21 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Is Britain right to rejoin the Erasmus EU education scheme?

Work on the UK joining Erasmus was announced as part of the Prime Minister's post-Brexit reset deal with Brussels in May. The UK left the scheme under Boris Johnson.

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46 h. ago UK to rejoin EU's student exchange program in a step toward closer ties after Brexit

Britain will rejoin the European Union’s Erasmus student-exchange program, the government has announced

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6 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire

It is a good general rule that you should not interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of making a mistake. So I hesitate to intrude on the current calculations of the Labour Party.

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7 d. ago BBC forced to apologise after 'incorrect' swipe at Boris Johnson on Have I Got News For You

The popular news-based comedy panel show returned for a new episode last Friday, with Professor Hannah Fry taking on the hot seat as the episode host, when the blunder was made.

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8 d. ago Sajid Javid told Boris Johnson he was Dominic Cummings’ ‘puppet’

Former chancellor also says Johnson was ‘least well briefed’ of the PMs he had servedSajid Javid told Boris Johnson he was a “puppet” of Dominic Cummings before he resigned as chancellor rather than accept a Cummings-led takeover of his Treasury, he has said in an interview about his experiences as a minister.Speaking to the Institute for Government (IfG), Javid also said that his other departure from Johnson’s government, shortly before it collapsed in 2022, was because he had lost confidence in the prime minister after being assured that allegations about lockdown-breaking parties in No 10 were “bullshit”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Nicola Sturgeon pledge to narrow attainment gap between richest and poorest Scots pupils 'a lifetime away from happening'

The ex-SNP leader promised in 2015 "to close the attainment gap completely" but the Lib Dems said it could take more than a century to achieve.

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9 d. ago Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside | Owen Jones

The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account tooThere have been far too few defences of Keir Starmer in the British press of late. Time for a modest redress. As the last rites are muttered over his premiership, his colleagues want you to know that this is all his fault. The humiliation is complete: even Labour Together – the outfit that quietly plotted Starmer’s leadership bid – is now sharpening its knives. It is polling members on who should replace him, indulging the comforting fantasy that swapping captains will somehow stop the ship from sinking.The Tory experience of regicide should offer a caution: do not depose a king unless you have already settled on a prince who understands why the kingdom is in crisis. The Tories toppled Boris Johnson and installed Liz Truss, whose zeal to slash taxes for the wealthy detonated the markets and sealed her party’s fate. Why? Because they...

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1 week ago Boris Johnson dons fairy wings and a tiara for his daughter's fourth birthday party

The ex-Prime Minister, 61, who lives in Oxfordshire, was seen dressed in a tiara, green glittery fairy wings and rubber pixie ears as he attempted to follow a dance routine.

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1 week ago Boris Johnson dances in fairy wings at daughter Romy’s fourth birthday party

Boris Johnson provided the birthday entertainment at a party for his four-year-old daughter Romy, as he was seen dancing in a pair of fairy wings.

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1 week ago Ian Wright criticises Arsenal star for poor ‘game management’ in Aston Villa defeat

Wright explains what went wrong at Villa Park as title race is blown wide open

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1 week ago Millionaire Tory donor made a peer by Boris Johnson defects to Reform UK

Lord Malcolm Offord said he will give up his peerage to join Reform UK

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1 week ago Reform gains first House of Lords member after Tory defection

Lord Malcolm Offord became the party’s first peer after Nigel Farage announced his defection during a rally in Falkirk.

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1 week ago The truth about the ‘gender care gap’: are men really more likely to abandon their ill wives?

It’s one thing facing a major diagnosis; it’s quite another dealing with your partner pulling away. But does the stereotype match the reality?Jess never dreamed that she was going to get sick, nor did she consider what it would mean for her love life if she did. When she first started dating her boyfriend, they were both in their late 20s, living busy, active lives. “Sport was something we did a lot of and we did it together: we worked hard, played hard, we went for bike rides and went running and played golf together.”But around a year into their relationship, all that stopped abruptly when Jess was diagnosed with long Covid, the poorly understood syndrome that in some people follows a Covid infection. For her, it meant “a general shutdown of my body: lungs, heart, stomach, really bad brain fog”. She went from being a sporty, independent 29-year-old with a successful career to sleeping all day and relying on her boyfriend for everything. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BORIS JOHNSON: What the mysterious rise in the numbers demanding wheelchairs to get to their plane tells us about the ever spiralling cost of the welfare state

Getting off a plane in the US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the plane door. They were all tabarded airport staff, and they all had wheelchairs.

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2 w. ago No female political leaders comments 'classic Nicola Sturgeon ego and delusion'

Russell Findlay has slammed comments made by Nicola Sturgeon on female politicians.

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2 w. ago Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Nicola Sturgeon and Alan Cumming among full line up revealed for Scottish festival

The festival is in its 21st year

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2 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid headline Winter Words Festival

The Pitlochry Festival Theatre event takes place in February.

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2 w. ago Strictly's Alex Kingston already has one vote in the bag... from her close neighbour Boris Johnson

She's a popular choice among viewers to lift the glitter ball after winning over millions of Strictly fans as this year's oldest contestant.

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2 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon cannot see a female political leader at Holyrood 'anytime soon'

Nicola Sturgeon says she looks around the Scottish Parliament and cannot see another female party leader appointed ‘any time soon’

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2 w. ago BORIS JOHNSON: After the almighty pummelling she gave the hapless Reeves, my advice is to buy shares in Kemi

Kemi demolished that Labour Budget - and she sent Reeves and Starmer limping from the chamber.

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