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have a look at what happened over the weekend in the second weekend of this month November
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Rishi Sunak is planning to cut defence spending in real terms in the coming years in an apparent breach of the Conservative election manifesto.
‘Hatred of the UK’: A security guard who admitted spying for the Russians grew enraged at the flying of the rainbow flag at the British Embassy in Berlin in support of LGBT rights. |
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Saturday’s essential news
War on crime | Public sector strikes will distract the police from fighting crime, Britain’s most senior police officer has warned. Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said officers were being dragged into doing more health and social care work by minding mentally ill and vulnerable patients in A&E departments rather than spending their time catching criminals. |
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- Migrants | France pledges to stop more boats leaving for UK
Britain is set to agree a Channel migrant deal with France as early as Monday where the French will put more police on the beaches, pledge to stop more small boats leaving and establish a joint control centre.The agreement – where the UK will pay France at least £60 million – will see a significant increase in the 200 gendarmes and volunteer officers deployed on beaches in northern France. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has previously suggested she wanted it doubled.
- Parting gift | Late Queen’s Order of Merit list revealed
- Bullying storm | Raab accused of hurling tomatoes in a fit of rage
Dominic Raab was on Friday accused of hurling tomatoes across a table in a fit of rage as he was embroiled in a bullying storm.The Deputy Prime Minister threw the contents of a Pret A Manger salad after being displeased at a briefing, according to reports….
Mr Justice Hayden said the “identified conflict of interest was so flagrant” and so “manifestly contrary to the fiduciary obligations of the attorneys”, that both Vinoo and Shanu Hinduja had “disclaimed the role”.
- Family feud | Billionaire brother almost placed in council care home
A member of Britain’s richest family, the billionaire Hindujas, was nearly moved into a council care home during a bitter family feud, a court has heard.Srichand Hinduja, 86, is the eldest of the four brothers behind the Hinduja Group conglomerate and became the focus of a family row when he was diagnosed with dementia.
- Made in China | Shops accused of hypocrisy over Christmas cards
The Telegraph has found that nearly half of the Christmas cards sold by major high street retailers and supermarkets are printed in China, prompting concern over messages of hope and peace being produced in a country with a poor human rights record.Our survey of some of the country’s biggest greeting card retail outlets found that 46 per cent of their Christmas multipack cards are produced in China.Out of 279 multipacks sold in the branches of 10 high street shops and supermarkets in central London, 129 were made in China.
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- Zelensky | ‘Kherson is ours’ – the collapse of Russia’s front line
Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson on Friday as Russia beat a lightning retreat over the Dnipro river.The collapse of Moscow’s frontline in southern Ukraine came after months of fierce fighting, and opened a new chapter in the war.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Kherson is “ours” after his forces were met by scenes of jubilation as they entered the regional capital.
- G20 | Britain and the EU call on allies to snub Moscow
“The UK is not keen on coordinating with the EU on foreign policy in general but on this issue, we have the same objective and are mutually reinforcing our efforts.”
- Scientology | Bond writer says he was framed over rape claims
Paul Haggis, the Bond writer, attempted to blame the Church of Scientology for framing him as a jury found him liable for damages over rape claims.Haggis, who co-wrote several of the Bond films, has been ordered to pay $7.5 million (£6.4m) to publicist Haleigh Breest who was suing him for alleged sexual assault after a screenparty in New York in 2013.Mr Haggis had been a prominent member of the Church of Scientology for years until he left and became an outspoken critic.
- ‘Offensive’ | Kari Lake criticised for doubting ballot integrity
Election officials in Arizona pleaded with Republican candidate Kari Lake to tone down her rhetoric about the vote, with tensions high as the counting of ballots looked set to drag on into the weekend in the crucial state.Ms Lake – Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for governor who has refused to commit to accepting the results of the midterm election – is locked in a nail-bitingly close race with her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs.
- New row | Nigerian chiefs say Benin Bronzes belong to their king
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have pledged to return hundreds of Benin Bronzes, a collective term for artworks looted in 1897 from the Kingdom of Benin – now part of Nigeria – but questions over their eventual ownership are stoking local tensions.The most senior chiefs of the Benin people have warned that their king or “Oba” is the only acceptable owner of the artworks, despite competing plans for their future once they are returned to Nigeria.The dispute over a permanent home for the artefacts has prompted concerns that British repatriation of the Benin Bronzes will become a “fiasco” in which there is “no certainty that they will be kept safe or accessible”.
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News focus | Tax rises: How the OBR has got every forecast wrong for a decade
It will be the most feared financial statement of recent times. When the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt finally stands up in the House of Commons on Thursday to unveil the Government’s long-term fiscal plans, he will end weeks of speculation about punishing tax rises and huge spending cuts.
A raid on pensions. A raid on entrepreneurs. A raid on the energy companies, or the banks, or on the rich, or on landlords. Add it all up, and Treasury officials and advisers have been launching more raids than the entire cast of SAS Rogue Heroes.
