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“There has been no electricity for months now. If we have electricity, we have water."

"We now know it was paid for by a Tory donor. Lord Geidt confirms ‘an interest did arise’ but this interest has not been declared. Why not?,” Angela Rayner has asked.

“In terms of British business, their attitude so far has been pretty much along the lines of ‘as long as we can make money we do’."

“It is so disturbing to see the UK government advertising its partnership with Bahrain like this, when it knows full well that the regime systematically uses torture and death sentences to suppress dissent,” a human rights worker said.

The controversial plans could allow firms to seek compensation for the effects of government policies on their profits.

"It was frightening. If it weren’t for the hard work of social care staff, those figures would have been much, much worse.”

DUP leader Edwin Poots accused the EU of doing “demonstrable harm to every individual in Northern Ireland”.

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"They need to be careful though or people might think it's a deliberate PR stunt to divert attention from Boris Johnson's incompetence," one online user has said.