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🚨Exc: Migrants sent to Rwanda face being flown out to another country if the medical care they need isn't available there
British taxpayer will cover the costs of treatment abroad in Belgium, India, Turkey, or one of seven east African countries, under contract signed last week
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Since everyone seems to be getting new jobs around now, thought I'd say I'm very excited to be joining
@thetimes
as a trainee news reporter next month. DMs always open and fancy new email incoming!
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Exclusive: A Reform candidate said he would “slaughter” migrants arriving on small boats and “have their family taken out”
Leslie Lilley said: “I hope I’m near one of these scumbags one day I won’t run away I’ll slaughter them then have their family taken out.”
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Excited to be joining the Westminster team at
@thetimes
in the run up to the general election, joining the incredible
@lara_spirit
on the flagship Red Box newsletter after Easter recess. Do get in touch with stories, DMs open or on max.kendix
@thetimes
.co.uk
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This was an incredibly difficult story to work on. Besides navigating legal and moral responsibilities, it was a personally traumatic experience to read people I have met in Durham say horrifically antisemitic things. First time I have felt unsafe as a Jew at university.
EXCLUSIVE: Screenshots that led to society bans mention rape, the Holocaust and white supremacy
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Exclusive: We've all seen companies promising to plant trees to 'offset' their emissions. In reality, new data reveals there's not enough space in the world for everyone's schemes... 🧵📈
@thetimes
@Times__Earth
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Johnson left tonight's event while Sunak was still speaking
When Johnson came on, the crowd of activists chanted "Boris" non-stop
As Sunak finished, CCHQ staff on the balcony tried to start a similar "Rishi" chant. Nobody followed suit
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Breaking: Understand that
@ucuatdurham
members have voted to accept Durham University's offer, so the marking boycott will not go ahead as planned
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Exclusive: Kemi Badenoch may be unable to stand in a future Conservative leadership contest because of delays in sending out postal votes in her constituency
If Badenoch wins her North West Essex seat by a small margin, Labour have said they would consider a legal challenge
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Exclusive: Reform candidate standing in Kemi Badenoch's constituency says he will resign after comments emerged in which he called on people to vote for BNP
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Lilley is set to win almost 20 per cent of the vote in the Labour battleground seat of Southend East & Rochford. He made the threats on the official Facebook account he uses to run his local campaign
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In my final edition as Editor, we spoke to Durham students who have fled Ukraine and Russia since the invasion, and those with family on the front line.
Palatinate 850 is out today! You can pick up a copy at your college or around Durham from our distributors.
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The deal also covers full dental care, free contraception, a free eye test, lenses, and frames up to £60 a year
Read full details here
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Exclusive on today's front page: Most people die while waiting for NHS care. Estimates based on data provided to The Times under freedom of information laws put the figure at 60% of all deaths in England, up from 48% in 2018.
With
@katlay
…
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Incredible to see our front page exclusive yesterday make The Times front page today!
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As Rishi Sunak cancels answering questions from reporters today, yesterday afternoon's event in Wiltshire gives some indication why
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Exclusive: Nicola Sturgeon refused to use a government-issued phone throughout her more than eight years as first minister - despite officials saying it was more secure
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We've smashed our record of 13 nominations last year, and I'm very lucky to nab three shortlist entries (Best Reporter, Best News Story with
@DanielHodgson03
and Sarah Matthews, and Outstanding Commitment with the marvellous
@TDoneganCross
)
A fantastic evening for the team, 24 nominations! Incredibly proud of everyone involved. Thank you so much
@SPAJournalism
and congratulations to all the other nominees, looking forward to seeing everyone in Sheffield.
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Thrilled to have another piece in
@Telegraph
on Saturday, this time with
@camillahmturner
. That makes it at least five expulsions this year from Durham, for racism, sexual misconduct and Covid.
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Thank you SPA! Fun evening and a record number of national awards for Palatinate
Newsdesks everywhere should be keeping their eyes on our winners, and they are
@MaxKendix
, Sarah Matthews, and
@DanielHodgson03
from
@PalatinateUK
for 'Fygone: the story of the failed start-up'
#SPANC22
@durham_uni
@durhamSU
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15 minute cities: how did this urban planning idea become a conspiracy theory?
The inventor of the concept puts some of the blame on Oxfordshire County Council. Others say the WEF did itself no favours. Full article here for
@thetimes
@Times__Earth
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Oh my.... 13 nominations tonight. What a team.
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Great to speak to
@HartleyAndrew
on BBC Look North today about Covid cases in Durham City. The report used pictures from the wonderful
@PalatinateTV
as well. And shout out to
@PaddyStephens5
for our reporting on this topic. Available for 24 hours here
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Rishi Sunak interrupted in Melksham by woman shouting about the quality of GP care
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Nice present for the final day! Thanks to the whole team
…and the winner of our Outstanding Commitment award in the North is Max Kendix, hailing from
@PalatinateUK
- well done on everything you’ve achieved this year!
