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Charles 'blocked' Michael Jackson meeting Harry and William over 'controversy'
International superstar Michael Jackson – who died 15 years ago today (June 25) – had dreams of a honorary knighthood and even fantasised about marrying Princess Diana, says his former bodyguard
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How our ex-MPs will be earning a lot of money after the election
There is plenty of demand for former politicians
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Diane Abbott given Labour whip back amid claims party blocking her from election
Diane Abbott has apologised, and is understood to have attended an anti-Semitism awareness course in February - but discussions are ongoing about whether she'll be allowed to stand for Labour
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Calls to change archaic centuries-old law ahead of Duke of Westminster's wedding
Leading campaigner of Daughter's Rights said that if this was the Muslim community discriminating against their daughters they would be condemned but 'because it involved posh people' it wasn't
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Ken Clarke must lose peerage over infected blood scandal, demand victims
The Tory former Health Secretary was criticised by the Infected Blood Inquiry for claiming in 1983 there was “no conclusive proof” that Aids could be spread through blood
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NHS to save billions after changing procurement criteria for all supplies
The NHS is set to save billions of pounds a year after changing its procurement criteria for all medical supplies.
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Dog owners face unlimited fines if their pets attack or 'worry' livestock
Therese Coffey's Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill, which has been supported by MPs, is designed to make it easier for police to catch offenders
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Prisoner serving indefinite sentence reunited with son after 14 years
Thomas White, 40, has been locked up for 12 years after receiving a two-year minimum tariff jail term under an Imprisonment for Public Protection order - a sentence that has now been abolished
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'The 99 problems Keir Starmer has to fix'
If no-one repairs a country for 14 years the problems just keep getting worse, says Fleet Street Fox. Keir Starmer's to-do list is the stuff of nightmares
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Michael Gove abandons promise to ban no-fault evictions before general election
Five years after the Conservatives first promised to end no fault evictions for renters Michael Gove only said he 'hopes' it will become law before Britain heads to the polls
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Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill finally passes after months of bitter fighting
After months of bitter fighting between the Commons and the Lords - as well as within the Tory Party - the Safety of Rwanda Bill finally passed its final hurdle
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Tories 'rejected pleas not to hold Rwanda vote on Jewish holiday' peers told
Crossbench peer Lord Carlile said he was alarmed that the Government had ignored calls not to hold the House of Lords vote the first day of the Passover, or Pesach, Festival
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Rishi Sunak suffers Rwanda defeat in House of Lords as peers refuse to back down
Peers voted by 240 to 211 to demand a new monitoring committee that will consult the Government on whether Rwanda is safe before flights can start taking asylum seekers there
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Minister lets slip date of first Rwanda flight by leaving document lying around
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this morning that the first flight will take off in July, but a government briefing paper shows it is actually scheduled to go sooner
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Sex trafficking victim and daughter, 5, face heartless Rwanda deportation
A victim of sex trafficking and slavery has lived in the UK for several years and gave birth to her daughter here - but now faces being deported to Rwanda by the Home Office
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Tory Grant Shapps refuses to rule out RAF flying asylum seekers to Rwanda
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has refused to rule out getting RAF planes to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda amid claims airlines have refused to get involved in the scheme
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Cameron's excuse for continued arms sales to Israel 'not good enough' say Labour
John Healey said Lord Cameron should publish a summary of the legal advice he relied on to green light more weapons sales, saying it was “essential that Britain abides by international law.”
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Changing Houses of Parliament's clocks cost taxpayers nearly £3,300 over Easter
It’s more than double the £1,233.82 cost of changing the clocks from British Summer Time to Greenwich Meantime in November last year, most likely because of increased overtime costs over the bank holiday weekend
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Lindsay Hoyle pays emotional tribute to dad and ex-Labour MP Doug Hoyle
Keir Starmer paid tribute to Lord Doug Hoyle saying he was 'Labour through and through' and hailed him as a 'distinguished parliamentarian and tenacious campaigner'
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Nearly 1 in 4 House of Lords nominees donated to political parties, figures show
Research by Transparency International UK shows 68 out of 284 peerage nominations from political parties between 2013 and 2023 were political donors
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Tory Deputy Chair rants at Labour for 'blocking' Rwanda Bill he didn't vote on
The Tories' new Deputy Chairman Jonathan Gullis was reminded of his own voting record on the Rwanda Bill as he appeared on Sky News's Sophy Ridge programme
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Trophy hunting imports ban moves closer as peers told not to 'sabotage' it
A ban on bringing grim mementos like back animal skins, severed heads and carcasses could finally be brought in after MPs unanimously backed Labour MP John Spellar's call
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PM's Rwanda Bill delayed as House of Lords inflict seven defeats on Government
PM Rishi Sunak had hoped to push through the Rwanda Bill through Parliament before MPs' Easter break in a desperate bid to begin deportation flights in the spring
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Nuked blood data is declassified, 24 hours after legal papers served on MoD
150 documents which the Ministry of Defence had insisted were a state secret have been declassified, just a day after veterans served notice of their intention to sue for their medical records
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Sunak 'presiding over terribly racist period for Tories' says ex-party chair
In a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi demanded the Tories hand back cash to Frank Hester and said he is presiding over a 'terribly racist period'