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11:10, 13 May Government rejects MPs call for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting 10:32, 13 May North Korea declares Covid emergency but refuses to accept vaccine donations 09:02, 13 May Conservatives criticised over alleged champagne donation mocking ‘partygate’ scandal 08:49, 13 May Government rejects integrated plan to tackle soaring NHS backlog 17:15, 12 May Rayner criticises future of work review as ‘beyond parody’ 15:25, 12 May £26 million deal struck for new Welsh Freeport 14:43, 12 May Sefcovic says EU will not change Northern Ireland Protocol 14:32, 12 May Almost 6 in 10 first class degrees ‘unexplained’, says regulator 14:07, 12 May NHS backlog soars to 6.4 million as A&E waiting times hit record high 12:28, 12 May Peer blasts major Hong Kong crackdown as 90 year-old Cardinal arrested 11:59, 12 May Charity urges government to help Briton on hunger strike in Egypt 08:27, 12 May Stagflation looms amid high inflation and falling pay packets, think tank warns 16:28, 11 May Conservative MP says people need food banks ‘as they cannot cook or budget’ 15:18, 11 May Care homes to receive increased funding for nursing 14:37, 11 May Russian schools and universities pressured by Putin’s propaganda machine, charity warns 13:00, 11 May UK strikes security deal with Sweden and Finland 12:34, 11 May No 10 quashes claims it will scrap housebuilding targets 10:50, 11 May Gove hints at ditching manifesto pledge on housing-building targets 09:16, 11 May ‘No fault’ evictions to be banned in rent law overhaul