Three-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research findsAI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to...
Read MoreThe prime minister says the prison early release scheme crisis shows he’s someone who had ‘never taken no for an answer’In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see...
Read MoreThe prime minister says he wants to build crossparty consensus In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see 9.58am), saying he was confident that more could be done to...
Read MoreThe prime minister says other work to reduce prisoner numbers could allow for more space for serious offendersAndy Burnham did not want to be talking about prisons today. As Aletha Adu and Alexandra Topping report, the PM wants...
Read MoreBurnham has asked the justice secretary Alex Norris to come to parliament in September with solution Good morning. Andy Burnham has been prime minister for three weeks and one day, and arguably he is performing his first U-turn....
Read MoreParents and teachers worry about the number of kids who vape cannabis. But many of them are using something far more dangerous – without even realising itI bumped into an old acquaintance the other day. Updating me on his...
Read MoreClustered together in the area of Cheetham Hill are more than 50 shops specialising in vapes and vaping paraphernalia. How can they all make a living – and for how much longer?I meet Ali outside his tiny wholesale business, Fly...
Read MoreIndustry giant paid for Lord Vaizey’s trip to Switzerland before he tabled amendment to tobacco and vapes billA Conservative peer proposed delaying the UK’s proposed ban on heated tobacco, weeks after a leading cigarette company...
Read MoreResearchers fear new models will circumvent forthcoming disposables ban as diverted imports also drive down pricesChina is set to flood Britain with cheap vapes, researchers have said, as manufacturers seek to capitalise on the...
Read MoreQuestions raised about potential for undue influence after appointment of Ruth Dempsey, formerly of Philip MorrisA former director at the tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) was handed a role on an influential expert...
Read MoreFormer post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandalTom Tugendhat is one of two Conservative leadership candidates not in the...
Read MoreFormer post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandalTom Tugendhat is one of two Conservative leadership candidates not in the...
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