#SPARC22
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Exclusive on Times Business splash today: Alarming rise in staff leaving NHS pensions
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Exclusive: Criminals are flooding Companies House with "burner" businesses ahead of new law which will require verification of directors, says
@greybrow53
, as data shows 100 companies created every hour
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Had a nice chat with
@zoesqwilliams
for this piece, which pretty fairly captures Durham's rise as the centre of the culture wars
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Exc: The new parliament is set to be one the youngest in modern history
It will also have the most women and be the most ethnically diverse parliament by far
Analysis by
@TomHCalver
and the fantastic
@ohnotaaliyahh
@daisyeastlake
Lizzie McBride, Richard Griffiths and Ben Evans
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My scoop today in
@PalatinateUK
- local Tories not helping themselves in run up to May elections...
The comments, called "disgraceful" by the local Labour Party, include a Tory council candidate declaring herself Islamophobic, with another candidate suggesting morale could be improved if ethnic minorities had a more British "choice of attire".
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Exclusive: Silver necklaces, ancient coins and more than 500 ceramic fragments are among treasures missing from the British Museum
With
@charliehparker
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Now confirmed that this parliament will be the most ethnically diverse (~13% non-white) and most gender balanced (~40% female) in history
Exc: The new parliament is set to be one the youngest in modern history
It will also have the most women and be the most ethnically diverse parliament by far
Analysis by
@TomHCalver
and the fantastic
@ohnotaaliyahh
@daisyeastlake
Lizzie McBride, Richard Griffiths and Ben Evans
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Great to see
@poppy_askham
speaking for
@PalatinateUK
today on BBC Look North about underreported spiking cases. Featuring our big nightclub boycott front page last term with
@TDoneganCross
!
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The most incredible year with the most incredible people. So honoured
@PalatinateUK
@SPAJournalism
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Spent a few months working on this investigation. Fygo was a strange moment in Durham student history, but a good example that rich kids playing business can have a serious impact on people's lives. (w/
@DanielHodgson03
and Sarah Matthews)
A Palatinate investigation reveals the full story behind Fygo’s momentous rise and downfall.
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My piece in the
@Telegraph
today with
@Masonboyowen
- Durham Students' Union to vet 'high-risk' external speakers
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As 80,000 students gear up to face universities in court, demanding refunds for the quality of teaching in lockdown,
@thetimes
can reveal that three in five universities have refused to hand any money over. Full piece here
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Exc: Labour has been accused of “pulling up the drawbridge” on parents as new research shows that one in five of its candidates attended fee-paying schools
Analysis by The Times of every candidate also shows that 47 per cent of Tories standing were privately educated
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For this week's Mail on Sunday, I spoke to ordinary Russians about the effect of sanctions at home, and reported on Easter travel chaos at Dover and at airports during the weekend. Big thanks to the very welcoming desk for having me!
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Exclusive: One in 40 patients are waiting longer than a full day in A&E, and new figures for 12 hour waits imply 540 extra deaths a week in emergency departments
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Exc: Jews are "agitating" to import "third-world Muslims" into Britain, a Reform UK candidate has said
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The Labour press bus has seen a bit of an upgrade since Lara's withering review - it now features tables, a coffee machine, and a wide selection of M&S biscuits
Column in this morning’s Times: on the why this week on Labour’s bus took me all the way back to school
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Really pleased to be leading a fantastic team at
@PalatinateUK
along with
@TDoneganCross
. Best of luck to outgoing Editor and my friend
@tjsigsworth
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🟥New series on
@timespolitics
@timesredbox
: council of the day.
Local elections are next week. But the morning after can feel like a sea of thousands of councillors and confusing metrics. To make life easier, these are the ones to watch.
Today, Dudley 👇
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Absolute delight meeting
@MichaelLCrick
reporting on the Durham County Council results last night. A fascinating chat about all things journalism!
Congratulations to Max Kendix and Tim Sigsworth of the Durham University student newspaper Palatinate for winning Best Publication at the Student Publication Awards. Keep holding the university to account.
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Are the winds actually bad or has Durham just got used to telling all its students to stay indoors
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A great edition to finish off the term, and very sadly the last edition of the best student journalist in the country,
@TDoneganCross
. It's been an honour to work together, you will be sorely missed!
Palatinate 845 is out today! You can pick up a copy at your college or around Durham from our distributors.
