants the devices outlawed - but supporters say they help protect birds from predators such as foxes and other wildlife
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'The Tories have a tighter grip on ineptitude than they have on immigration'
A further 1,000 people arrived in boats this week, taking the total to have crossed since 2018 to more than 100,000 - this is what happens if you prioritise gimmicks and bombast
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Jeremy Hunt's brother Charlie, 53, dies of cancer
Charlie Hunt has passed away at the age of 53 after being diagnosed with sarcoma - a form of cancer - last week. Brother and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt spoke of the diagnosis in an interview last month
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'Matt Hancock’s insensitive Barbie TikTok stunt is way beyond my Ken'
Imagine how those who lost loved ones in the pandemic felt after seeing former health secretary Matt Hancock's new attempt to rebrand himself as a lovable, wacky man of the people
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Keir Starmer interrupts holiday to help find lost dog in Lake District
Labour leader Keir Starmer handed out posters after Chilli, a crossbred retriever and springer spaniel owned by his friends, went missing for several days after falling 360ft off a cliff
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Hypocrite Tory minister tries to stop railway ticket office closures in own town
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick has slammed the proposal to shut ticket offices at his local railway stations despite it being pushed through by his own Government
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Disability campaigners hit out at DWP 'delay tactics' over claimant deaths
'The government knows that they might have blood on their hands, so are determined to stop this from being uncovered in any way possible', writes RACHEL CHARLTON-DAILEY
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'Rishi Sunak's setting the world alight - another millionaire with a helicopter'
The helicopter-loving Prime Minister has his head so far up in the clouds he can't see the migrants giving him a headache are fleeing the climate crisis he's fuelling, says Fleet Street Fox
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Deadly bacteria outbreak forces all migrants to leave barge after just four days
The Home Office sent asylum seekers onto the Bibby Stockholm barge moored at Portland in Dorset despite knowing Legionella bacteria had been discovered in the water supply
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Junior doctors join picket lines less than a fortnight after starting NHS jobs
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted there will be no negotiations on pay for medics in England as it emerged the bitter dispute has already cost the NHS £1billion
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Asylum seeker with TB told to move onto migrant barge, as crossings hit 100,000
A doctor treating the tuberculosis patient warned of a 'public health catastrophe' as the Home Office came under pressure to explain why it's not managed to stop Channel crossings
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Private jet addict Rishi Sunak takes more VIP flights around UK than any PM
The PM has taken a domestic private plane or helicopter flight every eight days during his time as PM fuelling criticism that he's wasting taxpayer cash and damaging environment
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Nadine Dorries told to ‘get on with it’ as it’s 9 weeks since vow to quit as MP
The Tory former minister announced on June 9 she was quitting with 'immediate effect' after she was snubbed for a peerage, but she still hasn’t resigned as MP for Mid Bedfordshire
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Junior doctors confirm exactly how much they earn as strikes loom
British Medical Association (BMA) said, earlier this year, members would be better off serving coffee than treating patients, but the government disputed this claim
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Tory minister defends eco chief over £70,000 of secret shares in oil firm
Chief Secretary to the Treasury John Glen defended Theresa Villiers after the Mirror revealed she didn't declare she had over £70,000 of shares in Shell while Environment Secretary
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Rich Premier League clubs should pay for stadium inspections, say skint councils
As the football season kicks off tonight with Burnley v Manchester City, local council bosses have demanded that top clubs foot the bill for safety checks instead of taxpayers
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Football's winning message to Keir Starmer - don't be haunted by past nightmares
In their quiet patriotism, the Lionesses tell us something good and brave about our national story – about togetherness, resilience and hard slog - and they've had decades of hurt
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'We are ignoring a tried and tested way to ease the migrant crisis'
Paul Routledge says we need better ideas in order to house migrants in the short term... and there are smarter ways to spend the £2billion currently going on hotel bedrooms
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Top Tory had over £70,000 of shares in oil giant while Environment Secretary
The Mirror can reveal that Theresa Villiers owned large shareholdings in several firms for up to five years without declaring them, including when she was a Cabinet minister
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Over 20,000 families kicked out of homes since Tories pledged to ban evictions
Households being kicked out of their homes because of no-fault evictions increased by 41% last year as the Tories fail to follow through on their 2019 promise to ban them
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Military to use 'Dad's Army' of older troops as it fails to recruit youngsters
Tory Defence Minister Andrew Murrison revealed plans for a more 'flexible' approach to the workforce including raising age caps and hiring more neurodiverse people
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Lee Anderson earns same as weekly family food shop every minute on GB News
The Conservative Deputy Chairman is raking in an extra £100,000 a year by moonlighting on the controversial TV channel despite previously ranting about MP second jobs