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However, the scale of backing for it, as anti-war demonstrators protested outside Parliament, was far more than Government ministers had feared. Senior parliamentarians, including Tory grandees John Gummer, Kenneth Clarke and Douglas Hogg and Labour former Cabinet ministers Frank Dobson and Chris Smith, were among those who believed weapons inspectors should be given more time to disarm Saddam. After the amendment was defeated, the Government's motion was approved by 434 votes to 124, majority 310, with 59 Labour MPs again voting against a three-line whip. Leading the rebellion, Mr Smith warn...

Working together and a “certain amount of blowing our trumpet” will be key to East Anglia’s recovery from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic...

PREMIUM A man wearing a protective face mask with the letters 'covid 1984', alluding to George Orwell's novel, protesting against new normality and New World Order conspiracy theory during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Madrid. (Photo by Marcos IN THE Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, some folk finally saw the light. According to a senior nurse on a Covid ward, which has seen a steep rise in admissions in recent weeks, some patients have told her: “I wish I had listened. I didn’t really believe it was real.” For many of us, braced for the next update on the death toll or...

Mayor Mike Starkie Copeland's mayor has hit back at the national and international criticism levelled at the proposed new coking coal mine in west Cumbria. Mike Starkie, Conservative mayor for Copeland, the borough in which the proposed mine would reside, said he felt a lot of the criticism levelled at the mine in terms of its impact on climate change lay in "misunderstood" conclusions. He said the national and international criticism of the mine has provoked "real anger" across west Cumbria, which he understands to be overwhelmingly in favour of the mine going ahead. The mine, Woodho...

To have any climate credibility, Britain must cancel its new coal mine The UK is still failing to demonstrate the environmental leadership needed ahead of this year’s COP summit. Boris Johnson and David Attenborough at an event to launch COP26 Hot, dark, cramped tunnels where the threat of collapse was ever-present. Such were the conditions faced for centuries by the UK’s deep-pit miners. And nor – after recent events in British climate politics – is it an inappropriate description of the government’s approach to securing new green energy and jobs: narrow, dim-sighted and risk...