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The US has banned food, metals and other imports from about 30 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labour involving the Uygurs, according to a government notice posted online on Friday. The new restrictions, covering a range of products from tomato paste and walnuts to gold and iron ore, are part of the federal government’s […]
Gordon Brown pays tribute to Prescott Andrew Sparrow Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Caroline Davies. The former prime minister Gordon Brown has just been on the Today programme paying tribute to John Prescott. He said: John was a friend of mine, he was a colleague, but when you think of him, he […]
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PMQs – snap verdict That was very missable. Alex Burghart, who was standing in for Kemi Badenoch, started well, with a very short, direct question, but after that it rapidly got worse. He used his first three questions to focus on inflation, trying to make an argument about Labour letting price rises get out of […]
Steve Reed says, if farmers feel betrayed, they should blame Tories for state public finances were in after election In an interview with the BBC, Steve Reed, the environment secretary, defended imposing inheritance tax on some farms when Labour said in opposition that it was not planning to do that. Asked why the government changed […]
No 10 defends Reeves’ record of being ‘straight’ with voters after Tories attack her over CV embellishment Downing Street has defended the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as someone who’s been “straight with the public” in response to claims she embellished her CV. Last month the Guido Fawkes website said that Reeves was wrong to claim that […]
Crossing the Shenzhen border on an early morning in mid-October, a joyful Joseph finally set foot in Hong Kong, where his two children have lived for over 10 years, with the right to work. In his mid 30s and from mainland China, Joseph has landed a job as a waiter in a New Territories restaurant […]
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Kim Leadbeater criticises Streeting over assisted dying bill comments, implying he’s ignoring ministerial neutrality policy Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who has tabled the private member’s bill on assisted dying that will be debated two weeks tomorrow, has said she is “disappointed” by Wes Streeting, the health secretary, saying the new law could cut funding […]
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Operations at British Columbia’s ports are slated to resume on Thursday, after the federal government intervened in a bitter labour dispute. The B.C. Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) said Wednesday that the Canada Industrial Relations Board had the resumption of operations for Nov. 14. It comes after federal […]