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‘Licence to kill’: What caused Labour’s latest anti-Starmer rebellion?
The bill would allow undercover agents to break the law if it will prevent a more serious crime or there is a threat to national security.
This is a government that doesn’t believe in accountability – Bercow
If the prime minister is not going to accept or demand the resignation of his failing ministers, manifestly he is not going to resign himself.
Urgent rush to trace 48,000 missing contacts as infection rates in cities rise
Almost half of the 16,000 cases that went missing on the government's world-beating spreadsheet have still not been reached.
Government suffers heavy defeats as Lords vote down flagship immigration legislation
Lord Dubs, who fled the Nazis as a child on the Kindertransport, spearheaded demands for changes.
Trump tweets “don’t be afraid of Covid” as he prepares to leave hospital
The president is set to leave the Walter Reed Medical Center at 6.30pm.
Stella Creasy despairs as Hancock says it is wrong to pick on a small number of cogs in the wheel
It comes after it was revealed technical issues with the UK's multi-billion Track and Trace programme were caused by t limitations of Excel spreadsheets.
Wealthy Tory seats are dodging lockdown despite soaring Covid rates
Several so-called ‘red wall’ seats have avoided restrictions - including Darlington and Barrow-in-Furness - despite having higher infection rates than places in lockdown.
Cuts are coming, Sunak warns – and benefits could be on chopping board
Addressing the virtual Conservative party conference, Sunak warned of “hard choices” to come, and said that the Government would not “borrow our way out of a hole”.