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Defended: UK succeeds in protecting working time opt-out
Time called on opt-out talks

By politics.co.uk staff The UK has preserved its right to opt-out of the EU’s working time directive after long-running talks between the European parliament and government officials collapsed early this morning. The parliament had been pushing to remove the opt-out which allows people to work more than 48 hours a week for more than five… Read more »

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Brown is a supporter of Holocaust education
PM makes emotional trip to Auschwitz

By politics.co.uk staff Gordon Brown has visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau while on a trip to Poland. He is in Poland for talks with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk over troop deployments in Afghanistan and will visit the site later this afternoon. Poland is seeking international help to set up a ?120 million… Read more »