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This is Hugo Boss... the comedian formerly known as @joelycett . This morning he came to tell @vicderbyshire why he's changed his name by deed poll. #VictoriaLIVE
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EXCLUSIVE: @KatiePrice tells us she's considering residential care for her son for the first time. Harvey, 16, is partially blind, autistic, and has Prader-Willis syndrome, which causes behavioural difficulties.
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“Mo Salah just came driving to our close. We walked out of our garden and he checked if I was OK, he was really worried about me” Louis Fowler ran into a lamppost chasing Mo Salah’s car – only for the footballer to stop and have a photo with him
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“The government is stockpiling body bags for the risk of an increased mortality rate. “Those who support no-deal Brexit need to be aware what level of harm they are willing to accept” Neurologist Dr David Nicholl contributed to Operation Yellowhammer
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A resident of Grenfell Tower breaks down as he describes seeing people throw children to safety, and people jumping out of windows.
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A mother's direct appeal for information that might help find her daughter Olivia Campbell, 15, still missing after the Manchester attack
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Munroe Bergdorf: 'I've had death threats yet Cheryl Cole punched a black woman in the face and L'Oreal still use her'
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Watch this extraordinary exchange: ‘You should be ashamed,’ @KenLoachSixteen He challenges former Barnet councillor Brian Coleman who tries to defend the poor living conditions - cockroaches, damp and drug users, revealed in our film.
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Can a comedy about periods help break taboos? @PadManTheFilm starring Bollywood favourite @akshaykumar is set to be released in the UK this month. #PeriodPoverty
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"People are dying here, and nobody cares" A disabilities activist says Tory policy is 'an act of violence' #VictoriaLIVE
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Munroe Bergdorf: 'I've had death threats yet Cheryl Cole punched a black woman in the face and L'Oreal still use her'
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“The image is a perpetual image of people who are impoverished, who need white celebrities” Labour MP @DavidLammy says Comic Relief must stop promoting tired stereotypes, following an image of Stacey Dooley in Uganda #VictoriaLIVE
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“Mo Salah came driving to our close. We walked out of our garden and he checked if I was OK, he was really worried about me” @LFC fan Louis Fowler ran into a lamp-post chasing Mo Salah’s car - only for the footballer to stop and have a photo with him
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"The hate started drifting away and the love started building in my heart" Full interview:
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‘I was made to feel quite ashamed – it really did hurt me’ Katie Jarvis Soap actors have spoken out in support of the ex-EastEnders star who made the news for having taken a job in a shop.
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'Why are you spending £1billion of public money just to cling on to power? Elliot challenges Tory MP over Cons-DUP deal.
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‘They couldn’t spell Pinocchio if they tried’ @StanleyPJohnson replying to a viewer’s comment that called his son Pinocchio.
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A #GrenfellTower resident says a fire team visited on Saturday:"If I listened to advice by the fire brigade and management we could be dead"
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"Are you lonely?" "Yeah, no-one's ever asked me that before... I am, very" @vicderbyshire has been to meet those sleeping rough in London's financial district This is the story of Daisy and Jade.
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‘Racism is not an opinion – it is a fundamental ideology that removes the humanity of people because of their race’ @afuahirsch The BBC ruled against presenter Naga Munchetty over comments on Donald Trump.
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A father whose daughter was injured in the Manchester bombing on why he feels @ArianaGrande should be honoured by the city
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"Sometimes it's more important to smile than to shout" - the woman who went viral for smiling in the face of an EDL protester.
