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Return of the nasty party? Badenoch walks tightrope with ‘punch down’ policies
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
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Ninety years on, the lessons of the antifascist battle of Cable Street have never felt more relevant | Sarah Sackman
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Tories pledge to remove £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge'
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