The SNP have called for all MPs to have suicide awareness training after an alleged Tory jibe. The call came following Wednesday’s Brexit bill debate in which it was alleged
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Lawyers for two severely disabled men who won a High Court declaration that they had been unlawfully discriminated against have called on the Government to halt the roll-out of the
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on the Home Office to “urgently review” the case of a 10-year-old orphan who is facing deportation. Ms Sturgeon has called on the
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Pro-choice activists have accused the Northern Ireland Secretary of making inaccurate and disingenuous claims about Westminster’s ability to legislate for abortion reform in Northern Ireland. Amnesty International criticised Karen Bradley’s
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid has been urged to set up an emergency hardship fund to help people facing destitution as a result of the Windrush scandal. MPs said those left
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Ministers have agreed to “look again” at a Lords amendment which seeks to broaden the definition of an unaccompanied child refugee. Solicitor General Robert Buckland said he had listened “very
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Adult social care spending is 9% lower than a decade ago, despite councils pumping extra cash into the system at the expense of other services, a new report has warned.
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Adult social care is increasingly fragile and requires more short-term Government funding to tide it over until reform measures are introduced, a report warns. Despite a £2.3 billion boost this
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Immigration removal flights have departed from Britain with as many as three staff for every foreign national on board, a report reveals. On one journey to Germany in June last
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Immigration rules preventing overseas doctors being recruited by the NHS have been branded “ludicrous and shameful” in the Lords. Former Lord Speaker Baroness Hayman warned patient care was being “compromised”
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