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Boost for 45,000 workers as firms sign up to 'Living Hours' pledge
The scheme, devised by the Living Wage Foundation, aims to provide staff with a guaranteed minimum number of hours each week - and "decent" notice of cancellations
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More than 30 criminals let out without tags due to IT blunders, report shows
Some 35 criminals should have been fitted with tags but were left to roam free in September last year. System failures impacted approximately 3,000 cases at HM Courts & Tribunals Service
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Keir Starmer unveils five ‘missions’ under blueprint for Labour Government
In a keynote speech in Manchester, Labour leader Keir Starmer slammed Rishi Sunak's 'sticking plaster' approach to fixing some of the country's greatest challenges
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New government plans for football - meaning for clubs, Premier League response
The government will finally unveil plans for an independent regulator in parliament on Thursday after weeks of speculation - giving fans a say on the running of their clubs
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'We need a Government that wants to support British industry - Tories don't'
Steel could have a prosperous future if the Government would help firms with the transition to greener forms of production but Kemi Badenoch has undermined confidence
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Shamima Begum will be ‘in tears’ in her tent after citizenship refusal
Andrew Drury, 56, met Begum six times between 2021 and 2022, forming a connection so close the pair swapped WhatsApp messages and she told him of her mental health struggles
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WASPI campaign vows to take government watchdog to court over 'serious' errors
Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) says it plans to take the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to court over 'serious' mistakes about the injustice women born in the 1950s suffered
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'Rising threat from right-wing terrorists radicalised in their bedrooms' warning
Sir Julian Lewis, who chairs Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee, issued the warning as he addressed the Royal United Services Institute
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Migrant children treatment 'gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'
Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers
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Anti-vaxxer who accosted Matt Hancock on tube denies harassing him
Geza Tarjanyi, 61, branded the former cabinet member a "murdering scumbag" as he followed him through Westminster Underground Station and onto a train, a court heard
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Legal challenge over Partygate police probe into Boris Johnson thrown out
Campaigners had called for a judicial review into the Met Police decision not to send the shamed former PM a questionnaire over Partygate gatherings in November and December 2020 - even though others present were fined
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Staff at every ambulance service bar one to strike in England in March
Unison announced up to 32,000 NHS workers - including paramedics, nurses, blood collection workers, healthcare assistants, cleaners and porters - will down tools on the new March date.
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Keir Starmer blasts PM for being afraid to confront Tory 'wreckers' over Brexit
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, the Labour leader warned Mr Sunak that at some point the 'irreconcilables' on the Tory backbenches will 'come after him'
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MPs should NOT receive a pay rise amid public sector strikes - You voted
MPs will be given a £2,440 salary boost from April 1, amid a wave of strikes by nurses, railway workers, teachers and others over pay disputes - but what did Mirror readers think?
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Calamitous ex-PM Liz Truss reselected by Tories to fight next general election
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss - who lasted only 49 days in Downing Street - will stand again to represent South West Norfolk for the Conservatives when the next general election is called
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British Steel plans 260 job cuts at Scunthorpe in blow to industry
The posts are under threat at the Chinese-owned firm, which is poised to close its coking ovens at its plant at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, in a bid to slash soaring costs
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'Putin’s ludicrous claim Russia did not start war is sign of damaged leader'
Putin sabre-rattling once more about nuclear weapons, pulling out of a treaty with the US limiting weapons of mass destruction, smacks of desperation rather than strength
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Nurses suspend upcoming strikes as new pay talks open with government
Nurses have suspended upcoming strikes and announced new pay talks are to be held with the government amid the ongoing industrial dispute that has seen hundreds of thousands of appointments cancelled
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Equalities Minister backs SNP leader hopeful's right to oppose same-sex marriage
Kemi Badenoch refuses to condemn the SNP leadership hopeful's views, which have been forged by her Christian faith and could hamper her tilt for the top job
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Twisted gunman's family plea 'for action, not words' to prevent future horrors
Apprentice crane operator Jake Davison, 22, used his legally held pump action shotgun to carry out one of the worst gun massacres in Britain for more than a decade
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Warring Tories split over Brexit yet again as Sunak faces resignation threats
Embattled Tory Ministers, at each other's necks, have been told to give Prime Minister Rishi Sunak space as the Conservative leader tries to get a new Northern Ireland trade deal agreed
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'Let workers keep all of emergency cost-of-living payments', say company bosses
The Confederation of British Industry wants Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next month's Budget to make sure staff are not penalised if firms give them one-off payments
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Government assessment of anti-strike law slammed as 'not fit for purpose'
The Government's controversial law is currently making its way through Parliament and comes amid a wave of industrial action among desperate NHS staff, civil servants and railway workers
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'Terrifying' warning guns in wrong hands as MP tells of constituent in hiding
The government is under pressure to tighten gun laws after the conclusion of an inquest into the killings in Keyham, Plymouth, by evil Jake Davison, as Labour MP Rachael Maskell said a woman in her constituency has been forced into hiding
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Boris Johnson's supporters claim 60 Tory MPs face axe as revenge for ousting him
A grassroots group of Conservative Party members is threatening to remove MPs who they blame for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss being removed from 10 Downing Street