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NOW TRUMP DELAYS CHAGOS SURRENDER
SIR KEIR Starmer pulled his deal to surrender the Chagos Islands last night. Just days after Donald Trump blasted the UK for ‘an act of great stupidity’ in signing the strategically important archipelago away, Labour withdrew the legislation from a...
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DOES ANDY BURNHAM HAVE THE BOTTLE?
LABOUR was descending into civil war last night as Andy Burnham was offered a route map towards replacing Keir Starmer. Disgraced former minister Andrew Gwynne yesterday ended months of speculation by confirming he is standing down from his Greater...
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TRUMP: I’ve struck a deal for my big, beautiful piece of ice
DONALD Trump last night dropped his threat to invade Greenland following a furious bust-up with Britain and other Nato allies. Speaking after talks with Nato chief Mark Rutte, the US President said he had agreed ‘the framework of a future deal’...
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BROOKLYN: THE TOXIC FALLOUT
The REAL inside story of what went on at wedding that tore Beckhams apart KATIE HIND ‘Inappropriate’ dancing? How CAN any son be so cruel to his own mother SARAH VINE David’s been left ‘ashen’. But this is why Brooklyn felt he HAD to go nuclear...
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BROOKLYN GOES NUCLEAR
■ Beckham son launches astonishing attack on his ‘controlling’ parents ■ Claims they put family ‘brand’ above everything ■ Says mum ‘humiliated’ him with ‘inappropriate’ first dance at his wedding
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NATO NOW ‘HEADING FOR DISASTER’ IN TRUMP ROW
KEIR Starmer last night confronted Donald Trump over his extraordinary threat to seize Greenland. In an unprecedented rebuke amid warnings Nato was ‘heading for disaster’, he told the US President his proposal to impose tariffs on those willing to...
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LABOUR IS TOLD: NOW PROTECT ALL WOMEN
THE Darlington nurses last night urged ministers to stop ‘dragging their heels’ over national guidance on single-sex spaces. In a landmark tribunal decision, a judge ruled NHS bosses had ‘violated the dignity’ of the eight female nurses, who won their...
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SHAMELESS
■ A scathing report condemns West Midlands Police’s lies over its decision to ban Israeli football fans ■ The Home Secretary declares she’s lost confidence in under-fire Chief Constable Craig Guildford ■ But, astonishingly, he refuses to quit and the...
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FURY OVER LABOUR PAYOUT TO HERMER’S GUANTANAMO CLIENT
A TERROR suspect who was represented by Keir Starmer’s law chief has been handed a ‘substantial’ payout by the UK, sparking outrage last night. Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained by the US authorities since his capture in 2002 in the wake of 9/11,...
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SUPER-STRONG CANNABIS ON PRESCRIPTION
THOUSANDS of Britons are being prescribed superstrength cannabis for anxiety and depression. Despite experts warning of the dangers, private clinics are handing it out after just one video consultation and boast the powerful drug can be ‘delivered...
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PUB U-TURN’S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
LABOUR is gearing up for another humiliating U-turn – as ministers last night signalled a climbdown on tax hikes for pubs. Mutinous Labour MPS were told that Rachel Reeves will announce a package of emergency help within days in a bid to head off a...
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POLICE BLUNDER TO DEFY BELIEF
BUNGLING police told the parents of a teenager he had died in a car crash days before Christmas – when he was actually alive in hospital. It took officers three weeks to realise that they had mixed up the identity of survivor Trevor Wynn, 17, with his...
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GREENLAND RAID WILL FINISH NATO, TRUMP IS WARNED
DONALD Trump was last night warned that any attempt to seize Greenland would spell the end of Nato. The US President has hinted that the minerals-rich island could be next on his hit list following a dramatic raid on Venezuela at the weekend. In a...
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PM FACES REVOLT BY LABOUR’S MADURO APOLOGISTS
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to describe the capture of president Nicolas Maduro as an illegal act in breach of international law. But he is under increasing pressure from Left-wing hardliners – who have already forced him to backtrack on major...
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GIRL FROM UK SCHOOL MISSING IN SWISS FIRE
A SCHOOLGIRL educated in Britain is among dozens missing following the Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47. Charlotte Niddam, 15, babysat for pocket money in Crans-montana but has not been heard from since the fire in the early hours of New...
