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🔴 NEW: Get back to work in the normal way or you'll miss out, says Boris Johnson

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✅Boris Johnson has said the data on coronavirus cases suggested there was no need to deviate from the Government's "Plan A" for England - including encouraging people to return to their workplaces

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The Prime Minister has called Insulate Britain protesters "irresponsible crusties".

❌Boris Johnson told LBC: "There are some people who call those individuals legitimate protesters... They are not"
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🚫Boris Johnson has refused to rule out an increase to fuel duty at the Budget next month.

“We don’t want to raise tax at any time… [but] the era of hydrocarbons is coming to an end”
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🔴18,000 new prison places announced by Dominic Raab.

"We need the extra cells to restore some honesty in sentencing and incarcerate those who threaten the public with serious harm" the Justice Secretary has told the Conservative Conference
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🇬🇧The UK is at a "turning point" in work and productivity, having "undershot all our major competitors" for more than 20 years, the Prime Minister has said
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🔴Tackling violence against women is "my number one priority", the new Justice Secretary has said.

"Making our communities safer, so that women can walk home at night without having to look over their shoulder in fear - as Justice Secretary, that’s my number one priority"

Raab has vowed to rip up the Human Rights Act before the next election.

The minister said he wanted to end the "perverse" situations violent criminals could lean back on the law to "claim the right to family life to trump the public’s interest in deporting him from this country"

🔴Priti Patel is presenting a key note speech at the Conservative Party Confernce.

The Home Secretary is to toughen measures to deal with climate change protesters, in a bid to stop them causing "misery".

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The Home Office will also give the police and courts new powers to deal with the "small minority of offenders" who are "intent" on "causing disruption and misery across our communities".

This morning the policing minister said the likes of Insulate Britain had "crossed the line"

🔴Priti Patel announces independent inquiry into Wayne Couzens

"I can confirm today, there will be an inquiry, to give the independent oversight needed, to ensure something like this can never happen again"
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The murderer of Sarah Everard had an "explicit intention" to "instil fear and terror into women and girls", Priti Patel has said.

"Her murderer, whose name I will not repeat, was a monster"
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Priti Patel has said the Government is "cutting the head off the snake" when it comes to drug runners and county lines gangs.

"Under my watch we have seen some of the biggest law enforcement raids in our country’s history"

She announced the expansion of drug testing on arrest "across all 43 police forces in England and Wales", saying those who test positive "will be supported to tackle their drug abuse and regain their independence"
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Priti Patel has announced tough new measures to tackle " so-called eco-warriors, trampling over our way of life and draining police resources".

On top of measures already going through Parliament, Ms Patel vowed to "close down the legal loopholes exploited by these offenders"

🔴Priti Patel: Asylum system is collapsing under criminal routes

The Home Secretary told party conference: "What is happening in the Channel with small boats is unsafe, unfair, and unacceptable..."

The Government is "going after the criminals behind this perilous trade"

The legal process will also be addressed, to prevent the "automatic right to appeal," Patel said as she bemoaned the current situation in which those with rejected claims can appeal multiple times
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New laws will help speed up the removal of illegal immigrants from the UK, Priti Patel has said.

❌"France is a safe country, one not riven by war or conflict. There is no reason why any asylum seeker should come to the United Kingdom directly from France"

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🔴The Prime Minister has weighed into the Strictly Come Dancing row claiming performers should get vaccinated.

Boris Johnson told the BBC: “It should be Strictly Come Vaccinated”

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🗣️Oliver Dowden has told @christopherhope that "people need to get off their Pelotons and get back to their desks" - and that civil servants should be in Whitehall rather than working from home.

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🔴Sajid Javid said health and social care "begins at home" and people should not always go first to the State but to family instead.

He said: "We as citizens have to take some responsibility for our health too"

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🗣️Oliver Dowden tells @christopherhope that ‘woke’ arguments about Britain’s colonial past and whether to topple statues are only of any benefit to authoritarian regimes.

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🇺🇸Britain’s special relationship with the United States is vital but “not exclusive”, Liz Truss has told Tory activists

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🔴When asked how the UK would manage any future terror threats emanating from Afghanistan, Ben Wallace said that the current security situation was not as good as “being on the ground”

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Carrie Johnson has addressed the Conservative Party conference, telling delegates the party is "committed to equality for everyone".

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🔴The Conservative Party faces being hit at the ballot box unless the Government gets a grip on the cost of living crisis currently enveloping the country, Liz Truss has warned
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🔴NEW: Boris Johnson is "completely committed" to protecting gay rights and is looking at "extending them further", says Carrie Johnson
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🔴Boris Johnson denied that the UK was in the grip of a crisis, insisting he was “not worried” about rising prices and labour shortages

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