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PM’s spokesperson says it is ‘right to consider all options’ as Truss pushed to reaffirm defence spending plan UK politics live – latest news updates Liz Truss could abandon the state pension triple-lock to help plug the fiscal black hole after her disastrous mini-budget, leaving more than 12 million pensioners facing a real-terms cut in their incomes in April. The prime minister’s official spokesperson refused four times on Tuesday to commit to keeping the pensions guarantee despite it being a key 2019 manifesto commitment and Truss confirming she would stick with it just two weeks ago. Continue reading… ​PM’s spokesperson…

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Climate Emergency Fund lauds National Portrait Gallery stunt and pledges to keep fighting against ‘mass delusion of normalcy’ The US funders of a climate activist group that poured tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London have vowed similar attention-grabbing stunts will take place in various countries in the weeks ahead. On Friday, two young activists from the Just Stop Oil group entered the gallery, opened two tins of Heinz tomato soup and hurled them over the painting, which is protected by a pane of glass. As onlookers exclaimed “Oh my gosh!”, the activists glued themselves…

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Mark Brown, 41, from East Sussex, accused of murdering and burning bodies of Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware in 2021 A man accused of killing two women and then burning their bodies described himself as a “psychopath with a conscience”, a court has heard. Mark Brown, 41, a groundworks labourer from St Leonards, East Sussex, was accused of murdering Alexandra Morgan, 34, and Leah Ware, 33, at the opening of his trial at Hove crown court. Continue reading… ​Mark Brown, 41, from East Sussex, accused of murdering and burning bodies of Alexandra Morgan and Leah Ware in 2021A man accused…

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