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CHAMPAGNE SPARKLERS BLAMED FOR INFERNO THAT COST 47 LIVES
A SPARKLER in a champagne bottle is believed to have caused a Swiss ski bar inferno that killed at least 47 revellers yesterday. Families face an agonising wait to find out whether loved ones died in the early hours at Le Constellation in...
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DIGITAL IDS FOR BABIES
NEWBORNS could be allocated digital IDS in a ‘sinister’ expansion of the controversial policy. Ministers have privately raised the prospect of issuing the new technology to children at birth, along with the ‘red book’ of health records given to new...
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Police facing ruin from Labour’s ‘soft justice crimewave’
LABOUR’S soft justice reforms will unleash a crimewave, pushing some forces to the brink of bankruptcy, warn police chiefs. Top brass are bracing for reoffending ‘horror stories’ when resources become so stretched that predatory criminals are left...
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‘EXTREMIST’ IS STILL WELCOME IN UK, SAYS STARMER
DOWNING Street faced a furious backlash last night after saying a controversial Egyptian dissident was ‘welcome’ in Britain. No 10 defended Keir Starmer’s handling of the case of Alaa Abd El-fattah, amid calls for him to be stripped of his British...
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Kemi: I don’t want people who hate our country coming here
KEMI Badenoch today calls for the deporta- tion of an Egyptian dissident, declaring: ‘I do not want people who hate Britain coming to our country.’ Writing in the Daily Mail, the Tory leader says Alaa Abd El-fattah – whose arrival in the UK was...
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‘GHOST’ NUMBER PLATES SCANDAL
NUMBER plates invisible to road cameras are being sold by Dvla-registered suppliers, the Daily Mail has found. Up to one in 15 cars could have ‘ghost plates’ designed to evade detection by automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Britain’s...
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REEVES’£1BN BOXING DAY SALES SLUMP
LABOUR has been accused of sounding a £1billion death knell to the High Street, with shoppers expected to shun today’s Boxing Day sales. Struggling retailers will lose out on the much-needed revenue as consumer confidence collapses amid Rachel Reeves’...
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STARMER’S HUMILIATING U-TURN ON FARM TAX
KEIR Starmer yesterday watered down the family farm tax in yet another humiliating capitulation to his backbenchers. The threshold at which inheritance tax will apply to farmers will more than double from £1million to £2.5million, halving the number...
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Ex-councillor ‘drugged and raped wife with other men’
A FORMER Tory councillor is due in court today charged with drugging and raping his ex-wife for 13 years. Business consultant Philip Young, a father-of-three, will appear before magistrates alongside five other men, all accused of carrying out sex...
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ALBANIAN KINGPIN SMUGGLING CRIMINALS OUT OF UK
CRIMINAL migrants are avoiding justice by being smuggled out of the UK in lorries. A Daily Mail investigation found an Albanian, who should be behind bars himself, running a network helping crooks flee for £2,500. The mastermind brazenly operates his...
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Shops suffer disastrous December after £30bn Budget tax raid REEVES RUINS CHRISTMAS
RACHEL Reeves was accused of ruining Christmas for retailers as her Budget drives shoppers away from high streets. Customers scarred by the Chancellor’s £30billion tax raid are keeping their purse strings tight, figures show. After Black Friday sales...
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LABOUR’S RUNNING SCARED OF VOTERS
KEIR Starmer was last night accused of ‘running scared of the voters’ as he paved the way to cancel elections across the country. In an extraordinary move, Labour invited 63 councils to postpone next year’s local elections, which are widely seen as a...
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£6BN COST OF STARMER’S NEW BID TO SUCK UP TO BRUSSELS
SIR Keir Starmer was last night accused of ‘throwing billions away’ to reverse Brexit. The Prime Minister signed up to an EU education scheme at treble the previous cost. His ministers defended the bill for rejoining the Erasmus scheme – which could...
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FREE BBC IF YOU LIVE ON BENEFITS ST
MIDDLE-CLASS families face paying more to watch the BBC to help fund free licences for benefit claimants in plans unveiled yesterday. Favourites such as Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors could be placed behind a paywall and advertising introduced...
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DRIVERS WRONGLY FINED IN SPEED CAMERA SCANDAL
THOUSANDS of innocent drivers have been clocked for speeding due to a fault with every speed camera on smart motorways in the UK, the Daily Mail can reveal. In a scandal which could cost the Government millions in compensation, there has been a glitch...
