The new prime minister Liz Truss has announced plans to reverse the fracking ban and drill for more North Sea gas.
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Liz Truss has appointed a loyal cabinet with varied environmental credentials. What will this mean for UK climate action?
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Telling the public lockdown rules are just good common sense is irresponsible.
One of the Boer concentration camps.
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A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
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Looking back, it’s a wonder the party is still together after years of arguing about this issue.
These two have failed to come up with a solution to this problem.
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We can’t agree what the ‘will of the people’ was in 2016, but these are the representatives they elected in 2017.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks for a minority of a minority, so why are we letting him dictate government policy?
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Conservative conference 2018 feels even more of a bubble than usual.
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Badly wounded and yet limping along, May seems condemned to govern in interesting times.
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It’s easy to dismiss this modern-day Bertie Wooster as a caricature. But his power is not to be underestimated.
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Johnson and Mogg are taking over? They should probably get on with it then.
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For a full 12 months, this prime minister has encouraged and entrenched harmful divisions, particularly over Brexit.
Lawmaker: my views have nothing to do with the law.
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Voting on this issue is a matter of conscience, so the MP’s view that women shouldn’t be allowed to terminate pregnancies, even when they’ve been raped, is very relevant to the rest of society.