Category: Iain Duncan Smith

Badenoch says UK-India trade deal is one she rejected as business secretary – UK politics live

Tory leader says she refused to sign the deal due to a number of sticking pointsIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, who is seen as a Blairite, said that if the Labour government did not deliver change for voters, it...

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Lib Dems say Labour ‘tone deaf’ after No 10 rules out winter fuel payments U-turn – UK politics live

Downing Street says government will not reverse decision despite pressure from leftwingIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, who is seen as a Blairite, said that if the Labour government did not deliver change for...

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No 10 rules out reversing cuts to winter fuel payments – UK politics live

Downing Street says government will not reverse decision despite pressure from leftwingIn his interviews this morning Wes Streeting, who is seen as a Blairite, said that if the Labour government did not deliver change for...

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Starmer twice declines to directly condemn jailing of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures

UK prime minister was condemned by Iain Duncan Smith, who is on Beijing’s sanctions listKeir Starmer has twice declined to directly condemn the jailing of dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures, less than 24...

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Proportion of children in Great Britain with gambling problem has doubled, data reveals

Gambling Commission figures show shock rise to 85,000 in number of young people deemed to have addictionThe proportion of young people in Great Britain with a gambling problem has more than doubled, according to “astonishing”...

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Owner of UK national lottery operator to sever ties with Gazprom

Allwyn parent company says deal to buy 3% stake in Czech gas facility will cut final link with Kremlin-controlled energy firmThe billionaire owner of Allwyn, the company that runs the national lottery, will sever his last...

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Sunak faces new calls to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards after Israel attack

PM under pressure to designate IRGC as terrorist group as former Tory leader calls government reasoning ‘absurd’Middle East crisis – live updatesRishi Sunak is facing cross-party pressure to proscribe Iran’s Islamic...

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Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules

David Blunkett and Alan Johnson join Iain Duncan Smith in dismay at DWP’s treatment of benefit recipients’ minor mistakesThey’re heartless’: how one woman fell victim to the carer’s allowance trapCarers in the UK: have you been...

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