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TORY grandee Nigel Lawson hit out yesterday at the “scandal” of the government blowing £9 million of taxpayers’ money on pro-EU leaflets.
The former chancellor, a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign, said on BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show that it was “outrageous” that “pretty worthless propaganda” was being sent out “with the Civil Service behind it.”
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY