Jessica Elgot
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deputy political editor at the @guardian jessica.elgot @theguardian .com
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Clearing out my grandparents flat this weekend and coming across these treasures - thank you cards from Denis Healey and Leeds MP Joe Dean - my grandfather made their suits. He was so proud of that.
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Others had the chicken
Prince Harry had a frostbitten penis at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding
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Going to war with Match of the Day and David Attenborough in one afternoon strikes me as a strange electoral tactic but there we are
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No one puts the counter argument better than Frank McCourt - in one of my favourite ever letters
History degrees are superbly transferable - you learn how to write, how to argue, how to critique, how to reframe, how to read, how to be empathetic to other perspectives, and how to understand why the world is as it is. It is not a “fluffy” subject
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This is one of the most unintentionally baffling pieces of government comms I have ever seen
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Matt Hancock admits in this message to Simon Case that he helped cover up rising cases in key areas during Eat Out to Help Out. Strikes me as potentially the biggest revelation yet…
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Another exc from us tonight - Leaked emails from inside the BBC reveal extent of pressure journalists came under from No10, inc asking BBC to avoid using ‘lockdown’ at start of pandemic and to go harder on Labour criticism
By
@rowenamason
and me
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What’s been so depressing about this whole affair has been seeing people I thought were quite serious political commentators - especially in the US - openly mocking a women who was quite obviously seriously unwell. You don’t have to love the Royals to find that distasteful.
A message from Catherine, The Princess of Wales
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New - We reveal Tories pressured the BBC not to describe Johnson’s Jimmy Saville jibes against Keir Starmer as false. In this case, editors did push back.
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Later today, we find out Theresa May has handed over all her private government emails to Nigel Farage in order for him to write a favourable memoir. Boris Johnson currently deciding between James O’Brien and Ian Dunt.
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Source close to Hancock claims Oakeshott broke an NDA to publish the trove of WhatsApps. She publishes a long public interest defence. Quite extraordinary he chose the journalist who had campaigned most vigorously against his most significant political policy…
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@clhubes
The phrasing is wild, we “chose” to teach our kid to climb down safely, as if most parents simply do not choose to do this
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British Gas says “this isn’t how we do business” which is a strange thing to say when this is how they have been doing business.
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This is an absolutely breathtaking story with very very serious questions for people in government at the time.
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Having a tweet by a football pundit lead the News at 10 seems like quite an odd decision…
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👋Personal news - It's my last day before maternity leave & the brilliant
@peterwalker99
will be covering as deputy political editor. I'll miss this lovely team a lot.
Last time I was on leave we had a snap election and a global plague, apologies in advance if that happens again
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Labour source: “The BBC’s cowardly decision to take Gary Lineker off air is an assault on free speech in the face of political pressure.
“Tory politicians lobbying to get people sacked for disagreeing with govt policies should be laughed at, not pandered to.”
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Just three male MPs in the chamber to hear this
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Jess Phillips opens PMQs by talking about women she worked with who were illegally brought to this country, trafficked, and repeatedly raped - asking will they now be denied help. Sunak doesn't even acknowledge this in his response.
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Angela Rayner makes the key point about the investigation into Sunak - the underlying issue is the complete failure to update the rules or publish a register of ministers' interests in nearly a year
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Just as a point of genuine interest, why can’t anything be done in this situation?
91,000 phones stolen in London last year — another crime effectively decriminalised
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When I go back to work it will be £1050 for my younger boy for four days. It was £750 for his elder brother, so a massive increase. This is *with* the current system of tax-free reduction.
Nursery fees have gone up again. £949 a month for three days a week. For one child.
I feel sick.
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Starmer breaks silence on attack ad - and doubles down despite discomfort in his party.
“I make absolutely zero apologies for being blunt about this. I stand by every word Labour has said on the subject, no matter how squeamish it might make some feel.“
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Had not clocked this before but is that… Che Guevara dressed as Nelson?
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I thought it was the bond markets but they are basically the same I guess
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By my count we have ten declared Tory rebels -
Johnson
Duncan Smith
Truss
Patel
Francois
Rees Mogg
Duddridge
Jones
Jenkyns
Bone
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New
@IpsosUK
polling finds 70% think the Conservatives have done a poor job in government and 66% think it is time for a change at the next election. Net satisfaction rating for Sunak also falling.
