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Tory Johnny Mercer tells veterans to sue Government over missing medical records
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer told a nuclear veteran campaigner to "sue" the Ministry of Defence after being shown evidence that medical records are being unlawfully withheld
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5 most insane claims from actual Tory ministers at Conservative Party conference
As No10 battles to regain control, top Tories have been promoting conspiracy theories and making increasingly bizarre claims in a desperate attempt to get attention
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Prisoners may be sent to rented foreign jails as Tories battle cell shortage
Prison experts hit back at the 'half-baked idea' and said jail leaders will 'be in despair at such a superficial response to their very real and urgent concerns'
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Tory cabinet minister boasts she blocked gun crackdown after mass shooting
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey told a fringe meeting at Tory Party conference there'd been 'a potential reaction that would have made it much harder for you to have shotguns'
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Station ticket office closures 'fuelling human rights crisis', warn pensioners
The National Pensioners' Convention takes place in London later this month and the railway industry's plan to axe hundreds of front counters will be top of the agenda
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Anderson jokes people don’t want to go to Bradford quicker as HS2 under threat
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson made the comment during a heated panel at the Tory conference where he also joked that dictators were a 'good idea'
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Top Tory kicked out after branding Suella Braverman speech a 'homophobic rant'
Ms Braverman - one of the only cabinet members to pack the Tory Conference auditorium in Manchester - was interrupted 20 minutes into her diatribe by a London Assembly member
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PM leaves door open for Farage Tory return but ex-UKIP boss says: 'No, no, no'
Rishi Sunak refused to rule out letting the arch Brexiteer back into the Conservative Party, but Nigel Farage ruled out a return citing high net migration, tax and differences over Brexit
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PM claims an election is 'not what anybody wants' - despite polls showing it is
The next general election has to be held by the end of January 2025 but last month a survey by YouGov found almost 50% of the public want one by spring next year
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Nigel Farage and Priti Patel dance and fist pump in incredibly cringey clip
Nigel Farage and Priti Patel were filmed dancing and fist pumping to Can't Take My Eyes Off You during a boozy Tory bash at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester
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Helen Mirren admits 'it's difficult' as she addresses Golda casting backlash
Helen Mirren joined Lorraine Kelly on Tuesday to open up on her new role as the fourth Prime Minister of Isreal, Golda Meir, and address some of the criticism she's received
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Trump court cases should 'disqualify' him from impending US President race
Donald Trump is facing a 'drip drip drip' of civil and criminal court cases against him but still leads the pack of Republicans hoping to clinch the nominee to lead the party into the 2024 election
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Full list of October 2023 train strikes – where and when services are out in UK
Members of RMT and ASLEF unions are striking this week amid a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with walkouts coinciding with the Conservative Party annual conference
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Tories urged to act after candidate's vile claim that Jews fear Sadiq Khan
London mayoral candidate Susan Hall's vile claim - made at a Tory Party Conference fringe event - was immediately slapped down by the Board of Deputies of British Jews
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Sunak confronted over OAP forced to choose between giving up dog and foodbank
The Prime Minister was tackled over the heartbreaking decision faced by dog-lover Bill Martin, 80, when his pet fell ill over the summer and needed an operation
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GMB's Susanna clashes with Sunak as he tries to squirm out of HS2 questioning
Susanna Reid clashed with Rishi Sunak this morning during a live interview on Good Morning Britain as he desperately tried to squirm out of answering questions about HS2
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Emergency Cabinet meeting expected as PM drops big hint he'll axe HS2 to North
The Prime Minister is set to order a Cabinet meeting where top Tories are expected to formally sign the death warrant for plans to run the high speed line to Manchester
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Britain 'best place in the world to be black', says top Tory Kemi Badenoch
The Business Secretary told adoring grassroots activists at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester the UK 'is a country that sees people and not labels'
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Rishi Sunak fails to hand pandemic WhatsApp messages to Covid Inquiry
The Prime Minister - who was Chancellor during the crisis - changed his phone 'a number of times' since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and messages weren't backed up
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Sadiq Khan demands Suella Braverman gets machetes off streets with urgent ban
Suella Braverman faces calls to completely outlaw machetes after London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned loopholes will be exploited by manufacturers
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Congressman carjacked by three armed attackers while he parked near US Capitol
Police are investigating after U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was carjacked Monday night by three armed attackers, just a mile from the U.S. Capitol in Washington
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Benefits on track for lowest ever level by the end of the decade
A report says the average gap between Universal Credit payments and the actual cost of covering essentials is £35-per-week for a single person
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Deep blue sea no more as colour takes on greenish hue, according to study
In addition to fostering natural disasters, record-breaking heat waves and rising sea levels, climate change is influencing the colour of the ocean
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Tory suggests UK towns are like 'foreign countries' as he defends Braverman
The Tory conference panel event featured an audience member confronting Tory MPs Jacob Rees-Mogg and Tom Hunt about whether their language around migration has stirred up racism
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Millionaires in Jeremy Hunt's own area will save £157m from inheritance tax cut
The Chancellor is considering giving the country’s most wealthy families a massive tax break by abolishing inheritance tax. The levy is only paid by the richest 4%