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Independent UK - Politics

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MPs urge Sunak to stop plans to 'max out' North Sea oil

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Starmer's presidential Downing Street pitch as Labour's heir to Blair

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Gordon Brown piles pressure on Starmer over two-child benefit cap

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Nigel Farage responds to calls for him to become Conservative minister

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Starmer pokes fun at Tory government 'crackdown' on rainbow lanyards

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Sky News presenter mocks Tory minister over police announcement

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Hunt insists there is 'ample opportunity' for unemployed to find jobs

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Esther McVey announces civil service rainbow lanyard ban

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West Belfast boy discovers Northern Ireland's first recorded water stick insect

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Lauren Boebert alarms internet with 'pretty' comment about Trump

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Can Labour's new deal for workers satisfy the unions and business?

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Unions and Starmer reach agreement on workers' rights

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Children 'blackmailed into stripping for strangers' on daily basis, says MP

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Tory row over vote to bar MPs arrested for sex offences

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'Up to' 28 ships to be built under Tory plans, says Grant Shapps

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Chinese ambassador summoned after three charged with spying

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China poses 'genuine and increasing' cyber risk to UK, GCHQ chief warns

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Six 'new' ships are from Tory pledge two years ago, Shapps says

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Government to announce £40m package for brain tumour research

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Labour-commissioned report calls for caps on rent hikes

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Rishi Sunak pushes the nuclear general election button

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Call for inquiry into minister for alleged breach of ministerial code

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Tory plan to axe diversity jobs in the Civil Service condemned

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Esther McVey quotes Aristotle as she defends 'common sense' role

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Streeting explains why Labour will not end the two child benefit cap

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Nadhim Zahawi lands new job just days after quitting as MP

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Sunak promises 'bold ideas' in desperate pre-election pitch to voters

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Suella Braverman calls for two-child benefit cap to be scrapped

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Rishi Sunak slams protests over Israel's Eurovision appearance

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Keir Starmer attacks Tory 'sticking plaster' approach to small boats

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James Cleverly mocked for forgetting Conservatives' asylum policy

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Jeremy Hunt admits Conservative MPs 'losing their nerve'

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Keir Starmer jokes about Farage after Natalie Elphicke defection

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Government's 'failed' asylum system offers false hope, says Starmer

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Natalie Elphicke effect adds 2 points to Labour poll lead over Tories

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Lithuania holds a presidential vote as anxieties rise in the Baltics over Russia and war in Ukraine

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