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Starmer loyalist warns against ‘copying Tories’ but admits PM is unpopular
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Starmer loyalist warns against ‘copying Tories’ but admits PM is unpopular

Housing secretary Steve Reed says no one has numbers for challenge and Labour should row in behind prime ministerOne of Keir Starmer’s closest allies in the cabinet has conceded that the prime minister is “unpopular” but has insisted Labour should not repeat the same pattern of changing leaders that...

Jamie Grierson
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British Gas customers to receive up to £112m over prepayment meter scandal
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British Gas customers to receive up to £112m over prepayment meter scandal

Redress for force-fitting devices in homes of vulnerable includes £20m penalty and £70m of debt write-offsThousands of British Gas customers who had prepayment meters force-fitted in their homes will receive up to £112m in compensation and debt write-offs on their energy bills.Great Britain’s energy...

Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent
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King’s College and Cranfield hope to be stronger together in surprise merger
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King’s College and Cranfield hope to be stronger together in surprise merger

News will come as a shock to staff, especially at Cranfield, but the institutions’ bosses say intention is growthThe announcement that King’s College London is to absorb Cranfield University came as a surprise but not a shock to England’s higher education leaders, who have been braced for sudden ann...

Richard Adams Education editor
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Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly
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Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly

Butterfly Conservation poll is open until 7 June with choice of 60 species from small tortoiseshells to purple emperorsWill it be the rapidly disappearing former garden favourite, the small tortoiseshell? Or the poet John Masefield’s “oakwood haunting thing”, the charismatic purple emperor? Or perha...

Patrick Barkham
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Labour, u ok hun? - podcast
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Labour, u ok hun? - podcast

Guardian columnist Rafael Behr talks through a tumultuous day for Labour and Keir Starmer – following the resignation of health secretary Wes Streeting, and the renewed possibility of a Westminster comeback for Andy BurnhamAfter a week of speculation and gossip, Thursday seemed to be the day the Lab...

Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Rafael Behr; produced by Ivor Manley and Ross Burns; executive producer Sami Kent
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Canada is welcome to join Eurovision, says song contest director
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Canada is welcome to join Eurovision, says song contest director

‘We know that Mark Carney wants to sort of embrace Europe,’ says competition director Martin GreenCanada is welcome to join Eurovision if it wishes, its director has said, months after the country revealed it wanted to “explore” joining the song contest in its federal budget.Eurovision director Mart...

Sian Cain
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NSPCC reports sharp rise in children being blackmailed over sexual images in UK
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NSPCC reports sharp rise in children being blackmailed over sexual images in UK

Charity says calls to its Childline service about online sexual abuse and exploitation have risen 36% in a yearChildren reported a rise in online blackmail attempts involving sexual images in the UK last year, according to a leading charity.The NSPCC said contacts with its Childline service relating...

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
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Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85
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Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85

Export’s performances scandalised Austria in the 1960s, but are now recognised for exposing the objectification of the female bodyValie Export, the Austrian performance artist and film-maker who inverted the male gaze in ways that were provocative, shocking and often outrageously fun, has died aged...

Philip Oltermann European culture editor
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One dead and two more ill after meningitis outbreak in Berkshire
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One dead and two more ill after meningitis outbreak in Berkshire

Health officials say close contacts being offered antibiotics as a precaution after cases discovered in ReadingA young person has died and two others are being treated after an outbreak of meningitis in Berkshire, health officials have said.It follows a major outbreak in Kent, linked to a Canterbury...

Kevin Rawlinson
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CIA director has met officials in Havana for talks, Cuba claims
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CIA director has met officials in Havana for talks, Cuba claims

Visit comes after US-Cuba relations deteriorated significantly, with Washington imposing a fuel blockade on the island in JanuaryCIA director John Ratcliffe met Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday as a way to improve dialogue between the US and the communist-run island, the Cuban government said.T...

Agence France-Presse
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Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
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Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father

Revelation seen as serious blow to candidacy of Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopefulFlávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, has been caught on tape asking a banker accused of corruption for $26.8m (£20m) to fund a film about his father, the for...

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