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    Transgender inmates in women’s prisons to face new government restrictions

    Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Transgender prisoners “with male genitalia” should no longer be held in women’s prisons, the justice secretary has announced. In a parliamentary statement, Brandon Lewis said he would bring forward a new policy on […] More

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    Boris Johnson sets up limited company for post-PM work

    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 Boris Johnson has set up a new private company to support his work as a former prime minister and will have up to £115,000 a year in public funding at […] More

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    Public spending watchdog to investigate £120m ‘festival of Brexit’

    The government’s so-called “festival of Brexit” will be probed amid concerns that £120 million of taxpayers’ cash was “frittered away” on a project that brought “so little in return”.MPs in a cross-party parliamentary committee have approached the National Audit Office (NAO) to ask it to look into how the project was managed and whether political pressures kept it going.The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee had found that the number of visitors to the event – called ‘Unboxed: Creativity in the UK’ – was just 0.36 per cent of early targets. More

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    Most Britons believe Rwanda asylum deal will not work, polling shows

    Most British people believe the Rwanda asylum deal will fail to reduce small boat crossings and will be a waste of public money, polling suggests.Research by Ipsos for the British Future think-tank indicated warming attitudes towards migration in the UK, with only a minority of people now calling for overall immigration to be cut.It suggests that the position currently taken by the new home secretary Suella Braverman is at odds with the majority of the British public and a substantial portion of Conservative voters. More