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HERO OF THE BONDI BEACH MASSACRE
THE hero who disarmed a gunman during the anti-semitic rampage in Sydney that killed 15 has been praised for saving countless lives. Fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, risked his life to wrestle with the terrorist and help bring the attack on Bondi...
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CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR CHARLES IN HIS CANCER FIGHT
THE King last night revealed he had received a major boost in his cancer battle, describing it as a ‘personal blessing’. In an unprecedented video message, Charles, 77, said his treatment will be significantly scaled back in the New Year. A...
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MINISTER: BRITAIN’S ON A WAR FOOTING
BRITAIN was told to prepare for armed conflict with Russia last night. Armed Forces minister Al Carns said the country was on a ‘war footing’ and warned that the ‘shadow of war was at Europe’s door’. His chilling message came as Mark Rutte, secretary...
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Stop Labour’s ‘grotesque’ puberty drug experiment on children
CAMPAIGNERS last night began legal action to halt a trial of pubertyblocking drugs on more than 200 children. The Nhs-backed experiment was branded ‘grotesque’ by the Tories, who likened it to ‘state-sanctioned chemical castration’. The legal fight is...
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ASYLUM FIASCO WITHOUT END
As two Afghan small-boat migrants are jailed for raping a girl of 15, our columnist has an uncompromising message for the politicians Devastating report from Whitehall watchdog finds Home Office doesn’t know how many asylum seekers have absconded – or...
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HEAD OF NAVY ’ S BROADSIDE AT REEVES OVER DEFENCE CASH
THE head of the Royal Navy unleashed an extraordinary broadside at Rachel Reeves yesterday over the failure to fund defence. The First Sea Lord’s salvo took aim at the Chancellor and urged her to match the cash being spent by Britain’s enemies before...
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PUBLIC NO LONGER TRUST NHS OVER DEMENTIA CARE
THE public do not trust the NHS to cope with the dementia crisis, a damning survey reveals. Many Britons are living in fear of the disease amid concerns they could be neglected in a failing hospital or care home. The Daily Mail and Alzheimer’s...
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DEMENTIA KILLS 1 IN 9. IT’S TIME TO END CRUEL INJUSTICES
DEMENTIA patients face a postcode lottery of care, with the NHS failing to hit diagnosis targets in more than half of the country, damning figures reveal. The Daily Mail today launches a drive to defeat dementia after shocking statistics showed the...
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Farage’s ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum’ attack on BBC double standards
NIGEL Farage turned the tables on the BBC yesterday in a furious row about racism. The Reform UK leader has been dogged for weeks by questions from the corporation about alleged schoolboy racism, which he denies. At a dramatic press conference, he...
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MEGHAN’S FATHER ‘FIGHTING FOR LIFE’
THE Duchess of Sussex’s father is fighting for his life after emergency surgery in the Philippines. Thomas Markle, 81, who has been estranged from daughter Meghan since her 2018 marriage to Prince Harry, was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after being...
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‘CUT-PRICE’ ROYAL RENTS UNDER FIRE
ANDREW Mountbattenwindsor’s rent scandal yesterday triggered a probe dragging in other senior royals. MPS announced an inquiry into all royal homes owned by the Crown Estate, following public outrage at Andrew’s ‘peppercorn’ rent at Royal Lodge. They...
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THE FALL GUY FOR REEVES’ BUDGET LIES
RACHEL Reeves was accused of using the head of the financial watchdog as a ‘human shield’ last night after he was forced to quit over last week’s Budget shambles. Richard Hughes resigned
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FARAGE: REEVES MUST FACE SLEAZE PROBE OVER BUDGET LIES
RACHEL Reeves is facing the prospect of a sleaze probe for the second time in a month. The Chancellor was reported to the ethics watchdog yesterday by Nigel Farage over false claims that there was a black hole in the public finances of more than...
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‘LIAR’ REEVES MUST GO NOW
RACHEL Reeves faced angry calls to resign last night after ‘lying’ to the nation in the run-up to the Budget. In an extraordinary move, the fiscal watchdog yesterday revealed that the Chancellor was told months ago that there was no hole in the public...
