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Post election plots and operations
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
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Alan Johnson dismisses talk of a Labour plot and that he is being lined up to replace Ed Miliband, telling the party to “get a grip”.
Labour appears to have sleepwalked into a leadership crisis. But how likely are claims of a new leader to replace him before the 2015 general election? And who might replace him?
Home Secretary Theresa May says she is sorry that the inquiry into historical child abuse does not have a chairman, four months after she announced its formation.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond calls the murder of US journalist James Foley by a suspected Briton an “utter betrayal”, but expects the struggle against extremism to last “a generation”.
After an EU ruling from April questioned current UK data law, the government wants to force through an emergency law allowing telecoms companies to go on collecting and storing data.
The chief executive of the NSPCC Peter Wanless is to head a review into allegations of historical child sex abuse, Home Secretary Theresa May tells MPs.
The home secretary prepares to make a statement on allegations of organised child sex abuse at Westminster in the 1980s, following Lord Tebbit’s comments that there “may well” have been a cover-up.
Home Secretary Theresa May apologises for delays in processing passport applications and insisted the government is doing all it can to deal with the situation.
The home secretary confirms two reviews will be held into the passport debacle, as ministers step in to prevent officials relaxing security checks on a backlog of over 25,000 applications.
MPs warn “tens of thousands” of people face having their summers ruined because of delays in passport applications, but the home secretary says more resources will help deal with the issue.
Requiring schools to “promote British values” and introducing no-notice inspections, are just two of the measures Michael Gove wants to introduce to tackle extremism in schools.
Conservative cabinet ministers Theresa May and Michael Gove issue a joint statement saying they are “working together” on alleged Islamist extremism in schools following a dispute over the issue.
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
Labour is likely to win this week’s Wythenshawe by-election. But the big question is how well Ukip fares – while all the Lib Dems can expect is another lost deposit.
Some of the “most vulnerable” Syrian refugees, including torture survivors and victims of sexual assaults, will be temporarily resettled in the UK, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces.