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They also fear former primer minister could cause further economic damage as row emerges about number of MPs who are backing him Senior Tories are engaged in a frantic campaign to stop Boris Johnson staging a dramatic return to Downing Street, with claims he would cause further economic damage and risk “the end of the Conservative party”. Johnson’s team was claiming on Saturday night that he had privately secured the support of the 100 MPs necessary for entering the race, despite only 54 backing him in public. The assertion was immediately disputed by MPs and rival leadership campaign sources. Johnson…

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Anti-Brexit rally sees crowds from across UK waving EU flags and blaming Britain’s crises on departure from union Thousands of protesters have marched through central London calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. The national rejoin march on Saturday saw large crowds of people walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square. Marchers from across the UK travelled for hours to attend. Continue reading… ​Anti-Brexit rally sees crowds from across UK waving EU flags and blaming Britain’s crises on departure from unionThousands of protesters have marched through central London calling for the UK to rejoin the EU.The national rejoin march…

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School leaders’ mood turns to despair at funding crisis amid growing poverty Jonny Uttley, CEO of the Education Alliance academy trust, which runs seven schools in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, was shouting and swearing at the television news on Wednesday evening. The fracking vote in the Commons had descended into noisy chaos, with allegations that Tory backbenchers were being manhandled into voting with Liz Truss’s ailing government. The contrast between the Westminster circus and what was happening in his primary and secondary schools couldn’t have been starker. Earlier, Uttley had met his headteachers to make an impossible…

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