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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu charged with fraud, corruption and bribery
The decision to charge him is likely to deal a heavy blow to Benjamin Netanyahu’s hopes of remaining in office.
Prince Andrew’s income ‘shrouded in fog of secrecy’
The duke is known for his excessive official travel, once costing taxpayers £378,000 in one year.
Labour takes aim at gig economy companies
Uber and Deliveroo could be forced to re-classify people under Labour’s new plan.
Tories trick voters with fake Labour manifesto website
The attempt to top internet searches to read the Labour manifesto was instantly condemned. It comes after the Tory party was given a slap on the wrist by Twitter for changing its profile to look like a fact checking service during the leadership debate on ITV.
PA at Qatari Embassy subjected to campaign of sexual harassment drove her to ‘brink of suicide’
Mum-of-two Deanne Kingson, 58, said one senior Embassy official was desperate to bed both her and her 19-year-old daughter
Prince Andrew could be questioned over Epstein relationship – victims’ lawyer
Andrew, the Queen’s second son, has also announced he would step down from public duties for the ‘foreseeable future’.
Borrowing hits five-year October high amid election pledges to hike spending
The ONS said public sector net borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, rose by £2.3 billion year-on-year to £11.2 billion last month.
Twitter points out the irony of George Osborne’s homelessness campaign
Homelessness has increased by over 140 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2010.
Ofcom finds Kay Burley’s ‘empty chair’ roast of Tory Party chair James Cleverly fair
The “fuming” news host “empty-chaired” the Conservative Party chairman and ran through a list of election campaign scandals, U-turns, embarrassments and inadequacies that she had been hoping to grill him on while “he is probably 15 feet from where I am standing”.