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First minister says Alister Jack’s block on gender law marks ‘new and more dangerous phase for devolution’ UK politics live – latest news updates Nicola Sturgeon has accused the Scotland secretary of acting “like a governor general” in a further escalation of hostilities between the Westminster and Holyrood governments. Scotland’s first minister said Alister Jack’s decision to block her government’s gender recognition law marked “a new and more dangerous phase for devolution”, hours after he refused an invitation from the Holyrood equalities committee to discuss the move. Continue reading… ​First minister says Alister Jack’s block on gender law marks ‘new…

Latest updates: YouGov survey finds there is almost nowhere in Britain where people think their community has got better Good morning. “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” That is one of the most powerful questions in electoral politics, made famous when Ronald Reagan asked it in 1980 and now increasing being used by the Labour party. It was also, in part, the inspiration behind Boris Johnson’s levelling up campaign. When Johnson won his surprise near-landslide in 2019, taking seats in deprived areas that had voted Labour for decades, Tories admitted that if they were going to…

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New figures have revealed thousands of people died last winter due to excessively cold housing.

Ireland’s taoiseach regrets Brexit arrangement imposed without agreement of unionists and nationalists Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has said he regrets that the Northern Ireland protocol he agreed with Boris Johnson to end a Brexit impasse was signed without the agreement of unionists and nationalists. The admission came as the latest deadline to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland passed with the Democratic Unionist party continuing to refuse to take part in protest against the protocol. Continue reading… ​Ireland’s taoiseach regrets Brexit arrangement imposed without agreement of unionists and nationalistsIreland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has said he regrets that the Northern Ireland protocol…

Surprise December drop a result of cost of living crisis forcing people to cut budgets in run-up to Christmas Retail sales in Great Britain unexpectedly fell by 1% last month as the cost of living crisis forced households to cut back on spending in the run-up to Christmas. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the surprise decline in sales volumes – economists had forecast a rise of 0.5% – was down to factors including the rampant increases in food prices, while online sales fell as consumers worried about a wave of postal strikes affecting Christmas deliveries. Continue reading… ​Surprise…

AML Tax (UK) Ltd, which ran payment programmes, was ‘part of Doug Barrowman’s Isle of Man-based Knox Group’ Three payment programmes operated by a company linked to the husband of the Conservative peer Michelle Mone have been named as tax avoidance schemes by HM Revenue and Customs. Douglas Barrowman, Lady Mone’s husband since they married on the Isle of Man in November 2020, is the founder and chairman of the Knox Group, a financial services and wealth management firm based on the island, which is widely considered to be a tax haven. HMRC said a Manchester-based company, AML Tax (UK)…

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Unite’s ambulance workers are already set to walk out next Monday as the bitter row with the government remains deadlocked.

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Unite members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to take further action in February and March A series of fresh strikes by ambulance workers has been announced by Unite in an escalation of the bitter dispute over pay and staffing. The union said its members across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will stage 10 further strikes over the coming weeks, warning that additional dates could be announced soon. Continue reading… ​Unite members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to take further action in February and MarchA series of fresh strikes by ambulance workers has been announced by Unite in an…

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ASCL says grades such as ‘requires improvement’ should be replaced by descriptions of strengths and flaws Headteachers are calling for a radical overhaul of school inspection in England, including the scrapping of ratings such as “good” or “requires improvement”, which they describe as a “woefully blunt” measure of a school’s performance. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) says the current system, which labels a school either “outstanding”, “good”, “requires improvement” or “inadequate”, fails to reflect the vastly different circumstances in which schools operate, while Ofsted’s inspection regime is “punitive” rather than constructive. Continue reading… ​ASCL says grades such…

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