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Investors overlook women in tech - and risk missing out on billions of pounds

29 May 2025, 09:40 By Samantha Niblett MP and Samina Hussain-Letch As one of the Labour Party’s Business Tech champions I recently partnered with...

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Samantha Niblett Mp And Samina Hussain-Letch

Small businesses can’t afford Sadiq Khan’s congestion charge tax grab

28 May 2025, 15:15 | Updated: 29 May 2025, 07:34 By Matthew Jaffa For many small firms in London, using a vehicle inside the Congestion Charge zone...

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Matthew Jaffa

Birmingham’s bin strike drags on - why have we forgotten about Britain’s second city?

29 May 2025, 08:38 By Johnny Jenkins The Birmingham bin strike has been dragging on for 11 weeks - and yet, most of us are barely paying attention....

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Johnny Jenkins

Keir Starmer is right. Farage’s tax cuts won’t deliver the support families really need

29 May 2025, 14:08 By Erin Mansell Families up and down the country are struggling to make ends meet with little reassurance that the prosperity...

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Erin Mansell

Putin's drone onslaught is a stark wake-up call for UK & Europe to a new era of warfare

28 May 2025, 07:16 By Karl Rosander Putin’s savage drone attack should be a wake-up call to the UK & Europe  - this kind of warfare could come to...

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Karl Rosander

The Mayor is sending a clear signal: cleaner freight, healthier lives

27 May 2025, 18:02 By Oliver Lord It’s fair to say many of us were puzzled by the Mayor’s intention to end the Congestion Charge discount for...

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Oliver Lord

Jewish values compel us to help in Gaza – and fight antisemitism at home

28 May 2025, 09:58 By Maurice Helfgott The first thing I saw when I checked my phone on Thursday morning was a news alert that two workers at the...

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Maurice Helfgott

Kinship carers keep families together. So why are we left without support?

28 May 2025, 10:17 By Samantha My great nephew was in foster care while I was being assessed to be a kinship foster carer and it was a case of...

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Samantha

I tried to tell Liz Kendall that PIP keeps me in work - she wouldn’t even stop walking

27 May 2025, 17:20 By Hannah Hunt Last week, I took the early train down to London from Brighton to confront Liz Kendall face-to-face ahead of yet...

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Hannah Hunt

I'm being forced to take my world-first invention abroad - the UK is failing its founders

27 May 2025, 10:20 | Updated: 27 May 2025, 10:21 By James Vyse I grew up on a council estate. No silver spoon. No safety net. No family business to...

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James Vyse

As Russia doubles down, Britain must take advantage of its opportunity

27 May 2025, 17:37 | Updated: 27 May 2025, 17:42 By Lubov Chernukhin As Prime Minister Keir Starmer engages with EU leaders on European defence, it...

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Lubov Chernukhin

We’re creating 120,000 new training opportunities – it’s time for young people to seize them, writes Bridget Phillipson

27 May 2025, 07:46 | Updated: 27 May 2025, 14:40 By Bridget Phillipson This February, during National Apprenticeships Week, I met Reece, Morgan and...

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Bridget Phillipson

Enough with the half hearted U-turns. Starmer must reverse cuts and prioritise compassion

25 May 2025, 08:00 By Jennifer Nadel This week’s changes to the proposed Winter Fuel Payment cuts in the UK are welcome to all of us who support a...

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Jennifer Nadel

Five apps, one car – parking doesn’t have to be this hard

26 May 2025, 15:21 By Rod Dennis Parking has become too complicated – are we at a turning point? Parking a car – or motorbike for that matter –...

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Rod Dennis

Protecting Churchill is to miss the point, writes Tessa Dunlop

23 May 2025, 12:57 | Updated: 23 May 2025, 14:08 By Tessa Dunlop It will soon become a criminal offence to climb on Winston Churchill’s outsized...

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Tessa Dunlop

Lambeth council must be called out, festivals are causing huge amounts of damage to Brockwell Park

24 May 2025, 14:14 | Updated: 27 May 2025, 18:36 By Lucy Akrill So it’s 10 days since the massive steel walls were erected and the HGVs moved...

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Lucy Akrill

Keir Starmer has turned his back on Chagossians - and the right to self-determination

23 May 2025, 12:18 By Robert Midgley The capitulation of the Chagos Islands isn’t just a loss of national capital, sovereignty and international...

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Robert Midgley

As we remember Lee Rigby and the lives lost to terror, we must ensure justice is done

22 May 2025, 18:18 By Matt Vickers Twelve years on from Lee Rigby’s brutal murder, we remember a young man who served his country with courage, a...

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Matt Vickers