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Top Tory says it's not in Brits' 'psyche' to riot over issues like state pension
The DWP Chief Mel Stride also claimed the Tories still have a 'narrow path' to victory at the next general election - despite losing over 1,000 council seats at the local elections last week
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Dis Life: 'Give people what they need, not what Government can get away with'
Once again, people with no lived experience of disability have decided the solution is really easy - they are focussing on the wrong thing
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Tory war of words erupts as Liz Truss snaps back at 'Instagram diplomacy' jibe
The flash-in-a-pan Prime Minister - who served just 49 days in No10 - is just trying to keep herself relevant by jetting off to the hotspot to rant about China, Tory MP Alicia Kearns, who heads the foreign affairs select committee, said
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Coronation sword carrier Penny Mordaunt took painkillers before Abbey service
The Lord President of the Council was widely praised for her performance at the crowning of King Charles III - and has now revealed how she managed to maintain her poise
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UK sending Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine ahead of counter-offensive
The Defence Secretary confirmed the long-range weapons system was being donated to Kyiv as President Volodymyr Zelensky's regime prepares to launch its counter-attack against Russian invaders
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Should asylum seekers be accommodated on barges - vote in our poll
The Bibby Stockholm vessel will house around 500 single male asylum seekers in the Isle of Portland for at least 18 months - but do YOU think people should be housed in barges?
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Boris Johnson wanted to send Rishi Sunak message telling him 'you're a c**t'
The ex-PM found the explicit video to send to Mr Sunak after he quit as chancellor in what he saw as 'the great betrayal of all time', according to former No10 spin doctor Guto Harri
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Trump rants over 'rigged' election in first outing after sex abuse verdict
Former US president told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he is still unhappy over the 2020 result, while he also denied knowing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll after a jury found he had sexually abused her
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£15-an-hour wage for carers would deliver £7.7bn economic boost - see your area
Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps
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Donald Trump CNN town hall channel, streaming links and timing confirmed
The town hall in New Hampshire has been organised by CNN and will be hosted by anchor Kaitlan Collins, who was once barred from a press event at the White House after asking Trump about the Michael Cohen tapes.
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Boris Johnson's Partygate defence bill rises to £245,000 - and we're paying
The cost of Boris Johnson's legal defence has gone up for a second time since last August, with calls mounting for Rishi Sunak to intervene and make the ex-PM foot the bill himself
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Tories reforms could mean workers do longer shifts in 'boost for bad bosses'
Union leaders warned people would be working 'excessive hours' if vital EU rules are scrapped and called the move the 'latest attack' on working people's rights by the Tories
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Number of Royal Navy ships to protect UK branded 'pathetic' by ex-defence chief
Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West blasted the Government over the dwindling number of surface warships as he urged ministers to order more vessels
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Protesters target Suella Braverman's office with 'wrong side of history' plaque
Charity Freedom from Torture fixed a mocked-up blue plaque declaring that the Home Secretary had 'closed the door' on refugees as her Illegal Migration Bill comes under fire in the House of Lords
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Families in temporary accommodation tops 100k for first time in nearly 20 years
Charities said the bleak milestone showed the homelessness system was 'on its knees' while Labour described it as a 'moment of shame' for the Tories
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'Humiliated' youngsters with ID stopped from casting ballots in Tory crackdown
Some young voters were stopped from taking part in last week's local elections because their proof-of-age cards were not accepted, it is claimed
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Tories rule out pact with DUP, Nigel Farage or SNP to cling onto power in U-turn
Downing Street repeatedly declined to say whether the Tories would strike deals with the DUP or fringe parties like Nigel Farage's Reform and Reclaim, founded by actor turned anti-woke crusader Laurence Fox
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Trump’s sexual abuse victim 'overwhelmed with joy' for women after verdict
E. Jean Carroll appeared in an interview with NBC’s TODAY after a civil jury found former US President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her
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Rishi Sunak defends 'silly teenage' clip saying he had no working class friends
In a fiery exchange at PMQs, Keir Starmer blasted the Government for failing to support Brits as he said we have a PM 'who boasts he's never had a working class friend'
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Putin's pal 'may have been poisoned' as he races to leave Russia with ambulance
Belarusian tyrant Alexander Lukashenko, who has refused to give up power for 24 years, couldn't walk more than a mile at yesterday's Victory Day parade and skipped a breakfast with ally Putin
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POLL: Should there be a general election now
After Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down key climate commitments in a major U-turn which plunged the UK's net zero target by 2050 into chaos, do you think it's time we had a government which kept its promises?
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Archbishop of Canterbury savages 'morally unacceptable' Tory small boats bill
Archbishop Justin Welby - fresh from his central role at King Charles's Coronation on Satruday - lashed out at Suella Braverman's draconian Illegal Migration Bill, which has been branded a "gimmick" and a "con" by critics
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Andrew Bridgen dodges by-election calls after Reclaim Party defection
Critics said expelled Tory Andrew Bridgen's 'misinformation' has no place in the Commons and demanded he submit to a by-election in his North West Leicestershire seat
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Troubled Trump's leadership rivals who are just as bad for US - and the world
Now legally branded a sexual predator, Donald Trump is having to stave off competition from a roster of Republican hopefuls expected to enter the race and gain popularity among right-wingers with their extreme policies - but who are they?
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Archbishop of Canterbury to condemn Tory migrant plan days after Coronation
Justin Welby is set to join criticism of Suella Braverman's plan to deport new arrivals to Rwanda as proposed immigration legislation is debated in the House of Lords today