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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps defended the time it had taken to make the move.

Whether you’re violently anti or hysterically pro-Ulez, you have to admit that it demonstrated admirable qualities in our Mayor, Sadiq Khan. He showed us he can be refreshingly intractable and dogged, that he doesn’t mind upsetting people under incredible pressure from half of London, and even his own party leader.…

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Lately, it can seem as though Britain is crumbling around us. A number of schools in England have had to close while hundreds of others will have to do without buildings that are at risk of collapse, the government announced this week, leaving thousands of pupils facing a return to…

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The cabinet has gone through a lot of changes in the past year

The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

“We need to talk about the dire state of British transport infrastructure.” So wrote John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter for the Financial Times (FT), on Twitter. 

Uneasy Tory MPs have taken to WhatsApp to re-share the story of how Grant Shapps explained the hack