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THE BRAIN DRAIN FROM STARMER’S SOCIALIST CHAOS
BRITAIN is facing a new ‘brain drain’ that threatens to add to the pain of Rachel Reeves’ disastrous Budget. Official figures yesterday revealed an exodus of young Britons while asylum seekers now make up nearly half of net migration. As Ms Reeves...
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Spiteful raids on strivers — to lavish billions on Benefits St
RACHEL Reeves dropped a £30billion tax bomb yesterday as she bowed to Left-wing demands to boost benefit handouts. The Chancellor shattered Labour’s manifesto pledges with a £13billion, three-year freeze on income tax and National Insurance...
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Reeves faces chorus of condemnation for ‘pricing young people out of work’
AN inflation-busting hike to the minimum wage threatens to push even more young people out of work, Rachel Reeves was warned last night. On the eve of today’s Budget, the Chancellor faced a huge backlash over the ‘bonkers’ rise to both the national...
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NOW REEVES HITS PRUDENT SAVERS
RACHEL Reeves is set to slash tax-free saving pots in her Budget tomorrow. In a major blow to millions of hard-working savers, the Chancellor will significantly cut the annual £20,000 cash Isa allowance to £12,000, it emerged last night. Ms Reeves is...
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CAMERON REVEALS HE’S HAD PROSTATE CANCER
DAVID Cameron has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. The ex-pm was urged to get a prostate test by wife Samantha after she heard a radio interview with Soho House founder Nick Jones in which he told how a check had picked up his...
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1,000 JOBS A DAY NOW LOST UNDER REEVES
RACHEL Reeves was last night blamed for triggering a ‘jobs bloodbath’ – with workers being axed at a rate of 1,000 a day. More than 180,000 have been left on the scrapheap in the past year, with 64,000 losing their jobs in the past two months. In a...
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Trump tells BBC: Grovel – or I’ll sue you for $1 billion
DONALD Trump last night threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion unless he gets a grovelling apology within days. As the embattled national broadcaster admitted to an ‘error of judgment’ when it doctored footage of a 2021 speech by Mr Trump, the US...
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BBC BOSSES QUIT IN DISGRACE
BBC director-general Tim Davie sensationally quit last night after a week of crises. An impartiality row rocked the national broadcaster after an internal report accused it of bias, censorship and doctoring footage of Donald Trump. Mr Davie admitted...
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SOCIAL MEDIA TROLLS FUELLED DELUSIONS OF ‘POLISH MADDIE’
AN army of online conspiracy theorists fuelled a Polish woman’s harassment of Madeleine Mccann’s parents after she claimed to be the missing girl. Julia Wandelt, 24, gasped as a jury yesterday convicted her of tormenting Kate and Gerry Mccann in a...
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WHAT DOUBLE STANDARDS!
THE BBC was last night accused of shocking double standards after rebuking a newsreader who corrected ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’. Martine Croxall went viral earlier this year when she made a face while reading the autocue script during a live...
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POLICE WARN OF A LABOUR SOFT JUSTICE CRIMEWAVE
LABOUR’S soft-justice reforms will unleash a crimewave on the streets, police chiefs warn. The unprecedented intervention came as the Government was left reeling by another day of chaos in the creaking criminal justice system, with two more prisoners...
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The speech was all bluster and lies. But one thing is clear: Every striver in the land is about to be clobbered for her risible incompetence
THE British economy is in a right old pickle. So you might think whoever has been Chancellor of the Exchequer these past 18 months should bear at least some of the responsibility. But not Rachel Reeves, hapless Chancellor of a ‘Not me, guv’ government,...
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REEVES SOFTENS US UP FOR TAX BETRAYAL
RACHEL Reeves will issue a fresh tax warning today, amid growing speculation she is preparing to tear up Labour’s manifesto by hiking income tax. In a highly unusual move, the Chancellor will use an early morning speech in Downing Street to address...
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‘THE DEVIL’S NOT GOING TO WIN’
A VICIOUS attacker who stabbed 11 people on a train to London chillingly told one passenger: ‘The Devil is not going to win.’ The violence lasted 14 minutes on the 6.25 from Doncaster as the knifeman went on a rampage through the carriages. But quick...
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WILLIAM AND KATE PUSHED FOR ANDREW TO BE OUSTED
THE Prince and Princess of Wales made it clear that a clean break from Andrew was the only way the Royal Family can move forward, the Daily Mail can reveal. Before he was stripped of his royal titles, William and Kate backed the King, saying that they...
