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Campaigners' fury at 'delay' to LGBT veterans report that's 'shame upon the UK'
After a Sunday Mirror campaign, ministers ordered a review of the hardship suffered by veterans during and after their service as a result of the cruel ban
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Tories making Britain 'sick man of Europe' - with north hit twice as hard
Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary blamed record NHS waiting times and out of date benefit rules for trapping people out of work
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Top Tory's cringe flip-flop stunt branded 'lamest joke since Liz Truss'
The £16.99 flip-flops, bearing Keir Starmer's face, are significantly cheaper than the £95 designer sliders favoured by Rishi Sunak
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Labour slam Rishi Sunak's 'increasing habit' of making false claims to MPs
Labour say they’ve identified six occasions where the Prime Minister has made “misleading” remarks to MPs in the Commons - some of which he’s later walked back
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Family of Range Rover 'show off' victim furious he could be out in five years
Yagmur Ozden died after Rida Kazem, 24, lost control of his £180,000 Range Rover, catapulting her onto tube tracks. Her family has now spoken out saying they are furious at his short sentence
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Boris Johnson and disgraced sexual predator Trump meet for dinner to discuss war
A spokesman for Johnson said that the discussions between the pair were focused on Ukraine, as both men face criminal charges for differing reasons
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US state clears 12 people accused of being witches - 370 years ago
Senators voted to exonerate 12 men and women convicted of witchcraft over 370 years ago, with 11 of them executed, largely thanks to forts by descendants and history enthusiasts
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Boris Johnson breaks silence as he slams new Covid rule breaking claims
Johnson was approached by Sky News at Washington's Dulles Airport where he went on to slam Rishi Sunak's Cabinet, while suggesting they handed diary accounts to police "without any attempt to understand what these things actually mean or refer to"
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'Tories are so insulated from everyday life they have no idea how tough it is'
If people thought Jeremy Hunt had some sympathy for their plight they should think again
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Vulnerable kids put in foster care up to 500 miles from home amid carer shortage
Former Children’s Minister Edward Timpson, whose own family fostered over 90 children, joined calls for people to consider fostering a child as he said carers have 'never been more needed'
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Machine guns, pistols, rifle and ammunition 'lost' by Ministry of Defence
Freedom of Information requests have revealed the weapons and ammo lost or stolen by the MoD in the past two years - sparking fears they could fall into the wrong hands
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More than 13,000 people denied vote in Voter ID crackdown at local elections
Voters were left in tears after seeing people turned away at polling stations for not having the correct ID as rules were enforced for the first time at this month's local elections in England
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IRA plotted to murder late Queen on royal yacht during US trip, FBI file claims
A man threatened to drop an object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia when it sailed underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park
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Waffling Tory leaves ex-Dragon's Den star with head in hands on Question Time
Tory minister Laura Trott tried to heap blame onto Labour when grilled on Question Time about her own Government's broken promises on slashing net migration figures
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6 bits of bad news slipped out by the Tories as MPs go on half-term break
On the final day of Parliament before recess - dubbed ‘Take Out the Trash Day’ - the Government rushed out a flurry of announcements. Here's what you might have missed...
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'Government reliant on overseas labour because it failed to invest in training'
The latest figures show the Conservatives have lost control of the immigration system - and despite Tory promises to cut the number coming here, net migration has reached a record high
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Rishi Sunak is accused of having 'no grip' on immigration amid record levels
Labour’s blast came as official figures showed 606,000 more people came to the UK than left last year, despite Conservative pledges to slash numbers
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PM spends £260,000 of taxpayer cash on bash to woo business after economic chaos
Labour accused the Conservatives of using money from the public purse to 'paper over the cracks of their 13 years of economic failure with meaningless photo opportunities'
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Tories told 'come clean' after admitting delays to 8 hospitals pledged by 2030
Health Secretary Steve Barclay admitted that some of the original facilities will not be completed by the end of the decade as focus is shifting to five hospitals deemed 'not safe to operate beyond 2030'
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MPs break up for half-term - how much more holiday they get than you
Parliament is set to become a ghost town as MPs leave the the House of Commons to take a week-long break today. But how much annual leave do they get?
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Net migration figures hit record high - everything you need to know
The Office for National Statistics today revealed UK net migration for 2022 hit 606,000 - a new record - prompting calls for a shake-up of the system. Here, we try to explain what's going on
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'Reckoning' needed for Russia after Ukraine war, says ex-US military chief
Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said the Kremlin needed to face facts in the 21st Century, while a former NATO boss called on the West to reach out to younger Russians
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Tories accused of 'betrayal' after scrapping flagship animal welfare bill
The Tories' 2019 election manifesto promised to introduce new laws on animal welfare, including banning exports of livestock for slaughter and tackling puppy smuggling
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Is the North-South divide growing bigger? Take our poll
Despite FOUR YEARS of promises made by the government to close the gap, the inequality across the UK still very much exists
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'Every Tory Brexit promise is in the toilet, and they threw Britain in after it'
13 years after promising to get net migration down to "the tens of thousands", it's the highest ever recorded., says Fleet Street Fox. This is government by goon