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PM says widespread flooding is ‘not a national emergency’
The Environment Agency repeated warnings for people to stay away from swollen rivers.
Poorest families have borne brunt of housing crisis, think-tank says
The Resolution Foundation said that for the poorest families, the proportion of income spent on housing has more than doubled since 1980.
BBC to host head-to-head debate between Corbyn and Johnson
Nick Robinson will host the debate on December 6, while a special two-hour long version of Question Time will be broadcast on November 22.
Woman’s body recovered from floodwater as month’s rain falls in 24 hours
Derbyshire Police said the woman was reported as having been swept away in Rowsley.
Alastair Campbell exclusive: ‘Boris Johnson must be stopped’
Boris Johnson is using lies at the heart of his communications strategy, and the media is lapping it up.
Watch Boris Johnson accidentally make the case for remaining rather than leaving with his Brexit deal
The PM also admitted that a no-deal Brexit is an “irrational” threat.
Briton who went to fight Islamic State jailed for four years
Aidan James was found guilty of training in weapons with the banned Marxist political organisation the PKK in Iraq.
Power to the North: Newspapers team up to present election ‘manifesto’
The manifesto notes that there has been a “grotesque scale of the unfairness” in the region.
Farage accused of ‘politics of fear’ on campaign visit to Cumbria to meet ‘Workington Man’
The Brexit Party leader was confronted about why he was leading a political party yet refusing to stand as an MP himself by a voter as he visited Cumbria to meet what he accused Conservatives of patronisingly calling “Workington man”.