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Experts say big flaw is the lack of mandatory requirements, meaning developers could ignore the guidanceHousing where shops, schools, public transport and possibly pubs are close by, with green spaces and access to nature, and where heritage is preserved, should be the no...
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Reform leader says he agrees ‘strategically’ with Trump but adds that views of Greenlanders must be respectedThe world would be a “better, more secure place” if America took over Greenland, Nigel Farage said at Davos, while insisting that he still believed in the sovereig...
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Top DWP civil servant accused of giving out ‘a lot of blancmange’ over department’s response during hearingMP’s have criticised the “absolutely unacceptable behaviour” of senior welfare officials over the carer’s allowance scandal in which hundreds of thousands of unpaid ...
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The prime minister has a duty to be candid with the British public about the scale of the global realignment caused by a volatile US presidentOne foreign policy achievement that Donald Trump prefers not to boast about is his role in helping Mark Carney win last year’s Can...
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Given the software company’s size and funding options, British Business Bank’s investment looks like mission creepThe state-owned multi-tentacled ...
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Forget a rigid approach to planning – opposition leaders and MPs could help the government refine plans, writes Alan OgilvieKemi Badenoch’s recent ridiculing of the prime minister over a supposed U-turn on digital ID plans (...
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Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliancesI have long argued that Shakespeare’s history plays have more urgent relevance today than his tragedies. The issues...
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It’s time to stand up for ourselves. With targeted action and tariffs, we can help push back the bully in chiefEd Davey is leader of the Liberal DemocratsDonald Trump is behaving like an international gangster. ...
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A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir StarmerWhen Kemi Badenoch met Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, on Monday evening, she pressed him on two issues: the Chagos Is...
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Prime minister surprisingly forceful at PMQs over US president’s volte face on Chagos and refusal to drop tariffs threat on GreenlandFor a man who chooses his words so carefully, there is no doubt that Keir Starmer’s ...