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Local elections: what are the results so far
By any measure it’s been a grim day for the Conservatives – they lost the by-election for an MP in Blackpool South thanks to a massive swing to Labour, they’re on track to lose around half of the local election council seats they contested and their projected national vote share is down to a dismal…
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Are election results worst of all worlds for Tories?
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Labour’s Lords leader Baroness Smith join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss whether it’s sink or survive for Rishi Sunak after election losses across the country.
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FactCheck: how many asylum seekers are entering Ireland via the UK and what does it mean for Rwanda?
The Irish justice minister says more than 80% of asylum applicants are coming from Northern Ireland.
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New Co-op Live arena hit by more last-minute cancellations
If you were going to write a guide on how not to open a huge concert venue, you’d probably use what has been happening at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester as the blueprint.
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Georgia cracks down on demonstrations over ‘foreign agents bill’
EU and US officials have called on Georgia to scrap a controversial new bill, which – according to its critics – would put an end to free speech, and prevent accession to the EU.
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Calls for better monitoring of antipsychotic drug linked to hundreds of deaths
The families of people who have died while taking an antipsychotic drug have told Channel 4 News there needs to be a wholesale change in how it’s monitored.
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‘I’ll do everything I possibly can do to deliver Scottish independence’, says the SNP’s John Swinney
Earlier we spoke to SNP leadership candidate John Swinney and asked him about the challenges he is likely to face.
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Swinney poised for coronation as SNP leader and Scotland’s new first minister
As the saying goes: “Those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it.”
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HMP Woodhill ‘has never been able to recruit enough staff to run safely’ claims former Prison Service boss
We spoke earlier to the former director general of England and Wales’ Prison Service, Phil Wheatley. We started by asking him who should be held accountable for Robert Fenlon’s death.
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Call for corporate manslaughter charge against the prison service after inquest
There are calls for the prison service to face a corporate manslaughter prosecution following the self-inflicted death of a man in a troubled jail with a history of failing vulnerable prisoners.
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‘I lost my childhood, my loved ones and my leg’: The young Gazans permanently scarred by war
Some in Gaza have been expressing their thanks to American students for their support – but it is a ceasefire that they long for.
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White House ‘very, very scared’ of how campus protests could hit Biden, says Republican pollster
Earlier we spoke to the Republican pollster Frank Luntz, and started by asking him why it had taken Joe Biden until today to speak about the protests.
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Biden tells US Gaza protesters they have ‘no right to cause chaos’
For the last fortnight, America’s tented protest movement has spread from campus to campus, seemingly unabated by political condemnation.
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FactCheck: government pays ex-asylum seeker £3,000 to go to Rwanda but true cost much higher
This isn’t the government’s flagship Rwanda policy.
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US campus protest arrests ‘very upsetting’, says Nobel Prize-winning Columbia professor
We spoke to Professor Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University.