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Piers Morgan hits back following Adil Ray’s ‘baby’ comments on GMB
“You have presented with some babies over the years, haven’t you?”, Ray asked Susanna Reid on this morning's show.
Industrial communities protest as North sees funding cut post-Brexit
Grants given through the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund were supposed to match EU cash previously handed out to UK regions for development. In reality, the north is £1.65 billion down.
Tory MPs suggest migrants should be sent to Falkland Islands
"The only way we will put these people off is by giving them the message that if you come here you are going to be sent 8,000 miles away."
Remind you of anyone? Thatcher ‘may have misled MPs’ it has been revealed
Foreign Office files show former PM wrongly told the Commons flight BA149 landed before the Iraqi invasion had begun.
Brexit: Frost calls divergence from EU rules ‘national necessity’ as France to blockade Calais
Regarding Covid he said: “I am very happy that free Britain, or at least merry England, is probably now the freest country in the world as regards Covid restrictions. No mask rules, no vaccine passports. Long may it remain so."
Romanian man gives Brits money to buy their own homes
The Oxford graduate noticed a huge difference in housing access between the UK and his home country - so he decided to do something about it.
Social care cap: Govt ‘voted to tax ordinary working people’ as wealthiest ‘unaffected’
"Once again Boris Johnson’s failures translate into working people paying the price," said Liz Kendall
Brit Awards to scrap gendered categories: Reactions are mixed…
Quite a few people claim they will boycott the show...
Defending the indefensible? – Daily Mail says ‘don’t sneer’ at Johnson’s fixation with Peppa Pig
"In invoking Peppa as a great British export, Boris Johnson was seeking to reinvigorate his reputation as a supporter of private enterprise."