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'Tory sleaze is back in fashion - ban MPs from cashing in on second jobs'
Sleazy Tories only want second jobs because they're about to lose the first, says Fleet Street Fox. It's time to clean the House of Commons
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Rishi Sunak heckled in street as woman yells 'refugees should be allowed'
The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary appeared alongside police officers in Essex before Mr Sunak set out his 'zero tolerance' approach to anti-social behaviour.
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Keir Starmer set to formally block Jeremy Corbyn standing for Labour
The party leader will stop his predecessor from representing the party at the next ballot, under plans going before Labour's ruling National Executive Committee tomorrow
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Nicola Sturgeon's successor as leader of the SNP to be announced today
The fate of the three candidates - Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan - will be revealed at around 2pm on Monday at the BT Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh.
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Slash red tape to wean UK off imported power and cut energy bills, report says
Campaign group Britain Remade said cutting planning bureaucracy would accelerate green energy projects, “unlock billions in investment and create tens of thousands of jobs in Britain’s former industrial heartlands in the North and the Midlands”.
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'Democracy at threat as government's doing little to help those unable to vote'
With nearly one third of the young people Electoral Commission believes are adrift less likely to choose Tory, Kevin Maguire argues more should be done to let everyone get the chance to vote
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'Let's ban MPs from hiring themselves out like taxis to the highest bidders'
Ex-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Tory grandee Graham Brady have been exposed by Mirror engaging in "sleazy activity"
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'Shameful Tories caught trying to line their own pockets are on another planet'
Labour MPs Angela Rayner and Thangam Debbonaire, among those furious with more Tory sleaze, have shared their disgust after Kwasi Kwarteng told fake foreign businessman he could arrange meetings with Boris Johnson
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Top Tory tells fake foreign firm he can bunk off MP job to make dosh worldwide
Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, was duped by campaign group Led By Donkeys into holding a video call about a job as a board member for a fake South Korean firm
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Bridget Phillipson says her single mum faced poverty due to lack of childcare
Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, who grew up in a council house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, said her mum Clare didn't go back to work full time until she started school because no childcare was available.
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Labour warns parents in some areas of the country face 'childcare deserts'
In an interview with The Mirror, the Shadow Education Secretary accused Jeremy Hunt of "pouring petrol on a fire that is already raging". Earlier this month he announced plans to offer more free hours - without enough cash to prop up the struggling system
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'Nicola Sturgeon will prevail as her iron grip and vitality were top assets'
Nicola Sturgeon, once described by London Right-Wing media as "the most dangerous woman in Britain", had ample qualities and strengths, writes political columnist Paul Routledge
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Workers too 'paranoid' to go toilet all day as bosses webcam spying, report says
Employees are increasingly being treated 'like robots' with bosses watching them through their laptop cameras or timing them when they go to the toilet, a shocking report exposes
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One in four voters wrongly believe they don't need ID at May local elections
New rules for taking part in elections in England mean voters must show identification when they go to their polling station - beginning with the May local elections
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Kwasi Kwarteng told fake foreign firm he could sort meeting with Boris Johnson
The Tory ex-chancellor who crashed the economy with his disastrous mini-Budget was secretly filmed by campaign group Led By Donkeys offering to work on the side for £10,000 a day
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Mega rich CEOs rake in cash leaving their nurseries in safety crisis
A Sunday Mirror investigation has found some of the biggest nursery chains including Just Childcare, Bright Horizons and Busy Bees, have poor safety reports while their CEOs live a life of luxury
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King Charles sets himself 6pm bedtime curfew before Coronation for sweet reason
King Charles is understood to have told aides he won't be doing any royal duties after 6pm on the evening of May 5 despite a packed schedule of receptions and parties planned
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Man had last night out before ending life at euthanasia clinic as Sinatra played
Dan Tuckley, 46, forked out more than £20,000 in a cloak-and-dagger mission to get to clinic outside Basel after being diagnosed with terminal cancer
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Labour slam 'empty rhetoric' on vandals as Rishi Sunak unveils 'jumpsuit' plan
Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper accused the Tories of empty rhetoric on antisocial behaviour while there are so few police on the beat to take enforcement action or prevent crime
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'The Tory party has moved on from Boris, leaving behind a sad and angry clown'
At the best, his shot at becoming leader again is blown - the gloss has come off him and the circus that is the Tory party has moved on, leaving behind a sad and angry clown.
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'When privatisation creeps into childcare, standards must not be sacrificed'
In a recent survey, 96% of parents said they would vote for the party with the best offer on childcare, and it’s no surprise why - a quarter of parents are cutting back on necessities to pay for it
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'The families bereaved by Covid deserve to hear the truth'
Millions of us were angered and disgusted by a dreadful whining noise coming from Westminster this week – the sound of Boris Johnson passing the buck for Partygate.
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Top Tory MPs ask for £10k daily rate to work for fake Korean company
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said agreed to a daily rate of £10,000 to further the interests of the bogus firm - the experiment was set up by campaign group Led By Donkeys
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Extent of rot in Met Police is what's shocks, and fixing it will take brains
Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett says the force must "systematically rid the service of the corrosive individuals who are not just “bad-apples”, but something far more insidious"
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Boris Johnson 'toast' after Partygate grilling - what's likely to happen now
Here's what is likely to happen next after Boris Johnson's tetchy evidence session before the Privileges Committee