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Dawn Butler MP: As AI develops at an eye-watering pace and abuse increases, we need a digital bill of rights

Dawn Butler
Today

We must legislate to place firm guardrails around the individual, ensuring that our rights are protected regardless of how technology changes. We need to bolster our civil rights.

There’s no “iron law” that Labour must lose the Gorton and Denton by-election

Jon Trickett
Today

Labour won Gorton and Denton with a 13,000 majority in 2024. Jon Trickett MP argues that to win it again, the government must urgently change direction.

Keir Starmer at PMQs

Reform MP Lee Anderson mocked by Angela Rayner over embarrassing by-election blunder

Olivia Barber
Today

Lee Anderson has shared photos of himself campaigning for the Gorton and Denton by-election – in the wrong constituency

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A ‘breakthrough moment’ for climate delay and inaction, means the government will have to revise its climate change strategy to show how emissions reduction targets will be met.

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18 July, 2022

The prime minister has “clearly clocked off”

Daily Mail

Daily Mail slammed for Islamophobic front page

Basit Mahmood
18 July, 2022

“You would have thought that meeting the first woman leader of the largest Muslim umbrella body would be welcomed and applauded”

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Just 4% of Tory party members think hitting net zero target should be a policy priority

Basit Mahmood
18 July, 2022

The views of the party membership are in stark contrast to the concerns of the majority of the country, with a poll in April finding that 64% of all voters supported the government’s plans to hit the net zero target.

Low pay

UK workers set for worst pay squeeze in G7, warns TUC

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 July, 2022

Britain sits at the bottom of the league for pay growth among the world’s seven advanced economies.

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Calls grow for UK to make public transport free to ease cost of living burden

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
17 July, 2022

Spain has announced free tickets for its rail services, and the UK government is being urged to follow suit.

Tory leadership contest

‘Anti-woke’ hysteria dominates Tory leadership campaigns, peddled by right-wing press

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
16 July, 2022

The race for the top job has been turned into a ‘culture war’, with barely a mention of how to help the most vulnerable and tackle the cost of living crisis.

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