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Rishi Sunak attends Council of Europe summit in Iceland
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has arrived in Iceland for a Council of Europe summit where he’s been pushing for closer coordination to deal with illegal migrants.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg claims new voter ID rules ‘came back to bite’ Tories in local elections
The former Conservative cabinet minister Jacob Rees Mogg has claimed that the new voter ID rules “came back to bite” the Tories in the local elections earlier this month.
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90% turnout ‘is unheard of anywhere in Europe’ says member of Erdogan’s AK Party
We spoke to Harun Armagan, who is from President Erdogan’s ruling AK party.
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Turkey election: President Erdogan faces runoff vote
Turkey’s President Erdogan is headed for his – and his country’s – first presidential runoff vote.
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Protesters interrupt speeches by Braverman and Rees-Mogg at conservatism conference
Conservative divisions over the rising level of legal immigration have been on full public display – as the Home Secretary Suella Braverman told a conference of Tory activists that the level of mass migration to the UK was unsustainable.
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UK strikes: nurses union wants ‘double digit’ pay deal
The head of the Royal College of Nursing says she wants to negotiate a double digit pay increase for her members – after the union rejected the Government’s 5% pay deal. Pat Cullen called on ministers to re-open talks, saying she was proud of the determination shown by nurses, who’ve taken strike action in England…
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‘People will lose hope’ for change if Erdogan wins again, says Turkey analyst
We spoke to Asla Aydintashbash who’s a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and is currently in Istanbul. We asked her about Turkey’s future after the election.
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Turkey election: how could an Erdogan loss change the world?
Voting has ended in Turkey’s closest election in recent history and it’s looking as if there was a huge turnout. Voters were faced with a stark choice – whether President Erodgan should continue to lead the country down the path of one man rule – or a shift back to parliamentary democracy under his opposition…
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Israel Palestine ceasefire distant prospect after days of violence in Gaza
Israeli forces say they’ve killed another senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, after the militant group fired another barrage of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel for a fifth day running. The fighting so far has killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and one woman in central Israel. Egypt is still leading efforts to broker…
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Turkey election: Erdogan in fight for political future
Millions of voters will go to the polls tomorrow in Turkey, where tomorrow’s election is set to be the closest fought for decades. The opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is mounting a serious challenge to the man who has dominated Turkish politics for twenty years – President Erdogan. The two men have starkly different visions of…
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Tory-right’s push for return of Boris Johnson is ‘baffling’, says Tobias Ellwood MP
The local MP in Bournemouth, where today’s conference is taking place, is Tobias Ellwood. He’s declined the new group’s invitation to take back control from the leadership.
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Could Tory-right backing for Boris Johnson mean Conservative ‘civil war’?
They say they want their party back – and that they’re the true voice of the Conservative grassroots. Disillusioned Tory activists – many still upset that Boris Johnson is no longer in charge – have been rallying behind a new group called the Conservative Democratic Organisation. The former prime minister sent a video message to…
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Interest rates rise: What it means for mortgages?
After another interest rate hike – there is a lot of discussion about what it means for mortgages and renters.
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Adam Price: Plaid Cymru leader steps down after damning report
At first Adam Price stayed on as leader of Plaid Cymru despite the publication last week of a damning report which found a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny in his party.
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EU laws bill ‘ill-conceived’, says Times columnist
We spoke to Iain Martin, a columnist for the Times, who was in favour of Brexit.