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fast 3 Jahre ago
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How has Brexit affected the migrant crisis?

The Dublin regime made it easier to return migrants to other countries

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Ex-home secretary Lord Blunkett issues migration warning to Labour

Lord Blunkett today claimed Nigel Farage 'might end up being prime minister' if Labour rolled out plans to introduce ...

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Northern leaders offer to help fund new rail line if Boris Johnson cancels cuts

Land value uplift from Northern Powerhouse Rail could make contribution, mayors say

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Brexit chief Lord Frost said leaving EU single market would cost Brits £1,500 each

But Brexit minister now claims hard Brexit was ‘essential’

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Tory MPs try to trigger Boris Johnson leadership contest with ‘no confidence’ letters

A dozen MPs are reported to have already written in

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Home Office should be stripped of responsibility for compensating Windrush victims, MPs say

MPs said it was ‘deeply troubling’ that the Home Office’s handling of claims ‘has repeated the same mistakes which le...

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Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries says her children are ‘left-wing Islington snowflakes’

Cabinet minister says decision by Brit awards to end separate awards for women is ‘sad’

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Boris Johnson Peppa Pig speech ‘not a great moment’, says Jeremy Hunt

Former leadership candidate says government can ‘do better’

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Article 16: UK won’t suspend Northern Ireland Brexit deal before Christmas, cabinet minister says

UK softens negotiating position in talks over sea border

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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People could still lose homes under Boris Johnson’s social care plan, minister admits

Government slipped out changes to proposals to save money

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Boris Johnson urged to stop MPs avoiding tax on second jobs

MPs channelling £1 million outside earnings through personal companies

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Boris Johnson strips Transport for the North of powers after it criticises his rail cuts

Government drops Northern transport authority as ‘co-client’ of new line rail

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Brexit trade deal at risk if Boris Johnson suspends Irish border protocol, EU warns

Lord Frost has travelled to Brussels for talks on the Irish border

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Stop criticising people on social media, culture secretary Nadine Dorries says

Dorries says social media has been ‘hijacked’ by left-wingers who keep challenging her views

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Bertie Ahern urged to apologise for saying loyalists in ‘ghettos’ do not understand Brexit deal

Ex-Taoiseach’s comments are ‘demeaning and degrading’ says DUP MP for East Belfast

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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‘Betrayal of the north’: Furious leaders demand free Commons vote as Johnson slashes rail plans

‘Everybody in the north is getting a bargain-basement solution’ says South Yorkshire mayor Dan Jarvis.

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Cancelling these northern rail projects looks bad – because it is bad

Analysis: When push came to shove it was the North that bore the brunt, Jon Stone writes

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Northern mayors urge vote in parliament on Boris Johnson’s cuts to rail plan

Areas representing 22 million people are expected to lose out from missing or downgraded projects

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Northern transport chiefs brand government’s rail plan ‘woefully inadequate’ and ‘second class’

Government cutting back HS2 leg to Leeds and Northern Powerhouse Rail plans

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Boris Johnson facing backlash from Tory MPs as he unveils cuts to northern rail plan

Prime minister’s Integrated Rail Review is expected to ditch plans for a new line across the north

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Speaker rebukes Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer over sleaze scandal row

Pair accused of breaking Commons debate rules as Lindsay Hoyle says MPs have ‘not learnt’ from scandal

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Northern Ireland public don’t back you over Brexit talks, Lord Frost told

Polls shows strong support for the Northern Ireland protocol

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‘Clear risk’ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS

Trans-pacific partnership (CPTPP) has limited economic benefits but ministers are desperate for a win

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Cambo: Nicola Sturgeon says new oil field should be blocked on climate grounds

The Cambo oil field was being considered during the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Boris Johnson ‘walked past and ignored’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s hunger-striking husband

Richard Radcliffe says government’s approach to his wife’s case ‘shames this country’

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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England’s austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lifts and arcti...

Lord Chief Justice warns hundreds of millions of pounds needed to stop courts falling down

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Stop guzzling Russian gas, Boris Johnson tells Europe

Prime minister uses Mansion House speech to tell Germany to stop ‘mainlining Russian hydrocarbons’

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Government botches U-turn on Owen Paterson sleaze scandal

MP’s shout of ‘object’ bring’s chaos to parliamentary proceedings

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Northern Powerhouse Rail isn’t being cut back – it’s being cancelled

Analysis: The whole point of the project was a new line between the North’s most important cities

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Michel Barnier says he won’t apologise for France’s ‘great’ colonial history

Former EU Brexit negotiator continues turn to the right

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Tax domestic flights to fund rail fare cuts, public say

But government has been making rail fares more expensive while cutting taxes on domestic flights

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Stop stalling on MP second jobs restrictions, government’s standards chief warns

Standards committee recommended partial MP jobs ban as far back as 2018

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Government appoints ex-Tory advisor married to Tory MP to help pick media regulator

Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre is No.10’s pick to chair Ofcom

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Government wasting billions by delaying net zero standards for homes

Hundreds of thousands of extra homes are being built to lower standards but will need to be upgraded at great cost

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Tory MP who worked for tax haven argued against closing money laundering loopholes

Geoffrey Cox said it was ‘beneath the dignity of this parliament’ to crack down on British Overseas Territory tax hav...

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Parliament must fix sleaze scandal to avoid being seen as ‘dictatorship’, Speaker warns

Lindsay Hoyle warns: ‘If we haven’t got democracy, we’re a dictatorship’

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Tory MP voted in parliament while doing £1m second job from Caribbean island tax haven

Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab says work was ‘legitimate’

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Government set to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for NHS frontline workers

Announcement expected later on Tuesday, with workers given deadline of next Spring to get double-jabbed

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fast 3 Jahre ago
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Boris Johnson told to apologise over Owen Paterson sleaze scandal in parliament

Labour leader Keir Starmer urged the prime minister to ‘take responsibility’

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