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Labour's John McDonnell among first recipients of union's Solidarity medal
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Tax cuts are the only tactic left to Boris Johnson: Conservatives warn that other divisive issues are a distraction from putting money in people’s pockets
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Tax cuts are the only tactic left to Boris Johnson
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Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election: Keir Starmer pressed the red button and excitable Tories flapped that Boris Johnson might call a snap ...
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Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election
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Labour's John McDonnell among first recipients of union's Solidarity medal
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Tax cuts are the only tactic left to Boris Johnson: Conservatives warn that other divisive issues are a distraction from putting money in people’s pockets
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Tax cuts are the only tactic left to Boris Johnson
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Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election: Keir Starmer pressed the red button and excitable Tories flapped that Boris Johnson might call a snap ...
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Commons Confidential: Tories fear a kamikaze election
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Liz Truss, Angela Rayner and the perils of partisanship: Politics is a rough game. In few other careers are you subjected to such a level of scrutiny ...
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Liz Truss, Angela Rayner and the perils of partisanship
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'I'm 72 and people say I'm ageing backwards - my three-step routine is magic': A woman who is 'aging backwards' and has starred in Rihanna's Fenty ...
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'I'm 72 and people say I'm ageing backwards - my three-step routine is ...
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Labour vows to fund NHS pledges by tackling tax dodgers: The party says its plans would raise £5.1bn a year but the government claims Labour would still raise ...
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Labour vows to fund NHS pledges by tackling tax dodgers
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How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?: Rayner is under fresh pressure after the Mail on Sunday published a series of photos appearing to suggest Lowndes Lane was ...
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How much trouble is Angela Rayner in?
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes: Peers continue standoff with MPs over legislation enabling asylum seekers to be sent to east Africa.
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Passions run high as Lords insist on Rwanda bill changes
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We: A new play at the National Theatre celebrates Nye Bevan’s titanic struggle to create the NHS — a fight we must ...
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Bevan Fought for the NHS — and so Must We
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Watch: Tetchy Starmer wriggles over Rayner’s tax affairs: Angela Rayner appears unable to shake off questions about her tax affairs — literally ...
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Watch: Tetchy Starmer wriggles over Rayner’s tax affairs
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more: Liz Truss bore the brunt at prime minister’s questions
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PMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer fight over who dislikes Liz Truss more
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Protesters target home of Sir Keir Starmer to demand arms embargo on Israel: A group of pro-Palestinian activists have held a protest outside the home of Sir ...
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Protesters target home of Sir Keir Starmer to demand arms embargo on ...
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela Rayner facing ‘multiple’ allegations
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PMQs live: Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to clash as police say Angela ...
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Rishi Sunak's attempt to ban smoking is nuts, says Boris Johnson: The proposed law aims to phase out tobacco sales by stopping anyone born after 2009 buying ...
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Rishi Sunak's attempt to ban smoking is nuts, says Boris Johnson
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside: Try as she might to duck questions on her tax affairs, the issue just keeps following Angela Rayner around ...
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Watch: Tory tax protestors target Rayner in Teesside
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David Lammy: Ofcom to investigate Labour MP's show on LBC: The broadcast regulator said it would examine whether an episode broadcast on Good Friday broke rules.
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David Lammy: Ofcom to investigate Labour MP's show on LBC
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Boris Johnson: Shameful to call for UK to end arms sales to Israel: Some MPs have urged the UK to reassess how it supports Israel after aid workers were killed ...
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Boris Johnson: Shameful to call for UK to end arms sales to Israel
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British youth smoking ban advances: A pioneering tobacco ban aimed at creating Britain's "first smoke-free generation" cleared a key hurdle in ...
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British youth smoking ban advances
Quick Glance: UK Lawmakers Support Groundbreaking 'Smoke-Free Generation' Bill
  • The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban to prevent young people from ever smoking passed its first hurdle in Parliament despite opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party.

  • The bill, announced by Sunak, would make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009, creating one of the toughest anti-smoking measures in the world to establish the 'first smoke-free generation' in modern Britain.

  • The bill also includes measures to crack down on youth vaping, such as banning the sale of cheap disposable vapes and restricting their flavors to prevent children from becoming addicted to nicotine.

  • The number of people who smoke in the U.K. has declined by two-thirds since the 1970s, but approximately 6.4 million people in the country still smoke, accounting for about 13% of the population. Smoking remains the number one preventable cause of death, disability, and poor health.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s comeback and what it says about Keir Starmer: The political terrain is particularly fertile for a Corbyn resurgence
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Jeremy Corbyn’s comeback and what it says about Keir Starmer
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal: The Labour PM had a relationship with his deputy press secretary, two of his closest aides say.
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Harold Wilson had affair while in No 10, advisers reveal
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The Tories deserve our contempt: The Telegraph reported at the weekend that the Conservative party appears to be attempting, in its selection process for ...
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The Tories deserve our contempt
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics: Scores of MPs are seeking to carry out a rapid repositioning on gender politics in the wake of the ...
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Never forget the politicians who pushed gender politics
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer: Labour leader was responding to a question from the BBC about Vivienne Groom ...
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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer
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The dangers of political prosecution: At the start of January, Donald Trump offered up a cheery new year message for Americans. ‘If I don’t get immunity ...
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The dangers of political prosecution
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour: Oh dear. Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, received a rather humiliating dressing ...
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Watch: Lloyd Russell-Moyle called out over his behaviour
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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare: From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest ...
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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare
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Plan divides government: Brits should be prevented from buying cigarettes: Cigar fan Winston Churchill's party wants to ban cigarettes in Great Britain ...
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Plan divides government: Brits should be prevented from buying cigarettes
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy: The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to ...
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Rigging Britain’s Democracy
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time: In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is ...
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Bosses Are Wasting Our Time
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March Madness live updates: South Carolina caps perfect season with championship win over Iowa; Clark’s college career ends without a title
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Quick Glance: Record Audience at NCAA Women's Championship
  • South Carolina's victory over Caitlin Clark and Iowa in Sunday's women's NCAA championship game garnered a preliminary average viewership of 18.7 million on ABC and ESPN.

