I am deeply concerned ... the chants of 'send her back', this is going on in the US today. Imagine if people were saying to me in Britain 'send him back,' i'd like to think that most of society would think that's just completely unacceptable in a modern liberal democracy.

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Record low interest rates - you can take advantage of that as a government when you can borrow at negative interest rates for 30 years and put it into economic infrastructure.

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Hopefully we leave with a deal, if we cannot strike a deal, I think it is important to leave in any case and leave with no deal. It is not perfect but it is appropriate that we leave on the 31st.

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The legislation that parliament has passed of course has made things more difficult, but we are clear our own policy is completely unchanged, we will be leaving on 31st.

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If you have a general election in the interim, that is where the focus will be and there will be people in Brussels rightly thinking who is going to form the next government, but I am clear that in the time that we have you can continue to have those discussions, you can reach a deal and bring it to parliament.

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When it gets Royal Assent it will be a surrender bill and that is why the prime minister has said that, especially once this bill is in place, that we need to move forward as a country, we need to deliver on Brexit, and that's why unfortunately I think we are in the position where we need a general election.

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It's vital that we continue to live within our means as a country, so I can confirm that next week's spending round will be delivered within the current fiscal rules.

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My office did ask Number 10 and they said no. by Sajid Javid

My office did ask Number 10 and they said no.

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The eyes of the world are currently on Russia, not least because of the World Cup, it is now time that the Russian state comes forward and explains what has gone on.

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It is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets, or for our streets, our parks and towns to be dumping grounds for poison.

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The working theory is currently that this exposure was accidental, rather than a second attack along the lines of that on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury earlier this year.

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Cases like Billy's ... and others like him have shown that we now need to look more closely at the use of cannabis-based medicines in the healthcare sector in the UK.

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It happened in a flash. I was walking out of Euston station and reached for my phone to call a taxi... before I knew what was happening, it had gone. They just rode up, grabbed it and zoomed off.

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world

I am absolutely confident as we get to the June council meeting that the prime minister will have a good set of proposals, and our colleagues in Europe will respond positively to them.

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world

I don't recognize any bit of that at all. As Home Secretary, as anyone would expect, I'm deeply involved in 'No Deal' preparations ... but I don't recognize any of that.

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There has frankly been a deeply worrying lack of leadership or moral clarity on this issue from him, we cannot and we must not ignore the particular concern with elements within the Labour Party, nor can we ignore the fact that this increasing concern has correlated with the current leader of the opposition and the wave of activists that have come with him.

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Formal sales process will begin by Monday - govt will do all it c... by Sajid Javid

Formal sales process will begin by Monday - govt will do all it can to help secure a serious buyer.

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Too many parts of the UK regularly suffer from poor mobile coverage leaving them unable to make calls or send texts, government and businesses have been clear about the importance of mobile connectivity, and improved coverage, so this legally binding agreement will give the UK the world-class mobile phone coverage it needs and deserves.

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telecommunications

You get a lot of stick in this job, and I don't mean political opposition that is part of your job but real abuse. And unfortunately, if you are from an ethnic minority, that may include racial or religious abuse.

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A question has to be asked: if you are a genuine asylum seeker, why have you not sought asylum in the first safe country that you arrived in? Because France is not a country where anyone would argue it is not safe in any way whatsoever, and if you are genuine, then why not seek asylum in your first safe country?

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Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

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