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“I feel that the people in charge of the show have an unconscious bias around the regulations for boys and girls, and maybe different races” #LoveIsland ’s Sherif Lanre on why he was axed from villa for using c-word, but Ellie was kept in last year
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“I sat in the car and cried, because I couldn’t believe what people were sending me” Actor and writer @TracyAnnO describes the anti-Semitic abuse she has been sent by people “under the guise of being Labour and Jeremy Corbyn supporters”
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“It’s the fact Meghan owns her heritage – she’s proud. That’s what’s inspiring to me, but threatening to parts of the British establishment” Author and prof of journalism @afuahirsch discusses the treatment of Meghan Markle by the press
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“I said, ‘They’re worried it’s cancer. And tears came into his eyes” Dame Julie Walters has been diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer. She describes to @vicderbyshire the moment she told her husband, Grant. Her most recent scan shows she’s all clear
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"Johnson vs Corbyn. It's not John Major vs Tony Blair, is it?" Watch Ken Clarke and @campbellclaret in our latest 'election blind date'. After years on opposing sides of politics, can they find common ground?
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“We’ve had 9 years of Tory austerity. We’re at Christmas, and 4 million children are in poverty. “Only Labour can change this around and invest in our country” Labour’s @AngelaRayner makes her pitch to undecided voters #VictoriaLIVE
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Martyn Hett is the latest Manchester attack victim to be named. We had him on our show in 2015, confessing his love for Deirdre Barlow RIP❤
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. @Amazon has been described as "grossly irresponsible" for selling this top about anorexia and bulimia. Should it be banned?
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'Why are you spending £1billion of public money just to cling on to power?' Our panel guest Elliot challenges Tory MP over #ToryDUPdeal .
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'I just wanted to save us' Hero baker Florin describes running after the attackers and throwing crates at them. #LondonAttack #Hero
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“The Labour Party in Scotland is now an irrelevance” Selma, a grassroots Labour activist, condemns all four Labour leadership candidates for not mentioning Scotland once in over an hour of debate #VictoriaLIVE
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'It's very complicated to make sure a vegan diet is safe and adequate - I'd never recommend it' - @SophieDietitian
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Massive congratulations to Mali for his #dickinmedal #Hero ❤️ (he was the perfect soldier in our studio too)
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"Villagers were shot, women were raped, children were slaughtered" - a filmmaker describes attacks on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
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"What gender are your children?" LGBT rights campaigner Jane Fae challenges parents who withdrew 6yo son from school with transgender child
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. @TheVampsJames joins the fight to catch killer of 50 cats in south London. More tomorrow from 9.15
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“If that money isn’t good enough for a firefighter or nurse, why is good enough for an MP?” Newly-elected Labour MP @NadiaWhittome is donating half her salary to community causes She rejects it's “virtue signalling”
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“We’re not going to suddenly find 10,000 extra intensive care nurses” Dr Ron Daniels, consultant in intensive care, says the UK cannot increase its ICU capacity "rapidly enough" to deal with levels of coronavirus patients
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'The passengers didn't really say anything,' says the hero bus driver whose quick actions in dodging a car in Edinburgh have gone viral.
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“Is calling a gay person a ‘bum boy’ homophobic?” “It depends on the context it’s being said” “It doesn’t” @OwenJones84 and @NimkoAli clash on Boris Johnson’s use of the phrase ‘tank-topped bum boys’ in a 1998 column.
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Finsbury Park attack: 'People were hitting [the attacker] and the Imam came out to tell them not to and to call the police.'
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Donald Trump has "zero worries" about sexual harassment claims because it's "fake news" and "irrelevant" says former strategist @SebGorka
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Ken Loach: "If you care about the destruction of our society get behind Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, he stands for the interests of the people"
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“We have had to close one third of our in-patient NHS beds through Brexit.” Palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, wants to remain in the EU, and would like another referendum. #VictoriaLIVE
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“We need to use this six months to make sure we put this deal back to the people” Green MP @CarolineLucas says there is enough time for a second referendum #VictoriaLIVE
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Their father killed their mum and sister, and now they're speaking out to raise awareness of domestic abuse In full:
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"I want permanent accommodation. I'm not moving my child" Watch Grenfell resident Olu's passionate speech to housing minister Alok Sharma.
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'Here's something we agree on... a double referendum' Labour peer and remainer @Andrew_Adonis calls out Conservative's @johnredwood over his call for two #Brexit referendums before the process began.
