7 d. ago Keir Starmer urged to introduce stricter eyesight testing rules for all drivers

Experts are demanding new eyesight testing rules for drivers.

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8 d. ago HMRC has lost £47 million in breach of 100,000 taxpayer accounts, MPs hear

Taxpayers who are being contacted will suffer ‘no financial loss’, according to John-Paul Marks, the chief executive of HMRC.

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2 w. ago Defence chiefs spent more than £200million of taxpayers' money on travel and luxury stays

Defence chiefs spent more than £200 million of taxpayers' money on travel and luxury stays for senior staff last year while troops lived in squalid conditions.

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2 w. ago ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved onesOne February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Devereux, at the time the most powerful official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was stopped by a junior colleague as he walked through the car park of a civil service office in Preston, Lancashire. Was he aware, the worker asked, about the problems with carer’s allowance?Devereux, on a flying visit to the DWP outpost, asked for details and promised to look into it. A few days later, Devereux’s office received a long and detailed note, complete with 80 anonymised case studies, setting out how years of shortcomings in the administration of the carer’s allowance benefit had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money and inflicted untold hardship and misery on thousands of unpaid carers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Starmer's surrender: Sir Keir accused of Brexit betrayal as he caves in over fishing rights

The PM is today set to sign an agreement at what has been dubbed his 'Surrender Summit' that will mean Britain must once more follow EU laws and abide by its judges' rulings.

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3 w. ago Brexit is dead. Now a senior minister reveals truth to me about Starmer's Surrender Summit

To his credit, Keir Starmer managed to refrain from the saying what he privately wanted to say. 'Brexit is dead.'

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3 w. ago PM accused of 'surrender' to EU as French fleets 'get access to UK waters until 2038'

A late breakthrough in negotiations has paved the way for an agreement to be unveiled at a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen in London.

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3 w. ago The Brexit 'surrender summit': PM accused of 'capitulation' to EU as French fishing fleets 'get access to UK waters until 2038'

A late breakthrough in negotiations has paved the way for an agreement to be unveiled at a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen in London.

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3 w. ago The Brexit 'surrender summit'? Late breakthrough means PM WILL sign 'comprehensive' EU deal TODAY

A late breakthrough in negotiations has paved the way for an agreement to be unveiled at a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen in London.

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3 w. ago Sir Keir Starmer warned he risks Brexit vote betrayal if he agrees new deal to put the UK back under EU control in new 'Surrender Summit'

The Prime Minister is today set to sign an agreement that will mean Britain must once more follow EU laws and abide by its judges' rulings.

Events

3 w. ago Starmer 'about to sign a bad deal' at EU Brexit 'Surrender Summit'

Critics warned that the proposed reset to be signed in London tomorrow will open the country up to thousands of migrant workers and sell off fishing rights in our waters.

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3 w. ago Brexit? What Brexit? On the eve of Surrender Summit, Starmer eyes deal to cosy up to Brussels with hundreds of millions of UK taxpayers' cash

The scheme is expected to include a youth mobility scheme - dubbed free movement 'by the back door' - and an agreement to allow EU trawlers to fish in British waters.

Economics

3 w. ago On the eve of Surrender Summit, Starmer eyes deal to cosy up to Brussels with hundreds of millions of UK taxpayers' cash

The scheme is expected to include a youth mobility scheme - dubbed free movement 'by the back door' - and an agreement to allow EU trawlers to fish in British waters.

Economics

3 w. ago DAN HODGES: Starmer WILL have to give ground and cede sovereignty at his EU Surrender Summit

Precisely what is Keir Starmer going to hand over at tomorrow's 'Surrender Summit' with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen?

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3 w. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: As No10 gears up for the Surrender Summit with Brussels, this is how Britain is being eased back into the maw of the EU by determined and deluded Rejoiner Starmer

Will the history books conclude that this was the day when Sir Keir Starmer began to hand back the independence for which the British people voted nearly nine years ago?

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4 w. ago Now Eurocrats are making more demands ahead of Keir Starmer's Brexit 'surrender summit'

Officials in Brussels believe the Prime Minister has surrendered more than he needed to - but the bloc is still asking for more, including that British universities offer cheaper fees to European students.

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