Politics

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Joe Biden says US has 'no closer ally' than UK as Sunak cracks Churchill gag
The Prime Minister and the US President sat down for talks - where they joked and laughed - in the White House's Oval Office ahead of a formal press conference
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Yvette Cooper urges rule change for Kevin Sinfield and Rob Burrow knighthoods
The Labour frontbencher has written to the Honours and Appointments Secretariat calling on officials to 'set aside any traditional timescales between honours' to honour the rugby league legends
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Fury at fresh badger slaughter as cull widened to stop population bouncing back
Campaigners reacted angrily to the issuing of "supplementary licences" authorising a new killing programme across swathes of the English countryside
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Sunak set to 'accept' Johnson's honours' list - who we know will get a gong
The ex-PM's controversial list of peerages and awards to allies and friends could finally be published within the next fortnight - despite calls for Mr Sunak to block the appointments
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UK's only Green Party MP Caroline Lucas to stand down at next general election
The former Green Party leader said her role in the Commons meant she had 'struggled to spend the time I want on accelerating crises' facing the planet
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Boris Johnson & Carrie hit by fresh Partygate claims for 'letting pal stay over'
The couple were reported to have hosted Carrie's pal Dixie Maloney - who is understood to have been helping plan their wedding - at Chequers in May 2021
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Peers urged to 'stand firm' in opposing cruel Tory 'sacking nurses bill'
The House of Lords will debate the controversial Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill which critics believe would see one in five workers lose the right to strik
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Public urged to share experiences of Covid crisis with public inquiry
Chairwoman of the inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett said the human stories will help shape her recommendations so the UK is better prepared in the future
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Rishi Sunak to meet boss of 'scary' US tech firm that wants jumbo NHS contract
The PM is to attend a baseball game in Washington DC with Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir which has been described as the 'scariest' of the American tech giants
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'Widening education gap exposed by lockdown is a time bomb waiting to detonate'
The divide between the haves and have nots at school is growing all the time - so it’s little wonder MPs have warned that some pupils are facing a 'lost decade' of progress if action isn’t taken
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Dog attacks left 1,700 children in hospital last year as calls grow for action
Experts warned parents all dogs can bite, as they predict a spike in attacks in the summer holidays amid Mirror campaign for law-change
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Rishi Sunak denies he's embarrassed about Covid Inquiry seeing his WhatsApps
The PM denied he's trying to stop WhatsApps being handed over due to embarrassment of what they might contain yet the Cabinet Office is going to court to challenge the inquiry's request for unredacted messages
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Rishi Sunak claims voters don't mind him splashing cash on private flights
The Prime Minister has developed a taste for jetting around the UK on helicopters and planes, even when travelling short distances, such as 74-mile trip to Dover by chopper last week
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Calls grow to override stuffy honours protocol and knight rugby's Kevin Sinfield
MPs and peers have joined the crusade to make the fundraising hero and ex-rugby league star a Sir, along with his best friend Rob Burrow
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'Media's dangerous portrayal of disability fakers has real-life consequences'
The view of disability presented is so black and white, you’re either 'fit and healthy' or you’re viewed as 'suffering' from a condition, miserable and constantly in pain
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Senior doctors could strike for two days next month after junior medics' walkout
If the strikes go ahead, consultants will provide Christmas Day cover, meaning they will continue to provide all emergency services but routine services will need to be paused
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Voters demand PM prioritise US trade deal - as he ditches promise to strike one
Polling seen by The Mirror shows the public want the UK to strike a trade deal with the US more than any other country as the PM prepares to meet Joe Biden
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Dis Life: 'Genocidal quantities died of Covid - two-thirds of them Disabled'
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wondered whether the vulnerability people felt would translate into better empathy for Disabled people. But it didn’t
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Carol Vorderman says 'disgraceful' Tories should be wiped out at next election
The former Countdown co-host called for tactical voting at the next election to punish the Tories - and said she would do 'everything I can to get them out of power'
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Kiss rocker Gene Simmons stuns MPs with visit to Parliament
The leather-clad rocker stunned MPs when he popped up in the House of Commons as a guest of hard-line DUP MP Ian Paisley, who took him on a private tour
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Inheritance tax should be scrapped, say Mirror readers
We asked for your opinions in the wake of Tory millionaire Nadhim Zahawi leading the charge to get the controversial levy axed.
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Deputy PM rejects call to engage with £1,600 universal basic income trial
The government rejected a call to engage with the first trial of a universal basic income scheme in England despite growing threats to workplace environments - including artificial intelligence
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Whitehall and Downing Street reopen after suspicious package security alert
Officials at the Cabinet Office were briefly evacuated while police investigated a suspicious package on Whitehall
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Labour on track for 140-seat landslide election victory, mega-poll suggests
Keir Starmer’s party would scoop 470 seats to just 129 for the Tories and 26 for the SNP if a general election was held tomorrow, according to large-scale research
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Nancy Pelosi, 83, shows Sunak how it’s done as he wimps out of baseball throw
The former speaker of the US House of Representatives was cheered as she threw the first pitch at a baseball game after Rishi Sunak turned down the invitation during his trip to the US