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"The government has no approach. It has no goals, it has no aims, it has no policies."

THC rising: Failed war on drugs sees cannabis grow out of control

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"Jeremy Corbyn cited state aid control as a reason for not wanting to stay in the single market after Brexit."

Corbyn on state aid: Fact-checked

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"There are countless other stories of people going without due to the bureaucratic blunders and opaque decision-making structure of Universal Credit"

Trapped in Universal Credit: How a broken leg left a woman starved of cash

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"Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott laid out what an immigration policy would look like "in the context of Labour values"

New Labour: Abbott strikes out for a change in immigration policy

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"Private members bill for the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal purposes gets its second reading."

Cannabis reform: The chaos of the half-legal CBD market betrays patients

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"Hannan wrote a piece in the Daily Telegraph recently, dismissing the Good Friday Agreement"

The Good Friday Agreement will endure long after Dan Hannan and Kate Hoey have been forgotten

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"Hinds barely got his feet under his desk at the Department for Education before announcing that he was scrapping plans for compulsory sex and relationship education (SRE) in schools"

Govt U-turn on sex ed shows suffragette praise was just lip service

Women cannot take any policy for granted while men like Damian Hinds still ignore their needs

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"It is reiterating its support for a 'war on drugs' mindset and a punitive drugs policy which all the evidence shows is not effective at reducing drug use."

Drug reform police chief faces the Downing Street backlash

Defying the government on this issue will not be easy, but it may be necessary

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"The risk now is that attitudes harden and even getting to the point of an outline deal becomes difficult to achieve"

Who’s to blame for the mess in N.Ireland? The buck stops with Theresa May

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"MPs have today called for a review into the impact of the government's 'hostile environment' policies which are designed to make life as difficult as possible for undocumented migrants"

MPs call for review into May’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants

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"The main point of interest in the Telegraph's recent attack on philanthropist George Soros is not whether its authors are antisemitic, but what it tells us about the growth of the paranoid style in British politics."

Soros conspiracies are the natural end point of the UK’s new paranoia

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"Just as concerning is the growing inability of local newspapers to properly scrutinise decisions being made by councils"

The decline of local papers puts British democracy at risk

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"We need to see secure funding for services that provide women with a safety net"

New violence against women stats should to be a wake up call to the government

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"A group of women protested the current abortion legislation, by dressing as handmaids from Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale."

The Isle of Man: Where women have voted for 137 years but are still fighting for abortion

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"The national interest requires politicians of all parties to speak the truth, and to have the courage to make the positive case for immigration"

It’s time to make the case for free movement

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"A policeman restraining a demonstrator as suffragettes gathered outside Buckingham Palace"

The sexual assault faced by the Suffragettes

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"The entire report suggests a chaotic, disorganised jumble of departments, staff, and projects"

Stumbling towards the exit: Report paints grim picture of Whitehall chaos over Brexit

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"The benefits of just-in-time are huge"

Just-in-time: The production system Brexit is set to sabotage

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Mike Haines and Brendan Cox are among the founders of Survivors Against Terror

War on Terror: Brendan Cox speaks up for victims

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