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June 17, 2022

Johnson has been lucky with Geidt's resignation

The twist in Lord Geidt's tale was that it was a threat to break international law that finally pushed him over the edge. The prime minister's adviser on ministerial standards said in his letter of resignation that he could just about live with Boris Johnson breaking domestic criminal law.

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Who Is Stupid Enough To Be Johnson's Next Ethics Man?

It's not exactly one of the great mysteries of the age, is it? Just why is it that Boris Johnson has now had a second ethics adviser resign on him in barely two years? The greater mystery is that he was ever able to find one, let alone lose them again.

2 mins

Ukrainian children made homeless in UK due to 'broken' refugee schemes

Hundreds of Ukrainian children and their families have been made homeless after being granted sanctuary in the UK, new figures reveal.

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Russian Sanctioned By UK For War's 'Forced Adoptions'

The UK has sanctioned a Russian public official for the "forced transfer and adoption of Ukrainian children", the foreign secretary Liz Truss said.

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Raab: Our Own Judges Could Block Rwanda Deportations

UK judges could rule that deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, Dominic Raab has admitted as he refused to say any flights will take off this year.

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Spacey 'strenuously denies' sexual assault of three men

Actor Kevin Spacey "strenuously denies" allegations that he sexually assaulted three men, a court has been told. The Hollywood star, 62, was not asked to enter pleas to four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

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Interest Rates Up To 1.25% As Bank Battles Rising Inflation

The Bank of England has hiked the base interest rate to 1.25 per cent, the highest rate in 13 years.

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The new economic reality will be painful - whatever the Bank of England does

The Bank of England has a thankless task at present. Whatever it chooses to do with interest rates it will be criticised.

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Allow homeworking during strikes, urges government

Downing Street has urged employers to allow staff to work from home during next week's rail strikes as the transport secretary warned strikers they were risking their jobs because the railway was now competing against remote working and other forms of public and private transport.

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Labour has a tough journey ahead with the rail strikes

Since the Labour Party's birth from mass trade unionism, it has been funded by unions, grounded by the unions, has recruited some of its finest talents from unions and has been routinely embarrassed by trade unionists exercising their right to withdraw labour.

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Man dies at Gatwick as flight chaos continues

As news emerged of a tragedy involving a disabled passenger who had just arrived at Gatwick, the airport has announced plans to cap operations in July and August.

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Apple owes £750m for fault in iPhones, lawsuit claims

IPhone users should be paid £750m over allegations Apple "throttled" their devices, according to a new lawsuit. The legal proceedings point to an incident in 2017, when it was found that Apple was restricting the performance of older iPhones in order to protect their performance.

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The Independent has been at the frontline of journalism since 1986, with its mission to challenge and debate always ahead of its time. The Independent is free-thinking and free of bias in an increasingly fragmented world where communities locally, regionally and across continents are disenfranchised with traditional establishments. They want real facts and frank opinions delivered first-hand from a news source that is ready to stand for something, not everything.