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The cost of living crisis has meant record profits for bailiff firms, with bosses taking pay rises up to 367%
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UK promised DP World ‘wouldn’t get away with’ firing 800 workers illegally. But months later, the love affair resumed
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The Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament has been accused of involvement in huge cash transfers to private accounts
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Rishi Sunak’s refusal to help fund an early firebreak in Wales was ‘a disappointment’, the Covid inquiry heard today
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Vaughan Gething becomes the latest senior figure to speak out against Rishi Sunak’s flagship scheme