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Brexit: UK firms ‘not even close to ready’ for no deal

Image copyright Reuters Many UK businesses “are not even close to being ready for a no-deal” Brexit, figures seen by Newsnight suggest. In February, HMRC launched the Transitional Simplified Procedures scheme, aimed at easing imports in the event of the UK leaving the customs union and single market abruptly. Less than 10% of the firms […]

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Tory leadership: Ruth Davidson backs Sajid Javid Brexit plan

The Scottish Conservative leader has backed Sajid Javid’s bid to have talks with the Irish government over the controversial backstop if he becomes PM. Ruth Davidson said the home secretary had the “most credible plan” for Brexit out of all the leadership contenders. The BBC’s Nick Eardley asked her about comments from Andrea Leadsom about

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Ex-Harvard track coach pleads guilty to child porn charge

A former Harvard University assistant track coach who also coached at a suburban Boston high school has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston says 71-year-old Walter Johnson, of Framingham, pleaded guilty Tuesday. He faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for Sept. 10. Authorities say

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What Is Democratic Socialism? Whose Version Are We Talking About?

Ultimately, though, Sweden isn’t what democratic socialists like Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine, a quarterly socialist journal, are looking for. “We come from the same tradition,” he said of democratic socialists and social democrats. But generally, he added, social democrats see a role for private capital in their ideal system, and democratic socialists do

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