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Alan Milburn takes up lead role in Labour’s health ministry
Campaign group Keep Our NHS Public have warned that this could mark the start of a two-tier health service under the Labour government.
Doors to ‘gold-plated Narnia’ set to close for hereditary peers
"Why should anyone, just because they've been born, be entitled to a big lunch and £342 a day?" - Jemma Forte
Elon Musk draws on the Bible to defend British Empire’s role in the slave trade
Another day, another woefully misguided tweet.
Veteran cards will be accepted as voted ID in future elections – Labour
It comes after military veterans were turned away from the ballot box at the local elections in May.
EU urged to suspend free trade deal with Israel
It comes following strikes on tents housing displaced Palestinians inside a hospital complex.
Schools like Eton have found a way to cash in on new VAT rules – and it could cost the taxpayer millions
"It is a windfall gain to the privileged independent schools at the expense of the taxpayer.”
UK birth rates are falling and people think they might know why
CPP analysis shows the UK's fertility rate has dropped by an astonishing 18.8 per cent in 12 years.
Douglas Barrowman complaint thrown out by press regulator
IPSO ruled that the Daily Mail was OK to call Douglas Barrowman a “roly-poly Scottish businessman” with “cocktail-sausage fingers” whose "dubious tax avoidance schemes ruined thousands and led to two suicides".
Stephen Fry says Austrian citizenship is a ‘finger up to Brexit’
He was able to become an Austrian citizen thanks to his grandmother.