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Lyra McKee’s friends feel ‘worthless’ after Northern Ireland Office spends just £318 on LGBT rights
Ruth Davidson says she will go back to Theresa May over PM’s promise to advance LGBT rights in Northern Ireland
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Theresa May to set her departure date after next Brexit vote
It’s been confirmed she will set a timetable for her departure after the Withdrawal Agreement vote in early June. Perhaps the least surprising announcement is that Boris Johnson will enter the fray to succeed her.
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Nigel Farage’s funding secrets revealed
Channel 4 News investigation reveals how millionaire Arron Banks spent approximately £450,000 on Nigel Farage to fund lavish lifestyle the year following the EU referendum in summer 2016.
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Probation service to be re-nationalised following Grayling reforms
Mr Grayling’s critics say this latest U-turn – added to previous failings such as the ferry and train timetable fiascoes – mean he should resign as transport secretary.
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Threat level raised for UK forces in Iraq, amid fears of Iranian attack
Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the UK does share the US State Department’s assessment of the heightened threat from Iran – despite statements from a British General earlier this week that contradicted America’s claims.
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Merthyr baby’s death due to ‘systemic failures’ at hospital
Jenson James Francis was pronounced dead just 40 minutes after he was born. Today, a coroner has concluded that systemic failures in the maternity unit at the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil caused Jenson’s death.
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Row over vital cystic fibrosis drug sparks protest
The mother of a baby girl with cystic fibrosis today delivered 65 roses to Downing Street to protest at the failure of the NHS to provide a potentially life-changing drug.
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Thomas Cook suffers £1.5bn half-year loss
Travel company Thomas Cook says Brexit uncertainty has made thousands of passengers delay their summer holiday plans. Add to that a weaker economy in Europe, signs among Scandinavian travellers that they’re unwilling to fly for environmental reasons and Britain feeling more like the Med last summer.
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Is AI racially biased?
In the UK, the government has set up an official unit to investigate bias in facial recognition and other aspects of Artificial Intelligence.
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The young Somalis returning home to escape knife crime
Somalia used to be a byword for war and hardship, and thousands of Somalis escaped to this country to seek safe refuge.
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Green co-leader Sian Berry: ‘There has to be confirmatory vote’ on new Brexit deal
We spoke to Sian Berry, the co-leader of the Green Party, and began by asking her if the Greens would support Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement if there was a second referendum.
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Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen: Future parliamentary alliance with Brexit Party ‘probably a necessity’
Joining us is Andrew Bridgen – a vocal Eurosceptic on the Conservative backbenches.
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Lord Heseltine: Tory Party ‘trying to be a mini version of Nigel Farage’ over Brexit
We’re joined by Lord Michael Heseltine, who served as a minister under three different Conservative PMs over a twenty-five year timespan, and current MP Andrew Bridgen – a vocal Eurosceptic on the Conservative backbenches.
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Theresa May plans to put ‘bold’ new Brexit offer before Commons
The Prime Minister has promised a “bold offer” to MPs in a final bid to get her Brexit deal through parliament, but we’re yet to hear the detail of what that could possibly entail. Lib Dem leader Vince Cable says if it means she’s now going to offer the country a confirmatory referendum on her…
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Nothing Great About Britain: Rapper Slowthai on the themes behind his debut album
‘Nothing Great About Britain’ is the provocative debut album by the 24-year old rapper Slowthai, who ‘reps’, as they say, Northampton. The album’s vision of Britain in 2019 is dark, divided, ironic and humorous. Through his lyrics, Slowthai’s stance on the monarchy, the government and race is clear. Our reporter Symeon Brown went to meet…
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Fears grow over DR Congo’s worsening Ebola crisis
Health workers battling to control a worsening outbreak of Ebola in Eastern Congo face many challenges. Not just the deadly disease itself, but the ongoing violence in that region which has seen clinics come under attack and patients killed. The disease has already claimed over a thousand lives and now aid agencies are warning that…
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Alastair Campbell: Labour need ‘clarity and leadership’ on Brexit ‘instead of Jeremy Corbyn trying to face both ways’
We’re joined by Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former Director of Communications and now a leading campaigner for a second Brexit referendum.
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Could the European elections redefine British politics?
Here in the UK, Brexit dominates the campaign that was never supposed to happen for Thursday’s European elections. Six weeks of talks between Labour and the government to find a deal on the Withdrawal Agreement have ended without consummation. With both sides blaming the other. The latest polling has the Tories in fourth, even fifth…
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Europe’s populist right rallies as Austria’s Vice-Chancellor resigns
Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache angrily denounced the sting that provoked his resignation as “a targeted political assassination”. A spontaneous demonstration of several thousand people outside the Chancellor’s office in Vienna demanded fresh elections. Less spontaneous was the rally in Milan for a gathering of Europe’s populist right, a campaign season finale ahead of next week’s…
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Man spent 40 years in solitary confinement for murder he says he didn’t commit
He served 43 years in solitary confinement, longer than any other American prisoner. Originally jailed for a petty offence, he claims that he was then falsely accused of murdering a prison guard, a crime he repeatedly claimed he didn’t commit and for which there was no physical evidence. Albert Woodfox finally secured his freedom from the Angola penitentiary in Louisiana after admitting to lesser charges in a plea bargain.
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Nurse killed as she helped London Bridge victim
An inquest has been hearing about the heroic actions of those who rushed to help the victims of the London Bridge terror attack, including a young nurse who was killed.
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Nigel Farage denies receiving £450,000 from Arron Banks companies after Channel 4 News revelations
Evidence seen by this programme suggests that Arron Banks, through his companies, financed Mr Farage to the tune of just under half a million pounds.
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Labour’s Stephen Kinnock: collapse of talks ‘moves us one step closer to leaving EU without deal’
We spoke to Labour MPs Alison McGovern and Stephen Kinnock and began by asking Mr Kinnock if the breakdown of talks was a shame or a blessed relief.
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Cross-party Brexit talks end without agreement
Talks between the government and Labour aimed at reaching a compromise Brexit deal have collapsed, with no agreement, but plenty of mutual recriminations.
