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Anti-corruption officers in Scotland Yard investigated over allegations of rigging disciplinaries
The police drama Line of Duty was fiction. But this is fact. Not AC-12 but a real-life anti-corruption unit inside the largest force in the country.
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Electoral Commission reviewing Brexit Party funding
First Gordon Brown launched an attack on his Brexit Party’s finances. Then, as he was on the campaign trail in Newcastle, Nigel Farage became the latest right-wing politician to fall victim to a protester’s milkshake.
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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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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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Meet the pro and anti-Brexit social media warriors
Brexit has certainly engaged people in politics like never before. Whilst thousands have taken to the streets to protest on both sides of the divide, others are fighting the war from their living rooms.
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Man City stage victory parade after winning domestic treble
Twenty years ago you wouldn’t have bet a pint on it. But at the weekend Manchester City became the first English men’s side to win the domestic treble.
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Labour’s Emily Thornberry on Brexit: ‘If it is no deal or Theresa May’s nonsense, we will all as the Labour party be campaigning to remain’
Shadow Foreign Secretary, Labour’s Emily Thornberry, discusses Brexit.
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Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames on Heseltine whip suspension: ‘I think that’s a really stupid, bovine thing to do’
Today Amber Rudd and Nicky Morgan’s One Nation Conservative launched itself. Sir Nicholas Soames, Conservative MP for Mid Sussex, is one of that group
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Next Brexit vote could be three weeks away
It could be nearly three weeks until the Commons finally gets another chance to vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
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Google imposes Huawei Android restrictions
The Chinese mobile phone giant Huawei says it’s the victim of a trade war between America and China after Google said it would no longer supply the company with its Android software.
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European Parliament quaestor Catherine Bearder on Nigel Farage: ‘There seems to be a lot of spending going on, money coming into Farage’s activities, that are not showing up on the public record’
We asked Nigel Farage or a representative of the Brexit Party for an interview. Nobody was available. We spoke to Catherine Bearder, who as well as being a Liberal Democrat MEP in the European parliament, was one of five quaestors – politicians elected to scrutinise the finances and administration of members of the parliament.
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FactCheck: is there time for a second referendum before Brexit?
Change UK’s Chuka Umunna says we don’t have time to hold a “People’s Vote” before 31 October.
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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…
