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![Labour seems intent on making sure we undergo a hard Brexit rather than a soft one](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14117091_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["Owen Smith has faced repeated criticism for his time at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119398_1200-1024x739.jpg)
!["Owen Smith has faced repeated criticism for his time at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119398_1200-1024x739.jpg)
!["The Childhood Obesity Plan is woefully short on government-led action"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119768_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["The Childhood Obesity Plan is woefully short on government-led action"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119768_1200-1024x683.jpg)
![Donald Trump greets Nigel Farage to the stage in Mississippi](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119767_1200-1024x695.jpg)
![Donald Trump greets Nigel Farage to the stage in Mississippi](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119767_1200-1024x695.jpg)
!["Centrally located testing facilities would also be of greater use to the wider night time economy"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119765_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["Centrally located testing facilities would also be of greater use to the wider night time economy"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119765_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["The story is utter nonsense from beginning to end"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119747_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["The story is utter nonsense from beginning to end"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119747_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["Since being elected, Corbyn has made a number of substantial and inexcusable errors"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14114281_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
!["Since being elected, Corbyn has made a number of substantial and inexcusable errors"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14114281_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
![Wales Humanists launches report on 100 years of disestablishment](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-10-1024x297.png)
![Wales Humanists launches report on 100 years of disestablishment](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-10-1024x297.png)
A new poll of headteachers has once again shown that there is widespread opposition to the current law mandating schools to hold a daily act of collective Christian worship. Almost 2,000 school leaders were surveyed, with 70% of them opposed to the legal requirement. Humanists UK has long campaigned for the replacement of compulsory Christian worship in… Read more »
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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has welcomed the extension of a GDC pilot aimed at speeding up the initial inquiries made to assess fitness to practise cases. The pilot, which was announced in September last year and was due to end in April, has now been extended until the end of October after ‘early positive signs’. Of… Read more »
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!["A new appeal process was introduced in 2013 and was beset by problems from the start"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14117484_1200-7-1024x683.jpg)
!["A new appeal process was introduced in 2013 and was beset by problems from the start"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14117484_1200-7-1024x683.jpg)
!["For the working class kids, who are already told they’re at the bottom of society, grammar schools would be another reminder that they are below everybody else"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119543_1200-1-1024x729.jpg)
!["For the working class kids, who are already told they’re at the bottom of society, grammar schools would be another reminder that they are below everybody else"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119543_1200-1-1024x729.jpg)
!["You might not want to wish Donald away - but I bet you'd be surprised by how many of your friends would"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118486_1200-3-1024x684.jpg)
!["You might not want to wish Donald away - but I bet you'd be surprised by how many of your friends would"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118486_1200-3-1024x684.jpg)
!["Right across London low paid workers face a similar battle for better pay and conditions"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119530_1200-1024x681.jpg)
!["Right across London low paid workers face a similar battle for better pay and conditions"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119530_1200-1024x681.jpg)
!["Migrants in search of work find themselves increasingly vulnerable"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119527_1200-2-1024x683.jpg)
!["Migrants in search of work find themselves increasingly vulnerable"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119527_1200-2-1024x683.jpg)
![Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by supporters](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118853_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
![Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by supporters](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14118853_1200-1-1024x768.jpg)
!["Unless you're "homeless or a vulnerable adult", you are banned from sleeping in any of the town's open spaces"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119512_1200-1024x678.jpg)
!["Unless you're "homeless or a vulnerable adult", you are banned from sleeping in any of the town's open spaces"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119512_1200-1024x678.jpg)
!["The ineptness would be laughable if the consequences of their incompetence were not so appalling for vulnerable people."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119502_1200-1024x680.jpg)
!["The ineptness would be laughable if the consequences of their incompetence were not so appalling for vulnerable people."](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119502_1200-1024x680.jpg)
!["Activists and commentators have spent the ensuing weeks arguing over who it was that drove the Leave vote"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119484_1200-3-1024x684.jpg)
!["Activists and commentators have spent the ensuing weeks arguing over who it was that drove the Leave vote"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119484_1200-3-1024x684.jpg)
!["The current uncertainty surrounding PrEP is literally putting lives at risk"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119470_1200-1024x683.jpg)
!["The current uncertainty surrounding PrEP is literally putting lives at risk"](https://www.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14119470_1200-1024x683.jpg)