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Cable was business secretary from 2010-15 when the government privatised the Post OfficeVince Cable has said that issues relating to the Horizon IT system were barely raised with him in the five years he was in post as business secretary, and that he never knew who justice campaigner Sir Alan Bates was.The former Lib Dem leader, who was business secretary for an unusually long...

Ed Miliband said GB Energy would be a crucial tool to tackle the UK’s energy security concerns“The days of government ministers waging culture wars against civil servants are over,” chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, has said.Responding to a question on civil service pay awards, he said:Yesterday I met the civil service unions together with my colleague, the new minister [Georgia Gould]....

Former minister becomes third MP to formally join race after James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat threw hats into the ringUK politics live – latest updatesRobert Jenrick, the former immigration minister who quit Rishi Sunak’s cabinet over the prime minister’s failure to take a tougher approach to immigration, has entered the race to become Conservative leader.The Tory MP’s campaign manager, Danny Kruger, said he was...

People living next to Santiago Bernabéu venue say gigs – including those by Taylor Swift – are ruining their lives and are taking actionWhen Delphine de Pontevès opens the window of her first-floor flat in Madrid a little before 10pm on a Tuesday night, more spills into the living room than the unforgivingly hot night air.The voices and shouts of the crowds below give...

Police say they are searching for a male who allegedly vandalised the inner-west Sydney office in what is the latest political graffiti attackGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice are investigating after the New South Wales Greens’ office was graffitied with Islamophobic and white supremacist messages.The graffiti, which occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning at the...

Former Met chief superintendent Dal Babu says footage of man being kicked in face by officer is ‘totally appalling’Racism played a “significant part” in a man being kicked in the face and stamped on by police during an arrest at Manchester airport, according to a former Metropolitan police chief superintendent.Dal Babu, who served for more than 30 years in the Met, described a video...