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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%
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Top Tory attacks 'woke' bankers as he brands UK arms industry 'power for good'
Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps launched a passionate defence of the British arms industry when he addressed a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester
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Top Tory legitimises made-up '15-minute cities' conspiracy from conference stage
The entirely invented scare story is based on a relatively uncontroversial urban planning concept which has been the case for British towns and cities for decades anyway - but a group of online cranks claim it's a nefarious plot by the New World Order to trap us in dystopian ghettoes.
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Health Secretary spends £55,000 on virtual tours of 40 new hospitals not built
Steve Barclay is putting on roadshows across the country to give the public the chance to put on headsets and pretend they’re getting treated in the new facilities
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Ex-No10 aide lashes out at Rishi Sunak's housing target decision
Samuel Kasumu, who was a special advisor under Boris Johnson, said that members of the Sunak Government 'lack the intellectual range to fix the big issues of today'
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Hundreds of Tories queue up to hear Liz Truss speech as if 2022 never happened
The former Tory leader, whose free-market, tax slashing policies crashed the economy during her 49-day premiership, gave her only address of the conference, arguing for even more wild tax cuts, deregulation and the persecution of newts
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Rishi Sunak to announce he's scrapping HS2 to Manchester in betrayal of North
The decision to axe the high speed rail line from Birmingham to the North West of England comes as the Tories gather in Manchester for their annual party conference
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Tory defence chief blasts 'unhelpful' Elon Musk for foiling Ukrainian attack
Cabinet Minister Grant Shapps lashed out at the Twitter billionaire after he admitted thwarting a seaborne assault by Kyiv on Russia's Black Sea fleet at anchor in Crimea
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'If the Tory Party was a person, it would be locked up for its own safety'
Liz Truss has escaped again, they think Boris Johnson was a brilliant PM, and Rishi Sunak swears down he's onto a winner. The Tory Party is so deluded it should be on medication, says Fleet Street Fox