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    Michael Gove to water down housebuilding targets after Tory rebellion threat

    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 Rishi Sunak has been branded weak by Labour after caving in to rebel backbenchers over house-building targets in a move described as a “triumph for Nimbyism”. Campaigners fear that housing […] More

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    UN condemns ‘legal errors’ in asylum report backed by Suella 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 The United Nations‘ refugee body has condemned a report – backed by home secretary Suella Braverman – which called for asylum seekers who enter the UK “illegally” to be detained […] More

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    Host Albania has high hopes for EU-Western Balkans summit

    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 Albania’s prime minister said Monday that a European Union summit in his country’s capital this week demonstrates the EU’s heightened geostrategic interests in the Western Balkans region during Russia’s war […] More

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    Labour unveils ethics reforms to undo ‘Conservative sleaze’

    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 new integrity and ethics commission would raise standards and politics in a bid to “clean up Westminster”, Labour has said. Former prime minister Gordon Brown hit out at “Conservative […] More

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    Rishi Sunak’s Brexit opportunities fund ‘rebranded existing grants’

    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 Rishi Sunak’s government was accused of “smoke and mirrors” after it emerged that a Brexit opportunities fund used money already committed through other schemes. […] More