HS2 boss says it was RIGHT to spend £100million on a BAT tunnel as he admits it could be two more years before crisis-plagued rail project costing tens of billions is back on track

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 13:30 UTC

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Mark Wild told MPs today that the much-criticised and eye-wateringly expensive structure in Buckinghamshire was the 'most appropriate' way to 'comply with the law'.

Germany and France are in crisis – is the next global financial crash brewing? | Larry Elliott

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 10:22 UTC

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The eurozone’s flaws and a lack of growth in the EU have combined to malign effect. ‘More Europe’ is not the solution

Things are not quite going according to plan for Rachel Reeves. The economy has co…

More Labour MPs join revolt over Waspi women as it emerges Chancellor Rachel Reeves campaigned for compensation alongside her MUM for those who suffered 'injustice'

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 10:22 UTC

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A former shadow employment minister is among those urging the Prime Minister to 'reconsider' the decision to block a package worth £10.5billion.

Labour left in mutiny over Keir Starmer's betrayal of 3.8m Waspi women - after government blocked £10.5bn of compensation

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 07:05 UTC

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MPs attacked the Government for abandoning a vow to compensate 3.8 million 'Waspi' women who were told they would have to work five years longer before receiving a pension

Prince Andrew’s ‘opaque’ finances provoke calls for register of royal interests

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 13:45 UTC

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Claims of refused FOI requests into Duke of York’s business dealings come as controversy over alleged Chinese spy continues

Getting information from government departments about the Duke of York’s pa…

Labour MPs tear into Keir Starmer over £10.5bn Waspi women compensation snub as they brand it an 'injustice' that has left millions 'let down'

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 13:45 UTC

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Former frontbencher Diane Abbott laid into the PM after some 3.8million women born in the 1950s were denied redress lined to a change in the state pension age.

Reform split over 'woke' anti-bulling training for MPs as Nigel Farage joins Tories and DUP MPs in shunning Parliamentary course - but his party's four other MPs take part

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 13:56 UTC

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Mr Farage is among just six out of 650 MPs who have declined to take part in seminars about the 'behaviour code', which was brought in after a string of scandals.

Alleged Chinese spy who befriended Prince Andrew is ‘tip of iceberg’, Tory MP says

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 10:50 UTC

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UK ministers face pressure over Chinese spy scandal as MPs consider naming banned businessman

An alleged Chinese spy who forged a close relationship with Prince Andrew is just “the tip of the iceberg”…

Alaa Abd el-Fattah: mother on hunger strike takes protest to Westminster

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 07:39 UTC

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Laila Soueif to sit outside Foreign Office over Cairo’s extended detention of her British-Egyptian dissident son

A woman on hunger strike to secure the release of her son, the British-Egyptian disside…

MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 07:39 UTC

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Allegations raise calls for caution in UK over bid to re-establish China links

MPs fear the government is moving too fast to re-establish UK-China relations as some consider naming the alleged spy who…