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Charlie Elphicke stands down from his Dover seat as he battles allegations of sexual assault

Conservative candidate for the seat of Dover Charlie Elphicke will be replaced by his wife Natalie Elphicke after he was suspended from the party over sexual assault allegations.




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Matt Hancock accused of 'whitesplaining' Islamophobia

Health secretary Matt Hancock today admitted the Conservative Party needed to hold an inquiry on Islamophobia. Baroness Warsi responded to Hancock's intervention on Twitter.




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I've killed the chance of a second referendum by standing aside in 317 Tory seats says Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage, writing on Tuesday, said: 'I have no great love for the Tories, but I can see that by giving Mr Johnson half a chance we will prevent a second referendum.'




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Tory candidate apologises to Sikh Labour rival for accusing him of 'talking through his turban'

Phillip Dunne, who has been the MP for Ludlow in Shropshire since 2005, faced calls to be binned by the Tory party after making the 'extremely insulting' jibe to Kuldip Sahota last night.




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UK Brexit envoy in US quits, tired of government 'half-truths'

Alexandra Hall Hall, the embassy's 'Brexit counsellor', ended her 33-year foreign service career this week, saying she was not willing to 'peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust'.




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Election 2019: Almost a quarter of voters unsure who to vote for

Some 23 per cent of those quizzed by IpsosMORI said hey could yet alter their support. The analysis for the Evening Standard also showed that Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.




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Withdrawal Bill and £33billion for the NHS to be top of Her Majesty's address to parliament 

The Queen's Speech on Thursday, setting out the Government's agenda for the new Parliament, will give legislative force to the policy priorities which secured Mr Johnson's landslide win.




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'Blue Wall' of new Tory MPs arrives for first day at Parliament 

Triumphant Conservatives are reporting for duty in Westminster after demolishing Labour's 'Red Wall' of Leave-backing strongholds in the North, Midlands and Wales.




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Boris Johnson to offer first-time home buyers big discounts

Boris Johnson could offer first-time home buyers massive discounts to stop them being priced out of their local areas - but experts immediately questioned how it would work.




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Sales of new petrol and diesel cars could be BANNED by 2035 - five years earlier than planned

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had announced a desire to speed up the current plan for a prohibition which would favour electric replacements by 2040.




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Andrea Leadsom took her team of advisers for a CHAMPAGNE lunch

Andrea Leadsom, who has twice run for the Tory party leadership and has held a variety of Cabinet posts, took her team of advisers for a champagne lunch at a Westminster hotel after her dismissal.




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The rise of Rishi Sunak, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer

A graduate of £42,000-per-year Winchester College and Oxford University, where he studied PPE, Rishi Sunak is believed to be one of the richest members of Parliament.




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Civil servant at heart of Priti Patel 'bully' claims faces backlash

Priti Patel is said to have tried to move permanent secretary Sir Philip Rutnam out of the department after they clashed.




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Two senior civil servants 'quit Home Office amid Priti Patel row'

A top official working in police oversight transferred to the Department of Transport and a member of the Home Secretary's private office left their post in recent weeks




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Coronavirus infected Nadine Dorries attended string of public events at Westminster

Nadine Dorries attended a string of public events around Westminster, coming close to hundreds of people in the toxic two-week period where she may have been carrying coronavirus.




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Budget 2020 at a glance: Key points of Chancellor's speech

The Budget was about containing coronavirus's effect, but there was still room for plenty of other measures though. We reveal what you need to know.




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UK diagnoses 407 new coronavirus cases in a day to total of 1,950

The Department of Health has confirmed 1,557 tests in England have come back positive, along with 136 in Wales, 195 in Scotland and 62 in Northern Ireland.




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Coronavirus UK: Government to pay 80% wages to stop layoffs

Chancellor Rish Sunak and Boris Johnson are unveiling a massive new coronavirus rescue package after furious complaints that they are not doing enough for ordinary people.




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How Carrie Symonds went from humble Tory press officer to Boris' incredibly influential First Lady 

Carrie Symonds, 31, worked for the Tory party from 2009 and eventually became communications chief, before hitting the headlines when her affair with Mr Johnson came to light.




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Government launches bizarre series of corny coronavirus adverts to get them shared online

The adverts, which include deliberate errors, are designed to be mocked online so that people share them and spread the 'stay at home' message.




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DR MAX: Women facing menopause are betrayed by a toxic mixture of misogyny, ageism and ignorance

DR MAX PEMBERTON: Around 13 million British women are menopausal - but, according to a survey of 1,500, one in four have to visit their GP at least three times before getting appropriate treatment.




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Montana Brown fears Caroline Flack won't be the last star of Love Island to take their own life

Montana Brown is terrified more Love Island stars will take their own lives as she admits that all her friends from the show suffer with anxiety or depression.




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Reading classic novels instead of self-help books can boost brain power, research suggests 

Reading classic novels 'frees emotions and imagination' and can boost your brain power, says Professor Philip Davis of the University of Liverpool. They improve quality of life instead of self-help books.




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Alanis Morissette discusses postpartum depression and the 'absolute torture' of addiction

The singer, 45, made an appearance on Wednesday's edition of This Morning, and she spoke candidly about how her new song is about a 'merciful empathetic way of viewing addiction.




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Paulina Porizkova shares sexy bikini pic in Costa Rica following 'emotional hell' of husband's death

Paulina, 54, is currently spending several weeks in Costa Rica at a rental home, and on Monday, she shared a photo of herself in a bikini at the top of a waterfall.




