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Shocking figures reveal UK spends double the defence budget on working age benefits

Analysis by The Independent has revealed the scale of Britain’s welfare bill to the taxpayer

The Independent UK

Starmer ‘not doing enough to end tsunami of sick notes’ pushing up benefits claimants

Iain Duncan Smith has said far more needs to be done to prevent young people leaving school and going ‘straight to their sick beds’

The Independent UK

Deliveries of Chinese Communist Party newspaper to MPs could be stopped

Sir Lindsay Hoyle has asked for review after MPs complained about ‘propaganda’ newspaper China Daily being delivered directly to them.

The Independent UK

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Labour rebel ‘couldn’t look my mum in the eyes’ and vote for Starmer’s welfare cuts

Divisions in the Labour Party are emerging over plans to cut benefits for the long term sick and disabled

The Independent UK

Cyclists should have ‘mandatory bell’ in safer roads drive, MP suggests

Conservative MP Sir Julian Lewis suggested mandatory bells for cyclists ‘so they could at least warn pedestrians of their approach’.

Evening Standard

Government urged to take action against Hong Kong ‘bounty hunters’ in UK

MPs heard letters had been distributed to neighbours of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists.

Evening Standard

Putin wants sovereignty of Ukraine not territory – Tory former minister

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said Donald Trump is making a ‘completely wrong judgement’ if he think he can appease Putin with territory.

Evening Standard

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MPs call for changes to coroners’ rules in response to Clonoe inquest

DUP leader Gavin Robinson said the coroner had to answer ‘where, when, who and how. He had no role in trying to answer the question as to why’.

Evening Standard

Revealed: Scale of Chinese financial investment in UK universities

Exclusive: New figures reveal the scale of Chinese investment in presitigious UK universities, amid concerns bout Bejing’s influence

The Independent UK

Reeves tells MP to ‘get real’ as she defends decisions during Commons grilling

The Chancellor was also criticised for her visit to China, with SNP MP Dave Doogan saying it was ‘beyond parody’.

Evening Standard

Minister: UK must balance national security concerns over China with trade aims

Catherine West made the remarks as she defended Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ trip to China.

Evening Standard

Minister defends Reeves’ China trip after warrants issued for UK-based activists

The UK ‘must sometimes be involved’ with countries whose values ‘may not completely align with ours’, Foreign Office minister Catherine West has said.

Evening Standard

MI5 had ‘legitimate reasons’ to warn about lawyer accused of working for China

Christine Lee has lost her legal challenge against the security service.

Evening Standard

Chinese alleged spy’s identity revealed as MPs raise fears over Beijing’s reach in Britain

Yang Tengbo is named in court as Iain Duncan Smith warns such ‘agents’ are the ‘tip of the iceberg’

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The Independent UK

‘Chinese spy’ at heart of Prince Andrew scandal named

Yang Tengbo insisted he has done ‘nothing wrong’ and rejected allegations of being a spy as ‘entirely untrue’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer defends UK engagement with China amid Prince Andrew revelations

Prime minister ‘pleased with progress’ on ties with Beijing as Tory MPs warn of China’s attempts to infiltrate UK

The Independent UK

Concerns at Westminster that Chinese spy suspect able to ‘slip through the net’

Critics of the Beijing government warned that the activities of the suspect known as H6 were the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

The Guardian - UK

Alleged Chinese spy who befriended Prince Andrew is ‘tip of iceberg’, Tory MP says

UK ministers face pressure over Chinese spy scandal as MPs consider naming banned businessman

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The Independent UK

China ‘spy’ live: Second suspected Chinese agent loses legal battle as Beijing accuses UK of ‘smears’

China warned the UK against ‘making trouble’ following banning of alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo

Evening Standard

MPs raise concerns over Chinese interference in UK amid alleged spy row

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is applying for an urgent question in the Commons on the influence of the United Front Work Department.

The Independent UK

Who is Yang Tengbo? Everything we know about alleged Chinese spy who was close confidant of Prince Andrew

Yang Tengbo insisted he has done ‘nothing wrong’ and rejected allegations of being a spy as ‘entirely untrue’

The Independent UK

Nigel Farage threatens to name ‘Chinese spy’ linked to Prince Andrew who ‘met Cameron and May’

Prince Andrew reportedly invited the Chinese spy to Buckingham Palace

Evening Standard

Reform could name spy-accused ‘Andrew confidant’ who ‘met Cameron and May’

The party is threatening to use parliamentary privilege to disclose the businessman’s identity in the chamber.

Evening Standard

Reform prepared to name alleged Chinese spy in Commons, Farage says

The party is threatening to use parliamentary privilege to reveal who the businessman is in the Commons chamber.

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer ‘raised human rights’ with UAE amid efforts to free UK prisoner

Ryan Cornelius was originally detained in the UAE for 10 years as part of a bank fraud case, but his detention was extended by 20 years.

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