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Max Verstappen is world champion after winning the Japanese Grand Prix Martin Brundle insists F1’s budget cap rules must be “tightened” in the wake of Red Bull’s “minor financial breach”, as revealed on Monday. Red Bull, who won last year’s and this year’s drivers’ championship with Max Verstappen, say they are “surprised and disappointed” after …

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The Foreign Secretary has refused to commit to the government seeing through all the tax cuts proposed in the Chancellor’s controversial mini-budget. James Cleverly told Sky News that “the package that the chancellor has put forward is pro-growth and it’s the right answer”. However, he refused to rule out further changes, dodging multiple questions about …

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Liz Truss questioned by MPs for saying she is not ‘genuinely unclear’ Prime Minister Liz Truss said she has no plans to make any cuts to public spending but will make sure “we spend public money well”. Ms Truss was questioned during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) about a spending commitment she made during the Conservative …

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If the government increases benefits in line with incomes instead of inflation next year, it would dramatically reduce incomes for the poorest working-age families, while saving less than a tenth of the cost of recent cuts of taxes, an important economic think tank has calculated. Such a change, which would be a significant cut in …

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Liz Truss’s leadership was in fresh danger on Wednesday with calls from senior Tories to reverse further proposed tax cuts and MPs accusing her of “erasing” Tory values. As the cost of government borrowing rose further, Truss used his second PMQs appearance to “absolutely” rule out further spending cuts, rather than allow borrowing to rise …

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Jurgen Klopp looked at the assistant referee in front of Sandy Jardine’s stand and then looked over his shoulder at the fourth official, with a hint of trepidation. He was waiting, tentatively, to see if there was a reaction from either man, but neither of them budged. And then, after what seemed like an age, …

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The French government will order workers back to their jobs at a major fuel refinery as petrol shortages continue amid a long-running national strike for better pay and a share of the oil company’s huge profits . The government confirmed that the manhunt for essential fuel workers at the blocked Port Jérôme refinery in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon …

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy was defiant as he vowed to make the battlefield “more painful” for Russian troops after another deadly day of rockets raining down on Ukraine. Ukraine’s president said air defense was the “number one priority” after thousands of people moved to air raid shelters on Monday as explosions rocked cities across the country. “Terrorists …

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This has been quite a week for Dawid Malan. On Sunday he slid down England’s batting order like a fat pre-teen on a waterslide, lost his central contract on Tuesday and arrived at Canberra’s Manuka Oval on Wednesday with an ax to grind and a bat to wield. He duly rescued his side from an …

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