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    Keir Starmer says Labour will abandon pledge to scrap tuition fees

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour is planning to abandon its pledge to abolish university tuition fees, Keir Starmer has said. Speaking on Tuesday morning the opposition leader said the party was preparing to “move on” from the […] More

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    Strike shows the NHS ‘can’t cope’ without nurses, union leader warns

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email with intensive and cancer care nurses taking part for the first time.Nurses’ leaders have warned the health service “can’t cope” without their members who are “determined” to press on with strikes even if […] More

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    Help to Buy could return as Tories try to woo first-time buyers

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is considering plans to help first-time buyers as housing becomes a key issue ahead of the next general election. Proposals to help convert thousands of members of ‘generation rent’ into owners, […] More

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    Mapped: Dozens of ‘blue wall’ councils being targeted by tactical voters

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Campaigners calling for tactical voting in the forthcoming local elections have revealed the “blue wall” councils in the South of England where the strategy could overturn a Conservative majority. Rishi Sunak’s party is […] More

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    Liz Truss contests ‘£12,000 bill over use of Chevening country retreat’

    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 contesting a government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary. The former prime minister has been asked to pay about […] More