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Picket-line turnout on first day of industrial action believed to be lower with hope of less disruption to NHS servicesThousands fewer resident doctors are thought to have joined picket lines on Friday during the first day of ...
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Government concerned about risk of unrest spreading ahead of new protests at the Bell hotel in EssexAsylum seekers who refuse to move out of hotels to new accommodation will have their support withdrawn, the Home Office has said, before more protests at a site in Essex th...
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More than half of 1,000 Reform voters polled would be more likely to vote Labour if hospital waiting lists come downReform voters could be tempted to back Labour at the next election if there was more focus on a “bills and blue lights” strategy to repair the NHS and deal ...
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Health secretary says government doing all it can to ‘minimise risk and disruption’ as BMA says pay has fallen more in real terms since 2008 than rest of population...
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Chancellor is advised to give herself more leeway in the next budget before adjusting taxation or spendingThe International Monetary Fund has urged Rachel Reeves to consider ending the pensions triple lock and charging for NHS treatment as it said the UK government risks ...
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Deputy speaker Ian Duncan found to have breached rules by providing parliamentary service for Terrestrial EnergyA Conservative peer has apologised for breaking the House of Lords rules by helping to secure a meeting with a minister for a Canadian company he advises....
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Labour’s changes are too feeble and too late. These new bodies should have been launched long agoA year ago, following Labour’s election win and the Conservative rout, the new government’s standing could hardly have been higher or its opportunities greater. The political ...
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Britain’s PM will see his US counterpart on Monday. He should urge Trump to force an end to the Palestinians’ agonySo great is the despair, so intense the desperation, that the hopes of the Palestinians of Gaza now rest on a man who covets their land and wants to see them...
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Consultants were supportive of previous strikes, but these feel futile. The goodwill has gone and we fear for patient safetyIt is hard to believe that, yet again, we are going into industrial action by our resident (formerly junior) doctors. It has only been a year since ...
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The government now faces a daunting task to show that society’s concerns can be reflected. It will need to do better than thisIt was meant to be a cosy conversation about cooking and new motherhood.But BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour took an ...