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Suella Braverman court threat over 'de facto prison' on World War Two base
Charity Care4Calais, which supports refugees, has announced it plans to take the Home Office to court in a battle over RAF Wethersfield
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Ministers accused of 'penny-pinching' over £500 handout to Storm Babet victims
The extreme weather left hundreds of people homeless while at least seven people are believed to have been killed as torrential rain hit parts of the North, Midlands and Scotland
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Flasher Tory MP suspended after 'horrid, brutal, dark experience' of staffer
The MP, who was stripped of the Tory whip last week, left his victim a 'broken shell' after the 'physical, emotional, psychological abuse' he endured
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Starmer faces threat of frontbench resignations over Labour's Israel-Gaza stance
The Labour leader met around a dozen of the party's Muslim MPs in Parliament in a bid to defuse tensions after a string of councillors quit the party in protest
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Rishi Sunak told to keep trophy hunting promise in honour of murdered MP
The Prime Minister faces pressure to deliver on the Tory 2019 election manifesto pledge to ban trophy hunting imports - and to do so in memory of the late Sir David Amess
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All the Labour councillors who have quit over Keir Starmer Israel-Gaza stance
More than 20 Labour councillors have resigned over Keir Starmer's stance on the Israel-Hamas crisis and his failure to call for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to get to Gaza
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Flasher MP victim breaks silence on bullying that left him 'broken shell'
MPs will vote today on whether Peter Bone should be suspended for six weeks over the claims of bullying and inappropriate behaviour. It could pave the way for another by-election
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Mosque hits out at Starmer as Labour leader in showdown on Israel-Gaza conflict
The Labour leader is expected to meet with Muslim Labour MPs on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse growing anger in the party over its position on the Middle East conflict
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Everything that went wrong in Rishi Sunak's first year - sleaze rows and U-turns
After his humiliating by-election losses, Rishi Sunak faces a battering from voters in a general election next year as there's a growing feeling the country is broken
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'Save TV and radio for pensioners and delay terrestrial switch off beyond 2034'
OAPs fear missing out on their favourite shows as the broadcast signal sent to traditional aerials could be switched off from the mid-2030s - potentially stopping viewers watching TV
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NHS postcode lottery leaves some patients waiting an extra hour for an ambulance
A new Parliamentary report highlights that average 999 call response times range from five minutes and four seconds in the West Midlands to 67 minutes in the South West
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'Tories' Them versus Us approach to mis-governing should hurt at election'
Giving speculators the green light to be paid bonuses of more than 200% is utterly reckless and deeply unfair when more than one million children were in poverty last year
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'Obscene' move to lift cap on bankers' bonuses amid cost of living crisis
Bankers were paid more than £13billion in bonuses in 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, and the bid to further enrich the UK’s bankers was announced by Kwasi Kwarteng
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Warning that luxury item sold in posh restaurants will cause next pandemic
Giles Watling demanded that imports of foie gras are banned, saying the recent bed bug outbreak highlights the dangers of disease being brought into the UK - but a Tory minister refused to commit
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Tories rule out overhaul of Dangerous Dogs Act despite XL Bully horror deaths
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey said she was not planning to review the 32-year-old legislation, despite huge criticism of the 1991 Act from experts and animal charities
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Top Tory blames rain coming from wrong direction for Storm Babet floods
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey told MPs experts had got forecasts of storms from the West "down to a fine art" - but Babet blew in from a different direction
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Tory MPs who blocked new prison sites exposed as jails run out of space
Ministers have proposed sending fewer people to jail as they run desperately short of cells. Now the Mirror can reveal plans for 5,000 new prison spaces were blocked by Tory MPs
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Starmer should be brave and scrap Lords in 5 years, says Scottish Labour chief
The Scottish Labour leader said his party should be 'brave' and act to reform the upper chamber when it has 'maximum political capital' in the early years of winning power
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Harrowing abuse of care workers trapped in modern slavery as hundreds failed
A new report by charity Unseen says hundreds carers have been forced to work long hours to pay off illegal debts by unscrupulous employers with the Government failing to act
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Tories to shut 50 asylum hotels - but won't say where amid cynical rumours
Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick said that 50 of an estimated 400 hotels used to house asylum seekers would be emptied by January, but was challenged over whether they'd be in marginal seats
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Poll shows half of public believe Rishi Sunak has been a 'poor' or 'terrible' PM
The brutal polling shows Rishi Sunak's personal ratings have also taken a tumble a year after he was picked by Tory MPs to replace 49-day PM Liz Truss as party leader
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Inflation-busting pay rise announced for 460,000 low-paid workers - see rates
The Living Wage Foundation today releases its annual rates - and the inflation-busting hike will help boost the budgets of hundreds of thousands struggling in the cost of living crisis
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Tory landlord with 10 rental properties criticises plan to give tenants rights
Tory MP Nick Fletcher, who rents out six houses and four flats in South Yorkshire, claimed that giving tenants extra rights would lead to landlords selling up
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Top Tory James Cleverly spends £1million travelling globe on private jet
James Cleverly racked up a bill of almost a million pounds by using private jets for two overseas trips in his job as Foreign Secretary earlier this year
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Keir Starmer's plan to save British steel industry as thousands of jobs at risk
The Labour leader spoke to the Mirror after visiting the UK's biggest steelworks, Tata's plant at Port Talbot, South Wales, where 3,000 posts are under threat