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Universal Credit cut branded single biggest reduction in benefits for 70 years
Analysis shows the planned £20 reduction would be the biggest single setback to social security since the system was set up in 1948.
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Working families make up the majority of families affected by the cut to Universal Credit (Image: Getty)
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Hartlepool by-election ‘is the Conservatives’ to lose’
Plus: Jake Berry, the chairman of the Northern Research Group, on why the constituency feels ready for change
3 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Boris Johnson steps out on the campaign trail in Hartlepool on Monday
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The Conservatives are heading for victory in Thursday s by-election in Hartlepool, the leader of the council believes, as Boris Johnson warned that the party faced a fight.
During a visit to a seafront fish and chip restaurant in the north-eastern constituency, the Prime Minister said: I have always believed that it was going to be a tough fight, and I still believe that is the case.
Monday 12 April 2021
The Queen and Prince Philip on board the Royal Yacht Britannia during an official visit to Kuwait, 1979
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Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband, who passed away on Friday 9 April aged 99. One idea being touted as a memorial to the late Duke of Edinburgh is to establish a new Royal Yacht Britannia, after the last royal vessel was decommissioned in 1997.
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Sunday Telegraph reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls from MPs, Cabinet ministers and even a former Britannia captain to support the construction of a new yacht, to be named HMY The Duke of Edinburgh.