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Sunday news
Sunday’s essential news
‘Illegitimate claimants’ | In an exclusive article for The Telegraph, Robert Jenrick says we need to ensure modern slavery laws are fit for purpose and cannot be exploited. He says the number of people claiming to be a victim is at an all-time high: “Last-minute modern slavery claims clog the system and of those who apply 90pc are approved.” |
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- Ukraine | West’s Himars opened the door to liberation of Kherson
- Dallas | Moment two planes collide in mid-air during airshow
- Pasta chefs | ‘Gas-saving’ cooking tip causes stir with Italians
Barilla has now told pasta shoppers they can simply boil the water and turn off the pan after two minutes and put on the lid so that the pasta sits in the hot water until it is cooked.The Parma-based firm, which makes 160 different types of pasta shapes, is promoting the idea to help its customers save on gas and electricity costs during the energy and climate crisis.
- Midterms | Democrats retain Senate in major boost for Joe Biden
Senior Republicans have blamed Donald Trump for losing the US senate race, placing Ron DeSantis in pole position for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.The Democrats’ victory in Nevada, announced early on Sunday, means the party will retain control of the Senate as the race for the control of the House of Representatives narrows by the day.Erstwhile supporters rounded on the former president days ahead of his anticipated announcement that he will run for the White House in 2024.One-time Trump ally, Chris Christie, was among those blaming the former president for the anticipated Republican “red wave” failing to materialise.
- ‘Fired up’ | Trump set to dismiss advice to delay presidential run
Donald Trump will forge ahead with his declaration of a third presidential run on Tuesday, according to a senior adviser – despite disappointing results in the midterm elections.The former president faced calls from senior Republicans, and some of his own aides, to delay the move in the wake of a lacklustre performance by candidates he had backed.But Jason Miller, a senior adviser in Mr Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, said the former commander in chief had taken the decision to go ahead.”President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for president. And it’s going to be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement,” said Mr Miller.
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What gripped our readers this week
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Gallery: Royal family pictures of the week
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| The King greeted British diver Tom Daley at a reception at Buckingham Palace for Olympic and Paralympic medalists. His Majesty also hosted world leaders, business figures and environmentalists at the palace ahead of Cop27. See what else the Royal family has done this week. |
| Gain a clearer perspective on the stories that matter to you. Take a moment to reflect with our hand-picked articles below. |
Five unmissable stories
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| ‘With millions on benefits, we don’t need mass migration to boost GDP.’ Westminster hasn’t begun to grasp the scale of this scandal, writes Fraser Nelson. |
| Perhaps the main reason people voted for Brexit was a feeling that globalisation was in danger of taking a wrong turn, allowing employers (and politicians) to overlook entire chunks of the population. The NHS has been one of the worst: half of new nurses registered last year were from overseas. The fact that we don’t train enough nurses to staff our own National Health Service is almost the definition of short-sightedness. Would it have hurt so much to train more here? Too many employers have become addicted to importing, rather than training, workers. Or saving money on machines by using cheap humans instead (we’re one of the least automated G20 countries). |
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| Putin’s dirty bomb threat isn’t what it seems. |
| Regardless, ever since Putin’s comments on October 26, nuclear experts around the world have been dusting off intelligence files on dirty bombs as a precaution.
In Ukraine itself, more immediate actions are being taken. The country’s hospitals are preparing for a mass-casualty radiological disaster as a precaution, with citizens stocking up on iodine pills and bomb shelters being equipped with nuclear survival kits.
“Various measures have already been put in place at hospitals, clinics, and other health-care facilities, while central and local authorities have stockpiled medicines for distribution if needed,” reported the Lancet medical journal on Saturday. |
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Private girls’ schools have managed to maintain a reputation for academic excellence rather than Etonian-style monied privilege – until now
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| ‘Old boys’ networks aren’t just for men – I’m proof of the power of the elite girls’ school.’ Private girls’ schools have maintained a reputation for academic excellence rather than monied privilege – until now. |
 This week, a survey from the universities of Oxford, Exeter and The London School of Economics showed that women who attended one of 12 particular private girls’ schools are 20 times more likely to feature in Who’s Who. None of these establishments comes as a surprise. There is Cheltenham Ladies’ College, North London Collegiate, Wycombe Abbey – and my own alma mater, Saint Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith – all of which now join the rogues gallery of Eton, Westminster, Winchester and Harrow as ‘important engines of inequality’. |
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The Bank of England’s latest forecasts for the economy make for grim reading as the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street warns of a potentially lengthy recession. But they are just that: forecasts and nothing more.
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| Ignore the Bank of England – these four signs tell investors when to buy and sell. |
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| Five wardrobe choices they got wrong in The Crown – and four they got right. |
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| Here is a selection of articles we think you’ll be interested in today. |
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