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People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski
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People ‘incensed’ by North Sea plans can vote Green in byelection, says Zack Polanski

Party leader, who will contest Starmer’s former seat of Holborn and St Pancras, says gas drilling has come up on doorstepZack Polanski has said a vote for him in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by...

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RNLI reports ‘significant’ donations boost after being targeted by far right over small boats
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RNLI reports ‘significant’ donations boost after being targeted by far right over small boats

Charity condemns ‘disgraceful’ intimidation and insists it will continue core purpose of saving lives at seaThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has had a “significant” boost in donations si...

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Hundreds of asylum seekers removed from UK to France have disappeared, say NGOs
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Hundreds of asylum seekers removed from UK to France have disappeared, say NGOs

Rights groups say those missing after being deported under one in, one out deal include dozens of age-disputed childrenUK politics live – latest updatesHundreds of asylum seekers including at least 41...

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Pressure grows on Burnham to commit to increasing statutory paternity leave
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Pressure grows on Burnham to commit to increasing statutory paternity leave

Exclusive: Calls from Labour grow as 105 MPs write to PM urging ‘obvious’ step to alleviate cost of living crisisAndy Burnham is coming under increasing pressure from his own MPs to commit to improvin...

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New battery-powered trains to ‘bring faster journeys to the north’
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New battery-powered trains to ‘bring faster journeys to the north’

No 10 says new fleet of trains built in Derby will support 6,000 jobs across UKA fleet of battery-powered trains is to be built to “bring faster, more reliable journeys to the north”, Downing Street h...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
MPs urged not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill as vote looms
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MPs urged not to take ‘extraordinary risk’ of forcing through assisted dying bill as vote looms

Labour MPs Gareth Snell and Meg Hillier say Lords must be allowed to fulfil duty in scrutinising bill on serious public issueMPs who voted for and against assisted dying have urged their respective si...

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Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests
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Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests

Nigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ‘horrible’, but others in the party defend them as ‘brave, passionate patriots’Nigel Farage’s condemnation of the masked men whose blockade of Dover...

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Ed Stone to elder statesman: the making of Ed Miliband – podcast
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Ed Stone to elder statesman: the making of Ed Miliband – podcast

The UK foreign secretary has drawn rage and respect after announcing trade sanctions on Israeli settlers. Heather Stewart explains how – and why – Ed Miliband got toughThis time just over a decade ago...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
MPs once again have to decide on possibly the biggest social change since abortion
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MPs once again have to decide on possibly the biggest social change since abortion

MPs will once again have to decide on what could be the biggest social change since abortion was legalised - whether to back assisted dying.

Sky News - UK1 month ago
Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland
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Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland

Broadcaster, 86, had intended to end her life in Swiss clinic after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2023Esther Rantzen has said she is no longer able to travel to Switzerland to end her l...

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Ministers face backlash from hospitality industry over ‘tourist tax’ plans
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Ministers face backlash from hospitality industry over ‘tourist tax’ plans

Many mayors welcome power to impose tourist tax but industry warns of ‘irreparable harm’ and job lossesMinisters are facing a backlash from the hospitality industry after they announced mayors in Engl...

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Shabana Mahmood urges police to curb far-right, anti-migrant protests
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Shabana Mahmood urges police to curb far-right, anti-migrant protests

Home secretary tells officers to make ‘full use’ of their powers after masked vigilantes cause weekend of chaosShabana Mahmood has urged police to curb the activities of far-right, anti-migrant groups...

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Why are we giving a £24bn-a-year subsidy to profitable commercial banks? | Letter
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Why are we giving a £24bn-a-year subsidy to profitable commercial banks? | Letter

Gerald Holtham suggests that it time to cut the 3.75% that the Bank of England pays out on the lenders’ reservesThere are increasing calls for a windfall tax on banks (Taxing the banks: what Europe’s...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
UK politics: Visitor levy powers should be in place by March 2028 in England, ministers say – as it happened
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UK politics: Visitor levy powers should be in place by March 2028 in England, ministers say – as it happened

Downing Street gives more details of plan, saying it would be charged as a percentage of accommodation costs, not a flat feeTourists in England face nightly levy on hotel and Airbnb stays under new pl...

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NHS reports busiest ever summer as heatwaves drive up hospital admissions
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NHS reports busiest ever summer as heatwaves drive up hospital admissions

Record demand for A&E units, ambulance services and NHS 111 shows extreme heat having unprecedented impact on health, experts sayThe NHS came under its most intense strain ever as a result of the summ...

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Lindy Cameron appointed first female head of UK Foreign Office
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Lindy Cameron appointed first female head of UK Foreign Office

High commissioner to India replaces Olly Robbins, who was sacked over Peter Mandelson scandalThe Foreign Office has its first female head after the appointment of Lindy Cameron, the high commissioner...

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Labour shifts on Israel, but what difference will it make? – podcast
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Labour shifts on Israel, but what difference will it make? – podcast

It has been a huge week for Labour as Ed Miliband shifted the party’s stance on Israel by announcing sanctions on the illegal settlements in the West Bank and describing what is happening as ethnic cl...

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Conservative couple admit cheating at gambling over election betting
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Conservative couple admit cheating at gambling over election betting

The Conservatives' former director of campaigning and his wife, a Tory parliamentary candidate, have admitted cheating at gambling on the date of the 2024 general election.

Sky News - UK1 month ago
UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users amid shortages
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UK ministers explore raising price of water for industrial users amid shortages

Environment Agency says talks under way about increasing prices for industrial users to try to reduce poor water managementMinisters are exploring making water more expensive for some users, in the fa...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago
JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise
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JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise

Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understoodJamie Dimon, chief executive of the largest US bank, JP Morgan, is understood to have warned An...

The Guardian - UK News1 month ago