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Labour APPROVES expansion of Luton Airport after ministers overrule environmental concerns – with passenger numbers now set to double
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Labour APPROVES expansion of Luton Airport after ministers overrule environmental concerns – with passenger numbers now set to double

By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE Published: 10:01 EDT, 3 April 2025 | Updated: 10:03 EDT, 3 April 2025 Labour today approved the expansion of Luton Airport despite ministers being told to reject the plans over environmental concerns. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave the go-ahead to the Bedforshire airport’s development consent order (DCO) application. The

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Ministers sitting on hands over Birmingham bin strike
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Ministers sitting on hands over Birmingham bin strike

David Schaffer BBC News, West Midlands PA Media Unite’s general secretary has told government leaders they “can no longer pretend” the bin strike, which has lasted for more than three months, is nothing to do with them The government is sitting on its hands over the Birmingham bin strike as negotiations in the dispute descend

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Climbdown over two-tier justice as sentencing rule change is put on ice amid ministers’ fight to block the policy
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Climbdown over two-tier justice as sentencing rule change is put on ice amid ministers’ fight to block the policy

By JASON GROVES POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 19:09 EDT, 31 March 2025 | Updated: 19:46 EDT, 31 March 2025 New two-tier sentencing rules were suspended last night just hours before they were due to come into force. In a last-minute climbdown the Sentencing Council agreed to postpone the introduction of guidance which critics said would discriminate

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First and deputy first ministers hit out at Reeves’ Spring Statement
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First and deputy first ministers hit out at Reeves’ Spring Statement

An increase in UK defence spending is part of a “macho agenda of militarization” Northern Ireland’s first minister has said. Michelle O’Neill was speaking after the chancellor used her Spring Statement to confirm an additional £2.2bn for the Ministry of Defence in the next financial year. Rachel Reeves said the additional spending was needed to

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Home Minister’s Surprise Lunch Meet In Rajya Sabha Canteen: Here’s What Was On The Menu
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Home Minister’s Surprise Lunch Meet In Rajya Sabha Canteen: Here’s What Was On The Menu

Last Updated:March 21, 2025, 22:36 IST Many sitting in the Rajya Sabha canteen were taken by surprise as union home minister Amit Shah, BJP national president JP Nadda, union ministers Piyush Goyal and Ravneet Singh Bittu, and a couple of other BJP MPs, including Surendra Nagar from the upper house, joined…Read More Union home minister

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Ministers struggle to quell MP concerns over benefit cuts
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Ministers struggle to quell MP concerns over benefit cuts

At Prime Minister’s Questions Sir Keir Starmer declared that welfare reform was a “moral issue”, while the veteran left-wing MP Diane Abbott argued there was “nothing moral about cutting the benefits of millions of people”. Their divisions were very publicly evident. But most MPs who had concerns expressed them behind closed doors. Around 100 MPs

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Commissioner warns ministers over domestic abuse reforms
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Commissioner warns ministers over domestic abuse reforms

Jack Fenwick Politics Investigations, BBC News Paul Seddon Political reporter Getty Images The domestic abuse commissioner for England and Wales has said she is “deeply concerned” that government plans to tackle abuse could go on failing victims. The comments from Dame Nicole Jacobs come after ministers declined to fully accept all of her recommendations for

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TMC MP’s Address Triggers Rajya Sabha Ruckus, Ministers Respond
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TMC MP’s Address Triggers Rajya Sabha Ruckus, Ministers Respond

Last Updated:March 19, 2025, 20:50 IST TMC MP Saket Gokhale took a swipe at Home Minister Amit Shah claiming that he was “afraid” of being questioned. To this, Shah responded with a jibe of his own and said he was in Parliament after winning seven elections and “not at anyone’s mercy” TMC MP Saket Gokhale

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Nagpur Violence: Maharashtra Congress Chief Slams Govt’s ‘Failure’, Flags Ministers’ Provocative Speeches
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Nagpur Violence: Maharashtra Congress Chief Slams Govt’s ‘Failure’, Flags Ministers’ Provocative Speeches

Last Updated:March 17, 2025, 23:22 IST Terming the violence unfortunate and unwarranted, Sapkal asked people of Vidarbha’s largest city to exercise restraint and calm Sapkal said Maharashtra is facing several burning issues like inflation, unemployment, lack of minimum support price for farmers, farmer suicides, while the government has failed to waive agriculture loans and hike

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Trade offs for ministers over towering benefits bill
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Trade offs for ministers over towering benefits bill

There are a trinity of trade-offs for the government as it prepares to shake up the benefits system. How does it save money? How does it increase the incentives for people to find a job? And how does it protect those it has concluded are unquestionably reliant on the state, once it has defined who

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