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Final GDP reading likely to confirm US economy entered a recession in the spring: The Commerce Department will release the third and final estimate of Q2 GDP on ...
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Final GDP reading likely to confirm US economy entered a recession in the ...
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Truss' Tories Plan to Slash Public Spending While Clinging to Chaos-Causing Tax Cuts
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Final GDP reading likely to confirm US economy entered a recession in the spring: The Commerce Department will release the third and final estimate of Q2 GDP on ...
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Final GDP reading likely to confirm US economy entered a recession in the ...
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Truss' Tories Plan to Slash Public Spending While Clinging to Chaos-Causing Tax Cuts
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Truss' Tories Plan to Slash Public Spending While Clinging to ...
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Michael Gove can't guarantee no-fault eviction ban before election: The Conservatives first promised to end landlords' ability to evict tenants with no reason in ...
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Michael Gove can't guarantee no-fault eviction ban before election
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UK law to send asylum seekers to Rwanda passed after months of wrangling: The controversial law is expected to come into force within days with the first ...
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UK law to send asylum seekers to Rwanda passed after months of wrangling
Quick Glance: British Parliament Approves Deportations to Rwanda
  • The controversial plan to deport refugees to Rwanda has been approved by the British Parliament.

  • Despite resistance in the upper house and multiple votes, the law was passed.

  • Prime Minister Sunak is pushing for deportations to deter refugees from dangerous crossings.

  • Experts question the effectiveness of the measure, while concerns about costs and legal implications persist.
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares: It is convenient for the Tories to have her in the public stocks
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The problem with the Angela Rayner story? No one actually cares
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UK wants NATO defense target upped to 2.5 percent: Defense Secretary Grant Shapps says meeting that target would make a ‘real difference.’
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UK wants NATO defense target upped to 2.5 percent
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Liz Truss sheds tear as she reveals impact on her teenage daughters of short-lived premiership
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Liz Truss sheds tear as she reveals impact on her teenage daughters of ...
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The logic of Liz Truss’s delusion: Here is a list of just some of the people and things that failed prime minister Liz Truss has recently blamed for her own ...
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The logic of Liz Truss’s delusion
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Liz Truss says Tories are part of a Blairite attempt to silence her: Reform UK leader Richard Tice said the Conservative Party is 'socialist' and ...
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Liz Truss says Tories are part of a Blairite attempt to silence her
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Labour veteran Frank Field dies: Frank Field was first elected in 1979 and served as an MP until 2019. A lifelong campaigner on welfare ...
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Labour veteran Frank Field dies
Quick Glance: Farewell to Frank Field: A Life Dedicated to Social Justice
  • The former Labour minister and advocate for poverty alleviation, Frank Field, has passed away at the age of 81.

  • Throughout his career in Westminster, Lord Field championed social causes such as child poverty and modern slavery for over four decades.

  • Field succumbed to a long battle with cancer in a care home in London. He advocated for a 2021 bill on assisted dying in England and Wales.

