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Rishi Sunak ordered to publish a secret analysis showing impact of removing Universal Credit support

The Information Commissioners' Office has overruled the Treasury - which refused to release info on Covid-era uplift

Deadline 21 June

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… As Chancellor, the PM ignored pleas from campaigners, Keir Starmer and footballer Marcus Rashford by scrapping the £20-per-week uplift introduced during the pandemic.

It came to an end in October 2021.

Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour Party

Spokesperson: “In light of his comments made today and his failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation. He has also had the whip removed from the Parliamentary Labour Party.” Breaking: Jeremy Corbyn suspended from the Labour Party

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US Department of Homeland Security says Nigel Farage was allowed to board flight as it was in "the national interest". He was initially denied boarding. He was exempt from travel ban under clause that says "any alien whose entry would be in the national interest, as determined by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or their respective designees."

Under the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 the government compensated slave owners £20m – around 40 per cent of total annual expenditure at the time.

This fascinating project set up by my former lecturer allows you to search individuals who benefited

ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/ One of the biggest payouts for loss of "property" for example went to the father of former PM William Gladstone, who received £100,000+ for over 2,000 slaves in nearly a dozen plantations.

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'Abuse of power': Boris Johnson forced to drop plan to use civil service to cost Labour policies
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… McDonnell contacted civil service this morning raging at reports Treasury had been asked to cost pledges.

"It's absolutely scandalous," he says.

"I don't know any other government in the past that has ever done this literally within hours of a general election campaign."

Boris Johnson claims he didn't say anything about Turkey in the EU referendum campaign. Here's his joint letter with Michael Gove to Downing Street, seven days before the referendum. The Daily Express, 18 April 2016.

He [Boris Johnson] said: "I am very pro-Turkish but what I certainly can't imagine is a situation in which 77million of my fellow Turks and those of Turkish origin can come here without any checks at all. That is mad - that won't work."