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Nato members have been urged to present "clear, concrete and credible plans" for raising defence spending.
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Finnola Tzagorakis shared her story as MPs debated tackling abuse against people in customer facing roles.
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The Office for National Statistics says some areas of the jobs market are weakening, as vacancies continue to fall.
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Residents in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry are choosing new members of parliament.
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Starmer’s EU reset is aimed at the conference room. Meanwhile Farage and the hard right mine ethnic resentment on the streetsWhat story does Britain tell itself about Brexit, 10 years after the vote that transformed the country? Watch TV or read the papers and you find one of two viewpoints: from the common room or the conference room.The common room story is about chums and how they fall out. Friendships forged on hallowed playing fields and over Cotswold kitchen suppers, then dashed on the roc
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The Labour MP's draft legislation will be debated during Friday sittings in Parliament.
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There are 14 candidates vying to be the Greater Manchester constituency's new MP.
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About 70,000 voters in Greater Manchester’s Makerfield constituency could play pivotal role in ending Keir Starmer’s time as UK prime minsterAn election that could shape the future of UK politics for years to come is taking place on Thursday. But it is only happening in one small part of north-west England, with little more than 70,000 people eligible to vote.Why? It is a question with a number of answers, some connected to the structure of the British political system, others much more topical.
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The Bank last cut interest rates in December but upheaval in the Middle East has stalled any further reductions.
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If he wins Makerfield byelection, Greater Manchester mayor faces a number of scenarios in his bid to replace Keir StarmerThose who don’t pay much attention to politics could be forgiven for not being fully on top of this, but the UK could have a new prime minister soon – potentially within weeks.So how quickly could Andy Burnham replace Keir Starmer, if Burnham wins Thursday’s Makerfield byelection? Actually, quite quickly, but only if events go in a particular way. And there are plenty of alter
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Speech by Reform MS mocking Welsh students for being unable to read sparks Welsh Parliament walkout.
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The Liberal Democrat leader’s call for more ambitious reintegration with Europe brings a necessary focus on economic and strategic realityMembership of the European single market was at stake when the UK voted on Brexit, but it was not the decisive question in the campaign. The leave campaign dishonestly promised a cost-free severance of ties with Britain’s largest trading partner. As immigration came to dominate the debate, the requirement to allow free movement of people as a condition of seam
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The prime minister wants to raise the political bar for his potential challengers to clear.
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Keir Starmer is a decent man but that is not enough for a party who want a good communicator. Step forward Andy …On days like these you can’t help feeling you’re living in a parallel universe. Either I’m going mad or Keir Starmer is. The third possibility that we’re both going mad is too disturbing to contemplate.What to make of the prime minister’s Sky News interview at the G7 in Évian in which Starmer graciously offered Andy Burnham a “big role in government” if, as expected, he wins the Maker
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Wes Streeting has suggested he would be prepared to trigger a Labour leadership contest to replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister as early as next week.
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‘I had one man spit at my poster’: Makerfield deeply divided as byelection campaign draws to a close
People across constituency say voters are ‘turning against each other’ but Labour believes they will back Andy Burnham because he is ‘bringing people together’On a wall inside Andy Burnham’s buzzy campaign centre, the signatures of hundreds of MPs, peers and councillors show the scale of the operation to return him to parliament. “MPs are like buses round here these days,” says one Labour volunteer. “You don’t see one for ages then hundreds turn up at once.”The voters of this long-neglected corn
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Multiculturalism and hard-won equalities are being attacked on all fronts. Labour should look to London’s leaders, past and present, for how to stand against the tideNot for the first time, the UK is in the grip of a backlash against equality and diversity. Already disadvantaged parts of the population are having the existence of that disadvantage denied – and the limited legal redress for it, which has been won over decades, such as the 2010 Equality Act, threatened with repeal. Two of the larg
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Last summer the St George’s cross was co-opted by anti-immigrant groups. Now, as the World Cup begins, some communities are reclaiming it as a symbol of a very different sort of prideAs I drove into London with my daughter a week ago, we passed a roadside pub festooned with dozens of England flags. Our eyes met in recognition: we were in one of those areas, we assumed. In the eyes of many, St George’s cross flags have become a kind of territorial marker in the English landscape, signifying a cer
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Exclusive: NASUWT leader Matt Wrack also calls for more robust change from the government on education policyUK politics live – latest updatesThe leader of one of the country’s biggest teaching unions has backed Andy Burnham, saying he is Labour’s best chance for beating Reform in a general election.The general secretary of NASUWT, Matt Wrack, was speaking to the Guardian in the run-up to Thursday’s Makerfield byelection, in which the Greater Manchester mayor hopes to return to parliament and pa