Dr Kate Devlin told her invitation had been withdrawn because of her past comments on social mediaA UK academic says she was “cancelled” from giving a talk to a government department because she had previously...
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Dave Williams, the permanent secretary, said department aims to
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Foreign secretary David Lammy says he is ending London’s
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Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April