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Welfare cuts worth billions planned by ministers
The changes, affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 2025, would save £4bn in welfare payments.
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Rishi Sunak under pressure from ministers to raise housing benefit
Officials have drafted proposals to cut the "taper rate" - the proportion of earnings people can keep before their benefit payment is cut. The taper r [...]
Blinken Meets Arab Ministers in Bid to Calm Outrage Over Israel Airstrikes
A missile attack on an ambulance convoy has drawn severe criticism, including from the U.N., but Israel says it was transporting Hamas fighters.
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Scottish ministers to release 14,000 Covid WhatsApp messages
Counsel to the UK inquiry, Jamie Dawson KC, has said that 70 Scottish government figures, operating in a total of 137 messaging groups, have been aske [...]
Ministers lying to Parliament undermines democracy, ethics chief says
Public are right to be concerned about politicians telling the truth in Parliament, Lord Evans says.
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Universities must act swiftly on antisemitism, ministers say
Education minsters have written to vice-chancellors over the welfare of Jewish students on campus.
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Labour would clamp down on jet use by ministers
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves attacks the PM's "private jet habit" in her party conference speech.
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Call for ministers to make sure hunting trophy ban goes ahead
A bill to implement the ban looks all but certain to run out of parliamentary time to become law.
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RSPB apologises for calling ministers 'liars' over environment pledges
The charity says its frustration at environment plans "led us to attack the people not the policy".
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Ministers skip UN meeting on disability rights
The UK government says it will present its progress on disability rights to the UN in 2024 instead.
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Ulez expansion: Ministers looked at using powers to block scheme
A spokesperson for the Department of Transport said it was for the mayor to "justify the Ulez expansion, and at a time when the government is doing ev [...]
Ministers face renewed pressure over boat crossings
Labour says the "small boats nightmare" must end after six people died trying to cross the Channel.
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Ministers to speed up delivery of new power lines for clean energy
Labour has announced plans to power the UK with "100% clean and affordable power" by 2030. This includes pledges to quadruple offshore wind to 55GW, t [...]
Big win for ministers seeking solution to small boats problem
In the short term, the Illegal Migration Act (as it soon will be) will mean, among other things, the mobile phones of those crossing in small boats ca [...]
Illegal Migration Bill: Ministers overturn Lords changes
Peers will have a chance later to insist on alterations in a series of late-night votes.
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