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Will the King’s Speech boost Tories in key marginal constituencies?
It’s the last King’s Speech before the next general election, which polls suggest the Conservatives are on course to lose. But is it likely to change anyone’s minds? Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara looks at how the King’s Speech has gone down in two marginal constituencies, Stevenage and Mansfield.
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‘Labour will put more police back on the streets’, says shadow culture secretary
Many view the King’s Speech as Rishi Sunak trying to show voters the clear difference between him and the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. We speak to the Shadow Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Secretary, Thangam Debbonaire.
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Government will provide ‘prison places that are needed’ says Prisons minister
We spoke to Prisons minister Damian Hinds, and asked him How tough on crime is the government’s agenda?
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Anger as Mental Health Act reform ignored in government’s King’s Speech
Campaigners and senior politicians are angry that the government appears to have shelved long-promised legislation to modernise the Mental Health Act. They’d been calling for a new law to outlaw inappropriate detention of people with learning disabilities. A white paper was published nearly three years ago.
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King’s Speech: Sunak and Starmer clash as government lays out plans
It was the first King’s Speech in 72 years – and at its heart was law and order. Tougher sentences for murderers and rapists, but also a presumption against jailing offenders for less than 12 months. It included measures to increase oil and gas production, phasing out the sale of cigarettes – and a ban…
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Donald Trump testifies in New York fraud trial
Donald Trump was on the witness stand today, as part of his civil fraud trial in New York. He’s accused of inflating the value of the property he owns. But while he’s fighting on one hand to keep his business empire together, his presidential bid seems to be going from strength to strength.
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Revealed: CPS reviewing cases involving defendants with mental health issues
This programme understands that the Crown Prosecution Service is reviewing some cases where mental health was a factor and is considering whether those convictions are, in fact, in the public interest.
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No one in Gaza can speak openly against Hamas, says senior Israeli advisor Mark Regev
We talk to Mark Regev, senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to the UK.
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‘Nethanyahu has no plan for a political solution’, says former IDF soldier
This isn’t the first time Israel has mounted a ground invasion of Gaza – troops also entered the territory in 2014.
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Have war crimes been committed in the Israel-Hamas conflict?
Repeated airstrikes have, according to the Hamas run authorities, resulted in more than ten thousand deaths since the conflict began a month ago.
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Closure of blast furnace at Scunthorpe plant ‘strengthens national security’ for British steel production, says UK Steel
We are joined by Director General of UK Steel, Gareth Stace.
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British Steel: Clean electric to replace coal blast furnaces at cost of 2,000 jobs
The move towards Green Steel has taken another step forward with the announcement that the blast furnaces at British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe will be replaced by two electric arc furnaces.
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‘Ambulances were blindly heading into the direction of the bombs’, says Gaza surgeon
We spoke to Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian surgeon currently in Gaza, who has been travelling between Al-Shifa hospital, and Al-Ahli hospital.
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Israel turns northern Gaza into brutal battlefield as death toll soars
After a week of heavy fighting Israeli troops have effectively severed Gaza in two. Meanwhile fighters from Hamas, which the UK proscribes as a terrorist organisation, are reported to have pulled back to embed themselves in dense urban areas.
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Deputy PM denies MP rape allegations were covered up when he was Tory chair.
The deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has denied that allegations of rape against a Conservative MP were covered up during his time as Tory party chair. Mr Dowden urged anyone with concerns about the MP, who can’t be named for legal reasons, to contact the police.