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Final day of questioning in Trump impeachment trial – but drama outside the chamber
The final day of questioning in the impeachment trial of President Trump is underway – and it’s looking like a late night is in store.
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FactCheck: the broken Brexit promises, half-truths and dodgy predictions from all sides
Get ready to relive it all…
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Trump impeachment trial begins
While Donald Trump was in snowy Davos, his impeachment trial was revving up back at home.
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‘We don’t censor political speech, we allow it to take place’ – Facebook’s Steve Hatch
Facebook says it will create a thousand new jobs in the UK this year, increasing its staff numbers here by a third.
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Impeachment: The Trial of President Donald J Trump will happen in the New Year
Now – a dubious honour for Donald Trump – who’s become only the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
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Nicola Sturgeon requests second independence referendum
In Edinburgh, the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been claiming a very different democratic mandate – as she set out her case for another independence vote, declaring it was ‘inevitable’ that a new referendum would be held.
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NI parties hold talks on restoring power sharing
Talks to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly have begun, nearly three years since the devolved government was suspended.
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Nationalists win more seats than unionists in NI for first time
There were some major defeats for the Democratic Unionists, including their deputy leader, Nigel Dodds who lost his seat to Sinn Fein.
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Future of Northern Ireland in doubt as nationalist MPs outnumber unionists for first time
For the first time, Northern Ireland now has more nationalist and republican MPs than unionists, with some major defeats for the Democratic Unionists – including their deputy leader. So what does this say about the future of the Stormont assembly, which has not sat since 2017 – and the failure by the two main parties to break the impasse?
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FactCheck: the 2019 general election explained in five graphs
The results are in and Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street with a comfortable Conservative majority.
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FactCheck: what might have happened under Proportional Representation?
The Conservatives got 43.6 per cent of all votes cast – but 56 per cent of all the seats in the House of Commons.
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DUP say they won’t support Johnson Brexit deal
In Northern Ireland, pro-Remain parties have been joining together in ad-hoc electoral pacts in an effort to remove Democratic Unionists.
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Has Lib Dem ‘stop Brexit’ message broken through?
The Liberal Democrats have focussed their campaign around a straight ‘stop Brexit’ message in their target constituencies, but it’s not clear if that message has broken through, with voters with the party’s momentum draining away throughout the campaign.
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Will Johnson win a ‘get Brexit done’ majority?
The party leaders have been pretty much everywhere today in a final campaigning blitz before the polling stations open first thing tomorrow morning.
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‘Brexit will have terrible effect on NHS’, says Lib Dem Dr Sarah Wollaston
We were joined by Dr Sarah Wollaston, who was a Conservative MP and is now a Liberal Democrat. She was the Chair of the commons Health and Social Care committee from 2014 to 2019.