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Conservative MP Suella Fernandes warns Theresa May not to keep Britain in Single Market
Conservative MP Suella Fernandes leads the European Research Group of Tory MPs who have written to Theresa May warning against any transitional deal which would keep Britain in the single market.
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Jonathan Portes: ‘Britain is a less attractive place for EU nationals’
We’re joined now by Patrick O’Flynn, Member of the European Parliament for UKIP, and Jonathan Portes who’s a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the School of Politics & Economics of King’s College, London.
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ECJ powers could remain in post-Brexit Britain
The Prime Minister is quite clear. After Brexit the UK will be “leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice”. But that’s not stopped critics claiming that her Government has rowed back on “taking back control” of the legal process. Indeed the latest, and one of the most significant, position papers it has yet…
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The battle for affordable housing in Britain
It’s been two months since the Grenfell Tower fire, yet many survivors are still waiting for new homes. This week Kensington and Chelsea Council will discuss urgent measures to spend tens of millions of pounds on properties nearby. Yet the council still has a lengthy waiting list, and even though hundreds of new homes are…
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Is hate crime putting Britain’s reputation as a multicultural society at risk?
There were an average of 171 hate crimes every day in England and Wales last year. The incidents range from threats and attacks on people, to attacks on places of worship, spiking first after Brexit and again after the terror attacks. What’s more, the numbers could well be an underestimate. So where does this leave…
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Are Britain’s prisons a ‘disaster waiting to happen’?
Last month saw a spate of prison riots, with violence at jails in Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. Some commentators claimed the unrest was “a disaster waiting to happen”. But what’s really going on inside Briton’s prisons? And are prison officers facing an uphill battle to stay in control?
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The Grenfell Tower fire: Britain’s worst fire in a century
The Grenfell tragedy is on a scale not seen for decades in the United Kingdom. It has exposed acute divisions in society, dangerous weaknesses in social housing, planning, and fire regulations, and a gaping lack of trust between some of the most vulnerable and the authorities charged with looking after them.
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Elections for sale: who funds Britain’s political parties?
Behind the scenes of a general election, an army of supporters prop up the campaigns with millions of pounds. The biggest political donors include wealthy business leaders, powerful organisations and members of the nobility. But who are they, exactly? And how much of a stranglehold do they really have over politics?
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Britain’s social mobility crisis in ten graphs
A damning new report has criticised politicians’ efforts to improve social mobility. Here are ten key graphs that paint a picture of the problem.
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Brexit Britain through comedians’ eyes
Eline Van der Velden, from the Netherlands, and Sean Collins, from Canada, give their reaction to what is happening in British politics.
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May: ‘What we want is someone to be difficult and to stand up for Britain’
Speaking on the eve of the election, Prime Minister Theresa May tells Jon Snow she will be “difficult” and “stand up for Britain” in the Brexit negotiations.
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Grayson Perry: ‘What I’ve learned about divided Britain’
For the last year the celebrated transvestite potter Grayson Perry has been exploring the divisions that lead to last June’s Brexit vote. But do they still define us? Perry has a new documentary tomorrow night on Channel 4 – and a new piece of work – two vases representing “leave” and “remain”. And he’s been…
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Lucas: Britain’s involvement in wars ‘has increased terror threat’
Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas says Jeremy Corbyn is right to say Britain can reduce the terror threat through its foreign policy and the country is “to some extent, paying the price now”.
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Election results across Britain
The results from Liverpool, Glasgow, Middlesbrough, Birmingham and the Rhondda.
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No Go Britain: the right to love
For many years we’ve been exposing the uphill battle faced by many people in the deaf and disabled community to secure basic rights. But what about the right to love? Sui Ling Tang, who herself has a learning disability, hears from other disabled couples about their struggle to have their relationships accepted.
