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Jeremy Hunt prepares to deliver his autumn statement
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver his autumn statement.
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Slow motion: Jeremy Hunt leaves Downing Street to deliver his autumn statement
Slow motion footage of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt as he leaves 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver his autumn statement.
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Tories to push for more parliamentary time to quiz Matheson over iPad £11,000 data bill
Scotland's under fire Health Secretary Michael Matheson told the PA news agency he is confident of his record despite the Scottish Conservatives pushing to bring a no confidence vote against him after he ran up a roaming bill of £11,000...
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Health Secretary Michael Matheson dodges questions from the media
Health Secretary Michael Matheson dodged questions from the media ahead of his parliamentary statement on a Holyrood iPad bill which accolated £11,000 during a foreign holiday. But following First Minister's Questions, First Minister...
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Pro-Palestinian protesters scale Scottish Parliament
Pro-Palestinian protesters on the roof of the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, after hanging a banner and the Palestinian flag. The group of five climbed up the awning outside the main entrance on Thursday morning, unfurling a...
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The King arrives at Buckingham Palace after State opening of Parliament
The King travelled back to Buckingham Palace in a carriage after the State Opening of Parliament. It was the first King's Speech since 1950.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla leave Parliament
King Charles and Queen Camilla leave Parliament after the King opened Parliament and gave the King's speech.
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King and Queen return to Buckingham Palace following State Opening of Parliament - high res
King Charles and Queen Camilla return to Buckingham Palace following State Opening of Parliament.
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Republic protesters boo as King travels to parliament
Boos rang out from hundreds of Republic protesters as they chanted “not my king” and “down with the crown” as the King arrived in Parliament Square in his royal carriage.
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Footage of House of Lords Chamber and Royal Gallery ahead of State Opening of Parliament
Footage of the House of Lords Chamber, the Royal Gallery, Norman Porch, and the Sovereign's entrance as King Charles delivers his speech to mark the State Opening of Parliament.
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King’s Speech: What will happen?
King Charles will deliver his first King’s Speech as he opens the new session of Parliament on Tuesday November 7. It will be Charles’s first King’s Speech since becoming monarch, and the first to be given by a king in seven decades....
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Sir Keir Starmer welcomes newly elected Labour MPs
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Alistair Strathern and Sarah Edwards to Parliament as the newly elected Labour MPs for Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth.
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Labour take Tamworth in double by-election win
Labour's Sarah Edwards wins the Tamworth Parliamentary by-election, overturning a massive Conservative majority to deal a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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Labour's Alistair Strathern wins Mid Bedfordshire in historic by-election result
*Swearing warning at 04:00* Labour's Alistair Strathern wins Mid Bedfordshire in historic by-election result. With the vote triggered by Nadine Dorries’ long-burning resignation, it was the largest majority in terms of votes overturned...
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Conservative Party chairman says Tories will fight general election as 'underdogs'
The Conservatives will enter the next general election as the “underdogs”, the party’s chairman has said. Kicking off speeches on the main stage at the Tory conference on Sunday, Greg Hands said: “This is likely to be a general election...
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Campaigners stage mass trespass calling for more countryside access in England
Right to roam campaigners have staged a mass trespass near the England-Scotland border calling for the Westminster Government to adopt the same land reform laws as the Scottish Parliament.
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Micheal Martin says vitriol towards politicians ‘getting more dangerous’
Ireland’s deputy premier has said that the vitriol towards politicians is “getting more dangerous”, after a mock-gallows protest that has been criticised as a threat to democracy. Thirteen people have been charged by Irish police after...
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SNP candidate ‘up to the task’ at Westminster, says Black
The SNP candidate for an upcoming by-election is “up to the task” at Westminster, Mhairi Black has said. The party’s deputy Commons leader and MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South joined SNP candidate Katy Loudon on the campaign trail...
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Anti-Ulez protestors gather outside parliament
Anti-Ulez protestors gathered outside parliament after London Mayor Sadiq Khan's Ultra-Low Emission Zone expanded across all of the capital's borough's last week. The capital has become the world's largest pollution charging area with a...
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Scotland First Minister leads independence march in Edinburgh
First Minister Humza Yousaf led independence activists from Edinburgh Castle to the Scottish Parliament as he laid out the case for Scotland's place in Europe. He was joined by thousands of supporters and government ministers Lorna...
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Nadine Dorries formally quits as MP
Nadine Dorries has formally quit as an MP after the Treasury confirmed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has appointed her to be Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern, the archaic mechanism for quitting the Commons. It comes after...
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Politics daily briefing: August 26
All the latest political news in the UK, as Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar delivers a damning verdict on Humza Yousaf’s credentials as First Minister of Scotland.
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Thaksin's Ally Srettha Elected as Thailand's New Prime Minister
Thailand finally has a new prime minister, ending three months of political stalemate. The Pheu Thai party's Srettha Thavisin, a former property tycoon, became the first new leader to take charge of the country since 2014, when former...
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Sir Keir Starmer says he wouldn't be able to afford to go to university today
Sir Keir Starmer has said he wouldn't be able to afford to go to university today, despite Labour dropping their pledge to abolish fees, as he visited residents in Worthing during a visit to the south coast.