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BBC presenter turned Change UK MEP candidate tells HuffPost UK he wants 'fix Britain' – and explains why he would "happily" buy Farage a pint.
Hail and rain showers struck central London and the east coast on Saturday.
"Let Scotland go as well, I really don’t care."
Lord Ricketts urges the prime minister to call on the US president to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement.
According to the Committee on Climate Change, the UK is in a position to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Achieving this target would be in line with the commitment the UK and the rest of the world agreed to under the Paris Agreement. The Committee's report states that the UK has the basic foundation to cut its emissions by 2050, but the policies required to deliver this would need to be strengthened. They believe the cost of making the necessary changes would be manageable.
Plans to raise fees for EU students, remove vital financial support and make it far harder for us to apply to study would shut off our world class education sector from the world.
After a brief respite from Brexit chaos over the Easter recess, the UK is back to trying to get out of arguably the most drawn-out political divorce of all time. PM Theresa May still has a deadlocked government after surviving multiple challenges to her leadership. Lacking enough support from her own party, May is continuing talks with the Labour party, hoping to get more support for her deal. As the UK is still a part of the EU, European Parliamentary Elections will take place between 23-26 May, with new parties forming to take their own chance at the 73 seats the UK holds. With the three-year-anniversary of the referendum coming up in June, the UK public is not any nearer to knowing how this one ends.
Cross-party move aims to end ‘freefall’ in overseas students coming to UK
Gusts of up to 75mph will hit the south-west coast of the UK.
New figures from UNICEF estimate that half a million children in the UK are not vaccinated against measles. Worldwide, the figure is closer to 169 million. Children need two doses of the vaccine to protect them against the disease. However, poor health systems and a rising amount of scepticism about vaccines has led to a drop in those being given the dosage.