2 hours ago UK politics live: Badenoch and Cleverly claim Tory credit for 20% fall in net migration

Net migration to the UK dropped 20 per cent in the year to June 2024

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20 hours ago Badenoch suggests final Tory migration policy would be more radical than leaving European convention on human rights – UK politics live

Conservative leader says there needs to be a ‘plan not just a promise’ beyond leaving the ECHRWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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23 hours ago UK politics live: Badenoch says Starmer should ‘resign and find out’ how Tories would fix things

The prime minister’s clash with the Tory leader comes as MPs continue to voice their opinions over the upcoming assisted dying vote in the Commons on Friday

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24 hours ago Starmer refuses to rule out further tax rises when challenged at PMQs to repeat what Reeves told CBI – UK politics live

PM said he was not going to write the next five years of budgetsWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago PMQs live: Starmer refuses to rule out further tax rises when challenged to repeat what Reeves told CBI

PM said he was not going to write the next five years of budgetsWilliam Hague has achieved a rare Tory election victory; he has won the contest to be Oxford University’s next chancellor.The university has released the figures for the final round of voting, where the winner emerged after the final five candidates were ranked using the alternative vote system. The runner up was Elish Angiolini, the lawyer and academic. Continue reading...

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27 hours ago Assisted dying bill vote will be ‘very close’, says Kim Leadbeater – UK politics live

Leadbeater, the Labour MP who proposed the private member’s bill, has been defending the proposed new lawIn an interview with BBC Breakfast, Kim Leadbeater said she expected the vote her assisted dying bill to be “very close”.MPs have been doing consultations with their constituents, holding events, holding round tables, doing huge amounts of amounts of research into this really important issue, and I think the vote will be very close. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago Liz Truss opposes assisted dying bill saying NHS should be ‘protecting lives, not ending them’ – UK politics live

The Telegraph, which first reported Truss’s stance, also said Theresa May and Boris Johnson were against the billGood morning. We have got PMQs later, which means party politics will probably dominate for much of the day in the chamber, but increasingly MPs are preoccupied with a free vote, non-partisan matter, the vote on the assisted dying bill on Friday. This morning there are at least two interesting developments on that story.Three former Conservative prime ministers are all opposed to the bill, the Telegraph is reporting. The paper has a quote from Liz Truss who says:It is wrong in principle: organs of the state like the NHS and the judicial system should be protecting lives, not ending them.No doubt, as we have seen in Canada, vulnerable people would be put under appalling pressu...

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