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Healey pledges to ‘stop the rot’ in military housing with new consumer charter
A defence housing strategy, to be published later this year, will set out further plans aimed at improving the standard of service family housing.
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Claudia Savage
18 Apr 2025
Politics
US will put UK in tariff regime with EU over Chagos deal, says Farage
Tory shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said the Chagos Islands deal was ‘one of the worst foreign policy failures in modern British history’.
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Claudia Savage
5 Feb 2025
Politics
MP warns next government may be ‘far right’ if Labour does not deliver change
Alloa and Grangemouth Labour MP Brian Leishman told the Commons: ‘The Tories wouldn’t compensate Waspi women, and it looks like neither will we.’
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Claudia Savage
5 Feb 2025
Business News
Heathrow expansion will only go ahead if it meets climate targets – Miliband
The Energy Secretary said the extension of any airport would have to meet existing carbon budgets and environmental restrictions.
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Claudia Savage
4 Feb 2025
Politics
Government ‘looking carefully’ at launching routine prostate cancer screening
Health minister Andrew Gwynne pledged to ‘make the United Kingdom a world leader in cancer survival’.
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Claudia Savage
4 Feb 2025
Science
AstraZeneca investment deal ‘didn’t add up for UK taxpayer’, says minister
Science minister Sir Chris Bryant said the Government feels regretful about the plan being ditched and ‘would prefer to have got this over the line’.
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Claudia Savage
3 Feb 2025
Politics
Government accused of having ‘rogue algorithm’ for deciding housing targets
Conservative former minister Damian Hinds told MPs the number of houses expected to be built in his constituency of East Hampshire had ‘doubled’.
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Claudia Savage
29 Jan 2025
Politics
PM says Badenoch wants to ‘shrink pensions’ as he commits to no means-testing
Kemi Badenoch accused the Prime Minister of having ‘misled’ MPs in relation to his comments on the Children’s Wellbeing Bill.
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Claudia Savage
29 Jan 2025
Politics
US will take ‘big interest’ in Sudan conflict, says Foreign Secretary
David Lammy said he had a ‘brief conversation’ with incoming US secretary of state Marco Rubio about the conflict in the region.
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Claudia Savage
28 Jan 2025
Politics
Reasonable force to be used to order sentencing attendance – Justice Secretary
The law change is expected to be made in the Victims, Courts and Public Protection Bill, which will be laid in Parliament in the next few months.
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Claudia Savage
28 Jan 2025
Politics
UK gives £17m in drive to aid Gaza amid continuing ceasefire
Anneliese Dodds announced the aid commitment in the House of Commons, which will go towards food, water and sanitation programmes.
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Claudia Savage
28 Jan 2025
Politics
Employers’ national insurance rise ‘straw that breaks camels back’, Lords told
Crossbench peer Lord Morse, former head of the National Audit Office, warned that ‘not all big businesses have equally broad shoulders’.
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Claudia Savage
28 Jan 2025
Politics
Southport killer could ‘one day walk free amongst us’, says peer
Conservative peer Lord Davies called for a review on sentencing to allow whole-life orders to be given to under-18s.
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Claudia Savage
27 Jan 2025
Business News
Sir Edward Leigh accuses Government of ‘crucifying’ elderly with energy bills
The Father of the House referred to the slogan used by US President Donald Trump – ‘drill, baby, drill’ – as he raised the importance of cheap energy.
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Claudia Savage
23 Jan 2025
Politics
Powell thanks Sunak for ‘big misjudgment’ on last day he could have called poll
Lucy Powell said Rishi Sunak made a ‘big misjudgment for the Tory party, but a good decision for the country’ by calling the election for July 4.
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Claudia Savage
23 Jan 2025
Business News
MPs back Bill to prevent taxpayers being ‘on the hook for small bank failures’
The Government has said the mechanism would provide more flexibility.
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Claudia Savage
22 Jan 2025
Politics
Stormont powersharing ‘no longer reflects progress of our society’, says MP
Alliance MP Sorcha Eastwood said powersharing continues to define Northern Ireland politics in ‘purely binary terms’ at the expense of ‘stability’.
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Claudia Savage
21 Jan 2025
Politics
Tories are amplifying conspiracy theories of foreign billionaires, says Nandy
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said while the Tories ‘amplify the noise and conspiracy theories we are cracking on with delivering for people’.
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Claudia Savage
16 Jan 2025
Politics
Tories are ‘snowflakes’ and Truss on ‘bizarre quest to cancel’ PM – Phillipson
Sir Keir Starmer also referred to Liz Truss’ cease and desist letter against him and said it was ‘crashing the economy that damaged her reputation’.
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Claudia Savage
15 Jan 2025
Politics
Streeting: ‘I can’t promise there won’t be patients treated in corridors next year’
The Health Secretary said he will ‘never accept’ people being treated in ‘undignified’ conditions but that it would ‘take time’ to fix the NHS.
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Claudia Savage
15 Jan 2025
Business News
Starmer urged to let ‘wealthy Americans’ move to UK ahead of Trump presidency
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey pressed the PM not to exclude those who want ‘bring their money and skills’ to the UK in a bid to reduce immigration.
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Claudia Savage
15 Jan 2025
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