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Gove to let developers turn offices into flats to avoid row with rural NIMBYs
The Housing Secretary will tomorrow set out plans to make it easier for property developers to convert office blocks and shops into homes without applying for planning permission
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Labour must back people's priorities and ditch 'baggage' to win, says Starmer
Speaking at the party’s National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must “learn the lessons” from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge
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'Now no one can deny Keir Starmer has the steel to pull off mission impossible'
After our 2019 defeat, Labour was a shipwreck - but Keir has made the party seaworthy again, writes Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting
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Tories reward their voters with new hospitals as sites in Labour areas neglected
Shotley Bridge Hospital, in a Tory seat and part of the nearby County Durham and Darlington NHS trust, will have a newbuild by 2028 - but hospitals in Labour have been neglected
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Tory serves 'cocaine' to party guest on signed photograph of David Cameron
Philip Stephenson-Oliver was filmed watching as a pal appears to use a banknote to snort what is claimed to be cocaine in his bedroom at a house party on July 14 - before doing the same thing himself
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Rishi Sunak to be hauled before infected blood inquiry over compensation row
Bereaved relatives of victims will deliver a letter to Number 10 on Monday ahead of Mr Sunak’s evidence to demand action on setting up a body to administer full compensation
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Dame Kelly Holmes joins LGBT+ veterans in welcoming Rishi Sunak apology
The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace both made apologies in the House of Commons for the shameful treatment of troops under the military gay ban
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Rishi Sunak is mortgage free - and got 6 figure loan from parents for first flat
Despite claiming to understand the “challenges” families are facing with skyrocketing mortgage payments, this newspaper can reveal he does not have a mortgage on any of his multi-million pound UK properties
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Voters say last 8 years would have been less chaotic with Ed Miliband in charge
David Cameron's infamous warning has become a widely mocked harbinger of Britain descending into the banter timeline. And a new poll shows just 28% of voters believe the former PM was right in his prediction
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Tony Blair leads tributes as former Labour MP Ann Clwyd dies aged 86
Keir Starmer said: "A long standing Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Ann was a leading figure in the Labour Party, dedicating her life to our movement."
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Johnson's swimming pool plans on hold as councillors want archaeological dig
Parish councillors are calling for archaeologists to excavate land around Boris Johnson's Oxfordshire mansion – as its five-acre grounds are believed to have been the site of a 12th-century siege castle
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UB40 star says UK should take California's lead and legalise cannabis
Robin Campbell, of UB40 fame, has spoken to Mirror US about his hopes to see the UK follow in the footsteps of some American states and legalise cannabis.
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George's bond with Charlotte could be factor in him carrying key royal tradtiion
Prince George may have ot make a decision on where he goes to secondary school - and royal experts suggest his bond with his sister Princess Charlotte may be a deciding factor
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'If narrowly winning Uxbridge gives Rishi Sunak hope, he is a fool'
Voters in North Yorkshire and Somerset spoke for a nation deserving a fresh start in Westminster and Downing Street - many people have lost faith with the Tories
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'Keir Starmer needs to be bolder for Labour to seal winning deal'
This week's by-election results show there's no guarantee Labour would win a general election - so Keir Starmer needs to up his game
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Keir Starmer slams 'silly sod' Tory for comparing new MP to 'The Inbetweeners'
The Labour leader joked that Tory veterans minister Johnny Mercer will soon be 'history' after he mocked 25-year-old Keir Mather for being young as he won Selby and Ainsty by-election
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Rotten teeth capital of the UK: See where your area ranks
Figures shows there is a stark north-south divide in England when it comes to rotten teeth. You can see how your postcode area fared
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Boris Johnson's WhatsApps handed over as old phone unlocked after he forgot pin
The disgraced ex-PM previously had not been able to provide all his messages as he had forgotten the passcode to his old mobile phone
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Keir Starmer hails 'cry for change' as Tories decimated in two by-election seats
Keir Starmer said Labour's stunning by-election turnaround in Selby and Ainsty was a 'cry for change', as the Lib Dems seized Somerton and Frome but under-pressure Rishi Sunak narrowly scraped a win in Uxbridge and South Ruislip
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Olivia Pratt-Korbel's mother demands killers forced to face victims' families
Describing her daughter's killers as a 'coward' Cheryl Korbel said she wanted jailed Thomas Cashman to 'listen to the pain that he's caused, the pain that we went through and the pain we are still going through'
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Is Labour on course for a general election win - vote in our poll
Labour has made history by sweeping victory in Selby and Ainsty in a record breaking by-election result, but do YOU think the opposition party will win the next general election?
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Boris Johnson's Partygate defence cost taxpayer £265,000 in legal fees
Shamed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's legal costs were met by the public purse during the Commons Privileges Committee probe, which delivered a damning verdict on his Partygate denials
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Tory Johnny Mercer blasted for comparing new Labour MP to 'The Inbetweeners'
Labour's Keir Mather, 25, overturned a massive 20,000-strong Tory majority to seize Selby and Ainsty, in North Yorkshire - which will make him the youngest MP in Parliament
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'This isn't government, it's a surreality show with mouthy Tory MPs all over TV'
Paul Routledge says the opportunity for MPs to have second jobs is limitless, and he is horrified by the Tories on telly, boring the nation and spouting nonsense
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Brutal by-election losses for Tories as Labour and Lib Dems make historic gains
Rishi Sunak's Government was branded a 'circus of chaos' as the Tory vote collapsed in Somerton and Frome and Selby and Ainsty - while the PM came just 495 votes from a triple humiliation in Boris Johnson's old seat