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Huge respect to
@SteveBakerHW
for this interview and for the way he has talked so openly about his mental health in recent months and how the turmoil of the last few years has taken his toll. Hope it will help others to take their own steps.
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Exc - Labour has a new target voter - midlife women. Women aged 45-65 hold key to many swing seats & Labour has new policies to win them over on NHS, menopause and flexible work.
Read my
@AnnelieseDodds
interview, ahead of her Women’s Institute speech
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Taken to its logical conclusion, this attack ad accuses Keir Starmer of wanting controlled migration, responsible spending, lower debt and harsher sentencing...
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Here’s tonight’s front page - big childcare exclusive and details of our BBC scoop
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Very different in that famously blue collar workplace, 10 Downing Street
Committee questions already coming across from a very middle class, privileged perspective - Q’s no doubt written by those who could go for their daily hour walk without leaving their own garden
You’d get a very different perspective from frontline & blue collar workers
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Sturgeon's resignation is also a big blow for the Tories - SNP are probably the single biggest obstacle to a Labour majority. If Labour just win back the red wall, that's Ed Miliband numbers. They need a big swing in Scotland too.
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Analysis - PMQs before the Budget often gets forgotten quickly. Starmer’s decision to go on Lineker raised some eyebrows.
But it had a specific target audience - in W1A. And it tells us a *lot* about how Labour is going to change how it handles the BBC
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Extraordinary figures in the ONS employment statistics showing more than 2.4 million people are not working due to ill-health. It's another big, hidden crisis for the NHS, especially those waiting for treatment or mental health services.
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This is getting frankly beyond satire
EXCL: The BBC Director General Tim Davie has apologised for the disruption caused across sports programming after removing
@GaryLineker
off air.
I put to him trust is a key value of the BBC, many don’t trust him - but he says he is not resigning.
Coming up
@BBCNews
@BBCWorld
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New - three years ago, Starmer’s new team walked into Loto, finding “revolutionary flags, shredded documents and a sleeping bag.”
Now they believe they are three quarters of the way through their time - and are betting on a May 2024 election.
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Labour pointing out Sunak's target to halve inflation is actually less ambitious than forecasts. CPI inflation in the last quarter of this year is forecast by the OBR to be 3.8%, two-thirds lower.
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Don’t think anyone will get any too upset about £100k earners but it is quite illogical that two parents can be on £95k each and get free childcare.
But if one on £100k and another on £20k then they lose the free childcare. A household income limit would be more useful.
I’ve previously written how the tax-free childcare scheme means that earning more money than £99,999 can mean your take home pay *reduces*. Yesterdays new childcare announcement makes this 🚨worse 🚨.
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A reminder that this is a free country and Sue Gray can take whatever job she likes with whoever she likes, unless she aspires to join a criminal enterprise. It's about whether, reputationally, both she and Starmer want to be seen to have followed the process.
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BREAKING -
A Met police officer revealed as a serial rapist who committed more than 40 attacks, despite the force being told of repeated allegations over two decades.
He was an an armed officer in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command
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Jaw dropping exclusive from
@PippaCrerar
- At least 24 civil servants involved in complaints against Dominic Raab, say sources
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“You guys have a way better deal than we’ve managed for the rest of the UK!”
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🚨🚨Exc - Multiple sources saying Raab bullying report coming as soon as tomorrow - as senior MoJ officials suggest they could quit if Raab cleared of bullying’ - with
@breeallegretti
and
@PippaCrerar
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New - Labour writes to Jeremy Hunt to ask why Treasury unit let sanctioned Wagner group founder bring UK libel case against
@EliotHiggins
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NEW - VDL says she will start immediately on an association agreement for the UK to join the Horizon science research programme
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Feel like this is just saying that Labour keep scoring open goals...
Penny Mordaunt: "Labour are borrowing from the Gary Lineker playbook. They are a party of goalhangers and the occasional leftwing striker hanging around the goalmouth poised to seize any opportunities and take any shot."
Is slagging an England hero a good idea for the Tories?
