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UK needs a new strategy after failing to curb illicit tobacco trade
The release of the IPO findings, together with the scale of recent counterfeit tobacco seizures, should send a clear signal to the UK that it needs to step up its efforts to stamp out the illicit tobacco trade.
Daily Mirror names and shames every MP who voted against free meals for hungry kids on its front page
Tory MPs said they "did not believe in nationalising children" ahead of the vote, with one saying children have been going hungry "for years".
Number 10 refusing to back Marcus Rashford’s free school meals campaign
Tory minister Paul Scully told the BBC that “children have been going hungry under a Labour government for years” and insisted the Government had been tackling the issue.
Pope Francis endorses same-sex partnerships for the first time
“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” the pontiff said.
‘Cowardly’ Cambridge grad venture capitalist tried to molest woman before boasting about his good looks faces jail
“Given that you had the trial in these proceedings and forced this young woman to give evidence does not go in your favour because her courage is the extreme opposite to your cowardess in that matter.”
‘Difficult to say what Government will do’ as UK to expect tens of thousands of deaths in second wave
We haven’t specifically been asked to look at different policies quite honestly, so nobody’s asking us to say ‘well what should we do here?’
These are the stories The Sun want you to forget
From the werewolf of Southend to the asylum seekers who "tried to cook a pair of royal swans", these are the stories The Sun want you to forget.
Watch – Ministers seem ‘weirdly obsessed’ with Burnham and have attacked Labour ‘from day one’
“We’re in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of winter, it genuinely feels like this government is now not only failing to help us but is actively working against us to inflict harm on its own citizens.”
Activists dump manure outside BP headquarters in Aberdeen
“BP’s net-zero commitments are full of bullsh*t. They have spent millions on rebranding before with Beyond Petroleum while extracting countless barrels of oil and committing human rights abuses in pursuit of profit."