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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Labour’s worker rights shake-up leaves UK business on edge

    Overhaul planned by main opposition party could backfire and end up harming employees and bosses, say executives

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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    UK energy
    UK ministers must ‘move faster’ on net zero energy reforms, warns infrastructure tsar

    Sir John Armitt accuses Whitehall of taking ‘too long’ to decide on measures to support decarbonisation

    Biomass domes at Drax Power Station UK
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Hoyle braced for tough week as SNP demands new Gaza vote in Commons

    Opposition party wants fresh motion on ceasefire while some MPs still looking to oust Speaker

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Polly Curtis
    Citizens’ assemblies could help repair our toxic political culture

    Objections to Labour’s flirtation with adopting collaborative democracy are easy to refute

    A group of citizens chosen at random in Ireland sat down to debate abortion in 2018
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Conservative Party UK
    UK deputy PM declines to say if Lee Anderson comments over Sadiq Khan were racist

    Oliver Dowden says remarks by ex-Tory MP ‘could be taken’ as Islamophobic as Sunak warns against polarisation

    Former senior Tory MP Lee Anderson
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election
    UK Conservatives battle to retain ‘true blue’ rural heartlands

    Farming constituencies signal openness to Labour for first time in generations amid anger with Rishi Sunak’s government

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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
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    Conservative party suspends Lee Anderson over Sadiq Khan comments

    Accusation that London mayor was controlled by Islamists prompts criticism from Labour and moderate Conservatives

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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
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    ‘Macho’ all-male Rochdale by-election fuels political divisions over Gaza

    Locals bemoan campaign’s lack of focus on ‘serious poverty’ blighting the community

  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The metropolitan elite has ignored farmers for too long

    It’s time for political leaders to balance reducing carbon emissions with maintaining cheap food production

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of two farmers with pitchforks - one of them wearing a cow mask on top of his head.
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
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    Lynton Crosby’s CT Group accused of supplying forged records in court disputes

    Former Tory election adviser’s firm says confident information it supplied was ‘genuine and accurate’

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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    UK labour disputes
    Junior doctors in England willing to consider lower pay rise this year, says union

    Suggestion that striking NHS staff would not pursue original demand for 35% increase comes ahead of 5-day strike

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Rishi Sunak urged to discipline Lee Anderson over Islamist claims

    Cross-party anger after Tory MP says London mayor Sadiq Khan had ‘given our capital city away to his mates’

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Sunak touts ‘green shoots’ of economic recovery ahead of Budget

    PM says ‘things are getting better’ as he tries to reassure Tories they are not doomed to election defeat

    Rishi Sunak addresses the Welsh Conservative conference on Friday
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Ministers set out plans to ease access to UK pension scheme surpluses

    Proposals come after recent period of rising interest left majority of defined benefit plans in the black

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    New UK worker visa rules to close system to employers in key shortage areas

    Warning by government migration adviser comes ahead of sharp rise in salary floors for overseas hires

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    What comes next for embattled Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle?

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Birmingham’s cuts are the price of political failure

    Innocent citizens will be paying a lot more for a lot less, but in Brum, being down is not the same as being out

    People walk past an empty shop in Birmingham. Poor decision-making at local authority level can have dire consequences
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthConservative Party UK
    Seven in 10 Tory candidates are male, study shows

    Conservatives accused of ‘going backwards’ on gender equality as party opts for men from local government background

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Why would anyone want to become an MP?

    Who have the Tories and Labour selected as new candidates at the election? Michael Crick explains the changing face of tomorrow’s MPs

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK society
    Birth rate drops to new low in England and Wales

    Fertility level falls to 1.49 children per woman in 2022, well below rate needed to maintain a population without immigration

    A baby boy is weighed in hospital
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Isis schoolgirl Shamima Begum loses bid to overturn removal of UK citizenship

    Court of Appeal upholds ruling that government acted lawfully in action against woman who joined jihadist group aged 15

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Gaza vote highlights security fears in parliament

    Commons Speaker’s unprecedented action will give way to wider debate over balance between MPs’ security and right to protest

    A photograph shows a wreath of flowers laid on Westminster Bridge in front of parliament to mark the anniversary of the Westminster Bridge terror attack
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    600,000 UK children are educated privately. How would families cope with a 20 per cent tax?

  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
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    Asset-backing these promises could lift investment and growth

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