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18  avril     23h01
GPs will no longer be in charge of issuing sick notes, under Rishi Sunak plan
   In a major speech, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will claim Britain has a ’sick note culture’ and will announce plans to look at GPs no longer being the first port of call
    23h01
Half of primary schools forced to plug budgets by using poor pupils’ funding
   A poll by the National Foundation for Educational Research found primary schools were hardest hit by funding pressures, with of senior leaders relying on pupil premium cash
    23h01
One in four kids aged 5 to 7 own a smartphone while 3-year-olds use social media, shock study finds
   Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan branded the findings ’stark’ and said the Online Safety Act will ensure social media bosses face prison if they fail to keep kids safe online
    21h30
Keir Starmer vows to tackle ’housing emergency’ with green belt shake-up
   Keir Starmer will spell out plans to turbo charge house building by releasing sections of green belt land following the ’abject Tory failure to build the homes our country needs’
    21h30
Over-stretched police take almost 18 hours to respond to reports of anti-social behaviour
   Response times to reports of anti social behaviour have rocketed by since with a ’disturbing postcode lottery’, figures obtained by the Lib Dems reveal
    19h29
Caroline Lucas says ’the Left has missed a trick by being too squeamish about being English’
   I want to reclaim England and Englishness, said Caroline Lucas. To make it somewhere people born in England and people who have made England their home want to celebrate.
    18h57
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell charged in connection with embezzlement in SNP finances probe
   Nicola Sturgeon’s year old husband Peter Murrell has been charged in connection with embezzlement of SNP funds after a police investigation into the party’s finances
    17h34
Post Office boss must be sacked after ’bantering’ about Horizon concerns, postmasters demand
   Ex subpostmasters said the Post Office should dismiss Rodric Williams after he admitted an email chain joking about postmasters’ concerns was ’top bants between mates’
    16h15
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell re-arrested in police probe into SNP funding
   Peter Murrell, former SNP chief executive and husband of the ex first minister Nicola Sturgeon, is understood to have been re arrested by Police Scotland
    15h24
Mark Menzies MP: Tory volunteer, 78, breaks silence over ’life or death’ 3am cash demand
   Katie Fieldhouse, , a former Lady Mayoress of Fylde, said she received a call from local MP Mark Menzies at . am on December last year, in which he allegedly asked for , as he was locked in a flat with ’some bad people’
    15h21
Time to talk across borders - refugee crisis issue most dividing us
   The early results of the Europe Talks project are in and the refugee crisis is the issue most dividing us but there’s still time to have your say
    12h28
Rishi Sunak rejects calls to ban parents from smacking their kids in England and Northern Ireland
   Senior child doctors have called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to strengthen the laws on smacking as they say ’grey areas’ mean parents can defend physical punishment
    11h20
Tory MP Mark Menzies’ controversies from Brazilian escort, drunk dog claim and donor fund allegations
   Mark Menzies has agreed to give up the Tory whip over allegations he misused donor cash and handed over money to ’bad people’, claiming it was a matter of ’life or death’
    10h53
Grant Shapps accused of smirking as Sky host lists cases of Tory misbehaviour
   In a feisty live TV exchange with Sky News host Kay Burley, Grant Shapps was challenged over a string of Tories who lost the whip over allegations of misconduct
    08h48
Tory Grant Shapps refuses to rule out RAF flying asylum seekers to Rwanda if other airlines won’t
   Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has refused to rule out getting RAF planes to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda amid claims airlines have refused to get involved in the scheme
17  avril     22h29
Tory MP Mark Menzies suspended over claims of using campaign funds to pay ’bad people’
   It has been claimed Fylde MP Mark Menzies called a former campaign manager to ask for , as he was locked in flat with some bad people and it was a matter of life or death
    18h54
Rishi Sunak suffers fresh defeats over Rwanda plan as peers refuse to back down
   It means a fresh delay to Rishi Sunak’s desperate attempts to force the Safety of Rwanda Bill through Parliament, as the legislation will now have to go back to the Commons on Monday
    18h06
Ex-Post Office investigator defends probe of pregnant subpostmaster who was wrongly convicted
   Ex subpostmistress Seema Misra, who was wrongly convicted while pregnant, said she was ’angry’ listening to ex Post Office investigator Jon Longman’s evidence to the Horizon IT Inquiry
    17h55
Angela Rayner hounding is outrageous: brutal, snobbish and completely out of proportion’
   The rancid smell of right wing hypocrisy wafts through the air like an out of date tin of caviar,’ the Mirror’s Ros Wynne Jones writes about a row over Angela Rayner’s house sale
    17h36
Israel will make ’own decision’ over Iran as Benjamin Netanyahu brushes off UK pressure
   Foreign Secretary David Cameron travelled to Jerusalem for crisis talks as world leaders urged Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu to show restraint against Iran to avoid triggering a regional war
    16h50
Angela Rayner’s old neighbours brand police probe ’witch hunt’ and ’waste of money’
   Residents have told of their disbelief after at least a dozen police officers were ordered to probe Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner over the sale of her former council house
    16h27
Rape survivor brands Rishi Sunak’s response a ’slap in face’ after watching him at PMQs
   Juliana Terlizzi watched from the Commons’ public gallery as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was confronted over victims having to pay tens of thousands of pounds for court transcripts
    16h08
Supreme Court rules UK laws breach workers’ rights after carer suspended for striking
   The Supreme Court ruled that the UK has breached its duties over the right to take part in lawful industrial action following the case of a care worker who was suspended for joining a strike
    12h34
Do you think smacking children should be banned? Vote in our poll
   The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health RCPCH has warned that smacking children increases the chances of them being aggressive later in life, adding that the current legislation has ’grey areas’
    12h26
Paedophiles convicted of child rape could lose parental rights under new law
   Senior Labour MP Harriet Harman wants to change current rules which give offenders the right to be included in decisions about their children’s education, health and travel