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💥exc: Major row over Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms
Talks between Home Sec and key union break down after Mahmood blocks Unison boss from bringing migrant care worker to meeting
Deepens Labour rift over indefinite leave to remain
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🇬🇧🇪🇺exc: UK under-30s set to work in the EU again in major boost for Brexit deal
Brussels working to remove a roadblock to young Brits’ right to work in youth mobility deal
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Some in the EU are now wondering whether Brussels needs to also delay its demand to slash British university tuition fees for European students, which UK ministers have been resisting
Big read: Inside the 'intense' Brexit dealing as EU and UK close in on under-30s deal inews.co.uk/news/politics/in…
Big read: Inside the 'intense' Brexit dealing as EU and UK close in on under-30s deal inews.co.uk/news/politics/in…
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NEW: No10 reveal that Andy Burnham has issued a correction to Hansard to change the language he used about the suspect in the Ann Widdecombe murder case yesterday
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Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
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EXCL: Manchester City were invited and took part in a government trade delegation to India this week, despite the Premier League charges.
Bev Craig, Andy Burnham’s successor as mayor, took a club representative to Delhi and Mumbai on a trip organised by business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, where she and other mayors have been promoting British trade and tourism.
She defended the decision to invite City even as the PM came under fire for his own contacts with the club, telling the Guardian it had played a vital role in helping build infrastructure in her city.
Story from @kiranstacey
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch cites detail from my column earlier in the week at #PMQs today. Read the full piece below
Andy Burnham’s tendency to shoot from the hip is starting to raise eyebrows in Whitehall (as officials have to deal with the fallout).
My column this evening:
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Joe Duggan‘s reporting on the deadly lung disease silicosis and subsequent Killer Kitchens campaign has been nominated for the News Media Association’s “Making a Difference” award
Read more: trib.al/v0dGP3w
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In policy terms, difference between Burnham and Starmer on the EU is negligible. This stuff was all agreed under Starmer, who wanted to go big on the EU in next manifesto
Politically, the difference is major. Burnham happy to have the argument out loud, he *wants* the fight
NEW: The next EU and UK summit will take place on 20 November in Brussels, ending months of uncertainty about the event.
The two sides hope to sign three agreements:
* a food-and-drink deal to ease Brexit red tape
* a pact linking the EU and UK's emissions-trading systems, so avoiding European carbon taxes on British businesses
* a youth mobility scheme, enabling under 30s to live, work, study and travel for a time-limited period on both sides of the channel.
EU officials have also said the summit would be an occasion to discuss the future of the relationship, while stressing the UK needs to define what it wants.
One of the Burnham government's top priorities is to ensure the UK is not disadvantaged by the bloc's ‘Made in Europe’ laws that could favour EU manufacturers in strategic sectors, such as renewable energy, nuclear and electric cars - @JenniferMerode reports
Crunch decision on this now facing Burnham ahead of 20 November UK/EU summit
🇬🇧🇪🇺EXC: Conceding to a revised offer for EU students to have cheaper tuition fees at cost rate would still cost UK universities £280m, new modelling suggests
This could lead to British students losing out and job cuts
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🇬🇧🇪🇺EXC: Conceding to a revised offer for EU students to have cheaper tuition fees at cost rate would still cost UK universities £280m, new modelling suggests
This could lead to British students losing out and job cuts
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Labour MPs are on a high from conference and the Holborn result. But now it’s back to reality with the return to Parliament and the Budget.
One Labour insider: “I fear John [Healey] is f**cked and they will bin him”.
Our latest @theipaper weekend with @cazjwheeler @singharj
Analysis: Polanski's leadership is in crisis. The divided Greens face an uncertain future
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EXCL: An agreement on linking the UK/EU carbon emissions trading systems is basically done, four people tell @joncstone & me
A deal is set to be unveiled at UK-EU summit pencilled for Nov. 20. Both sides now just “tying a ribbon” says one diplomat. But other areas are trickier..
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Exclusive: Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch and members of her shadow cabinet were among more than 100 high-profile figures named in a dossier discovered at the home of the man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, The i Paper can reveal.
Shadow foreign secretary Tom Tugendhat, and his immediate predecessor Priti Patel, who is a former Home Secretary, are also on the list found during a search of Joshua Kerry’s home.
The dossier is understood to contain the names of senior Reform figures, Independent MP Rosie Duffield, and a large number of former and serving MPs and peers, as well as potentially other prominent public figures.
Story 👇
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The parliamentary standards investigation into the Reform UK leader's £5m undisclosed gift is close to reaching a conclusion, sources say
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