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Victoria Derbyshire masterclass outlines catastrophic impact of new Brexit checks
"It was Conservative Brexiter Jacob Rees-Mogg who promised cheaper food after Brexit. And it was Conservative PM Boris Johnson who said there would be no extra checks on trade. It appears both were wrong"
Scottish village sets provisional new UK record January temperature of 19.6C
The Met Office said the figure was recorded in Achfary, Sutherland, on Sunday.
The Burley boycott: Petrified Tory ministers give Sky News presenter a swerve
Bruising interviews with Lucy Frazer and Huw Merriman have got Tory ministers running scared.
France’s protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades
The farmers want to pressure the government over the future of their industry.
Laurence Fox LOSES High Court libel battle over social media row
The actor-turned-politician was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X.
‘Austerity played role’ in record numbers of children being taken into care
It has left local authorities with fewer resources to do something other than go to court, the head of the family courts has said.
Brexit-backing press struggle to fathom France’s ’90 day visa hell’
Still, at least we have blue passports, eh!
Booze bill for Boris’s Brexit party in No10 revealed after two-year legal fight
Those present consumed a whopping 117 bottles of Gusbourne Blanc de Blancs 2014, which is sold for around £65 a bottle.
UKIP deputy leader quits, citing chairman’s ‘personal desires’
"Sadly, I was planted as the Deputy Leader of UKIP, because the chairman wanted to get me into bed. (Send sympathy to his fiancée)"