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Paulina Porizkova shows off sweater she knitted while quarantined amid coronavirus pandemic

Paulina, 54, took to Instagram on Monday to share a photo of herself modeling a brown, orange, and cream cardigan that she had knit.




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Australian shares lose $100billion as gatherings of 100 people are banned, major recession tipped

Australia's share market lost another $107billion after Prime Minister Scott Morrison banned indoor gatherings of 100 or more people. A top economic professor fears a recession rivalling 1930s.




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Bank of America says US is ALREADY in coronavirus recession

'We are officially declaring that the economy has fallen into a recession ... joining the rest of the world, and it is a deep plunge,' said BoA. 'Jobs will be lost, wealth will be destroyed.'




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Chrissy Teigen says postpartum depression made her experience a 'flatline of life' 

The Sports Illustrated model initially wasn't convinced she had the mood disorder because her feelings didn't match those she'd read about other women experiencing.




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Adrian Chiles reveals he often goes to Mass instead of the pub after watching football

Now the famously laconic presenter and self-confessed football fanatic Adrian Chiles has revealed he has developed a very different obsession - the Catholic faith he calls 'a refuge'.




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Commercial mortgage market on 'brink of COVID-19 collapse'

Tom Barrack, who is the CEO and chairman of Colony Capital Inc., has warned that the US commercial mortgage market is on the brink of collapse due to the coronavirus.




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RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS: Shared hell of WWII changed Britain for the better - so will coronavirus 

RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS: When this bleak time is over, when schools and pubs and theatres reopen, when we no longer need fear the warmth of a handshake or the closeness of friends...




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One in five Australians would run out of savings in a week if they lost their job

Financial comparison website Finder's survey of 11,118 consumers found 19 per cent of them would barely have enough savings to last a week if COVID-19 took their job.




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The number of Australian businesses coronavirus has shut downs as Jobkeeper wage subsidies start

One in two Australian workers could soon be receiving a $1,500 fortnightly wage subsidy to be kept in work. Daily Mail Australia looks at the services jobs coronavirus has destroyed overnight.




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Home and Away star Sam Frost wants to use her profile to shine a light on mental health 

She's the reality star-turned-actress with an Instagram following of over 500,000. And Sam Frost revealed to Who magazine on Wednesday that she wants to use her profile to help others.




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Chimps are shown cartoons amid lack of visitors in Russia

Zookeepers say chimp twins Tikhon and Anfisa became miserable after people suddenly stopped coming to the park in Krasnoyarsk eight days ago.




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Janet Yellen says the real unemployment level could be 21 MILLION as she warns of a depression

Yellen said Monday: 'If we had a timely unemployment statistic, the unemployment rate probably would be up to 12 or 13% at this point and moving higher.' Ten million are now jobless.




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Roy Morgan research finds 27.4 per cent of Australians either unemployed or looking for more work

Almost a third or 27.4 per cent of Australians are either unemployed or searching for more work as coronavirus shuts down the economy, market researcher Roy Morgan has found.




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Selena Gomez admits to friend Amy Schumer that fame 'got out of control'

This week the 27-year-old brunette beauty spoke to her friend Amy Schumer about her new projects in Interview 's April 2020 issue, which is available on newsstands: April 14.




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Perry Mason trailer features first footage of Matthew Rhys as the rebooted detective for HBO

An iconic character gets a new look with the first trailer for HBO's reboot of Perry Mason, starring Matthew Rhys (The Americans).




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China's economy shrinks by a record 6.8 per cent in the March quarter of 2020 because of coronavirus

China, Australia's biggest trading partner, has suffered its worst economic contraction since Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution ended in 1976. Here's what it means for you.




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Reese Witherspoon divulges details of her postpartum mental health battles

Speaking to Jameela Jamil on her I Weight podcast, the Legally Blonde actress, 44, revealed that her 'anxiety manifests as depression' and after giving birth to her three children




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Obese woman who would drink 5 bottles of Lucozade A DAY sheds eight stone 

Em J Carter, 25, from Wavertree, Liverpool, went from a size 16, weighing 17 stone, to a size 6 and 9 stone in a year after kicking an addiction to sugar that would see her drink 5 Lucozades a day,




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Reserve Bank paints a grim picture of Australia's economy as it attempts to recover from COVID-19

Australia is set to experience the 'biggest contraction' in national output and income since the Great Depression as it grapples with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.




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The moment Julie Goodwin 'fell apart': MasterChef star reveals brutal reality of mental breakdown

MasterChef winner Julie Goodwin has spoken candidly about the 'frightening' night she suffered a mental breakdown earlier this year.




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Graphs show how mental health of every US generation has suffered amid the coronavirus pandemic 

New graphs from NRC Health show that all generations, including Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation reported worsening mental health.




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SQM Research fears Sydney and Melbourne house prices could plunge 30 per cent because of coronavirus

SQM Research chief executive Louis Christopher fears COVID-19 shutdowns and a halt in immigration will cause Sydney and Melbourne house prices to plunge by almost a third by 2021.




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Business Council of Australia fears 20 per cent unemployment unless COVID-19 restrictions eased

The Business Council of Australia, which represents powerful chief executives, fears one in five Australians could be jobless unless COVID-19 restrictions are eased in coming weeks.




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Love Island star Anna McEvoy reveals her top tips for beating feelings of depression and anxiety 

Love Island Australia's Anna McEvoy has spoken candidly about how she's overcoming feelings of depression and anxiety while self-isolating during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Democrats will unveil a 'Rooseveltian' rescue package for next stage of coronavirus bailout

Chuck Schumer said Thursday Democrats are looking to pass a relief package as massive and far-reaching as those implemented during the Great Depression under Franklin D. Roosevelt.