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Do more to protect old pubs to stop another loss like Crooked House, MPs told

Conservative MP Marco Longhi told the Commons that more needed to be done to protect historic public houses.

The Independent UK

Supermarket chain Booths axing almost all self-checkout tills following customer backlash

The upmarket supermarket is set to replace self-checkout tills in all but two of its stores

Evening Standard

Doctor Who actor John Barrowman backed by senior MP in row over supermarket self-checkouts

Simon Hoare MP stressed that for some people the 'short conversation at the checkout is sometimes the only human interaction of the day'

Evening Standard

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Negotiations with DUP over trade border impasse in final phase, MPs told

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris also said he was not minded to change the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement.

The Independent UK

PSNI data breach ‘could cost force up to £240m’

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is investigating the Police Service of Northern Ireland data breach.

The Independent UK

Leadership of PSNI is not at war with itself, senior officer tells MPs

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee heard Deputy Chief Constable Mark Hamilton is to appear before a meeting of the Police Federation on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Policing Board will have to answer questions about PSNI controversies – Hoare

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee is investigating a major PSNI data breach.

The Independent UK

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Simon Hoare: Conservative MP met with loyalists on 'personal' fact-finding mission

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee released a statement about the meetings, which said they were not an attempt to represent the committee

Belfast Live

Senior Tory MP met loyalist paramilitaries on 'personal fact-finding mission'

A Conservative MP reportedly met with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland as a personal fact-finding mission, a Westminster committee has…

The National (Scotland)

MP met with loyalists on ‘personal’ fact-finding mission

Simon Hoare told the Belfast Telegraph he had attended meetings in a personal capacity.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Tory minister and MPs claimed driving fines on expenses

Exclusive: It’s scandalous, says former ethics tsar as Sunak is dragged into new ethics row

The Independent UK

Four MPs claimed hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on expenses

Four MPs claimed back hundreds of pounds in driving fines on their travel expenses.

Evening Standard

MPs claiming driving fines on expenses is ‘manifestly wrong’

Mr Bryant’s intervention came after The Independent revealed a Tory minister who served under Suella Braverman at the Home Office is among high-profile MPs to have wrongly claimed hundreds of pounds in driving fines on expenses

The Independent UK

Tory MPs claim hundreds of pounds in driving fines back on EXPENSES sparking fury

Sir Alastair Graham, former chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was 'scandalous', adding that MPs should have to pay their fines 'like the rest of us'

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The Independent UK

‘Will the last Tory please turn out the lights’: WhatsApp messages reveal turmoil in the Conservative Party

Panicking Tory MPs warned the party is on course to turn into a ‘skip fire’ and could even ‘die’

The Independent UK

Cuts to police may damage efforts to tackle paramilitarism, MPs told

Members of the Independent Reporting Commission issued the warning as they addressed the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland segregated housing and education ‘obscene’, MPs told

Peace walls come down only with consultation and consent of the communities on either side

Evening Standard

Controversial small boats bill clears first Commons hurdle amid Tory calls for changes

Suella Braverman faced pleas from backbench Conservative MPs to reform the Government's controversial asylum policy

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The Independent UK

Tory MPs urge Braverman to make changes to controversial immigration reforms

The Home Secretary earlier said the Illegal Migration Bill is needed as the UK asylum system has been ‘overwhelmed’.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak urged by top Tory to make small boats bill ‘tough and humane’

Rishi Sunak was urged on Monday by a senior Tory to amend his flagship immigration bill to make it “humane” as well as “tough” by opening up safe and legal asylum routes at the same time as clamping down on the flow of small boats across the Channel.

The Independent UK

‘Get it done’: Rishi Sunak under pressure from both sides of Brexit debate on protocol

Tory moderates want a deal done now, but hardliners are urging the PM to hold off

The Guardian - UK

Truss allies’ calls for sweeping tax cuts fuel further Tory infighting

Some MPs accuse former prime minister of damaging party with her comeback weeks before budget

The Independent UK

MPs told to consider impact of Stormont deadlock on vulnerable women

Northern Ireland affairs committee chairman Simon Hoare claimed some women have turned to criminality and ‘sexual favours’ to pay back paramilitaries.

The Independent UK

Protocol row ‘isn’t rocket science’, says ex-taoiseach in call for solution

Bertie Ahern was speaking at the Northern Ireland Committee at Westminster on Monday.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak warns Tory MPs of ‘existential threat’ unless party wins back public trust

In his first words as party leader, next prime minister promises ‘policies not personalities’ – and rules out early election

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