  • His family emphasized that Field will be mourned by admirers in the political realm, but most of all missed by those fortunate enough to have experienced his laughter and friendship.
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Antisemitic false Rothschild quote cut from Liz Truss memoir: The ex-PM's publishers apologise and agree to remove a fake quote tied to an antisemitic conspiracy ...
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Antisemitic false Rothschild quote cut from Liz Truss memoir
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British grocery inflation dips to 3.2%, says Kantar: UK grocery price inflation fell for the 14th month in a row in April, partly driven by an increase in ...
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British grocery inflation dips to 3.2%, says Kantar
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Labour are ahead in the polls, but have they won hearts and minds? These charts suggest not
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Labour are ahead in the polls, but have they won hearts and minds? These ...
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Joe Biden won’t do a trade deal with Britain, says Liz Truss: The former prime minister dismissed the chance of any trade deal happening under the incumbent ...
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Joe Biden won’t do a trade deal with Britain, says Liz Truss
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New temporary leader of West Northants Council speaks out following resignation of former leader Jonathan Nunn
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New temporary leader of West Northants Council speaks out following ...
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election: More than 60 are Conservatives and they include former prime minister Theresa May.
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100 MPs to stand down at the next general election
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Everything seems to be going wrong for Rishi Sunak: With just two weeks until local elections that will likely go badly for his governing Conservative Party ...
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Everything seems to be going wrong for Rishi Sunak
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The Rwanda policy isn’t the answer to the Tories’ electoral woes: Rwanda has become something far bigger than policy for the Tories and there is a risk that it ...
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The Rwanda policy isn’t the answer to the Tories’ electoral woes
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Sarah Ferguson Thanks Queen Elizabeth For Being A 'Dear Friend' On Her Birthday: The queen was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in London on April 21, 1926.
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Sarah Ferguson Thanks Queen Elizabeth For Being A 'Dear Friend' On Her ...
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Mark Menzies to Stand Down as MP in Fresh Blow to Sunak's Tories: A Conservative lawmaker facing misconduct allegations said he’ll stand down as a Member of ...
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Mark Menzies to Stand Down as MP in Fresh Blow to Sunak's Tories
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What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?: This morning it was revealed that last month the government was forced to borrow £11.9 billion ...
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What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?
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PMQs review: Angela Rayner struggles to change narrative on tax controversy: Angela Rayner usually relishes standing in for Keir Starmer at PMQs when the Prime ...
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PMQs review: Angela Rayner struggles to change narrative on tax ...
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Rishi Sunak Hit by Fresh Poll Blows as Working Age Voters Desert Tories: UK voters of working age have turned their backs on the governing Conservative Party ...
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Rishi Sunak Hit by Fresh Poll Blows as Working Age Voters Desert Tories
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Paddy McGuinness signed up to BBC show to 'kick the boot in the Tories': Paddy McGuinness has revealed he signed up to BBC show Question Time to 'kick the ...
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Paddy McGuinness signed up to BBC show to 'kick the boot in the Tories'
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Laughing at Liz Truss only proves her point: Westminster has stopped listening: There are problems piling up across Whitehall which will take creative thinking ...
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Laughing at Liz Truss only proves her point: Westminster has stopped ...
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UK Conservative lawmaker suspended over allegations of misusing funds: Britain's governing Conservative Party has suspended one of its lawmakers while he is ...
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UK Conservative lawmaker suspended over allegations of misusing funds
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Conservative researcher Christopher Cash charged with spying for China: Two men Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash were accused of spying for China and have ...
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Conservative researcher Christopher Cash charged with spying for China
Quick Glance: Charges Filed Against UK Ex-Parliamentary Researcher for 'China Espionage'
  • London's Metropolitan Police has accused two men, researcher Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry, of violating the Official Secrets Act.

  • The charges coincided with the announcement of the arrest of three German nationals suspected of spying for China and accessing secret maritime technology by German investigators.

  • The British duo is alleged to have transmitted 'articles, notes, documents or information' to a foreign state between 2021 and the previous year.

  • In September, the Met Police disclosed the arrest of a man in his twenties on espionage suspicions. The Sunday Times revealed his parliamentary researcher identity.
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It’s not sleaze that will finish off the Tories – it’s incompetence: Public standards matter, but living standards matter more to many people
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It’s not sleaze that will finish off the Tories – it’s incompetence
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Jonathan Pie comic: Having a pop at Brexit and Tory voters is 'gross': Tom Walker, the actor who plays satirical news reporter Jonathan Pie, told ITV News what ...
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Jonathan Pie comic: Having a pop at Brexit and Tory voters is 'gross'
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more: Liz Truss bore the brunt at prime minister’s questions
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more
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Is Liz Truss not to blame for high mortgages? Claims fact-checked: Liz Truss has refused to take the blame for higher mortgage rates that hit homeowners ...
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Is Liz Truss not to blame for high mortgages? Claims fact-checked
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Sunak vows to end 'sick note culture' as UK election looms: LONDON: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled planned welfare reforms Friday to end Britain's "sick ...
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Sunak vows to end 'sick note culture' as UK election looms
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Crumbling Blue Wall: The councils where Tories are bracing for a ‘pasting’: Local elections next month will shed light on whether the Conservatives really are as ...
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Crumbling Blue Wall: The councils where Tories are bracing for a ‘pasting’
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Liz Truss to save the West: is a political comeback really on the cards?: The former prime minister is back with a new tell-all memoir, "Ten Days to Save the ...
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Liz Truss to save the West: is a political comeback really on the cards?
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Rossendale and Darwen MP in sex pest and tax dodger MPs warning: A SENIOR East Lancashire MP has warned that recent Parliamentary scandals make the House of ...
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Rossendale and Darwen MP in sex pest and tax dodger MPs warning
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Nigel Farage is cancelled at last and he’s never been happier: Thanks to the Brussels police the National Conservatism usual suspects could feel they really were ...
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Nigel Farage is cancelled at last and he’s never been happier
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Liz Truss says she had to urge British diplomats to be more pro-Israel at UN: The former prime minister said she had to "actively intervene" with officials to ...
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Liz Truss says she had to urge British diplomats to be more pro-Israel at ...
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Conservative HQ responds to calls to remove whip from former West Northamptonshire Council leader
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Conservative HQ responds to calls to remove whip from former West ...
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‘Evasive’ Boris Johnson broke lobbying rules in meeting with Venezuela’s Maduro: Former prime minister failed to disclose links to hedge fund which organized a ...
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‘Evasive’ Boris Johnson broke lobbying rules in meeting with Venezuela’s ...
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MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy: Rishi Sunak suffers blow to his authority as 57 of his own MPs vote against his plan and over 100 ...
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MPs vote for smoking ban despite Tories’ division over policy
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Conservatives' loss of support among young people is 'ticking time bomb' for party
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Conservatives' loss of support among young people is 'ticking time bomb' ...
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MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009: The measures, championed by PM Rishi Sunak, pass despite opposition by several leading Conservative figures.
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MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
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Belgian mayor orders end to NatCon conference attended by Suella Braverman and Nigel Farage
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Belgian mayor orders end to NatCon conference attended by Suella Braverman ...
Quick Glance: Brussels Police Shut Down Right-Wing Conference with Farage and Braverman
  • Brussels police stormed a right-wing conference attended by Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman after orders for the event to be shut down.

