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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

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23 December, 2025

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The government can’t keep throwing its civil servants under the bus.

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Emma Burnell
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The Lib Dem leadership contest has revealed the tensions at the heart of the party.

What ‘Promgate’ is really about

Lucy Skoulding
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‘Promgate’ has been going on for days and people are fed up

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Cleo Lake
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Union calls government ‘negligent’ for no ‘plan B’ when schools reopen

Lucy Skoulding
25 August, 2020

“We want schools open but we want staff and students to be protected as well” says the National Education Union

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Lucy Skoulding
25 August, 2020

Here’s what XR has planned over the coming weeks

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