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    Steve Barclay considers plan to backdate next year’s NHS pay deal

    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 Health secretary Steve Barclay is considering backdating next year’s NHS staff pay increase as part of efforts to prevent further strikes in the health service this month. Sara Gorton, head […] More

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    Brexit: Protocol breakthrough as data-sharing deal agreed

    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 Progress between the EU and the UK on post-Brexit data-sharing has been hailed as a “positive step” in ongoing talks to find a solution to the Northern Ireland Protocol row. […] More

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    Plans unveiled for nuclear medicine plant to make cancer-fighting chemicals

    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 Plans to build the UK’s first nuclear medicine facility producing cancer-fighting substances have been unveiled by the Welsh Government. The laboratory in north-west Wales would produce medical radioisotopes which are […] More

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    Tory MP Andrew Bridgen suspended from Commons for five days

    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 MPs have agreed to suspend a Tory MP after he was found to have displayed a “very cavalier” attitude to the rules in a series of lobbying breaches. North West […] More

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    Tory former minister quits party and praises Keir Starmer’s Labour

    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 A former Conservative minister has quit the party with a damning broadside against the “ideology and self-obsession” of her former colleagues. Claire Perry O’Neill, a member of Theresa May’s cabinet […] More

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    Suella Braverman scraps year-long recruitment process for modern slavery watchdog

    Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Suella Braverman has scrapped a year-long recruitment process for a new slavery watchdog, further delaying the appointment as the government makes it harder for victims to gain support. The home secretary has committed […] More

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    Major donors call on Rishi Sunak to reform political funding system

    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 Major donors from across the political spectrum have called on Rishi Sunak to reform the system after accusations of a lack of transparency around the flow of cash into Westminster. […] More