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The former prime minister has urged Burnham to use his 10-year plan in November to put the country's membership of the union back on the table, a decade after it voted to leave. In a paper entitled A Path to Rejoining a…
Read moreBut it must be a Europe on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power.” Failing this, the U.K. should cooperate with Europe where interests align, but show that…
Read moreUnder the proposals, those who receive this "subsistence allowance" would have it paid into a dedicated debit card that would prevent from them buying alcohol or tobacco, based on an Australian system that was scrapped…
Read moreThe Department for Education (DfE) said the new GCSEs would be two-year courses taken in year 10 and 11, "with nationally set content, grading and assessment" and regulated by Ofqual, England's qualifications watchdog…
Read moreMiliband told the meeting, the first such discussion among foreign ministers, that the coming El Niño , which has been supercharged by climate breakdown , would test the world's food systems as never before. "We face an…
Read moreThe prime minister told reporters that "I don't think it's fair for football fans to be singled out", as he suggested a change could be trialled. Laws are in place which prevent drinking in view of the pitch at stadiums…
Read moreLabour is keen to demonstrate that the rapid increase in defence spending planned for the coming years, which may necessitate tax rises, will result in jobs in the UK. In particular, Streeting said he was determined the…
Read more17 that Russia could launch drone or missile strikes against countries that support Ukraine, and try to pass them off as accidents. European officials have accused Moscow multiple times this year of using sabotage…
Read morePolarisation and radicalisation were corroding trust in established information sources. "If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn't…
Read moreAfter Trump savaged the three-way plan as "a terrible deal" during a meeting with Andy Burnham at the UN general assembly , the prime minister said he was "confident" the UK would be able to find a solution to revive the…
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