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‘A better skill system will help bring net migration down’ says Shadow Education Secretary
We spoke to Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. We began by asking her about Labour’s pledge to reform the current apprenticeship levy, in order to train up more UK workers, and how it would all be funded.
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Covid Inquiry: Matt Hancock defends decision to discharge hospital patients into care homes
There were tears in the Covid Inquiry gallery today as bereaved families heard former health secretary Matt Hancock defend the decision to discharge hospital patients into care homes – without testing them.
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More than a million homes in England not built despite planning permission
The pressure on the rental market has come about, in part, because of a shortage of new houses.
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Matt Hancock denies he rejected clinical advice about care home residents at start of pandemic
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted the official inquiry into the handling of the pandemic is the right place to handle any questions – after allegations were raised about Matt Hancock’s actions as health secretary. The claims emerged amid the leak of a hundred thousand whatsapp messages to the Daily Telegraph.
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FactCheck: how much has the UK spent on military defence, humanitarian aid and homes for Ukraine?
The UK government has committed billions of pounds of support to Ukraine, but where has this money gone and what are the future spending plans to aid the war-torn country? Here’s what we know so far.
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‘A day of obscenity’: Ed MIliband responds to energy companies breaking into struggling customers’ homes
“Today is a day, frankly, of obscenity.” Ed Miliband, Shadow Climate Change Secretary, speaks to @CathyNewman about the revelation energy companies have been breaking into struggling customers’ homes to fit prepayment meters.
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By-election results ‘appalling’ for Tories, says former international development secretary
Boris Johnson will be going straight from the Commonwealth meeting in Kigali to a G7 summit in Germany, then to meet Nato leaders in Spain.
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‘You have no humanity if you don’t feel something inside you, just hurt when you see that’ – education secretary on Ukraine war
The education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi Kurd who left his home country when he was just 11, his family fearing for their lives under Saddam Hussein.
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Williamson ‘should have been sacked a long time ago’, Conservative Home founder says
We were joined by columnist and founder of the Conservative Home website, Tim Montgomerie, and Caroline Slocock, who as a civil servant was private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and John Major
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‘We will get you home’: Biden’s promise to Americans in Afghanistan
US President Joe Biden says to Americans in Afghanistan: “We will get you home”.
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New Health Secretary Sajid Javid wants country to return to normal ‘as soon as possible’
Sajid Javid says he recognises the ‘huge responsibility’ facing him in dealing with Coronavirus pandemic.
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‘He will end up resigning’: Thatcher’s former private secretary says Hancock breached ministerial code
We’re joined by founder of the Conservative Home website, Tim Montgomerie, and Caroline Slocock, who was private secretary to Margaret Thatcher.
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FactCheck: Hancock claims about care home lists don’t add up
The Health Secretary said the government didn’t have a list of all the elderly care homes in England.
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FactCheck: how many care home outbreaks were caused by hospital patients?
Matt Hancock said the “best estimate” was 1.6% – but there’s key data missing.
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Home Office accused of treating asylum seekers dangerously after dozens caught Covid in housing
Two former army barracks, Napier and Penally, have been under scrutiny since they opened to asylum seekers last year.