  • The controversial National Conservatism Conference was closed to ensure public safety.

  • Despite police arriving and giving attendees 15 minutes to leave, speeches continued.

  • The conference, hosted by Viktor Orban and the Edmund Burke Foundation, aimed to strengthen national conservatism principles in Western countries.
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Sunak has weakened his position over smoking ban, Tories warn: Kemi Badenoch has come under fire for voting against the legislation 
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Sunak has weakened his position over smoking ban, Tories warn
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Does David Cameron agree with ally George Osborne that Labour's Rachel Reeves is his heir?
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Does David Cameron agree with ally George Osborne that Labour's Rachel ...
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Nigel Farage says ‘big political decision’ to be announced when quizzed on joining Conservative Party
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Nigel Farage says ‘big political decision’ to be announced when quizzed on ...
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' land: Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visited Europe's biggest brownfield site
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Labour leaders set out new housebuilding rules to identify 'grey belt' ...
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As a black woman, I feel politically homeless: I’ve started to question whether the Labour Party still represents me
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As a black woman, I feel politically homeless
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UK retail sales stagnate despite easing inflation: British retail sales stagnated in March despite high inflation easing recently, representing the first time ...
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UK retail sales stagnate despite easing inflation
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‘We’ll get rid of the Tories’: Inside the hyperlocal plan to smash the Blue Wall: The Lib Dems keep losing deposits. But there's confidence a ...
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‘We’ll get rid of the Tories’: Inside the hyperlocal plan to smash the ...
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Liz Truss isn’t done yet: The more the Tories fracture and fragment, the further Sunak’s supremacy is eroded
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Liz Truss isn’t done yet
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Sunak’s disability benefit shake-up means an anxious time for many: Both the Tories and Labour should clarify their election plans quickly
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Sunak’s disability benefit shake-up means an anxious time for many
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UK government rejects findings of Misogyny In Music report : The UK government has rejected the recommendations suggested by the Misogyny In Music report to ...
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UK government rejects findings of Misogyny In Music report
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How cycling in Bristol could change after local elections: Plans include new bike lanes along bridges over the River Avon, and 20mph speed limits in many parts ...
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How cycling in Bristol could change after local elections
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Liz Truss, UK prime minister for 49 days, refuses to rule out fresh leadership bid
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Liz Truss, UK prime minister for 49 days, refuses to rule out fresh ...
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UK Labour Would Take China Security Threat Seriously, Lammy Says: A UK Labour government would recognize that the Chinese Communist Party poses “real security ...
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UK Labour Would Take China Security Threat Seriously, Lammy Says
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Opinion | The Deep State Lies in Wait for Trump: His second term will be much like my time in office if he doesn’t confront the entrenched bureaucracy.
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Opinion | The Deep State Lies in Wait for Trump
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Tory MP admits campaign staffer set up websites in Lib Dem rival’s name: Simon Jupp confirm his campaign manager Oliver Kerr bought domain names in Lib Dem ...
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Tory MP admits campaign staffer set up websites in Lib Dem rival’s name
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Tory donor who funded Sunak private jet has £14.3m assets frozen in fraud case: The latest case against medical entrepreneur Akhil Tripathi has resulted in more ...
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Tory donor who funded Sunak private jet has £14.3m assets frozen in fraud ...
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Do you back Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban? Join The Independent Debate: While former health secretary Lord Clarke warned the ban risked being difficult to enforce ...
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Do you back Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban? Join The Independent Debate
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Scots misogyny law plans could be blocked for protecting trans women: The legislation is set to be considered at Holyrood after fury that women were not given ...
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Scots misogyny law plans could be blocked for protecting trans women