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Breaking: BBC will scrap The Nine, launched to great acclaim just four years ago, along with two other programmes on the £34m a year dedicated BBC Scotland channel. Comes after corporation bosses were grilled by MSPs about the figures we revealed last month 👇
Exclusive: The BBC has been accused of a "deplorable waste of money" after the flagship news bulletin on its £34m a year Scotland channel pulled in just 200 viewers
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Exc: More than 6,000 children *under five years old* are being referred to the NHS for mental health treatment each month
And more six to ten-year-olds are being seen for mental health issues than any adult age group
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Thanks to a monumental exercise over six weeks from a fantastic team for The Times Guide to the House of Commons book, our live blog contains unparalleled up to date insights into every candidate and constituency as they are declared.
Follow it here
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Really proud of everyone for this great edition. Lockdown stops us from physical print but you can see it all in splendid style at the link below 🙌
Palatinate 835 is out today!
This edition sees the launch of two new sections: Puzzles and PalatiDates!
You can read this online-only edition here:
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Steve Reed boards the Labour bus this morning and warns journalists - imagine you're on a night out and wake up hungover next to Rishi Sunak for the next five years. Then hands out these pillows
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My favourite edition so far! Huge congrats to the whole team and especially
@TDoneganCross
for continuing to put up with me. (I've also been waiting to use this strikes headline for months...)
Palatinate 844 is out today! You can pick up a copy at your college or around Durham from our distributors.
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With Starmer about to speak at Southampton port, workers are told "thank you for volunteering to be here" - they break out laughing
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How are they actually performing Hamilton for the Queen with no sense of irony. Just waiting for the George III impression...
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Parliament set to receive largest ever intake of new MPs. There's a QR code to register your financial interests, a "new members reception" and "welcome to Parliament" banner.
In the division lobby, there are instructions on how to vote. It's all very first day at big school...
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Exclusive: Analysis of 100 campaign visits by top Tory and Labour figures shows the new battleground seats are where Tories hold 10k+ majorities
If seats like these become marginal in the election, Labour are set for a landslide victory
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NEW: Civil servants have been told they must ignore any European court ruling to block the Rwanda scheme, amid concerns that officials would defy ministers
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This means more than a fifth of the Conservative parliamentary party will not stand at the election
I’ve had the great honour of being the MP for
#EppingForest
for 27 years. I love this job, but it’s time for me to move aside and give others the opportunities that I’ve been fortunate to have. I told the PM several days ago & wrote formally to my
@EFConservatives
Chairman today.
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My first edition as Editor, along with the fantastic
@TDoneganCross
. A bumper 44-page freshers' edition full of quality investigations and fun features.
Palatinate 841 is out today! You can pick up a copy at your college or around Durham from our distributors, or at the freshers' fair today or tomorrow.
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Mini dispatch from Labour's campaign trail in this morning's newsletter
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The chief of the Norwegian Navy tells me Russian ships should be banned from the country's waters, but on the Arctic border with Russia, locals have a very different attitude.
My dispatch from Kirkenes
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As predicted by this piece, we now have our first MP born this century. Sam Carling, 22, graduated from Cambridge last year. He won his North West Cambridgeshire seat by just 39 votes
Exc: The new parliament is set to be one the youngest in modern history
It will also have the most women and be the most ethnically diverse parliament by far
Analysis by
@TomHCalver
and the fantastic
@ohnotaaliyahh
@daisyeastlake
Lizzie McBride, Richard Griffiths and Ben Evans
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Exclusive: The BBC has been accused of a "deplorable waste of money" after the flagship news bulletin on its £34m a year Scotland channel pulled in just 200 viewers
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Exc: The true scale of ambulance delays revealed as The Times obtains waits by postcode district for all of England outside London.
Heart attack patients in some rural areas saw waits of more than three hours in 2022
@ryanleewatts
@_mkeith_
@thetimes
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My interview with the co-founder of Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz. Use Brexit freedom to become global AI force, urges tech boss
With
@kprescott
.
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Student who filmed Starmer said no work was done
With
@Geri_E_L_Scott
in
@thetimes
this morning
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This is the first ever elected role in local government for the Women's Equality Party, set up in 2015 by Sandi Toksvig and Catherine Mayer
(not counting town/parish councillors)
Hatch Warren and Beggarwood (Basingstoke and Deane) council election result:
WEP: 61.6% (+61.6)
CON: 25.9% (-16.0)
LAB: 12.5% (-9.4)
Women's Equality Party GAIN from Conservative.
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Huge congrats to the whole team for this important edition - especially proud of a powerful front and great double page on spiking
Palatinate 843 is out today! You can pick up a copy at your college or around Durham from our distributors.