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"If it wasn't for Jeremy Corbyn talking to the IRA there would be no peace process" #VictoriaLIVE #GE2017
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‘If you promote rape you should have a lifetime ban from standing for elected office,’ @jessphillips She says there is a link between such language and actual violence. Police are investigating UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin after saying ‘he might rape’ the MP.
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The moment our undecideds made up their mind... A win for Corbyn, it suggests #VictoriaLIVE
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“I’m not a bank robber.” A woman in Denmark who was fined for wearing a niqab expresses disgust at Boris Johnson’s claim the full face veil makes women look like "bank robbers" & "letter boxes". #VictoriaLIVE
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'I'm leaving Britain because of Brexit' Sabine Voigt has lived in the UK for 17 years, and has a British partner - but has decided to return to Germany.
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“I am going to support a confirmatory referendum” Conservative MP Richard Harrington, @Richard4Watford , says he now, for the first time, wants to go back to the public
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"Men are control freaks. Look at what we've got in Parliament - 7 year old boys squabbling and fighting." If you listen to one thing today... make it this incredibly frank interview with Greta! She was just 2 when women got the vote. #Votes100 #100years #Suffrage100
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"Sometimes it's more important to smile than to shout" - the woman who went viral for smiling in the face of an EDL protester.
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An eyewitness - 'shaking with anger' - says there was plenty of time to rescue people, and advice to "stay put" led to 'hundreds of deaths'.
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. @TheVampsJames joins the fight to catch killer of 50 cats in south London. More from 9.15 #VictoriaLIVE
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Female genital mutilation is increasingly being used on babies in the UK, we've been told. One victim was as young as one month old. Our exclusive report: Some may find this video upsetting.
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'For the sake of the past, present and future - vote' An impassioned plea from the Great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.
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“It’s bullying, and there’s underlying racism in there” YouTuber and cultural commentator @ZezeMillz says the public has pushed Meghan and Harry into stepping down from royal life #VictoriaLIVE
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"The richest council in the country and there's not enough money to refurbish the fire escape? Outrageous." - Cllr Blakeman #GrenfellTower
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. @UKLabour 's Emily Thornberry MP : "If an election was called today, we would win"
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“The air-time contestants of my race got was very disproportionate to our value in the villa.” #LoveIsland ’s Sherif Lanre says he feels black contestants have been given “statistically less air-time” on the show #VictoriaLIVE
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🎙️ Would you press the nuclear button? 🗣️ I couldn’t conceive of any circumstance where I would. Labour leadership candidate @labourlewis says Britain doesn’t need nuclear weapons, and that they are not a deterrent
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Life after Grenfell: Still homeless. Still have nothing. Still grieving.
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‘You’re getting cross with me’ What happened when we sent fertility expert @ProfRWinston and Big Brother’s @Aisleyne1 for lunch? #BrexitBlindDates #VictoriaLIVE 10am @BBCTwo @BBCNews
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“My mandate is to stop Brexit... Scotland voted 62% to remain” SNP MP @joannaccherry says Brexit is the fault of the Conservatives, and not opposition parties #VictoriaLIVE
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“The idea millions of people are angry at the idea they’d have another say is nonsense” @campbellclaret , who supports a second referendum, says the public want to be involved in the final Brexit decision #VictoriaLIVE
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“I’m labelled a murderer, a drug trafficker and a rapist” Chevon Brown was deported from the UK to Jamaica last year, alongside other convicted criminals, after serving time in prison for dangerous driving He says his life has become a “complete mess”
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‘This ruling legitimises racist opinions by suggesting they should be treated impartially’ @afuahirsch The BBC ruled against presenter Naga Munchetty over comments on Donald Trump. Dozens of BAME broadcasters are calling for the BBC to reconsider.
