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Sophie Murphy
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The COVID-19 crisis has had impacts across every aspect of public life in the UK and abroad. Perhaps the most long-lasting impact has been on young people, who have been forced to miss a huge chunk ...
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Andrew Collins
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The Labour Party has called on the government to change their approach to ending the furlough scheme, to better protect employers and workers in particularly hard-hit sectors, including sectors that ...
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to appear on a major party ticket.
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History does not always repeat itself but for Europe it does usually rhyme. Or at least it used to.
In the face of a virus that has taken lives and livelihoods across the world, Europe did not give ...
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Diana Thomas
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Recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a law journal ...
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Sophie Murphy
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According to a new global survey by The Conference Board think tank, business leaders believe that leaner, more agile companies will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents suggest that ...
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Andrew Collins
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Cornwall, Buckinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Northumberland and Cumbria local authorities have been selected to pilot new 'Local Nature Recovery Strategies' (LNRS). They will share £1 ...
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The Health Secretary Matt Hancock last night announced a raft of new regional COVID-19 restrictions on Twitter. These restrictions will cover Greater Manchester, alongside several other areas in ...
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Following the gradual relaxation of emergency measures in EU countries as well as Norway and Switzerland in June about half as many applications for international protection were lodged compared ...
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A batch of some 960 documents, covering events related to Northern Ireland over the period 1986-88, have just been added to the Conflict Archive on the INternet (CAIN) website as part ...
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Following the gradual relaxation of emergency measures in EU countries as well as Norway and Switzerland in June about half as many applications for international protection were lodged compared ...
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Sophie Murphy
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The coronavirus pandemic is calling globalisation into question as businesses focus more on regionalised trade, according to James Sproule, former senior business adviser to Boris Johnson in Downing ...
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The government has introduced new powers, which come into effect today, for police to tackle state interference in the UK. These powers will allow specially trained police officers to stop, question, ...
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The European Commission has relaxed its European Temporary State Aid Framework rules so that small and micro businesses – meaning fewer than 50 employees and turnover less than £9 million – ...
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New Office for National Statistics figures released this morning show UK GDP plummeting by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020 – the largest confirmed fall of any economy in Europe and the G7 ...
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There have been 55 Prime Ministers since the office was first created under Walpole almost 300 years ago. Some have been well regarded and well remembered by history. Some of them have a place ...
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Andrew Collins
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Labour has called on the government to prioritise the Online Harms Bill which was first promised more than a year ago. Since then, high profile examples have shown why the lack of regulation is ...
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The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañon River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer legally be built, according to a ...
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Americans are continuing to renounce their citizenship at the highest levels on record, according to research by Bambridge Accountants. According to their data, 5,816 Americans gave up ...
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Andrew Collins
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The latest in a series of EU Humanitarian Air Bridge flights with over 40 tons of medical and emergency supplies to reinforce the humanitarian response has arrived in Iraq. The flight is part of the ...
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Labour have warned the Prime Minister his failure to keep a promise made to secure funding for the Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation, risks removing vital support for terror victims.
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Sophie Murphy
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The UK left the EU in January of this year, and the transition period - which temporarily binds the UK to current EU laws during negotiations on the future relationship - is set to end in January ...
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Andrew Collins
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The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has called on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to withdraw the nomination of Col. Douglas Macgregor as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, citing ...
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The government has announced its new obesity strategy, partly pushed by the impact of obesity on COVID-19 mortality rates. These new proposals would ban TV and online adverts for food that ...
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The Labour party was founded in 1900. Over that time, the party has changed a lot and grown from a fringe movement to one of the two dominant political parties in British politics.
With such a ...
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Currently, the law states that a will must be made ‘in the presence of’ at least two witnesses, as a mechanism to stop coercion or fraud. Under lockdown, this has become an increasingly difficult ...
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Keir Starmer has now been Labour leader for over four months. As he became leader under lockdown, it hardly feels like it’s been that long – and there are still plenty of relatively unusual ...
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Andrew Collins
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The UN has called on Tanzania to immediately drop legislative and other measures that further curb civic space, particularly as the country gears up for October elections, and urged the ...
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Newly released Treasury figures show that more than 130,000 firms in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have benefitted from £4.7 billion of funding support through the government’s Bounce ...
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Liz Truss MP, International Trade Secretary, and India’s Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry Piyush Goyal met at a Joint Economic Trade Committee (JETCO) meeting yesterday, ...
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The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis has not had any new cases of COVID-19 for 25 days, according to the data from the World Health Organisation as at August 5, 2020. With only 17 ...
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The health minister today announced the largest flu vaccination programme in UK history. It is hoped that expanding flu vaccinations will reduce the pressure on the NHS during flu season this year, ...
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Following Tuesday's explosion at Beirut Port, which has left thousands injured and caused widespread destruction, the UK has announced a package of emergency support to Lebanon. As part of this ...
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has today announced £589 of funding for work on the Transpennine main line railway between Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester. This funding will be delivered through ...
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The Liberal Democrats are to debate a new policy proposal that would see the BBC licence fee set independently at their Autumn conference. The proposal is touted as a direct response to government ...
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The UN today called on the government of Ethiopia to respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully, after the government temporary shut off internet in the country to control protests. The ...
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Labour is calling for immediate action to tackle the backlog in courts as a landmark ruling paves the way for dangerous criminals to be released. Yesterday, courts ordered the release of a suspected ...
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Sophie Murphy
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The Labour Party has today issued an apology to journalist John Ware, who i presented the July 2019 BBC Panorama programme about antisemitism within the Labour Party. This comes in the wake of the ...
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Diana Thomas
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A recent Small International Development Charities Network survey shows that despite nearly three quarters of small international development charities seeing demand for their services ...
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International Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, today announced that Ford has received a £625 million loan facility from commercial banks with support from a £500 million guarantee from UK Export Finance ...
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Failures in planning and funding cuts meant public services were not well prepared to handle the COVID-19 crisis, says a new report from the Institute for Government and the Chartered Institute for ...
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According to a new survey by ROI Rocket, a leading provider of market research-based consulting services, the number of Americans highly concerned about the virus has increased dramatically since the ...
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Referrals of suspected child victims of modern slavery made by councils in England have soared by 1,400 per cent in five years, according to recently released data. Latest statistics show the ...
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Councils are working closely with leisure centres and swimming pools in their areas as they look to try and reopen from this weekend. However, significant losses of income during this ...
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Andrew Collins
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The annual flow of plastic into the ocean could nearly tripple by 2040 without sustained action, according to new analysis by the The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ, in collaberation with ...
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Andrew Burgess
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The Intelligence and Security Committee's long awaited 'Russia Report' into Russian state interference in the UK has been published today, after a significant delay and growing political pressure. ...
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When Boris Johnson unveiled his government’s new points-based immigration system in February 2020, designed to deliver Brexit by shifting Britain’s migrant intake “away from a reliance on cheap ...
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Tory MP for Delyn, Rob Roberts is facing serious allegations of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment regarding behaviour towards two junior members of his parliamentary staff.
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Andrew Collins
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The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Lesotho have been severe, with a weak global and regional environment reducing exports and remittances. The southern African enclave ...
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Northern Ireland’s flourishing tech sector stands to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of “Bounce-Back” plans to help firms recover from the challenges of the coronavirus crisis.
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