All news on the topic: Politics

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'Union battleground may decide election as huge dividing line remains'
Labour would, for starters, introduce unfair dismissal rights from day one instead of two years into a job, outlaw exploitative zero-hours contracts and put a stop to fire-and-rehire dirty tricks
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Most bids to save libraries, pubs and village halls rejected by Tory scheme
Shadow Levelling Up Secretary Angela Rayner accused the Government of 'letting communities down' after repeated Tory commitments to 'level up' the country since the 2019 election
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Suella Braverman appears at rally for Israel chanting 'bring them home now'
Suella Braverman attended the rally in Trafalgar Square, saying she stood in solidarity with Israel as she joined thousands of people to mark 100 days since Hamas' deadly attack
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Keir Starmer appears to backtrack on promise to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would carry out a 'review' of all British arms sales - but refused to repeat a promise to stop sales to Saudi Arabia
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Cameron refuses three times on BBC's Laura Kuenssberg to disclose Greensill pay
The ex-PM and Foreign Secretary David Cameron rejects reports he earned £10million for work at failed firm Greensill Capital - but refuses to disclose earnings
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UK ready to strike Yemen again if Red Sea attacks continue, David Cameron warns
Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron said the UK Government will work with its allies and warned: 'We will be prepared to back words with actions'
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'Fujitsu boss lives on 'blood money' with £2m mansion while we suffer'
Seema Misra thought about taking her own life when she was jailed as part of the Post Office scandal and now says Fujitsu, which developed the faulty Horizon system, ought to pay up for its victims
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British military chiefs braced for revenge attacks by ­Houthi fanatics
UK forces are getting ready for any revenge attacks by Iranian backed militia after four RAF Typhoons based in Cyprus took part in the first blitz by US and UK forces on Yemen on Thursday night
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'Strikes against Houthis were justified - but we must be ready for reprisals'
Alicia Kearns MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says if the UK and US had not acted, the Houthis would eventually have caused a maritime disaster
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Foreign office spends £200k on 'crisis media training' in £4m consultant splurge
It’s more than double the figure the department spent on outside advisors the previous year. It comes as the department’s spending on temporary agency staff also reached a record high of nearly £40 million
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Ministers already using experimental AI 'red box' to summarise briefing notes
Tory minister Alex Burghart admitted he uses an experimental “AI Red Box”, developed by the Cabinet Office, to sift through the stack of papers he’s given to read every day.
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NHS nurses could launch more strikes after Rishi Sunak 'lost touch with reality'
Pat Cullen, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, warned the Prime Minister that 'every option – including strike action – is on the table'
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Taiwan ignores warnings to elect president dubbed 'troublemaker' by China
William Lai has won the Taiwanese presidential election in a third straight victory for Democratic Progressive Party despite warnings from China which wants to retake the breakaway island
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'The Houthis might be a threat but do we really need to be bombing again?'
There should really be more noble reasons for unleashing airstrikes on a country than oil, writes Mirror columnist Keir Mudie, but that's exactly what Rishi Sunak did at the end of the week
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Children still living in hell of mouldy homes three years after toddler's death
Tenants of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing say their complaints about infestations of mould causing misery and health problems are falling on deaf ears three years after two-year-old Awaab Ishak died from prolonged exposure
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'Give our striking junior doctors the salary they deserve'
Junior doctors often hold our lives in their hands and work awful hours to have that responsibility, so why aren't they being paid their fair share, asks guest columnist Antony Cotton
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Queen's 10-word reply after Boris Johnson's dog killed swan at Buckingham Palace
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's dog Dilyn killed a gosling in the gardens of Buckingham Palace and he did not tell Queen Elizabeth - but she later made a comment when they met
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Arctic blast sweeps across US with 'life-threatening' cold weather warning
People around the country are told to brace for "life-threatening" conditions, including heavy rainfall, blinding snow, plummeting temperatures and floods as an Artic storm hits the US
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10 times Labour owned the Tories on social media as it ramps up online attacks
From laughing at the way Rishi Sunak used a hammer to relentlessly mocking Gillian Keegan over RAAC, Labour has been ramping up its attacks on the Tories ahead of an election year
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Parliament's John Bercow talks past in 'political deception' on The Traitors US
While he's retired from government now, John Becrow was once a political powerhouse and mastermind. He's now taking his skills in a new direction as he enters reality television
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'2024 is the Year of Democracy - and Tory big beasts are ripe for the cull'
If the opinion polls stay roughly the way they are, the Tory vote will be decimated and the big beasts with the small majorities will face televised shaming, says Brian Reade
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'I fear Bibby Stockholm death won't be the last after speaking to those onboard'
Labour MP Nadia Whittome says that the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, should be closed - warning a suspected suicide onboard last month might not be the last
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Labour won't resurrect HS2 line to Manchester as 'Tories have blown the budget'
Labour leader Keir Starmer said it is now 'impossible' to go ahead with the HS2 line to Manchester, which Rishi Sunak scrapped in his Tory Party Conference speech in October
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Rishi Sunak issues warning to Vladimir Putin during surprise visit to Ukraine
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that UK backing in the war against Russia won't falter amid alarm over slowing support from allies
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Starmer vows to prioritise kids for NHS treatment to end waits over 18 weeks
The Labour leader Keir Starmer will order health bosses to prioritise children caught up in record NHS waiting lists and will 'personally monitor' progress if he wins power