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"This year's Snapshot showed that two-thirds of Tory MPs (66%) thought that a hard Brexit would be best for entrepreneurship in the UK"

What MPs really think about Brexit, the Northern Powerhouse and business

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"Apparently the new passport will have images inside of Britishness"

The row over blue passports sums Brexit up perfectly

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"Decisions aren't made until after survivors' mental or physical health has already deteriorated as a result of their detention"

The government must stop detaining victims of torture

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"The number of people in Britain who rely on vanishing council services is almost certainly higher than the number who could pick out Green in an ID parade"

Green goes – a standstill moment in a standstill government

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"The end goal for us is that every school has menstrual products for everyone, and education so both boys and girls know what a period is."

How period poverty finally became a political scandal

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"The centring of the 'principles' of Universal Credit contributes to a Westminster delusion about this dumpster fire."

The only way to fix Universal Credit is to scrap it altogether

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"The party deserves credit for finally biting the bullet"

Tax rate changes are a smart move by the SNP

Judging by the muted Tory and Labour responses, it succeeded in taking the wind out of their sails

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"The High Court today found that the policy was unlawful and that sleeping rough does not constitute an abuse of EU free movement rights"

Home Office defeated at the High Court over deportations of EU rough sleepers

Home Office policy ruled unlawful

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"Democracy isn't about one-day of voting"

There’s another way of doing Brexit

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"This is the contempt that far too many councils show for homeless people and benefit claimants"

Contempt for tenants and unscrupulous private landlords: Inside council housing offices

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"The danger the hardliners are presenting to themselves is that by their own, increasingly fluid and ever-moving parameters, they will never be happy"

Hard Brexiteers will never be happy

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"The sad logic of game theory suggests that a far more likely outcome is the re-emergence of some kind of border between Northern Ireland and the Republic"

The Irish border and the revenge of Game Theory

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"MPs must stand up for democracy and vote for parliament to have the strongest possible final say on the deal"

The biggest week yet in Brexit politics

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"The government said the funds would help over 19,000 victims of domestic violence and provide 2,200 bed spaces"

The truth about May’s £20m fund for women’s refuges

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"A new cross-party group of parliamentarians was launched this month with the mission of improving the lot of the wrongly convicted"

Miscarriages of justice are devastating for those involved – now’s the time to push for change

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"From a British perspective, the early 2020s represent a perfect time to hold a border poll"

Have we gone through all this for a border that might not exist when we leave the EU?

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"We have not been sold down a river. We have decided to leave well-protected structures and alternatives will not come easy"

No, the Brexit deal hasn’t just ‘sold the country down the river’

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"It means an estimated 2,058 more women and 2,202 more children trying to escape domestic abuse will have nowhere to turn to"

Govt changes to funding for women’s refuges could be devastating for victims

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"It allows Ruth Davidson, once again, to argue that she's "standing up for Scotland"

Brexit: Irish border row provides Ruth Davidson with opportunity to flex her muscles

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