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Commons Confidential: The Johnson-Rees-Mogg desperate pact
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Leader: The long shadow of the First World War
As we mark the centenary of the Armistice, all that is clear is that the peace was as intractable as…
ByAlison Phillips’s Diary: Universal credit, thawing out in Primark and the sickness in the soul of Philip Green
Green is used to unexpected visits from Mirror reporters.
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First Thoughts: The end of the Merkel era, the male backlash to #MeToo and the perfect length for a play
In her understated manner, Merkel recalls Clement Attlee, acclaimed by some as Britain’s most successful 20th-century peacetime leader.
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Leader: The Budget showed that harmful austerity is far from over
Austerity has been moderated, rather than abandoned.Three-quarters of the £12bn of welfare cuts announced since 2015 will go ahead.
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Why John McDonnell is sticking to his guns on tax cuts for the rich
The strategic decision the Shadow Chancellor has made is that definition of “the few” should be heavily circumscribed, and as…
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£1 billion for Northern Ireland won’t buy off the DUP on Brexit
The unionists will support the budget, despite threatening not to – but its loyalty is still heavily qualified.
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