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Emily Thornberry denies ‘sneering’ at Brexit voters

Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry has denied “sneering” at Brexit voters. The shadow foreign secretary was confronted in a TV interview with Andrew Neil with a video in which she appeared to laugh as a fellow Labour frontbencher said that people who did not hate Brexit “have something wrong with …

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HS2: All the other things you could do with £106bn

The cost of implementing the high-speed railway connecting London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds could reach £106bn, according to a leaked, government-commissioned review. High Speed 2 (HS2) was originally allocated £56bn, and current HS2 Ltd chairman Allan Cook revised the estimated costs to between £81bn and £88bn in October. But …

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Royal family releases a new portait for 2020

A new portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince William, and 6-year-old Prince George was released Friday by Buckingham Palace to mark the beginning of a new decade. The image, taken by photographer Ranald Mackechnie, marks the second time a portrait has been issued of Elizabeth, her son the Prince …

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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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Market ‘fanfare’ may be short-lived

Tories win general election After Boris Johnson’s Conservative party won a landslide majority the likes of which has not been since Margaret Thatcher, industry professionals have hailed the news as a tailwind for the UK economy and assets. The markets reacted positively to the win, with the domestically-facing FTSE 250 …

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