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    Let 1,000 AI pilots flourish to help public sector, says Labour MP

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Letting civil servants profit from their own innovations could help Whitehall embrace artificial intelligence, a senior Labour MP has said. Darren Jones, MP for Bristol North West and chairman of the Commons Business […] More

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    Syrian refugee challenges his move to Bibby Stockholm barge

    A Syrain asylum seeker has challenged his move to the Bibby Stockholm barge on mental grounds.The man told Sky News he had come to the UK to escape war and conflict, but said the small rooms on the barge remind him of when he had to go into hiding from ISIS back in Syria.The man said: “We are looking for more space. We run away from war, trauma and conflict.“If you squeeze me into a place you are putting me back to that space where I was hidng when ISIS was attacking our area.” More

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    Lee Anderson refuses to apologise for ‘f*** off back to France’ remark to asylum-seekers

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Conservative Party deputy chair Lee Anderson has refused to apologise for his claim that asylum-seekers who do not want to live on the government’s Bibby Stockholm barge “should f*** off back to France”. […] More

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    Millions of voters’ details exposed as election watchdog reveals hack

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Details of tens of millions of voters could have been accessed by hackers who targeted the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog admitted. The organisation has revealed its systems were breached back in October, […] More

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    Cabinet minister backs Lee Anderson’s comments on migrants boarding barge

    Lee Anderson’s comments on migrants boarding the Bibby Stockholm were “not unreasonable,” Alex Chalk has said.The Tory deputy chairman told the Express: “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France.”The incendiary comments came after 15 migrants boarded the barge in Portland, Dorset.Twenty others have been granted a last-minute reprieve after legal challenges.The justice secretary said Lee Anderson “expresses the righteous indignation of the British people” and added that his “indignation is well placed”. More