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Britain’s greatest long distance runner has said he was trafficked into the UK when he was around eight or nine (top image) and spent his early years as a domestic slave for a woman he had never met before. In a BBC documentary (left), The Real Mo Farah, which will …

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TPR lays CDC code of practice before parliament

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has laid its new code of practice for the authorisation and supervision of collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes before parliament. This should allow the code to complete its legislative passage through parliament in time for trustees to apply for authorisation to operate a CDC scheme from …

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What is Black Rod? – Mirror Online

Black Rod, a strange tradition in the Houses of Parliament, is about to feature heavily in today’s Queen’s Speech – but what is the role, who does it and what are the rituals surrounding it? The Black Rod is etched into the history of Parliament ( Image: PA) It is …

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2019: What Happened In Politics?

And so ends another quiet year in politics… 🙃 I ended 2018 by describing it as a year that ‘delivered some of the strangest, most bizarre, comical and concerning political moments of recent history.’ I think that maybe, just maybe, 2019 might have topped that. Ok, fair, we didn’t see the UK …

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Opposition anger over political mail-out

Sam Strangeways Sarah Lagan Published Nov 7, 2019 at 8:00 am (Updated Nov 7, 2019 at 9:45 am) Opposition backbencher Trevor Moniz Opposition backbencher Trevor Moniz has accused the Government of “sleazy” and “Trumpian” behaviour for spending public funds on a flyer …

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Senate: anger over political mail-out

Published Nov 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm (Updated Nov 6, 2019 at 12:03 pm) Nick Kempe, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (File photograph) The Opposition Senate Leader accused the government of “wanton misuse of taxpayer funds” over a political …

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