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When you just count the credits that are specifically for tree-planting, you run into a big problem: there's not enough space. We would need double the amount of land that could possibly be used
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Investigation: The SNP has been accused of spending hundreds of millions on tree-planting schemes based on data that overplays the benefit to the environment
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Today I discovered my local high street has rather strong opinions on the world
So once again the Tories attack the Corbyn family. Arresting their political opponents. It's like Nazi Germany at the moment. Free speech must be protected.
Priti Patel says police should investigate anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn via
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My first contribution to the legendary Saturday politics read
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Really an incredible piece, and one that had a massive impact in Durham.
@TDoneganCross
so deserved!
Incredible from our Editor-in-Chief,
@TDoneganCross
, our former News Editor Will Hutchings and 'Rose Kohen'. Nomination No. 8!
#SPAAwards
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Really amazing to interview this icon
@UKSupremeCourt
Max Kendix speaks to former Supreme Court President Baroness Hale about diversity in the judiciary, hostile media coverage and her famous spider brooch.
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Get the best politics coverage from
@thetimes
, outside the paywall, seven days of the week
With
@lara_spirit
@HarryYorke1
@Steven_Swinford
Sign up here
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Thank you to
@SimpsonThomas_
for working with me on this great data-driven Durham life hack.
Palatinate has put together a table with the proportion of Firsts and 2:1s in every single module in 2020, 2019 and 2018.
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Spain has announced the end of its "golden visa" scheme for expats. See my investigation from the Costa del Sol last year, where real estate agents boasted about using the visa loophole to help super-rich Russians 👇
Exc: Money-laundering fears as hundreds of super-rich Russians using Spanish loophole with minimum checks to get permanent EU residency
Estate agents in luxury Altea Hills said Russians with millions in cash have golden visas approved in days
@thetimes
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Not as creepy as the 2005 version
Labour’s latest “don’t wake up to 5 more years of the Tories” campaign is a nod to a controversial 2005 attack ad
Back then a broadcast showed a voter waking up after a one night stand - before realising she can’t get him out of the house until the next election 👇🏼
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Good to work on this for
@ChronicleLive
yesterday. The last few weeks before first term is turning into a chaotic and unpredictable time for freshers who (rightly) thought they had guaranteed college/accommodation/place at the Uni
Some prospective students at Durham University have been offered £5,000 to defer their studies for a year
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Exclusive: Backers of Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and Penny Mordaunt appear to have bought up website domain names in preparation for leadership bids
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2022 was the worst year on record for emergency care in England. A few charts...
In every category, from heart attacks to painful falls, ambulances waits were unprecedented
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Exc: AI, radar and satellites could combine to track small boats as government in talks with Somerset firm to introduce a comprehensive maritime surveillance system
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Exc: Surge in teen vaping with dozens of hospital admissions for under 10s
@SteveBarclay
says government is "committed to reversing the trend"
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Exc: Paramedics are being told to take a police escort to more than 1,200 addresses for fear of attack
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Attempts to tame the energy of our oceans have been beset by failure - but researchers are finding optimism in unlikely places
My feature on wave energy in
@thetimes
@Times__Earth
, thanks to
@BenCooke135
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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just announced sanctions against 287 UK MPs, who will now be banned from entering Russia for "conducting unsubstantiated Russophobic hysteria in the United Kingdom". But there's one small problem...
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Farage tells
@BBCr4today
"This particular case is a chap in his 70s who twenty years ago said he was thinking of voting BNP as a protest vote. He was never a member... however we don't find that acceptable."
Adds Reform "spent a great deal of money" vetting and it wasn't done
Exclusive: Reform candidate standing in Kemi Badenoch's constituency says he will resign after comments emerged in which he called on people to vote for BNP
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Starmer responds - "why didn't that happen a week ago?"
BREAKING: Tories have pulled their support for Williams and Saunders
A Conservative Party Spokesman:
"As a result of ongoing internal enquiries, we have concluded that we can no longer support Craig Williams or Laura Saunders as Parliamentary Candidates at the forthcoming
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Read: New Police Scotland boss takes on a force to be reckoned with
In today's News Review
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Nurses are going on strike in the biggest walkout the NHS has ever seen. What's the impact? 🧵
w/
@eleanorhayward
@Steven_Swinford
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There are also signs Starmer's campaign is feeling increasingly confident.
In the Labour leader's first 17 stops of the campaign trail the average Tory majority was 7,985. In the subsequent 16 it's been 11,825... a nearly 50pc rise
Exclusive from
@MaxKendix
Rishi Sunak's hyper-defensive election strategy in numbers:
* The prime minister has spent the election campaign visiting seats with an average majority of 11,894
* Over the past 10 days that average has increased to **14,317**
* One in five of the
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A pleasure to tell the story of the parishioners of Portnahaven Church on Islay, who face losing their beloved building to become yet another holiday home - despite contributing £75,000 to its repairs. Tap below to read
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