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The resignation of Anneliese Dodds as international development minister “won’t make a difference” to Sir Keir Starmer, Harriet Harman has said.  The Labour peer told Beth Rigby on Sky News’ Electoral Dysfunction podcast that there is “such coherence” in the rest of the cabinet that her decision to quit will do little damage. Politics Live:
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Anneliese Dodds has quit as international development minister over Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to slash the overseas aid budget to pay for an increase in defence spending.  Ms Dodds, who is also women and equalities minister and attends cabinet, said she was resigning from both posts “with great sadness” but would continue to support the
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Donald Trump has questioned whether he ever called President Zelenskyy a “dictator”  - after he was invited by King Charles for an “unprecedented” second state visit to the UK. Sir Keir Starmer presented the US president with a copy of the invitation while the pair met in the Oval Office. The prime minister and his
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To Opposition MPs, she’s “Rachel from Accounts”. But as well as being accused of embellishing her CV, she’s now being challenged about her own accounts – her expenses claims. The chancellor has been accused of being involved in an “expenses scandal” when she worked at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS). It’s claimed she spent hundreds
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To Opposition MPs, she’s “Rachel from Accounts”. But as well as being accused of embellishing her CV, she’s now being challenged about her own accounts – her expenses claims. The chancellor has been accused of being involved in an “expenses scandal” when she worked at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS). It’s claimed she spent hundreds
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The government has vowed to stop businesses recruiting foreign workers instead of training people already in the UK. Speaking to Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper criticised the current “relaxed free market approach”, which she says has led net migration to quadruple over the past four years. “A big driver… has been
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Former Labour prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair have led tributes to “working class hero” Lord Prescott at his funeral. The great and the good of the Labour Party remembered the UK’s longest-serving deputy prime minister, who died in November aged 86 after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The funeral cortege included a Jaguar
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