3 h. ago KEMI BADENOCH: How scandal of grooming gangs was the tipping point for me over the European human rights convention

KEMI BADENOCH:It is time for Britain to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. I have not taken this decision lightly.

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3 h. ago Kemi Badenoch vows to set UK free of European Convention on Human Rights 'straitjacket' in bid to regain control of Britain's borders

In what she admits is a 'big change' in party policy, the Tory leader says the move is necessary to regain control of Britain's borders and make Parliament sovereign once more.

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10 h. ago Michelle Mone has ';no wish to return' to House of Lords as Tory peer after PPE scandal

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said this week that Mone should 'have the book thrown at her.'

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10 h. ago Michelle Mone says she has ‘no wish to return to the Lords’ as a Tory peer

Several high-profile politicians have called for Lady Mone to relinquish her peerage.

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10 h. ago Michelle Mone tells Kemi Badenoch: I don't want to return to Lords as a Tory peer

Lady Mone accused the Conservative leader of using ‘inflammatory’ and ‘reckless’ language that could prejudice a police investigation into her role in the awarding of PPE contracts

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10 h. ago Thousands back call to strip Michelle Mone of peerage as she lashes out at Kemi Badenoch

A group representing Covid bereaved families said Baroness Mone's place in the House of Lords was a 'slap in the face' to those who lost loved ones in the pandemic

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11 h. ago Michelle Mone: Businesswoman has 'no wish' to return as Tory peer, as 'shocked' letter sent to Kemi Badenoch

Michelle Mone has responded directly to Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch

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11 h. ago Baroness Michelle Mone resigns as Conservative peer after PPE scandal

Michelle Mone, who has links to PPE Medpro wrote a letter to Tory leader Kemi Badenoch after accusing Chancellor Rachel Reeves of using 'dangerous and inflammatory' language about her

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13 h. ago U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month

The U.N. food agency has announced cuts to food assistance for hundreds of thousands in Somalia, where millions face the devastating effects of climate change and severe hunger

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13 h. ago Changing how people eat could save 15 million lives a year, landmark study finds

Researchers say Shift to mostly plant-rich, flexible global diet could slash premature deaths, ease inequality, and curb environmental destruction

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13 h. ago Kemi Badenoch blasts Tory splitters 'who want to be a notch on Nigel Farage’s bed post'

Embattled Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sought to downplay the impact of a steady flow of defections from Conservative ranks to Nigel Farage's Reform party

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14 h. ago Kemi Badenoch makes embarrassing Brexit gaffe despite claiming she never makes gaffes

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch claimed in a TV interview that Northern Ireland voted to leave the EU - even though the nation actually backed remain by a majority of 56% to 44%

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14 h. ago Make green great again: Can appeals to the wallet make climate policy an election

In this week’s newsletter: At a major gathering in New York, climate advocates say that language has to change• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAt stuffy United Nations press conferences, in swanky auditoriums and at sticky socialist dance parties, one word was on everyone’s lips at this year’s Climate Week NYC: affordability.The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, said under that under President Trump the United States is “returning to commonsense energy policies that focus on affordability”. The former energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, said Democrats must focus on renewable power’s ability to shrink power bills to win elections. And supporters of the almost certainly soon-to-be New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, trumpeted their efforts to link green policies with efforts to lower city residents’ rent and make transit affordable.Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a dayUK fracking ban to be brought forward as Labour ...

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15 h. ago Death toll from Typhoon Bualoi, Vietnam’s deadliest storm this year, rises to 51

Government report estimate property damage caused by typhoon and resultant flooding at around £447m

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16 h. ago Kemi Badenoch is just ‘a Reform tribute act’, claims Ed Miliband as he lashes out at Tory climate policy

The energy secretary has written for The Independent condemning the Tory leader’s decision to ditch net zero policies

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20 h. ago Shadow chancellor underlines Tory commitment to ‘fiscal responsibility’

Mel Stride insists Tories are the party of sound money and business and that he is confident in ‘resilient’ Kemi Badenoch

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23 h. ago Kemi Badenoch ‘staying the course’ to fix Tory party despite ‘tough times’

The Conservative leader said blows traded between Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage were ‘not serious behaviour’.

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25 h. ago Tory grandees turn on Kemi Badenoch after party leader vowed to scrap climate legislation

Kemi Badenoch faced criticism from her predecessor Baroness May and two former Conservative ministers for her proposal to put cheap energy above environmental targets.

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25 h. ago A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems

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26 h. ago ‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countriesAdoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report.The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

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