  • Nielsen's final numbers on Tuesday may reveal an increase in viewership.

  • It marks the most-watched basketball game since 2019, when the men's NCAA title game between Virginia and Texas Tech averaged 19.6 million viewers on CBS.

  • The women's final also recorded the highest viewership for a Sunday afternoon sporting event on ESPN and ABC since early 2021.
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Twenty Lancashire councillors quit Labour in leadership protest: They have claimed the national Labour Party wants to control who stands where and when.
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Twenty Lancashire councillors quit Labour in leadership protest
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I’ve been a Lord for two weeks – I can already see we need abolishing: Too many of my colleagues regard appointment to the Lords as just an honour
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I’ve been a Lord for two weeks – I can already see we need abolishing
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What is there left to say about the Tories?: Spare a thought for us political commentators. We stare into the void between now and a (presumed) decisive Labour ...
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What is there left to say about the Tories?
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UK's Labour Party aims to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP: Britain's opposition Labour Party would aim to raise defence spending to 2 ...
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UK's Labour Party aims to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP
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Boris Johnson urges UK to keep arming Israel and makes swipe at David Cameron: Former prime minister urges government to continue its support for Israel’s war ...
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Boris Johnson urges UK to keep arming Israel and makes swipe at David ...
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UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills: Britain turned down the offer to remain a member of the cultural exchange program after Brexit.
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UK quit Erasmus because of Brits’ poor language skills
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Lord Doug Hoyle: Commons Speaker left 'devastated' after father's death: Former Labour MP Lord Doug Hoyle was a "truly dedicated parliamentarian" ...
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Lord Doug Hoyle: Commons Speaker left 'devastated' after father's death
Quick Glance: Sir Lindsay Hoyle devastated by father's passing
  • Chorley MP and House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has expressed deep sorrow over the death of his father.

  • Taking to Twitter, he announced the passing of his father, Lord Doug Hoyle, emphasizing that he passed away peacefully at home.

  • He praised his father as a formidable figure and highlighted his dedication as a parliamentarian.

  • Doug was primarily a family man and his absence will be keenly felt by his family and loved ones.
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Watch: Labour MPs mock NatCon shutdown: It’s a sad day for lovers of personal freedom. Not only is Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pressing on with his smoking ban — ...
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Watch: Labour MPs mock NatCon shutdown
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How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist: Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures ...
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How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist
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Liz Truss says No10 infested with fleas - and some blamed Boris Johnson's dog : In a tell-all book, former PM Liz Truss complained that the No11 flat was ...
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Liz Truss says No10 infested with fleas - and some blamed Boris Johnson's ...
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Keir Starmer’s team confident public will back Angela Rayner over tax probe: Labour is using the local elections campaign to try out the party's messaging ...
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Keir Starmer’s team confident public will back Angela Rayner over tax ...
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Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election, says ex Tory chancellor Philip Hammond
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Conservatives likely to take 'pasting' at general election ...
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Tax gap in Great Britain: Labor wants to grab rich foreigners' wallets: With the controversial “non-dom” status, wealthy foreigners have so far been able to save ...
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Tax gap in Great Britain: Labor wants to grab rich foreigners' wallets
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Sheffield local elections: ‘Everyone wants to claim green policies now’ – The Green Party’s influence in Sheffield
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Sheffield local elections: ‘Everyone wants to claim green policies now’ – ...
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Susan Hall refuses to condemn Boris Johnson for exploring 'pay-per-mile' charge: Ms Hall has criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan for exploring the ‘pay-per-mile’ ...
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Susan Hall refuses to condemn Boris Johnson for exploring 'pay-per-mile' ...
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Here's why Angel Reese and LSU will beat Iowa and Caitlin Clark, again: Caitlin Clark is a tremendous player, but she can't win this game by herself ...
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Here's why Angel Reese and LSU will beat Iowa and Caitlin Clark, again
Quick Glance: LSU-Iowa Rematch Breaks ESPN Viewership Record
  • LSU and Iowa attracted millions of viewers, leading to record ratings on ESPN.

  • The Elite Eight game showcased top college basketball players and ended with a victory for Iowa.

  • The Elite Eight resulted in high viewership and increased interest in women's basketball.

  • The upcoming Final Four tournament promises exciting games and high ticket prices.
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Unpopular Sunak in ‘doom loop’ as UK PM stares at election defeat: LONDON: He’s failed to meet key pledges, hit an opinion poll low, and even cramped the style ...
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Unpopular Sunak in ‘doom loop’ as UK PM stares at election defeat
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Seven-year-old selling lemonade to help purchase mother’s tombstone: The community of Scottsboro, a city in Jackson County, Alabama, rallies behind 7-year-old ...
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Seven-year-old selling lemonade to help purchase mother’s tombstone
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Assault of shop workers to be made specific criminal offence: The PM says shops must be able to trade free from abuse but Labour argues ministers have been slow ...
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Assault of shop workers to be made specific criminal offence
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Liz Truss isn’t done yet: The more the Tories fracture and fragment, the further Sunak’s supremacy is eroded
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Liz Truss isn’t done yet