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Momentum is ‘breaking Electoral Commission rules on poll spending’ by targeting the youth vote The Jeremy Corbyn-supporting group claims it has identified a loophole The commission says that any attempt to influence voters would break law The organisation Momentum incurred the biggest-ever election fine in 2017  By Claire Ellicott Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail …

Jeremy Corbyn would not fight to save the Union if he caved into Nicola Sturgeon’s demands of a second Scottish independence referendum, Boris Johnson has warned. The Prime Minister even suggested that his Labour rival may throw his weight behind the separatist campaign, and questioned the left-winger’s commitment to keeping the United Kingdom glued together.  Mr …

A US drug company has bowed to pressure and agreed to supply a life-changing medicine on the NHS. Vertex was slammed by Jeremy Corbyn in his conference speech for refusing to drop its price for the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi. The Labour leader vowed to change the way drugs were patented to stop big pharma …

The Guardian’s UK technology editor, Alex Hern, talks to Anushka Asthana about the fallout from his revelations that contractors working for Apple were listening to voice recordings of Siri users in order to grade them. The company’s voice-automated personal assistant had recorded confidential information, illegal acts and even Siri users having sex. It subsequently issued …

Kevin Sullivan Senior correspondent covering national and international affairs Karla Adam London correspondent covering the United Kingdom September 3 at 6:28 AM Britain’s Parliament has restarted after its summer recess and is facing a titanic showdown over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to leave the European Union — including a five week suspension of the …

The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has sent a barbed birthday card to Jeff Bezos to mark Amazon’s 25th anniversary, wishing the company “many happy tax returns” and demanding it pays more UK tax, pays its staff better and improves working conditions. Amazon UK paid only £1.7m in tax in 2017, its most recent annual public …

The Labour party has hit back at a newspaper investigation that claims senior civil servants are worried Jeremy Corbyn is too frail to become prime minister and could resign as leader over health concerns. Anonymous civil servants told the the Times that Corbyn, 70, could be forced to stand down because he was not up …