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Evening Standard - Politics

Police leaders urge PM to prevent early release of Pc Harper killers

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PM vows new powers to rid London highstreets of betting and vape shops

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Minister describes chasing down London thief who snatched her phone

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Burnham must live up to Labour promise and slash energy bills by £300 – SNP

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Male criminals to be kept in female jails in Burnham overcrowding plan

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Burnham 'increasingly confident' Pc Harper's killers will not be freed early

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When will Clacton vote result be announced - and could Binface win?

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Ten key pledges by Count Binface as he fights Nigel Farage in Clacton

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Widdecombe police probe if suspect was involved in Farage home attack

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Government to announce early release exemptions for Pc Harper's killers in September

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'Solution identified' to prevent early release of Pc Andrew Harper's killers

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Responder to Pc Harper killing accuses Government of 'spitting in police's face'

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Police investigating Widdecombe murder suspect over Farage arson

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Pc Harper's mother asks Andy Burnham to meet with her about early release scheme

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'Horrified' Green MSP Q Manivannan apologises over rape comments

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SNP lacks 'vision' under Swinney and needs 'sea change' – former MP Cherry

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Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry says she is 'not obsessed' with Nicola Sturgeon

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Record 230-migrant boat was buckling and nearly led to tragedy, rescuers say

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No 10 failure to block Pc Harper killers' early release 'indefensible'

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Jess Phillips: Government minister role felt like being in a 'straitjacket'

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No 10 says 'not possible' to block 'one or two' killers from early release

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Stormont Finance Minister seeking 'urgent meeting' with Chancellor

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Rape crisis centres condemn Green MSP's rape 'spectrum' comments

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Thames Water gives finance chief £1million extra payment

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Westminster hits back at London mayor in furious pub licensing row

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Minister denies wealth taxes to fund cost-of-living help

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Israel rejects Trump's Board of Peace plan for Gaza

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UK Government urged to copy SNP support worth thousands for young people

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Scottish Labour leadership is hardest job in UK politics – Sarwar

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Invest in climate defence rather than heed Trump on military spend – Polanski

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Burnham to kick off national tour to hear cost-of-living concerns

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Nicola Sturgeon feels like a 'mug' over Murrell and will not visit him in prison

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Scottish Labour leadership race about finding 'party's missing soul' – Lennon

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University opens government-funded lab to help train biomedical scientists

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Farage and Tice sue NCA over alleged leaks of financial information

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JK Rowling seems to be obsessed with me, says Nicola Sturgeon

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Badenoch demands 'rigorous enforcement' after 'litany of failures' in Levy case

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I'm SNP to my core, says Sturgeon as she rules out joining Greens

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The bizarre reasons Westminster venues have faced restrictions

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Edinburgh festivals 'send clear message Scotland is a welcoming country'

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Cambridge must not mark own homework with review in plagiarism row – academic

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Glasgow University to review its past appointment of Jason Arday

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Tory and Reform councillors under fire over 'climate hoax' posts

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Burnham: It is 'insane' UK has not hosted World Cup since 1966

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Fact check: Small boat deaths and fake image of Andy Burnham running

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Unison backs Monica Lennon to become Scottish Labour leader

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Pc Harper's mother visits scene of son's death as 675,000 sign petition

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Cambridge to continue probe into professor at centre of plagiarism row

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Scottish Labour has turned to rubble, claims leadership hopeful

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