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Tory mayor Lord Houchen wants to offer a rebate, but the prime minister says it should be reinvested in communities.
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The Democratic Unionist Party says it is interested in delivering for the people of Northern Ireland.
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A Reform UK motion argues the council can improve the local environment without the official pledge.
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The prime minister says his "instinct" is to reverse plans by the last PM to limit jury trials in England and Wales.
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The new chancellor pledged to move money and power out of Westminster, and into every postcode around Britain.
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The government has given the green light to the site on the old Royal Mint, near the Tower of London.
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Labour has regained the lead in polling but the new PM will need to widen his appeal further to win a general electionAndy Burnham has spent his first two weeks as prime minister in a blitz of hyperactivity. Bus fares, business rates, energy bill cuts, defence, Ukraine and devolution – he has been everywhere.But at his speech on Wednesday at Jewish Care in north London, there was a stark reminder of how much even the most energetic prime minister can cut through. Continue reading...
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Councillor Patrick Lambert fears taxpayers will be left liable for the authority's debts.
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England and Wales’s prisons are overcrowded, drug-infested and barbaric. Labour has halted a once-in-a-generation effort to change that sorry stateAndy Burnham’s “pausing” of the Starmer government’s prisoner release scheme and the resignation of its architect, James Timpson, are disasters. They indicate a Downing Street that puts populism ahead of policy. England and Wales’s prisons are a total disgrace. Timpson was the first justice minister in 15 years prepared to handle them. Now he has gone
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The BBC understands the ban goes against long-standing policies on trans inclusion in most unions.
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The decision follows a review of BP's operations and is set to end 60 years of production in the region by the oil giant.
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The new PM is enjoying a honeymoon period but, longer-term, the Greens have the freedom to say whatever Labour won’t Cackling happily into their pints, the two most powerful men in the country scoff their way through a selection of pub snacks.Pork scratchings or scampi fries? Or maybe old-school peanuts? It’s hardly the toughest choice currently facing Andy Burnham and the chancellor, John Healey, so some may find this week’s made-to-go-viral Instagram reel of them gleefully ranking crisps a bit
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The Welsh government is to review the impact of a "modest' cut to the 182-day business rate threshold.
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The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv MenonNo more resistance in the US. The era of human rights is over, and dissent is once more forbidden. This is what certain billionaires and their concierges want, and this is the model they’re also seeking to project across the world. If we fail to resist, if our new prime minister is as weak and suggestible as the last one, this is what we will get. In fact, we are halfwa
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The prime minister says the move will give power to "every postcode" but critics say the plans lack detail.
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The long-serving MP apologises for past comments and says she has been issued with a "formal warning".
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More young people live with parents as low wages, insecure work and unaffordable housing turn family support into another source of inequalityIn Britain, young people are expected to become independent in their 20s. Yet the UK’s economic model increasingly denies them the means to do so. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), commissioned partly for the BBC, finds that the proportion of 25-year-olds living with their parents has risen from 25% in the 1990s to 42% today. The research
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PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’Andy Burnham has said he will take a “pragmatic” approach to oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, saying the government could not ignore the potential energy resources it holds.The prime minister’s comments came in response to a question about his conversation with Donald Trump on his first day in No 10. Trump had said Burnham told him he would “open up” North Sea oil, something the UK summary of th
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