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Has Suella Braverman gone too far this time? BBC News says For as long as Suella Braverman has been Rishi Sunak’s home secretary, she has had a licence to say the unsayable. Say stuff in public some of her colleagues would only ever dare say in private. Say stuff in public some of her colleagues wouldn’t even say in private. How do we know she has this licence? Because the lack of it would mean being sacked. Many instantly leap to ascribe a motive to the home secretary’s interventions: her ambitions to lead the Conservative Party one day. Those ambitions…

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Rishi Sunak urged to sack Suella Braverman over ‘deeply offensive’ article on pro-Palestinian marches Sky News says Rishi Sunak has been urged to sack Suella Braverman after she accused the Metropolitan Police of “playing favourites” with how it handles controversial protests. Ms Braverman has been criticised for using “inflammatory” language in an article for the Times newspaper. The home secretary once again described pro-Palestinian protesters as “hate marchers” and added: “I do not believe that these marches are merely a cry for help for Gaza. “They are an assertion of primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists – of the…

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Suella Braverman accuses police of double standards on rallies The Guardian says Suella Braverman has launched a full-throated attack on policing “double standards” after the head of the Metropolitan police gave the go-ahead for a pro-Palestine march on Saturday, Armistice Day. The protests, which have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of London, were described by the home secretary as an unchallenged “assertion of primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”, in an article in the Times published on Wednesday night. She claimed that unnamed police chiefs appeared to care more about avoiding “flak” from tackling such…

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Pro-Palestinian protest in London: Row over Suella Braverman’s claim of police bias Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s attacks on the Met Police over its handling of pro-Palestinian protests has erupted into a row. Braverman wrote in the Times accusing the force of applying a “double standard” to its policing of protests. She claimed aggressive right-wing protesters were “rightly met with a stern response”, while “pro-Palestinian mobs” were “largely ignored”. The Met Police says it has no grounds to ban the march which is on the same day as Armistice Day. PM Rishi Sunak has told Met boss Mark Rowley that he…

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Mounjaro obesity jab authorised in UK A diabetes medicine dubbed the “King Kong” of weight loss jabs has been approved in the UK for treating obesity. The medicine makes you feel fuller so you eat less. In trials, people on it have lost a fifth of their body weight and UK regulators now say it is safe and effective enough to be sold and prescribed in the UK. It’s not yet recommended on the NHS. Healthcare spending watchdog The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently said the cost for benefit of Mounjaro may not be justified. The…

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Israel reports 10-hour battle at Hamas ‘stronghold’ as evacuation resumes Israel has reported that after a 10-hour battle, Israeli forces have now taken over a Hamas “stronghold” in northern Gaza. Hamas-run authorities say Israeli air strikes continued overnight including in Khan Younis in the south, where six people were reportedly killed. An evacuation route, allowing people to leave northern Gaza for the south, has reopened for the fifth day. Israel says around 50,000 Palestinians left the Gaza City area on Wednesday via that route. But the Rafah crossing into Egypt is currently closed again. Hamas wants more injured Palestinians to…

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