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Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book, with David Walker, is Cameron's Coup, following on from The Verdict

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  1. 22 hours ago

    If Mrs May says means Brexit, surely workers on boards means workers on boards?

    End of workers on boards idea -'we will look at different ways' says Biz sec Greg Clark - olive branch to biz from govt as May heads to CBI
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  2. 12 hours ago

    Government axes 'pay to stay' plan for higher-income council tenants

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  3. 8 hours ago

    ‘Please, I am out of options’: inside the murky world of DIY abortions

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  4. 8 hours ago

    90 Labour (Remain) MPs reply to 60 Tory (Brexit) MPs. To make progress, will need cross-party alliances that cross the referendum tribes.

    Strong Labour rejection of Hard Brexit - which would be a disaster for working people, business & the economy.
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  5. 8 hours ago

    Hospitals may require patients to show passports for NHS treatment

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  6. 8 hours ago

    Ukip-controlled European group misspent €500,000

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  7. 9 hours ago

    Imagine another world where Europe was united and actually doing something about these gross human rights violations at our borders

    These are two professors, a couple, detained on Greek border today while fleeing to Europe from the Turkish crackdown.
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  8. 17 hours ago

    Does the NHS have its eyes wide shut? My latest briefing as several key policies converge.

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  9. 9 hours ago

    PM warned transition Brexit deal 'fiendishly difficult' to achieve.

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  10. Nov 14

    These are academics Turkish police rounded up from several universities today. More than 1,000 faculty are already imprisoned.

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  11. 9 hours ago

    CNN & others straps refer to 'alt right' in a matter of fact without quotes way as some sort of official title. It's not. They're neo-Nazis.

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  12. 9 hours ago

    "Plymouth people ‘sickened’ and ‘disgusted’ by BBC Panorama undercover care home film" via

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  13. 11 hours ago

    Theresa May will say her hands are tied this week. Don’t be bamboozled, writes :

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  14. 10 hours ago

    Mayhem will say her hands are tied right no economics to say no money for public services its a choice

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  15. 9 hours ago

    Excellent but very worrying autumn statement assessment from

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  16. Nov 20

    North of England loses 310,000 graduates in 10-year brain drain. Brexit makes it worse and this will hit new jobs.

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  17. Nov 19 Camden Town, London

    This is awful: Russian led attacks leave entire population of Aleppo without medical care or support.

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  18. Nov 19

    'Sociology has a Trump problem'. It could be remedied if more sociologists talked to people via

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  19. Nov 20

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  20. Nov 20

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