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Foster agencies add pressure on UK to take child refugees
Home Office accused of still ignoring offers to house children from camps in the UK
Rowan Williams warns against scrapping overseas aid office
Former archbishop and leading charities say Whitehall department is crucial to help world’s poorest
Prisons chaos fuels massive legal costs as violence surges
Shock figures reveal £30m-a-year claims as experts blame cuts and overcrowding
Defeated Labour MPs call for ‘unflinching’ party election review
In letter to the Observer, election candidates pledge to give a frank assessment of what went wrong
Out but not down: Tory anti-Brexiters tell where the next battle will be fought
Four ex-Tories who led the fight in last parliament – and who all lost their seats – tell of likely pitfalls in ‘getting Brexit done’
Top lawyers warn Johnson over role of judges as constitution fears grow
Peers alarmed that PM will curtail their powers
Key Lib Dems warned party not to back December election
Former party leaders Vince Cable and Tim Farron among those who raised fears about breaking opposition ranks
Johnson is warned his big win will not speed up Brexit deal
PM’s majority won’t help him achieve his aims in the time frame he set himself, former ambassador to EU says
Boris Johnson announces plans for spending spree in north
PM is pondering using an £80bn fund for infrastructure spending in areas that helped seal Tory win
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Boris Johnson is considering a raid on a £80bn fund to fuel an infrastructure blitz in regions that helped deliver his election victory
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Key Lib Dems warned party not to back December election
Former party leaders Vince Cable and Tim Farron among those who raised fears about breaking opposition ranks
On the stump: the campaign that shame forgot
Absurd claims, ducking, swerving and urinating in the street – our pick of the election lowlights so far
Father of London Bridge attack victim calls Johnson a fraud
David Merritt says prime minister made political capital out of his son Jack’s death
Calls grow to stop Boris Johnson with tactical voting as race tightens
Eleventh-hour appeal to anti-Tory voters as poll shows Conservative majority halved
Tories hold 15-point lead over Labour with just days until election
Last Opinium poll before vote shows Tories on 46%, Labour on 31% and Lib Dems on 13%
UK’s military interventions have fuelled terrorism, says Corbyn
The Labour leader will highlight the radicalising effect of the Iraq war in attacks such as the London Bridge stabbings
Johnson ‘will have to call second referendum if he fails to win majority’
With Opinium poll showing his lead narrowing, academics warn PM could need support of minority parties for Brexit deal
Dominic Raab in danger of losing seat to Lib Dems, poll finds
Tactical voting could lead to big upsets at constituency level, according to study by Deltapoll
Confused messages from Labour over women-only spaces and trans rights
Campaigners concerned that party’s pledge to keep refuges, prisons and changing rooms single-sex has been diluted
John McDonnell: ‘I believe in miracles, but we don’t need one to win this’
The shadow chancellor and former trainee Catholic priest on why Labour’s campaign can convince the doubters
NHS winter crisis fears grow after thousands of EU staff quit
Mass resignations after Brexit vote compound health staffing shortages