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  Downing Street said a bank holiday was “possible” and “we are considering all options” for the weekend of May 6 – despite ministers previously agreeing it was “highly unlikely”. ​Downing Street said a bank holiday was “possible” and “we are considering all options” for the weekend of May 6 – despite ministers previously agreeing it was “highly unlikely”. 

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Graham Stuart tells MPs that awarding more than 100 licences for North Sea drilling is a green policy Fracking and drilling for new oil and gas in the North Sea is green and good for the environment, Liz Truss’s new climate minister said on Wednesday. Graham Stuart insisted that awarding more than 100 licences to companies for North Sea drilling, covering almost 900 locations, and rolling out fracking across the countryside, were green policies. He told MPs on the environmental audit committee that drilling for new fossil fuels would help the UK reach net zero by 2050. Continue reading… ​Graham…

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PMQs Live: PM going ahead with tax cuts for the rich – Starmer   Tory incompetence & scapegoating the Bank of England – Blackford SNP’s Ian Blackford says he would have thought Truss would have said that benefits will be uprated in line with inflation.  He mentions the rise in interest rates, saying it is hitting average families with mortgages with an extra £450 a month. “Thirty-seven days into the job this is literally the cost of the PM’s incompetence,” he says. He asks if she will give up her plan to save her chancellor by scapegoating the Bank of England? …

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