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    MI5 warns of sharp rise in foreign states trying to steal secrets from UK firms

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email MI5 is warning businesses to protect themselves against Chinese hackers amid a “sharp rise” in aggressive action by foreign powers. Those involved in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and synthetic […] More

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    Leaked Tory memo reveals fears party will lose half of vote share in key by-elections

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Conservatives expect to lose half their vote share at two upcoming parliamentary by-elections this month, a leaked internal memo suggests. The document, written for the Tory Party chairman Greg Hands, cites canvassing […] More

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    Watch: Committee questions Foreign Office minister on Israel evacuations

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as the foreign affairs committee questions Foreign Office minister Lord Ahmad on Tuesday 17 Setember. Discussions are likely to include the government’s efforts to evacuate citizens from Israel, in a week that […] More

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    Labour councillors quit in protest over Keir Starmer’s Israel stance

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Several Labour councillors have quit the party in protest over Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on Israel’s planned invasion of Gaza – including the first Arab Muslim woman on Manchester City Council. Amna Abdullatif […] More

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    BBC’s Mishal Husain in new clash with Tory minister over Hamas

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The BBC’s Mishal Husain was in another testy exchange with a Cabinet minister today over the Israel-Hamas war. She interrupted Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell after he supported Israel, saying it had suffered […] More

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    Outrage as Shapps and Dowden laugh during Sunak’s answers on Hamas attack ‘pogrom’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Senior cabinet ministers Grant Shapps and Oliver Dowden have faced a backlash after they were spotted laughing in the Commons as Rishi Sunak addressed Hamas’s “pogrom” in Israel. The defence secretary and deputy […] More