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Mark Menzies: is UK politics full of scandal?
As another scandal engulfs parliament, the SNP’s Mhairi Black and former Education Secretary Justine Greening join Matt Frei and Paul McNamara to discuss Westminster’s toxic culture.
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Windrush scandal: returning to the UK after a forty year wait
Imagine going on a family holiday and being told you have no right to return to the only place you have ever called home. That’s what happened to 70-year-old Richard Black, who went to Trinidad from the UK 40 years ago to visit his in-laws. He’s thought to be one of the earliest victims of…
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Netanyahu ‘survival’ depends on ‘expanding war’ says head of Palestinian National Initiative
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote on a Palestinian request for full UN membership on Friday. Israel’s ally, the US, is expected to block the move because it would effectively recognise a Palestinian state. It comes as the UN appeals for more than £2.2 billion to help people in Gaza and the…
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Proposed law change could strip parental rights from paedophiles
A proposed law change is set to end an anomaly that protects other people’s children from paedophiles, but not the offender’s own. The current rules allow people convicted of raping a child to retain the right to be involved in key decisions about their children’s lives, with devastating consequences for many families, as we’ve previously…
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Hugh Grant settles privacy lawsuit against The Sun newspaper publisher
Hugh Grant has reluctantly settled a lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun newspaper over claims journalists used private investigators to tap his phone and burgle his house. The actor said he’d been offered “an enormous sum of money” to keep the matter out of court, which he accepted to avoid being stuck with a…
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Post Office Scandal: what did top executive know?
She’s been described as the Post Office executive who knew more about the Horizon IT scandal than anybody else. Angela van den Bogerd personally oversaw complaints about Horizon problems since 2010 and was part of a mediation scheme that was supposed to get to the bottom of why so many subpostmasters were being accused of…
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Inflation falls to lowest rate since 2021 in UK
Inflation has fallen to 3.2%, the lowest rate since September 2021 and driven by prices dropping for food items like meat, crumpets and chocolate biscuits. But forecasters had hoped it would fall by more. And that’s intensified concerns that the Bank of England may delay any interest rate cuts to later in the year.
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Rwanda asylum bill returns to Lords after MPs reject amendments again
The standoff between the Commons and the Lords over the Government’s Rwanda Bill is continuing. The Lords have just started another debate on the Bill after MPs rejected amendments they had put in yesterday. Some peers are threatening to defy the Commons again. If they are successful, the row could continue into next week.
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Iran ‘ready to take harsher measures against Israel’, says Iranian political analyst
We’re joined by Iranian political analyst Mohammad Hashemi, who is in Tehran.
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Israel war with Iran has begun says former Israeli air defence commander
With Iran promising massive retaliation, could Israel count on repeating Saturday’s successful shooting down of nearly all the Iranian missiles and drones – especially when around a third are thought to have been downed by Israel’s Western and Arab allies? Brigadier General Zvika Haimovich was Commander of the Israel Air Defense Forces until 2018. We…
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Israel prepares Iran attack retaliation – vows ‘to do everything necessary’
Iran’s President has warned that the tiniest attack by Israel will provoke a massive and harsh response. The rhetoric and the drums of war are getting louder. It’s not a question of if, it’s when and what Israel decides to attack. We understand Israel’s guidance to its allies is that its action will be “narrow…
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FactCheck: the Angela Rayner house row explained
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is at the centre of an ongoing row about her former living arrangements. FactCheck takes a look.
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Police try to shut down right-wing event as Nigel Farage speaks
There have been chaotic scenes in Brussels where the local mayor and the police tried to shut down a right-wing conference where Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were giving speeches.
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‘Many things Netanyahu has done I disagree with, but I’m not giving up on Israel’, says top-ranking Democrat
We spoke to Gregory Meeks – a Democrat who has been against selling F15 fighter jets to Israel.
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Could US House be about to vote on Israel, Ukraine aid bill?
The White House has been vocal in expressing support for both Israel and Ukraine.