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    UK police to ‘help’ crackdown on people trafficking gangs in North Africa

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email UK police will be tasked with helping security forces break up people-smuggling gangs in North African countries, it has been reported. National Crime Agency (NCA) officers are set to join nations in the […] More

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    MPs claiming driving fines on expenses is ‘manifestly wrong’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email MPs claiming driving fines on expenses is “manifestly wrong”, the chair of Parliament’s sleaze watchdog has said. Labour MP Chris Bryant said members of the public cannot claim fines on their daily expenses, […] More

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    Matt Hancock finds out his surprising ‘celebrity lookalikes’ using TikTok filter

    Matt Hancock has been using TikTok’s ‘celebrity lookalikes’ filter to find out the famous faces that he’s apparently akin to.Much to the Independent MP’s surprise, the AI filter told him he resembled the likes of Anne Hathaway, rapper 50 Cent, and supermodel, Bella Hadid.“I don’t look anything like 50 Cent!”, he joked. “This is completely bonkers.”Since announcing he’d be leaving frontline politics before the next general election, Hancock has been acting more playfully on social media in a bid to win back the trust of young voters.Click here to sign up for our newsletters. More

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    Liz Truss ‘planning knighthoods and other awards for up to dozen allies’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Liz Truss is believed to be planning to hand out knighthoods and other awards to up to 12 of her allies following her short-lived premiership. Close supporters who helped orchestrate the former prime […] More

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    Carol Vorderman blasts Boris Johnson as a ‘dose of diarrhoea’ over fresh lockdown breach claims

    Carol Vorderman has savagely branded Boris Johnson a ‘dose of diarrhoea’ amid fresh lockdown breach allegations.The TV host appeared on Have I Got News For You last night (26 May), where they reviewed some of the biggest stories from the week.“What a shower, ey? What an absolute shower!”, she said of the rumours, which involve repeated breaches at Downing Street and Chequers.“I can’t believe they’re our government. I mean, Boris Johnson is like a dose of diarrhoea that keeps on giving.”Click here to sign up for our newsletters. More