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The things they spend our money on

The Daily Mail flags up this bizarre response from Downing Street to the petition calling for Jeremy Clarkson to be made PM. At the risk of sounding like an old curmudgeon, is this really an appropriate use of taxpayers’ money?

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Rayner’s youth blunder

Oh dear. After the government announced that 16- and 17-year-olds will be allowed to vote in time for the next general election – in a move Reform’s Nigel Farage has slammed as ‘an attempt to rig the political system’ – the Deputy Prime Minister penned an op-ed for the Times to praise the policy. But

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