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'What we didn't know was the explanation they were giving to the police for why they'd done this.'

Gordon Brown tells Robert Peston he's demanded the Met launch a fresh probe over phone hacking by News International amid 'cover up' allegations

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Exclusive: former prime minister Gordon Brown has written to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling for a second criminal phone-hacking investigation into News Group Newspapers, namely into the alleged “destruction of evidence by the organisation and the cover up that

We’ve recorded a fourth (and fifth) episode of our The Rest is Money miniseries “Who Killed Liz Truss?”. It’s her testimony (an interview with her)

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“It is beginning to have that deterrent effect”

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt suggests the threat of being deported to Rwanda has resulted in more asylum seekers crossing the border from Northern Ireland into Ireland

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'It is... we would like to be able to return people who cross the channel illegally to France'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says he wants to see a joined up approach to tackle illegal immigration with Ireland and France

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.Anas Sarwar: “In my view there are clear breaches of international law...”

Robert Peston: “So why haven’t you been able to persuade Keir Starmer of that view?”

The Scottish Labour Leader says he thinks UK arms sales to Israel should cease

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“We should celebrate when politicians change their minds”

Former Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King thinks it’s a good thing that Labour have listened to views of employers and as a result reportedly changed their policy to ban zero-hours contracts

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“Lee Anderson made his choice, and he has chosen to leave the Conservative Party”

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt responds to the former Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson’s claims that Rishi Sunak treated him badly by suspending him from the party

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“Well I completely reject that… they are just wrong”

Jeremy Hunt responds to charity @SCOPE calling the government's welfare reforms an assault on disabled people, arguing one of the best ways to address mental illness is “to help them get back into the world of work”

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“I certainly hope they’re not going to be watered down”

Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP responds to reports that Sir Keir Starmer is planning to water down the party’s workers’ rights pledges

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“If the Chancellor doesn’t bring that forward, I can tell you there’ll be merry hell in Parliament”

Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 says the Government must follow through on promises to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal

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🚨Local Election Predictions🔮

We looked at our geeks Lord Hayward and Professor Steve Fisher's predictions for #LocalElections2024

Who do you think will be closest? Comment 👇

The winner will be crowned #GeekOfTheWeek next Wednesday 🤓👑

📺Anushka Asthana

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'Shoplifting has been de facto decriminalised for the best part of 20 years'

Former Sainsbury's CEO Justin King says professional criminals have realised that shoplifting is a crime 'which has no consequences'.

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“We've always said we'd ban exploitative zero hour contracts, which is a very, very different commitment”

Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar says Labour’s New Deal for Working People is ‘non-negotiable,’ but it always only included exploitative zero hour contracts

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'It should go immediately… we’ll get round to it… it’s not something we literally have to spend time on in the first 100 days”

Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP responds to suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer could resist immediately scrapping the Rwanda policy if he became PM

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.Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: 'You said you hope that people were listening to... the employers, I'd rather they listen to the employees'

Justin King: 'I'd rather they listen to both'

Labour MP and former Sainsbury’s CEO disagree over the use of zero-hours contracts.

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November 14th? Is there time for another fiscal event? 📅

Anushka Asthana looks at the dates No.10 will be eyeing up for a General Election and what factors will be influencing their decision.

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“The sale of arms to Israel at this point absolutely has to stop”

Labour’s Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP says the party must back a ban on arms sales to Israel because the UK is “complicit in what is happening in Gaza”.

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