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Exc - Labour plans overhaul of jobseeking with more devolved power, a major rethink of jobcentres and benefits for skills training. Details here -
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Bernard Jenkin gets to the nub of it - if you had been asked at the podium, was it within the guidelines to have unsocially distanced farewell gatherings for leaving staff, what would he have said?
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Nothing to do with the Royals, this deal. No Royals near it, no sir.
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It seems like companies only stop doing this if they are exposed by a newspaper. No summits or ministerial crackdowns or regulations about vulnerable people are stopping this.
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Huge kudos for this investigation because without this kind of public interest journalism, this would still be going on
UPDATE:
British Gas has now been issued an order requiring "immediate cessation of the installation of PPMs under warrant" - a full ban until it can prove compliance with law.
Must also turn over docs to Ofgem under threat of prosecution
Order is here
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This is an extraordinary exchange
'The guidelines were in place and I accept that I broke the guidelines. But I didn't break the law.'
@MattHancock
@susannareid100
questions the former Health Secretary on whether he broke the law when he breached Covid rules.
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Some choice words about Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, in Prince Harry's book...
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The Tories have lost the multimillionaire septuagenarians
Blimey.
Rod Stewart rings into
@SkyNews
to say: “I personally have been a Tory for a long time but I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour Party a go at it.”
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This really shocked me when I read it, how can anyone believe Stephen and Afua are “held up” as anything other than extraordinary talents whose writing is the highest demand?
@mrianleslie
Sorry that Matt’s irreverent tweet about a piece which contains this charming extract is not hardworking enough for you Ian. Nonetheless I find it preferable to the yawning silence on it from others.
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She was actually finally brought down by a hilariously botched response to a Labour opposition day debate but I guess that sounds less good.
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It’s the contradiction in Sunak’s speech… study maths and boost your earnings - or become a maths teacher!
Sunak says the UK “will need more maths teachers” and says there is already an enormous amount of support for STEM graduates to enter teaching including tax free bursaries to train.
But the elephant in the room is that in-demand STEM grads can earn far more in other sectors…
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Her example of the women raped and murdered getting high-level investigators, but raped and in a coma getting lower level, overworked local teams was incredibly chilling
This interview with Louise Casey on R4 is one of the most devastating things you’ll hear. Very powerful points about how firearms/diplomatic officers have all the resources and “toys” they want, while officers handling rape cases struggle to get the very basics.
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One little discussed issue here is - why should other countries bear responsibility for our citizens?
Imagine the outcry if we had violent criminals we wanted to deport, but we couldn't because their birth nation stripped them of citizenship before we could get them on a plane
It's a point worth remembering with Shamima Begum: whether or not you think she should return here, her case means that the UK now effectively has a two-tier justice system, with greater risks if you are from an immigrant background.
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Exc - Internal DfT briefing on the HS2 project has admitted delays will increase costs, may risk jobs, put construction firms at risk and dept could face compensation claims. Trains could terminate at Old Oak Common for a decade.
@LouHaigh
reveals leak in Commons, story shortly
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Love the fact that Hancock knew MPs were going to get annoyed about golf courses even though schools were closed
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That obviously says a lot about Sturgeon herself, probably the most formidable politician of the last decade
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NEW - Labour pledges employment support for people through addiction and mental health treatment, which
@JonAshworth
says have been "written off" by DWP.
We spoke to those using the Nottingham wellbeing hub to try and rebuild lives after addiction
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Exc - Labour vows biggest bus overhaul in 40 years with new powers over operators
A first look at some of the new powers expected to be in the Take Back Control bill - my interview with
@LouHaigh
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Understand there is some disquiet from the Speaker about the way the government has announced some pretty major news just before Commons adjourns
Government comms at its worst
HS2 is being delayed by years - from language in WMS it sounds open-ended - but there's no press release (yet), no minister in the Commons, no debate
Just an abstract, vaguely worded WMS for something that will affect millions of people
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The initial details of the Carrick case and the looming revelations of Met failings were enough to form part of the reason the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, decided to oust Dick in February 2022, the Guardian understands. From
@VikramDodd
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The scale of offending by David Carrick makes him one of the worst sexual offenders in modern criminal history.
