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‘Death of a thousand cuts’: David Davis warns political scandals will ‘taint’ whole government
We spoke to the former Brexit secretary David Davis. We put it to him that it looks as if the prime minister might be beginning to understand the game is up – but what needs to happen?
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Cost of living crisis: The households facing benefit cuts over unexplained overpayments
Millions of the country’s lowest income households are going without food or other essentials because they don’t have enough money to make ends meet – that’s according to debt advice charity StepChange whose data has been shared exclusively with this programme.
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Gatwick cuts some summer flights to deal with staffing crisis
Gatwick Airport has announced it is cutting flights right in the middle of the summer holiday season as it continues to struggle with a staffing crisis. Normally around 900 flights leave the airport each day during peak season, but this July that will be cut to 825 and in August to 850. Meanwhile, an investigation…
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Will train ticket price cuts help the cost of living crisis?
Train ticket prices are set to be cut by up to a half as the Government tries to address cost-of-living pressures with cheaper travel for the next month.
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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace cuts holiday short over Ukraine crisis
Britain’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has cut short his family skiing holiday while comparing the failure of some western nations to stand up to the Russians, to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in 1938.
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Russia has more to lose than EU if it cuts off gas supply, German MEP says
We were joined by the German MEP Dietmar Köster, who’s from the Social Democrats and is a member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee.
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Barbados cuts ties with Queen to become republic
At the stroke of midnight, the Caribbean nation of Barbados became the world’s newest republic, swearing in their first President, Dame Sandra Mason, in front of an audience that included Prince Charles and Barbadian royalty, Rihanna.
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Budget 2021: Lib Dems accuse chancellor of giving more tax cuts to bankers
The Lib Dems and the Scottish National Party have also been giving their reaction to the budget.
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Sunak says tax cuts will have to wait
The Chancellor has defended his decision to put up taxes last month
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Crime and policing minister defends austerity cuts to police budgets
We spoke to the Crime and Policing Minister, Kit Malthouse, and began by asking whether the colourful language used to describe the new initiative evoked images of the racially-segregated Deep South.
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FactCheck: Youth services have seen big cuts over the last decade
The YMCA found that spending on youth services has been cut by 71 per cent in real terms since 2010/11 – or almost a billion pounds.
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FactCheck: extra funding for CPS comes after long-term cuts
We can see the scale of the cuts by looking at the budget allocations made by government to the CPS over the last decade.
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MPs fail to force vote on overseas aid budget cuts
Backbench MPs have failed in their attempt to force a vote on the government’s plan to cut the international aid budget.
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‘It’s not right morally, it’s not right politically, it’s against the law,’ says Andrew Mitchell MP on UK aid cuts
We were joined by Andrew Mitchell, who is the former International Development Secretary and is behind the Commons amendment on Monday, which seeks to force the government to make up any deficit in foreign aid spending below the 0.7 percent target.
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Foreign aid cuts could undermine UK’s global credibility say charities
As the Prime Minister urges global co-operation at the G7 summit, Boris Johnson faces condemnation from charities and some of his own MPs for breaking a manifesto commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.
