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‘Complete shambles’: Exasperated Labour MPs lash out at Starmer over digital ID U-turn
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett says scheme was doomed to ‘run into the sand’ because PM ‘failed to make the case’ for it More
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MPs call for removal of water boss amid continuing ‘totally shambolic’ outages
17,000 properties in Kent and Sussex remain without water for the fifth day More
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Labour ban on peaceful protest at animal-testing centres slated as ‘draconian assault on democracy’
Free-speech and rights activists warn of slide towards criminalising right to free assembly More
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Starmer ‘won’t back down’ in fight with Musk’s X over Grok AI sexualised images
‘We’ve made it clear that X has to act,’ the prime minister says More
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Irish police investigating hundreds of reports of Grok child abuse material
The committee was told there are currently 200 reports being investigated by the Irish police service More
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Starmer’s digital ID U-turn shows a prime minister in survival mode
By watering down his plans to make digital ID compulsory in yet another policy U-turn, the prime minister is showing that he’s lost control of his government’s agenda, writes political editor David Maddox More
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Police chief blames AI for banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in apology to MPs
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood to make a statement to MPs after receiving report on the decision More
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The UK is watering down plans for mandatory digital ID cards after a backlash
The British government has scaled back plans for mandatory digital ID cards, initially proposed as a way of helping control immigration More
