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Boris Johnson could still be next Prime Minster, says David Cameron

    The Prime Minister also said Boris Johnson was ‘on the wrong side’ of the Brexit debate David Cameron has said Boris Johnson could succeed him as Prime Minister when he steps down before the next general election. When asked whether he stood by his previous suggestion Mr Johnson, George Osborne and Theresa May were all figures who could succeed him, the Prime Minister said he ...

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EU referendum: Miliband ‘call to arms’ for young voters

Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has issued a “call to arms”, urging young people to register to vote in next month’s EU referendum. The absence of millions of young voters from the electoral register could lead to a victory for the Leave camp in the EU referendum, he warned. Mr Miliband said their “optimistic generation” can keep Britain in the ...

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Ken Livingstone sacked as LBC presenter after Hitler anti-Semitism row

Ken Livingstone has been sacked as a presenter on LBC radio in the wake of his controversial comments about Hitler that sparked an anti-Semitism storm. The former Mayor of London is understood to have been let go after eight years with the station over the claims Hitler was a Zionist before he “went mad and ended up killing six million Jews”. ...

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Obama at Hiroshima: ‘Death fell from the sky’

27 May, 2016 Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the 140,000 people killed by the world’s first atomic bomb attack and sought to bring global attention to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons, as he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. “Death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Obama said, ...

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Mamata Banerjee takes oath as Bengal CM

27 May, 2016 Mamata Banerjee was sworn in today as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second consecutive time at Kolkata’s historic Red Road. She will be leading a cabinet of 42 members including her. 17 new faces will be among the cabinet of Banerjee’s new term in Bengal. Officials said an elaborate security cover has been arranged ...

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Fokrul Islam receives award for outstanding sports volunteering

Emdad Rahman Community activist Fokrul Islam has been recognised by the London Federation of Sports and Recreation for the Voluntary Award 2016. The Federation is the voice of voluntary sport in Greater London and through its wide representation on sports bodies is able to influence sports policies by diplomacy. The Federation considers the volunteer sector as the major contributor to ...

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British High Commissioner Alison Blake’s statement to mark the 117th birth anniversary of Bangladesh National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam

This week Bangladesh celebrates the birth of its National Poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, better known as “Rebel Poet”. 117 years after his birth Nazrul’s writings remain works of great literature with significance for all of us. As the poet himself wrote ‘I don’t belong to just this country, this society. I belong to the world’. Bangladesh was born as a ...

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EU referendum: London backs Remain vote, poll

25 May 2016 London is overwhelmingly backing a vote to Remain in the European Union, a major opinion poll reveals today. The capital is a clear 60-40 in favour of staying in Europe’s family of 28 nations, discounting don’t knows. Exclusive research by Opinium for the Evening Standard reveals the 5.6 million eligible voters in London are far more pro-EU ...

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Hanging on line to HMRC cost taxpayers £97m, NAO finds

Taxpayers forced to hang on the phone while calling HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost the equivalent of £97m last year, a spending watchdog has said. The National Audit Office (NAO) said the quality of service at HMRC “collapsed” over an 18-month period between 2014 and 2015. Call waiting times tripled during that time, as some customers were kept on ...

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Tower Hamlets is fastest-growing borough in UK as London population surges again

25 May 2016 The population of Tower Hamlets is growing faster than anywhere else in the UK Nine out of the 10 fastest-growing local populations in Britain are London boroughs, according to new official forecasts today. The new list of local authority areas is headed by Tower Hamlets where the population is projected to soar by more than a quarter, or ...

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