All news on the topic: Politics

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Peer who fled Nazis says PM should sack Lee Anderson after asylum seeker rant
Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child as part of the Kindertransport, said the comments from the Conservatives' Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson were 'unworthy' of a politician
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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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Woman suffers stillbirth after being ordered to keep working during labour
Salia Issa was working at a Texas prison when she began suffering intense pain while seven months pregnant, but has said she was accused of lying and stopped from going to hospital for more than two hours
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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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Boy, 3, dies as security call 911 on asylum-seeker bus headed to major US city
The three-year-old boy was on a Texas migrant bus en route to Chicago when he became unwell with paramedics treating him at the scene before taking him to hospital where he later died
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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Ecuadorian presidential candidate's 11-word message for cartel who killed him
Anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed at a political rally in Ecuador on Wednesday - and had previously told an infamous drugs cartel boss that he 'wasn't scared'
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Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mum demands killers be forced into court after trial farce
The mother of murdered Olivia Paratt-Korbel, who was fatally shot in her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, has demanded the Government force the accused to turn up to sentencing hearings
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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
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Gordon Brown says Taliban treatment of women and girls is crime against humanity
The former Prime Minister wants the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute the matter as the two-year anniversary approaches of the fall of Kabul
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NHS waiting list hits record 7.6million with 380,000 patients waiting over year
Health Secretary Steve Barclay is accused of not being 'up to the job' as NHS waiting lists hit the highest figure since records began as junior doctors prepare to strike again
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Vengeful Tory peer could back Labour over climate change policies
Ex-Environment Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith quit the Government in June with a brutal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - and said he could support Keir Starmer's party