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Sunak to meet Joe Biden in White House - but post-Brexit trade deal off table
Rishi Sunak is expected to discuss the economy and support for Ukraine with Joe Biden on a visit to Washington next week - but a transatlantic trade deal is not likely to be on the table
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Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages are 'missing' - as mystery deepens
Ministers could be set for a legal battle with the Covid-19 inquiry over the requested release of unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries belonging to Boris Johnson.
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Next pandemic could be 50 times deadlier than Covid, top scientists warn
American virologist Dr Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, feared his grandchildren would be faced with an even bigger crisis
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Letters: 'Suella Braverman is a liability to the government'
Mirror reader Andrew Milroy says Suella Braverman consistently makes poor judgements and is a liability to the government. But do YOU agree?
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Labour plots move to stop councils paying 275 times more than land's value
Labour is drawing up plans to stop councils making compulsory purchase orders for sites that could become housing from having to pay a "hope value" - which sees prices skyrocket
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Firms to be banned from giving kids vape samples to get them hooked on e-cigs
The Government announced a crackdown amid growing fears over the health impact on children targeted by colourful, flavoured devices seasoned smokers use to quit
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Wallace and Gromit's Shaun the Sheep recruited to help kids respect nature
The popular character from the animated films will be the face of a new campaign to teach children how to behave outdoors and follow the Countryside Code
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'Anything less than full co-operation from PM is an insult to pandemic victims'
Setting up a Covid public inquiry before denying it information smacks of sparing political blushes by Rishi Sunak who should instruct the Cabinet Office to hand over whatever it wants
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Tories 'murdered' manufacturing, says union leader amid fury at missing plan
MPs and unions today blasted the lack of an industrial strategy from the Government as fears grow about the impact on a series of firms and the wider economy
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Anger at 'ridiculous' Met police plan to curb mental health 999 visits
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner is set to ban police officers in his force from attending thousands of calls they get every year to deal with mental health incidents
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Ministers down to wire as deadline to release Johnson's Covid WhatsApps looms
The row comes after the Cabinet Office handed extracts from Boris Johnson's prime ministerial diaries which showed potential lockdown breaches to the police without telling him
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Hitting UK's richest 350 with 2% wealth tax 'would generate £16bn for Treasury'
Researchers have calculated how much cash could be injected into the Treasury if a wealth tax was applied to the richest people in the country
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'Keir Starmer should put free school meals for all pupils in Labour's manifesto'
Sharon Hodgson, an MP in North East England, recalls the stigma of queueing for free dinners. But this is about more than ending any stigma for the one-in-five who receive them
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'Chancellor looks relaxed as higher interest rates push Britain into recession'
Kevin Maguire writes that Jeremy Hunt is relaxed about plunging Britain into recession - no wonder Labour and Keir Starmer are enjoying healthy double-digit poll leads
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Vulnerable households have just days left to apply for £400 energy bills support
The Mirror can reveal two months after applications opened in March, just 13% of eligible families had applied. Now, there are just days left to apply - or households risk losing out on support
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Labour MP who knows free school meals stigma urges Keir Starmer to extend them
Sharon Hodgson, who was the Labour leader’s Commons aide until only a few months ago, threw her weight behind the Mirror’s campaign for universal free school meals in primary schools
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Russian ambassador 'offended' by questions threatens to end TV interview
Moscow's man in London repeatedly clashed with BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg as she grilled him about his country's invasion of Ukraine
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Tributes paid to miners' leader and Tower Colliery hero Tyrone O'Sullivan, 77
He spearheaded a buyout of the Cynon Valley pit and the 239 staff marched back to work in January 1995 in a triumph for staff at the South Wales coal pit
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Tories claim hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on expenses sparking fury
Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was 'scandalous', adding that MPs should have to pay their fines 'like the rest of us'
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Tory Health Secretary confronted by junior doctor on TV as 72-hour strike looms
The British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee co-chair Vivek Trivedi challenged the Tory minister after he suggested doctors were being unreasonable
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Desperate Sunak plans supermarket price cap on basic foods like bread and milk
No10 is planning to make a deal with supermarkets as it becomes increasingly worried the cost-of-living crisis gripping Britain could derail the Tories’ slim hopes of winning the next general election
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Cherie Blair's charity linked to firm sanctioned for 'supporting Russia'
Dubai-based John Desmond Hanafin is accused of facilitating movement of Russian cash into the UAE via Huriya, which funds 50 mentoring scholarships for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
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Sadiq Khan says heart attack scare made him understand that 'time is finite'
The Mayor of London said that after suffering a suspected heart attack on stage, he is more determined than ever to act on the environment – not least because of his kids
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'This explosion of infighting will only get nastier as the Tories collapse'
For a long time, Labour’s strategy has been to sit back and watch it happen. I’m not a fan of this but it is increasingly hard to argue with
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'Suella Braverman missed a valuable lesson by swerving speed awareness course'
Rachael Bletchly says sitting through a public speed awareness course may have made Home Secretary Suella Braverman a more thoughtful politician as well as a safer drive