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Draft guidelines for England state protocols can be initiated in relation to treatments obtained privately Young transgender people could be referred to safeguarding agencies if they access puberty blockers and hormone therapies on the private market after being told by a public health professional they should not be taking them, new draft guidelines from England’s National Health Service suggest. If NHS professionals decide a patient should not be taking puberty blockers or hormone treatments obtained privately, they can advise the patient’s primary care doctor to initiate “safeguarding protocols”, according to draft guidelines seen by the Reuters news agency. Continue reading……

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  Prime Minister Liz Truss sought to calm the UK’s financial markets her Conservative Party today in a speech which reversed elements of her economic plan while speaking of a “high growth” agenda. ​Prime Minister Liz Truss sought to calm the UK’s financial markets her Conservative Party today in a speech which reversed elements of her economic plan while speaking of a “high growth” agenda. 

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  Kwasi Kwarteng was axed as Chancellor just 38 days after entering Number 11 amid economic turmoil following his mini-budget announcement which also resulted in a collapse in support for the Conservative Party in the opinion polls. ​Kwasi Kwarteng was axed as Chancellor just 38 days after entering Number 11 amid economic turmoil following his mini-budget announcement which also resulted in a collapse in support for the Conservative Party in the opinion polls. 

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PM makes second climbdown and sacks chancellor after package of unfunded tax cuts sent the pound tumbling Today’s political news – live updates Liz Truss has performed a humiliating U-turn over her flagship plan to cut corporation tax, as she grimly insisted she would hang on as prime minister despite being forced to sack her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, over the government’s disastrous mini-budget. At a hastily called and notably brief Downing Street press conference, soon after she replaced Kwarteng with Jeremy Hunt, a notably subdued-looking Truss told reporters that parts of the mini-budget “went further and faster than markets were…

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