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    Dame Angela McLean appointed as new Government chief scientific adviser

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Professor Dame Angela McLean has been appointed as the new Government chief scientific adviser (GCSA). Currently chief scientific adviser for the Ministry of Defence, she will be the first woman […] More

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    SNP: Kate Forbes enters leadership race as Angus Robertson bows out

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Scotland’s finance secretary Kate Forbes has announced she is standing for the SNP leadership following Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation last week. Long one of the favourites to succeed Ms Sturgeon, […] More

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    Boris Johnson wants to ‘bring down’ Rishi Sunak, George Osborne says

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Boris Johnson wants to “bring down” Rishi Sunak over post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland, former Tory chancellor George Osborne has said. The prime minister […] More

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    EU targets more Iran officials, organizations over crackdown

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on two organizations and 32 Iranians, including the culture and education ministers, intelligence officials and lawmakers, accused of links to Iran’s security crackdown […] More

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    Rishi Sunak rejects calls by senior Tories to scrap corporation tax hike

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight The government has rejected calls by senior Conservative MPs to scrap a planned rise in corporation tax. Rishi Sunak is facing the prospect of […] More

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    Tory moderate leader Damian Green rejected as election candidate

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Senior Conservative moderate Damian Green has been rejected as the party’s candidate for the newly created Weald of Kent constituency. Mr Green – chairman of the One Nation caucus who was effectively deputy […] More