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    ‘Anti-woke’ Truss accused of ‘feeding bigots’ with Tory leadership culture war

    Liz Truss has been accused of seeking to appeal to a “bigoted” section of the Conservative Party’s base by positioning herself as “anti-woke”.Equality campaigners denounced the leadership frontrunner’s “culture war games” and said they feared she would continue her “divisive rhetoric” if elected to No 10.It comes as the foreign secretary provoked anger with an “inflammatory” attack on “woke” Civil Service culture that she claimed “strays into antisemitism”. More

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    MP who assaulted wife should stand down ‘immediately’, says Plaid leader

    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 Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price has called for an MP cautioned by police for assaulting his wife to “immediately” stand down. Jonathan Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, […] More

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    Labour attacks ‘jobs for mates’ as bill for Tory special advisers rises to record £12.7m

    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 Conservative government is spending record sums on special advisers – having hired more than any other administration in British history, according to Labour. Sir Keir Starmer’s party attacked the […] More

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    Italy's Letta: Italian right-wing threatens Europe democracy

    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 leader of Italy’s Democratic Party warned Saturday of the threats that Italy’s right-wing nationalistic parties pose to European democracy in a video released in multiple languages, and promised that […] More

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    Tory members’ ballot an ‘undemocratic’ way to choose next PM, say voters

    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 Almost half the country believes the power of Conservative Party members to pick the next prime minister is “undemocratic”, a new poll for The Independent has found. Some 41 per […] More