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    Greece to ban spyware as wiretap scandal grows

    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 Lawmakers in Greece are set to approve plans to outlaw commercial spyware following weeks of allegations that senior government officials may have been targeted. The revelations have hurt public support […] More

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    Rail strikes could go on ‘indefinitely’, warns union boss Mick Lynch

    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 current wave of rail strikes could go on “indefinitely” unless ministers back down on their demand for driver-only operation of trains, the head of the RMT union has warned. […] More

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    ‘Potential criminality’ at Unite over hotel project, union reveals

    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 Potential “criminality” has emerged after inquiries into the construction of a hotel and conference centre for Unite, the union has said. Unite said its general secretary Sharon Graham would do “all in […] More

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    Tories urged to take down ‘appalling’ video of Sadiq Khan in ‘gun sights’

    Labour MPs have urged the Conservatives to discipline a local party that posted a video of Sadiq Khan’s face “through the sight on a gun”.The Tottenham Conservatives group posted the video of the mayor of London to TikTok and Facebook this week as part of their campaign against his clean air policies.The video depicts Mr Khan manically laughing at voters while being observed through what appears to be a scoped lens with crosshairs. More

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    Commons suspended in row over Michael Gove’s Cumbria coal mine statement

    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 Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle suspended action in the Commons after a bust-up over cabinet minister Michael Gove’s statement on the approval of the coal mine in Cumbria. Mr Gove said […] More

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    ‘Think carefully’ before planning foreign travel in strike-hit Christmas, says Braverman

    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 Home secretary Suella Braverman has warned Britons to “think carefully” before going ahead with plans to travel abroad this Christmas. Ms Braverman said planned strikes by Border Force officials will […] More