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Government accused of warm words but little action on racial inequality plan

Women and equalities minister Kemi Badenoch said ‘substantial progress’ had been made in the past year.

The Independent UK

Nearly half of actions in plan to tackle racial inequality completed – Badenoch

Last year’s Inclusive Britain strategy set out 74 steps to tackle unjust disparities, promote fairness build trust, and level up communities.

The Independent UK

Predicted 0.08% boost from UK-Asia trade deal could be overestimate

Trade department used different approach to estimating economic boost which ‘generates larger estimated GDP impacts’

The Independent UK

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At last, a consensus is emerging on protecting women-only spaces

Compassion and common sense are prevailing in a sensitive conflict over rights

The Guardian - UK

Government retreats from Brexit bill plan to ditch EU laws

Climbdown likely after cross-party Lords revolt threatens to defeat Jacob Rees-Mogg’s retained EU law bill

The Guardian - UK

Over 100,000 people sign petition telling Tories not to amend Equality Act

The UK Government is reportedly considering amending the Equality Act to define sex as 'biological rather than gender'

The National (Scotland)

Why Britain’s new CPTPP trade deal will not make up for Brexit

The UK recently announced that it will join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), giving British businesses access to the 11 other members of the Indo-Pacific trade bloc and bringing its combined GDP to £11 trillion.

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What would changing the Equality Act mean for trans people and single-sex spaces?

Kemi Badenoch is considering amending the act to define people’s sex as biological sex in England, Scotland and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Anger over admission that ministers meet climate change deniers 'all the time'

Greenpeace UK has called on the Government to listen to 'actual experts' after it emerged business secretary Kemi Badenoch had dined with members of the American Enterprise Institute, which has been branded a "climate denial front group"

Daily Mirror

UK ministers meet climate change deniers ‘all the time’, government says

Admission comes after business secretary met with controversial US think-tank

The Independent UK

Trans women could be banned from single-sex spaces under proposal to define sex as 'biological'

The recommendation comes from crossbench peer Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission and was asked to carry out a review

Daily Mirror

Kemi Badenoch could rewrite law to allow trans exclusion from single-sex spaces

Redefinition of sex as ‘biological sex’ in Equality Act would enable single-sex restrictions against trans people

The Guardian - UK

UK Government considering changing legal definition of 'sex' in Equality Act

THE UK Government could seek to change the legal definition of sex in the Equalities Act.

The National (Scotland)

Pacific trade deal ‘will make mockery of UK’s climate ambitions’

CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaigners

The Guardian - UK

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Pacific trade deal is more useful to Joe Biden than it is to the UK’s economy

Hailed by Tory MPs as a Brexit benefit, CPTPP membership actually turns the UK into a willing pawn in Washington’s geopolitical game

The National (Scotland)

'Significant concerns' over UK's Asia-Pacific trade deal, says Scottish Government

THE Scottish Government has said it has “serious concerns” after the UK’s Asia-Pacific trade deal was confirmed.

The National (Scotland)

Kemi Badenoch tells media to 'not keep talking' about Brexit in trade deal row

KEMI Badenoch has urged the media to “not keep talking” about Brexit amid a row over a new trade deal that won’t compensate for losing…

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak warned UK-Pacific trade deal will 'undermine climate pledges'

The UK has signed its biggest post-Brexit trade agreement, joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - but critics say the pact is worth only 0.08% of GDP

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Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Justice finally catches up with Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s presidency comprised a series of firsts: the occupant of the Oval Office without any prior military or government service. The first to be impeached twice. And last night, he made further history, becoming the first former US President to be criminally indicted.

Evening Standard

Forget Brexit pain and back our Pacific trade deal, urges minister

Critics say the deal involving 11 countries including Australia, Canada and Japan doesn’t compensate for the blow of leaving the EU

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch casts doubt on growth projections for Asia-Pacific trade deal

Comments threaten to worsen already tense relationship between senior ministers and civil servants

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak sidesteps question about whether having private swimming pool means he’s out of touch – as it happened

PM also refused to say what he would do if inquiry into Dominic Raab found justice secretary bullied officials

The Guardian - UK

UK joins Asia-Pacific CPTPP trade bloc that includes Japan and Australia

Unions have condemned clauses in deal that will allow large firms to sue UK government behind closed doors

The Guardian - UK

Carol Vorderman ‘disgusted’ by ministers’ attitude to menopause

TV personality clashes with women’s minister, who she says ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to attend committee session

The Independent UK

UK-India trade agreement is ‘about the deal and not the dates’, minister says

Trade minister Nigel Huddleston told the Commons ‘we will not tie our hands in terms of setting an arbitrary deadline’.

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