49 minutes ago PM faces pressure from Labour ranks and Caribbean nations over reparations

The Prime Minister will travel to Samoa this week for the biennial gathering of heads of government for the 56 nations.

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1 hour ago Sir Keir Starmer backs Daily Mail campaign to strip 'awful killer' asbestos from schools and hospitals

The Prime Minister said asbestos was an 'awful killer', adding: 'Whatever we need to do to reduce that risk, we absolutely need to do', during a visit to a London Ambulance Service centre today.

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2 hours ago Medical emergency that occurs every 40 seconds and kills 160,000 a year

Experts from the American Heart Association have released a stroke-prevention guide featuring 'Life's Essential 8' amid a worrying rise of stroke, which occurs every 40 seconds, in young people.

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6 hours ago Labour MP labels Keir Starmer’s reparations refusal 'embarrassing colonial mindset'

Calls grow louder for reparations as Keir Starmer meets with Commonwealth leaders at a summit in Samoa after King Charles was confronted in Australia over Britain's role in colonialism

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8 hours ago Keir Starmer defends King Charles for work during ‘health challenges’ after Lidia Thorpe outburst

Prime minister asked if Australian senator’s protest was ‘disgraceful’

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8 hours ago Starmer backs King’s ‘fantastic’ public service after Australian senator protest

The Prime Minister was speaking at an east London health facility in the wake of the outburst directed at Charles in Canberra.

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8 hours ago Employment rights bill will cost firms £5bn per year but benefits will justify costs, government says – UK politics live

Analysis from business and trade department says bill will significantly strengthen workers’ rightIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, o...

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8 hours ago VIPs will demand Taylor Swift levels of police protection, Cleverly claims

Shadow home secretary says Labour have set a precedent by giving the US singer a police escort during concerts in London earlier this year.

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10 hours ago Angela Rayner wins a seat on Keir Starmer's national security council as PM U

No10 confirmed today that the Deputy Prime Minister would join other senior ministers on the crucial committee, in 'recognition of the expectation that [she] will attend this committee regularly'.

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