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Economy ‘staggering’ to year end as services sector returns to contraction
The latest Markit/CIPS services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) recorded a reading of 49.3 in November, down from 50 in October.
Climate change activists target Lib Dem bus
Jo Swinson says it is ironic they focused on an electric bus.
YouTube takes down Conservative adverts featuring edited BBC footage
The move follows similar action by Facebook, after the corporation complained it could ‘damage perceptions of our impartiality’.
Hotel blaze centred on outside of ‘cladding-covered’ building
A hotel guest expressed concern that cladding is still attached to buildings, saying the blaze "really went up quickly.”
ONS figures show immigration prevents ‘almost unimaginable’ NHS staff shortages
There is a ‘very real risk’ that proposed election policies will make it more difficult to bring staff into the NHS, a think tank is warning.
Leading cultural figures urge people to vote Jeremy Corbyn and reverse ‘inequality and neglect’
Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters and Steve Coogan added their names to a letter backing Mr Corbyn to be next prime minister.
‘Polling expert’ in false Lib Dem tactical voting advice letters disowns them
Deliberately misleading the voting public these letters have been found across the country and could disenfranchise voters keen to vote Tory MPs out.
Former Tory chairman Lord Patten slams Johnson’s dishonesty and wouldn’t vote for no-deal Tories
"I don't actually believe there is... a big trade deal with the USA," said Conservative grandee Chris Patten. The Tory peer warned that Britain would "have to accept some concessions on regulation... in health, in food safety."
Boris Johnson finds time for pre-election interview…. With Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby
The Prime Minister still hasn't managed to confirm a time with Andrew Neil.