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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 It apparently took Rishi Sunak, leading Global Britain, thirty-nine days to have a telephone conversation with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after his landmark win in the presidential election in […] More

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 NHS is not equipped to tackle the hidden “parallel pandemic” in mental ill health with many patients going without adequate treatment, leaders have warned. The cost of living crisis […] More

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 UK’s building materials watchdog should be renationalised to prevent another Grenfell fire tragedy, London mayor Sadiq Khan has said. The Building Research Establishment (BRE) was privatised in 1997 at […] More

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 Tony Blair was encouraged to talk to Orange Order leaders in 1998 to “influence” Protestant voters who had yet to make up their minds about the Good Friday Agreement, declassified […] More

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 should scrap the non-domicile tax status used by the wealthy to avoid paying UK tax, said the new Trades Union Congress (TUC) […] More

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 Strike chaos could carry on throughout 2023 if the government refuses to negotiate over pay rises, the new leader of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned. Speaking to The […] More

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 Downing Street has said a “fair agreement” to end widespread strike action this winter should not involve double-digit pay rises for workers. A No 10 spokesman claimed such salary increases […] More

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 UK has called on Iran to end its practice of detaining British and other foreign nationals for “diplomatic leverage” after individuals with links to Britain were reportedly arrested in […] More