The Met has admitted errors in failing to spot Carrick’s escalating danger during his 20 years’ service.
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Rishi Sunak’s wife’s stake in childcare firm not mentioned in six ministerial registers - exc from
@peterwalker99
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Revealing in Truss interview with Spectator she doesn’t accept the sacking of Tom Scholar might have affected whether she received the fullest advice. She says it cannot have been know by just one man, but obviously a climate emerges if you take that kind of action on day one…
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Exc - Sunak spends thousands on private helicopter trips back to his constituency since becoming PM.
(For comparison, a direct train to Northallerton takes just 2.5 hours...)
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Big question now over Islington North - will Corbyn stand as an independent? That has HUGE implications for the future of Momentum. They are still v much a Labour organisation - you have to be a member to join. If they campaign for Corbyn, they will inevitably be proscribed.
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@AvaSantina
Thought not much could shock me nowadays but this is gobsmacking and horrific - hope you’re ok Ava
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Blimey, on the day of Sunak’s big speech, the Tel leads with Starmer…
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Exclusive - I’ve taken an in-depth look at how councils are being forced to freeze levelling up projects as soaring costs exceed government grants - all because of inflation and massive additional construction costs
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It’s fair to say at the London Screen Academy after the speech there’s a lot more buzz from the students around
@ChrisMasonBBC
and
@BethRigby
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Does anyone actually look at the For You tab anyway? Mine is just CEOs telling me about their boring morning regimes.
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This is in the same article where she admits the UK was on the brink of being unable to service its debts.
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Who will be enjoying this most? Keir Starmer or Boris Johnson?
Following the circulation of a video on social media showing an individual failing to wear a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car in Lancashire we have today (Friday, Jan 20) issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of fixed penalty.
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The true patriots will move on to these next week after they’re finished with the Pesach matzos
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A second Conservative MP says they will not vote for tonight's bill
I am not prepared to break international law or the human rights conventions that the UK has had a proud history of playing a leading role in establishing.
I will not be voting for the bill tonight.
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This is clearly not just Sunak's issue - not sure his predecessors would have done it faster or indeed, at all. But now there's an independent advisor in place there should be no reason not to publish soon.
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To warm you up, read
@PippaCrerar
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This is so true about
@bbclaurak
- so many of us have similar stories from when we started
Lovely to contribute to The Times's International Women's Day article on women who inspire us.
I went for Laura Kuenssberg, and there are loads of other brilliant women picked by my colleagues too:
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Exc - Tory seats have been awarded significantly more money per person from the government’s £4bn levelling up fund than areas with similar levels of deprivation, a Guardian analysis has found.
Crunched by
@michaelgoodier
@PorcelinaD
@JoshHalliday
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New - Unite say negotiations have gone badly and that one-off payment would be linked to "productivity."
"All the government are interested in is saying that in order to justify a payment, then we need to come up with productivity savings in the NHS. It is absolutely ludicrous."
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BBC executives are scrambling to repair relations with Gary Lineker and stave off a staff mutiny at the corporation, with hopes that the presenter could be back in post by next weekend.
More on the day’s developments here
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Unite lead negotiator Onay Kasab says it was an "insult to our members" to tell nurses and ambulances workers they had to find productivity savings
"This isn't a factory we're talking about. We are talking about people who are working well beyond their contracted hours anyway."
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Big story tonight - A whistleblower who spoke out about the chaotic UK response to the fall of Kabul sues UK government after sacking. Full interview by
@PippaCrerar
👇
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Shamima Begum is in northern Syria. We have made her Syria's problem - and it has enough problems. We should take responsibility for dispensing justice to someone born in our country, not shirk it onto others.
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@td_evans
Appreciate that's the case for individual reports but for "hundreds" at the same address?
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Starmer says that he is committed to reforming tax-free pension rules that affect his own pension. He says he will not be taking advantage of special arrangements and the law change would affect him as well.
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Breaking - huge news on nurses strikes. Both govt and RCN “agreed to enter a process of intensive talks. Both sides are committed to finding a fair and reasonable settlement.”
Talks will discuss “pay, terms and conditions, and productivity enhancing reforms.” Strikes on hold.
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