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The government is seeking to change the law on donations to UK political parties from British expats.
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A cross-party group of MPs and peers identifies human rights risks that existing laws appear not to cover.
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More than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job lossesHundreds of UK hospitality businesses, backed by celebrity chefs including Angela Hartnett and Heston Blumenthal, have asked Andy Burnham to lay out plans to lower VAT for the sector, urging him to make good on his previous pledge.More than 800 businesses have written an open letter to the prime minister as part of the #VATsTheProblem campaign, to warn that without a “fairer tax burden for hospitality”, t
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The government describes its new school food standards as "once-in-a-generation changes".
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Burnham has said those who take risks should be backed by government, but his government has been criticised for increasing business costs.
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The Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Féin leaders will discuss ways they can work more closely.
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Andy Burnham is likely to face fresh pressure to further change the rules on party donations, writes Jack Fenwick.
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A recent consultation on corporate reporting prizes the interests of shareholders over society. It’s a step in the wrong directionThe question of what corporations are for is deeply political. In a 1970 article for the New York Times, Milton Friedman argued that the “social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”. The idea that CEOs should worry about providing good jobs was “pure and unadulterated socialism”, he wrote. Friedman and his fellow neoliberals saw companies as veh
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The man who once helped Richard ‘Dirty’ Desmond save a load of tax was wheeled out to face Laura KuenssbergYou wait years for one party donation of £36m and then two come along at once. Reform can hardly believe its luck. All hail the crypto billionaires. Tacky pale turquoise suits all round. And Nigel Farage won’t have to worry about spending any of his own money – if you can call the £5m freebie his own money – on his security. Nor do those champagne and oysters lunches to discuss loose change
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High construction costs and the Iran war are threatening the key manifesto pledge, the housing secretary says.
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As John Healey draws up his autumn budget, the US president’s policies continue to add to government debt servicing costsBritain is not entirely in control of its own destiny, from the rising cost of the weekly shop, to the vaulting cost of government borrowing. What is said and done in Westminster matters. But the global backdrop is making life tough, and the deeds and words of one man in particular: Donald Trump.As John Healey draws up his plan for next month’s autumn budget, the perilous econ
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The government is trying to change the law on donations to UK political parties from British expats.
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While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge themImagine this. Quite by chance, your TikTok feed presents you with footage of the fascists who recently took part in highly organised shows of strength in Dover and Portsmouth (and, on Wednesday, outside the London offices of the Daily Mail, demanding a new house for the mother of their leader, Daniel “Tommo” Thomas). For as long as the images hold
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US president say on visit to republic that unification will happen eventually so ‘may as well happen now’• Trump’s visit to Ireland – live updatesDonald Trump has said he would “love” to see a united Ireland and that it “may as well happen now”.The US president appeared to endorse the push for constitutional change on the island at the start of a two-day visit to Ireland on Saturday. The unexpected intervention prompted a swift rebuttal from the UK government and Northern Ireland’s unionist lead
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Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
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As Reform slip back in the polls, Labour and the Conservatives rediscover a familiar political divide, writes Laura Kuenssberg
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This week’s move suggests that, even in the age of Trump, Britain will once again have an ‘ethical dimension’ to its foreign policy. That’s good for the world Almost 30 years ago, the Labour titan Robin Cook announced his arrival at the Foreign Office by laying out what would become described as an “ethical foreign policy”. The UK, he said, “must support the demands of other peoples for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves”. Human rights would be “at the heart of our foreign po
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Ben Delo's donation, the biggest single sum ever given to a political party in the UK, comes amid scrutiny of Reform's finances.
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MPs quietly withdrew support when it became clear it was not a priority of Andy Burnham’s governmentAfter two years of impassioned arguments, tearful personal testimonies, noisy protests and ethical dilemmas, the assisted dying bill for England and Wales failed on a knife edge.Campaigners on the pro side largely blame the House of Lords for making it seem an impossible struggle to get the bill through parliament, after blocking it the first time by putting through more than 1,000 amendments so t