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Channel 4 News special programme – will Theresa May survive as Prime Minister? #ComeWhatMay
Watch a special extended Channel 4 News tonight as Conservative MPs vote on whether they want Theresa May to continue as Prime Minister or not. Will she gain the 158 votes she needs to survive?
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FactCheck: has Philip Hammond smashed his deficit target?
When he took office in 2010, George Osborne declared that the government’s aim was to eliminate the day-to-day budget deficit by 2015.
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Chancellor says budget only applies if Brexit deal happens
The Chancellor Philip Hammond has said the announcements in tomorrow’s budget will only apply if there’s a Brexit deal. Failure to secure agreement with the EU would demand a “different response”, he said, but he promised there are reserves available if that happens.
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Scientists warn of Brexit brain drain
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates, six of the world’s top mathematicians, and the biggest biomedical research lab in Europe are all warning about the potential Brexit brain drain and the damage that could cause to scientific research if there’s no deal. And this programme has learnt that the private healthcare provider BUPA is considering shifting a part of its operation…
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MEPs condemn Facebook after data breach
Earlier this year, Channel 4 News and the Observer revealed allegations that the now-closed data firm Cambridge Analytica was behind a data grab of tens of millions of Facebook profiles. This week, members of the European Parliament vote on a report recommending new measures in response to the scandal. Today, MEPs condemned the social network, with Labour claiming that disinformation,…
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Facebook cracks down on political ‘dark ads’
If you use Facebook, there is a good chance you were targeted in the EU referendum campaign by online ads making controversial claims, but not necessarily disclosing who was behind them.
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BA flight crew tell inquest they didn’t use defibrillator on teenager
British Airways cabin crew have told an inquest into the death of a teenager who suffered an allergic reaction after eating a Pret a Manger sandwich that landing the plane took priority over fetching a defibrillator. Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who was 15, collapsed on a flight from London to Nice, and went into cardiac arrest. But the…
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Uber ‘considering buying Deliveroo’
The taxi app Uber is reportedly in talks to buy the food delivery app Deliveroo, according to the financial news service Bloomberg.
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Economists warn of new financial crisis on anniversary of 2008 crash
They predicted the global financial meltdown a decade ago, now economists are warning another crash is on the way – putting the world’s economies at risk.
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Government to launch rail industry review
A comprehensive review of the rail industry is being launched by the Government next week, at a time when services have been plunged into chaos, infuriating long suffering passengers.
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Brexit fears prompt Panasonic to quit UK
Brexit fears have led to the electronics giant Panasonic becoming the latest multinational company to announce it will move its European HQ out of the UK.
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Payday lender Wonga forced into red
New rules requiring lenders to pay compensation for such high rates have forced Wonga itself into the red.
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Trump: ‘Impeach me and market will crash’
‘I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job’, Donald Trump has insisted – telling Fox News that if he was impeached the markets would crash and “everybody would be very poor”. And in another tirade against his former laywer Michael Cohen – who claimed the President directed him to make…
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Corbyn proposes ‘tech tax’ to fund journalism
The British people don’t trust the media and think most newspapers just turn out fake news – Jeremy Corbyn has claimed – as he set out his ideas for a shake-up of the news industry. The Labour leader told the Edinburgh television festival he wanted to reduce the power of “media bosses and owners” –…
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Brexit ‘No Deal’ plan revealed and analysed
The Government’s contingency plans for a no deal brexit amount to a torrent of details from stock piles of medical supplies, to warnings that Britons living elsewhere in Europe could lose access to UK banking and pension services. Brexit secretary Dominic Raab described it as “practical and proportionate advice” – but Labour said it showed…