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HUMILIATION FOR REEVES AS SHE CHANGES HER STORY
RACHEL Reeves faced humiliation last night after she backtracked over her illegal letting blunder. There were growing calls for the Chancellor to be sacked following an extraordinary day of contradictory statements. Last night the Prime Minister’s...
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REEVES ILLEGALLY RENTED OUT HER OWN FAMILY HOME
RACHEL Reeves has broken the law by renting out her family home without a licence since entering Downing Street. The Chancellor last night referred herself to the independent ethics adviser and had to admit her error to the Prime Minister after...
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AFGHAN HELD OVER MURDER OF DOG WALKER CAME TO THE UK IN A LORRY
AN AFGHAN who entered Britain illegally was last night being questioned by detectives after a dog walker was stabbed to death. The victim, 49, was killed in the street, with horrifying footage circulating online showing the knifeman repeatedly...
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THREAT OF A MANSION TAX SPARKS HOUSE MARKET HAVOC
LABOUR’S plan to hammer homeowners with a new mansion tax is ‘hanging like a sword of Damocles’ over the housing market, experts warned last night. After Housing Secretary Steve Reed refused four times to rule out the proposal yesterday, estate agents...
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BILLIONS ‘WASTED’ ON HOTELS FOR MIGRANTS
THE Home Office ‘squandered’ billions of pounds on asylum hotels, a damning report reveals today. MPS blasted its ‘incompetence’ at handling a ‘failed, chaotic, expensive’ system. There was a ‘manifest failure’ by the department to get a grip on...
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A BLUNDER THAT BEGGARS BELIEF
BUNGLING prison staff yesterday wrongly freed a ‘dangerous’ Channel migrant who had sexually assaulted a schoolgirl. A police manhunt was under way last night for sex offender Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu after he was accidentally released back into the...
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NOW END THE WITCH HUNT
FURIOUS veterans demanded last night that Labour halts the witch hunts against them after a paratrooper was cleared of Bloody Sunday shootings. Former soldiers and ministers slammed the case against a veteran in his seventies known only as Soldier F,...
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LE FARCE
LABOUR’S ‘one in, one out’ scheme was falling apart last night after a migrant deported to France returned to Britain on a small boat. The Iranian man’s second dinghy crossing took place just 29 days after he was kicked out of the country under Sir...
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GROOMING GANGS INQUIRY IN CHAOS
LABOUR’S grooming gangs inquiry was ‘collapsing into chaos’ last night. In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage. Three sex abuse victims have also resigned from an advisory group set up...
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JUST HOW CAN ANDREW AFFORD ROYAL LODGE?
PRINCE Andrew is not believed to have received any significant inheritance from the Queen or Queen Mother – raising fresh questions about how he can afford to stay in Royal Lodge. Contrary to popular belief, the former Duke of York is not thought to...
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KING’S THREAT TO SHAME ANDREW BY STRIPPING TITLES
THE King threatened to have Prince Andrew officially stripped of his titles unless he ‘saw sense’. Charles, 76, made clear he would not hesitate to take decisive ‘further action’ if his brother refused to give up his dukedom and other honours after he...
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ANDREW FALLS ON HIS SWORD
PRINCE Andrew was last night finally forced to relinquish all of his remaining royal titles. After another week of scandal, he announced he would no longer be known as the Duke of York and was stepping down from membership of the Order of the Garter –...
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ANDREW AND ‘SPY CHIEF’ AT HEART OF CHINA SCANDAL
PRINCE Andrew met the alleged ‘spymaster’ at the heart of the collapsed China spy case at least three times, it emerged last night. The Duke of York became embroiled in the scandal engulfing the Government as pictures showed him shaking hands with the...
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CHINESE STOLE SECRETS FROM No.10 FOR YEARS
CHINA stole Britain’s state secrets for years using a backdoor into sensitive Whitehall computer systems, it emerged last night. The Daily Mail understands that in a catastrophic blunder, the Chinese were allowed to buy a company that controlled a...
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LABOUR ISN’T WORKING (AGAIN)
BRITAIN’S economy faced a grim quadruple whammy yesterday, piling more pressure on Rachel Reeves just weeks from the Budget. A stark report from the International Monetary Fund warned that inflation in the UK will be the highest for any advanced...
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