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With consumers facing the highest levels of food price inflation since the 1970s, the EFRA Committee wants to 'get to the bottom of what’s going on'
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Both and have said Volodymyr Zelenskyy should speak at Eurovision
But Mr Johnson got the date of the event wrong when tweeting to his followers
'All of these allegations have to be taken extremely seriously'
's comments come after a Labour MP reported a frontbench colleague to the police for sexual assault itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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Chancellor says there's 'things to be very proud of' about the UK economy after 13 years of the Tories being in power
'But that is not to say that as a country we aren't facing big challenges now' itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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'Brexit is not the issue'
Chancellor insists leaving EU is 'not drag on economy' as GDP figures show UK 'bottom of G7 table' itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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Chancellor unable to say when UK economy will return to pre-pandemic levels
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'It's for the economists to say when we are going to get our quarterly levels back to prepandemic levels but Germany is also in the same situation as we are'
cannot say when the UK economy will get back to 2019 levels on a quarterly basis itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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Decision on whether to raise state pension age to 68 can wait until after election, minister says
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'We want to resolve the public sector strikes as quickly as we can - we're prepared to be completely reasonable'
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says the government will 'talk about anything except measures that will entrench high inflation' itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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Labour frontbencher reported to police by colleague over sexual assault
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'I wouldn't trust them to run a bath'- MPs react as TransPennine Express loses franchise
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I took painkillers before carrying sword at coronation, says Penny Mordaunt
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Ben Wallace said the missiles, with a range of around 150 miles, 'will allow Ukraine to push back Russian forces based within Ukrainian sovereign territory'
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Interest rates are now at their highest since the financial crash of 2008
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., the former Brexit opportunities minister, has accused of 'behaving like a Borgia' for watering down his pledge to scrap 4,000 EU-era laws
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Another NHS waiting list record has been broken, with more than 7 million people in England still waiting to start routine hospital treatment
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'Who do you think you're speaking to, secretary of state?
House Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle scolds Kemi Badenoch in the Commons, telling her off for 'absolutely not accepting my ruling'
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Llyr Gruffydd chosen as Plaid Cymru's interim leader following Adam Price's resignation
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Rishi Sunak's press secretary has refused to rule out the Tories forming a coalition with one of the smaller parties after the next general election
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Mr Bridgen was expelled from the Conservative Party after comparing Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust.
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'Will he be able to look his daughter in the eye and honestly say that he has done everything in his power to give her and all other young people a liveable future?'
urges to block the development of the Rosebank oilfield
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'The PM said he was going to lose 1,000 seats and then he managed it - after 13 years a Tory promise they actually haven't broken'
attacks who hits back, calling the Labour leader 'Sir Flaky' itv.com/news/politics
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'Isolationist, morally unacceptable and politically impractical'
Archbishop of Canterbury attacks the small boats bill, saying there are 'too many problems' to highlight in one speech itv.com/news/2023-05-1
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'This Bill seeks to systematically deny human rights to a group of people desperately seeking sanctuary'
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Paddick says the the Illegal Immigration Bill represents a 'low point in the history of this government'
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NEW: Ousted Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who represents North West Leicestershire, has joined The Reclaim Party - becoming its first MP
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It comes after was expelled by the for controversial comments relating to coronavirus vaccines
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There’s confusion this morning over the future of Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price following a meeting last night of the party’s Senedd Members
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Andrew Bridgen MP is set to join Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party following his expulsion from the Conservative Party after comparing Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust.
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'The police need powers to deal with Just Stop Oil and some of their tactics'
explains why Labour would not repeal a controversial new law which saw a number of people wrongly arrested on coronation Saturday itv.com/news/2023-05-0
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Labour's insists his policies are 'not very different' to those he campaigned on when running to be leader
His comments were in response to a question from about the trust issues he faces after scrapping a number of pledges itv.com/news/2023-05-0
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. has told he is 'confident' Labour will win a majority at the next general election
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has repeatedly refused to commit to hiring 6,000 more GPs, despite the 2019 Tory manifesto claiming it would
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'We're not there yet'
repeatedly refuses to commit to hitting manifesto pledge of hiring 6,000 new GPs
He tells that 2,000 new doctors have been hired since 2019 itv.com/news/2023-05-0
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. refuses to commit to the Tory manifesto pledge of hiring 6,000 more GPs by 2024
When asked twice if he will achieve the target, the PM says he will soon bring forward a 'long-term NHS workforce plan' itv.com/news/2023-05-0
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