More than 500 people attended the funeral of WW2 Flight Sgt Peter Brown today, following a campaign by The Sun after the veteran had died alone.
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"It's just such a British gardener thing to do, to turn a hose pipe on some silly people."
The Spectator's Isabel Hardman comments on a woman who turned a hose pipe on protesters at the Chelsea Flower show.
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"Immigration is really important for our country."
Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says a 120% increase in work visas, "at the same time as growing skills shortages", shows that the system "isn't working."
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On First Edition, 10pm:
📺, , on why Brits aren't working
📺Isle of Man TT veteran John Barton on its deaths
📺 on laying Peter Brown to rest
📰 + review papers
Watch: youtube.com/live/zjHuQrh4p
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The number of foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers removed in 2022 was 38,000, the LOWEST number on record apart from the pandemic years (2020-21).
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Fox News contributor Joe Concha says he expects a "dogfight" between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, if Trump's campaign is distracted by legal woes.
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Former Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland says people should not been to obstruct Baroness Hallett, the chair of the Covid inquiry.
"It's wise for everybody involved in the inquiry to cooperate."
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Steven Swinford says the Government is deciding whether to launch an unprecedented legal challenge, which could delay the Covid inquiry, over demands to hand over thousands of Whatsapp messages.
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📺 + on Covid Inquiry’s WhatsApp messages ultimatum
📺 on Immigration numbers
📺 on DeSantis presidential bid
📰 / review the papers
Watch: youtube.com/live/p8oB9IVdk
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Rishi Sunak clears Suella Braverman of breaching the ministerial code, but mildly chides her for not taking “a better course of action”.
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More rush hour chaos in the capital this morning too, as the Met’s feed also chronicles. What people struggle to understand is why stopping traffic isn’t an immediate arrestable offence. Can’t legit protest just take place on the pavement without screwing up everyone’s commute?
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Statement from Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor re an incident involving Just Stop Oil protesters on #BlackfriarsBridge this morning
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A galling fact I learned from today: 6,000 terminally ill people die in terrible pain every year in the UK because they can’t end their lives early - 17 every day. If assisted dying does become law, it will be in no small part due to her immense eloquence and humanity
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A galling fact I learned from today: 6,000 terminally ill people die in terrible pain every year in the UK because they can’t end their lives early - 17 every day. If assisted dying does become law, it will be in no small part due to her immense eloquence and humanity
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"The headline is this, wake up to better sex, set the alarm for 7:30am."
Responding to a story in The Times, TalkTV's asks , and whether 7:30am is the optimal time for sex.
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As Boris Johnson faces fresh claims of Covid rule breaking, Politico's Dan Bloom says if the Privileges Committee gets involved, the former PM's agony could be extended by months.
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Tory MP Bim Afolami calls for changes to Parliamentary procedure to ensure a debate on assisted dying can take place.
"Issues of conscience have always been free votes, there's no way the government would ever try and whip this."
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Labour's Jess Phillips explains why she would back assisted dying with proper safeguarding standards.
"I've watched my mother die, there's got to be a more humane way of people being able to take back control."
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EXCLUSIVE: The Great British Bake Off star Dame Prue Leith has called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to give MPs a free vote on whether to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill.
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📺An excl interview with on her assisted dying appeal
📺 on Boris's new Covid probe
📺 about Musk on AI
📺 on Tate's rehanging
📰/ review the papers
Watch: youtube.com/live/NRelT6QDN
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Prue Leith tells First Edition why she believes assisted dying for the terminally ill will soon become law.
Watch tonight from 10pm on TalkTV.
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Boris Johnson has been referred to the police by the Cabinet Office over new claims he broke lockdown rules at Downing Street and Chequers during the coronavirus pandemic
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Ignore what we’ve just promised the voters, it’s all rubbish. Quite a revelation from today.
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Police stand by as protesters block a road in rush hour. Man tries to clear them from the road so he can go to work. Police arrest man not protesters. Tough one to figure this.
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Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves accidentally reveals she flew to the US on an expensive business class ticket ahead of a major speech in Washington DC.
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Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, says the health service needs tens of billions of pounds to hit targets.
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Tory MP Jonathan Gullis defends Suella Braverman over her speeding fine:
"The Home Secretary has taken the points, she's accepted the fine, it's time to move on, because believe me my constituents aren't talking about this."
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📺 + 'New Conservative' Jonathan Gullis on Sunak's Suella problem
📺 on foreign student visas
📺 on Labour's NHS targets
📰 + review the papers
Watch: youtube.com/live/sT8P326zz
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This is what happens in most US cities, ends pointless waits at red lights when there's no traffic.
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Red traffic lights in London could be switched off from 10pm until 7am if Sadiq Khan is sacked as Mayor
Tory hopeful Dan Korski today vowed to impose a radical shake-up of London roads
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EXCLUSIVE 🚨: Suella Braverman asked Home Office civil servants to help her avoid a speeding fine and points on her licence by arranging a private one-to-one driving awareness course
Serious Qs over whether she may have breached ministerial code
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The Russians claimed that the Scandinavians would be freezing this winter.
This Norwegian man doesn’t look bothered.
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Photo du Jour: G7 leaders
and await the arrival of U.S. President Joe Biden before posing for a family photo at the Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima. By Stefan Rousseau/PA
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Global turmoil spanks the super rich. The number of billionaires in Britain is down for the first time since 2008. Even Rishi and Akshata Sunak have lost £160m in the last year (or £500k a day).
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This was fascinating. The vanity of wealth!
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Former Montana Secretary of State, Corey Stapleton, says his State is banning TikTok "to fire a salvo" at China over national security concerns.
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Corey Stapleton, former Montana Secretary of State and Republican Presidential hopeful, says Donald Trump was "thrown out of office by the American people...because of his own choices."
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General Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Joint Forces Command, says a war with China could set US and UK economies back by 100 years.
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General Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Joint Forces Command, says war with China is possible by 2025.
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On First Edition from 10pm:
📺 /Sir Richard Barrons on the Chinese elephant at the G7
📺 on Montana's TikTok ban
📺 on food prices
📺 on Sunday Times Rich List
📰/ review papers
youtube.com/live/yRmcdLhmP
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