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Applicants for UK citizenship charged more than five times the admin cost
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Applicants for UK citizenship charged more than five times the admin cost

Fee of £1,709 compares with an estimated administrative cost of just £324, according to Home Office dataPeople applying to become British citizens are charged more than five times the amount it costs...

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UK disabled people could swap Pip cash for ‘in kind’ support in benefit overhaul
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UK disabled people could swap Pip cash for ‘in kind’ support in benefit overhaul

Exclusive: Claimants could trade part of payment for specialist equipment, services or training under proposalSome disabled people could receive “in kind” support rather than just cash payments under...

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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentimentAndy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood’s migration reforms or risk overstretching socia...

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John Major’s rise from obscure whip to PM part of new National Theatre season
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John Major’s rise from obscure whip to PM part of new National Theatre season

Play is one of eight world premieres in programme with global conflict and political upheaval at its heartA new play about John Major’s rise to power, written by James Graham, will premiere at the Na...

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Chancellor urged to fix £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ that prompts parents to cut work
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Chancellor urged to fix £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ that prompts parents to cut work

Threshold pushes some to reduce hours or stop working to avoid losing entitlement, report warns John Healey has been urged to fix the £100,000 childcare “cliff edge”, that means some higher-paid emplo...

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Labour picks former child refugee to stand in byelection for Starmer’s seat
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Labour picks former child refugee to stand in byelection for Starmer’s seat

Sagal Abdi-Wali, who came from Somalia in the 1990s, likely to face Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras contestA former child refugee who became the leader of Camden council has been selected to b...

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Met police launch inquiry into alleged overseas donations to Reform UK
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Met police launch inquiry into alleged overseas donations to Reform UK

Scotland Yard confirms it is investigating allegations broadcast by Channel 4 News after undercover stingThe financial scandal around Reform UK has deepened as police expanded their investigation into...

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Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements
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Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctionsProminent British rabbis ha...

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Reform UK says it will ‘fully cooperate’ with Met after inquiry launched into alleged overseas donations – as it happened
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Reform UK says it will ‘fully cooperate’ with Met after inquiry launched into alleged overseas donations – as it happened

Party denies wrongdoing after Scotland Yard confirms it is investigating allegations broadcast by Channel 4 after undercover stingAlex Burghart, the deputy Tory leader, was giving interviews this morn...

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Israel sanctions will not hurt intelligence sharing between spy agencies, says Miliband
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Israel sanctions will not hurt intelligence sharing between spy agencies, says Miliband

UK foreign secretary says international community including US shares ‘frustration’ at Israel’s failure to constrain illegal settlersBritish intelligence has been given assurances by its Israeli count...

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Air traffic control boss given a week to report after UK flight chaos causes 2,000 cancellations
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Air traffic control boss given a week to report after UK flight chaos causes 2,000 cancellations

Government remains confident in under-pressure Martin Rolfe but transport secretary believes glitch was avoidableHow have you been affected by UK air traffic disruption?The head of the air traffic con...

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Burnham sees sanctions against Israeli settlements as an electoral asset
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Burnham sees sanctions against Israeli settlements as an electoral asset

While a survey found Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters to be the strongest backers of such a ban on trade, even Tory and Reform voters were in favour overallUK politics live – latest updatesThere was a...

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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisisZack Polanski has challenged Andy Burnham’s government to publish an unredacted versi...

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Streeting praises new series The Wargame for highlighting Britain’s defence needs
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Streeting praises new series The Wargame for highlighting Britain’s defence needs

Show depicting attack on UK and featuring Michael Gove and Nicola Sturgeon will ‘make people think’, minister saysA docudrama depicting a Russian attack on a Britain led by an unlikely pairing of Mich...

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Liz Truss relaunches podcast on channel of broadcaster famous for ‘grow concrete’ exchange
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Liz Truss relaunches podcast on channel of broadcaster famous for ‘grow concrete’ exchange

Podcast is now on YouTube site of Mike Graham, fired from TalkTV after racist post appeared on his Facebook pageUK politics live – latest updatesWhen Liz Truss launched her podcast last year, she decl...

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Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit
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Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit

Bridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agendaUK politics live – latest updatesThe government is putting class at the heart of its equalities...

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‘I am seen as a Marmite figure’: Margaret Hodge on political battles, victories, errors – and regrets
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‘I am seen as a Marmite figure’: Margaret Hodge on political battles, victories, errors – and regrets

At 82, the politician and anti-corruption champion is indefatigable. She discusses fighting the BNP, tackling antisemitism, and why, with her new memoir, she’s reclaiming the word ‘battleaxe’Margaret...

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Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France
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Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France

Critics say agreement between Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella to return migrants to France goes against France’s ‘interests and sovereignty’Reform UK has insisted its deal with France’s far-right Nat...

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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds
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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank saysDatacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while c...

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Burnham urged to tackle inequality with policies including wealth tax
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Burnham urged to tackle inequality with policies including wealth tax

Key thinkers suggest other radical measures in Compass report such as free personal social care and abolishing LordsAndy Burnham should tackle inequality in the UK by introducing a wealth tax, univers...

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