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Tim's a free-running champion... and a #vegan . He explains how changing his diet boosted his strength and career
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'We had no idea our child would be gifted' Mum and dad of 3-year-old Ophelia Morgan-Dew – who has an IQ higher than the renowned physicist Stephen Hawking – say they are definitely not pushy parents. Full story: #VictoriaLIVE
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“This isn’t a debate about what Parliament thinks, this is a debate about what the people think” Brexit Party MEP @MartinDaubney says the House of Commons is “out of touch” with the public
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“I hope the BBC will have a look at how it conducted itself. In my view, the BBC have been used and abused.” Labour’s @AndyMcDonaldMP , calls for “reflection” on its coverage of the election campaign #VictoriaLIVE
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'You need to think, as a human, what do these people need?' Simone Willis, a nurse who helped at Grenfell, challenges the authorities.
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Fixing a date is "a panic measure" reflecting growing hostility to #Brexit , says Lord Heseltine
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“Old people will be afraid of living too long” – Labour’s @BarryGardiner says Conservative social care policy will damage inheritance
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“What is so empowering about Meghan is she has utilised her female autonomy to make the decision [to go to Canada] that’s best for her and her family” Olivia is one of the pupils who met the Duchess of Sussex on International Women’s Day
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Since the election was called, not one Conservative minister or official spokesperson has come on our programme, despite repeated requests. More here:
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"Mr Redwood, You don't need to shout at him ... he's genuinely worried..." Lively debate between politicians and members of public over Brexit and hard borders. #VictoriaLIVE
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“I used some crude language I don’t condone in hindsight” #LoveIsland ’s Sherif Lanre says he left the villa on good terms with Molly-Mae
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“When I was in school, being well spoken – I was told ‘You sound white’." These 22 men are successful professionals, but they have all faced negative stereotypes as black men. Now a new project, @56BlackMen , is aiming to challenge perceptions
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“It’s very confusing. How do children deal with that” Nigel and Sally Rowe withdrew their 6yo son from a school with a transgender child
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'It's the biggest victory in a court in British employment history' @DavePrentis on tribunal ruling.
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How important is #MeghanMarkle ’s mixed-race heritage to people in Britain? @Leomie_Anderson has watched her treatment with interest and frustration. Full film here: #royalwedding
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“It keeps the continent of Africa poor. It keeps people in their place.” Labour MP @DavidLammy says Stacey Dooley’s Comic Relief trip to Uganda is part of Britain's 'white saviour' complex #VictoriaLIVE
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WARNING: UPSETTING 'Cowardly, vile and callous' Malorie Bantala was 8 months pregnant when the father of her unborn baby, along with another man, apprehended her in disguise then attacked her. Her baby died, and she was left in a critical condition.
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“How do you justify £2.4m on a “cottage” for a couple?” Daily Mirror’s @Kevin_Maguire says cost of Harry & Meghan’s home is a “sick joke” when people are living on the streets #VictoriaLIVE
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A beautiful, heartbreaking tribute to 21-year-old LGBT activist Dean Eastmond who died of cancer at the weekend ❤️
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Such a powerful and moving speech 3 yrs ago James was sectioned after trying to take his life. He says football, and @QPRFC , saved his life
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A second British woman has died from having a Brazilian butt lift abroad, we've discovered. It is the most dangerous cosmetic surgery there is #VictoriaLIVE
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‘Ultimately this place is broken, our politics is broken, I’m sorry to your viewers about that, it’s a disgrace what is going on,’ says @ChukaUmunna The Labour MP says there should be a second public vote to determine what happens with #Brexit .
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'I don’t feel safe at all in London – the streets aren’t safe anymore' - Rico Finlayson, who was stabbed 10 times by a gang in the capital last year tells how he survived. #VictoriaLIVE
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A very good example of why not to use a mobile phone while on the move... 🙈
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"It's like you're touching a language" Lego has developed 'Braille bricks' for children with sight loss. We went to meet pupils at one specialist school trying them out:
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EXCLUSIVE: This programme has learnt that @RebekahVardy has instructed lawyers to do a 'forensic investigation' on her Instagram account to see who has had access to it and when. More on tomorrow's programme, 10am
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“I’m happy to say goodbye to Russian oligarchs and tax dodgers. “For the rest of the rich, I would say ‘stay’. A government like Labour that spends on infrastructure will make this country even better” - @paulmasonnews , Labour-supporting journalist
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