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Alex Kingston and Balvinder Sopal went up against each other in the latest Strictly dance-offAs of the weekend, Balvinder Sopal has officially survived more dance-offs than any other Strictly Come Dancing contestant in history.Last month, it was revealed that the Ea

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer at the Labour conference in October.Keir Starmer will back Rachel Reeves’ Budget as pressure mounts on the chancellor over claims she misled the country over the state of the public finances.The prime minister will deliver a speech on Monday insisting last week’s Budget set the UK on the right economic course and announcing a fresh Labour bid to reform the country’s welfare system.It comes after Reeves was forced to deny lying to voters as she laid the ground for the £26 billion of tax rises she announced last Wednesday.Treasury officials suggested there w

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This December, we’re championing kindness in all its forms through HuffPost UK’s Kindness Advent Calendar. Check back daily (until 24 December) for new stories focusing on how individuals and communities are going above and beyond to help others in their times of need. When you work in a newsroom, there is no switching off from the horrors that unfold around the world every single day. Wars, humanitarian crises, world leaders fuelling division, violence, global warming, racism, misogyny, greed. It can feel like there is a lot wrong with the world –

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Jeremy Corbyn at the inaugural conference of new political venture Your Party.Jeremy Corbyn has suffered a major blow after his new party’s rank-and-file rejected his bid to become its leader.Members of the left-wing Your Party voted narrowly against having a single elected leader, opting instead for a collective model that put a committee of activists in charge.Corbyn had previously said he backed the “sole leader” model and would stand for the position.The collective model was suppor

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Rachel Reeves and Trevor Phillips on Sky News.Rachel Reeves has been forced to deny lying to the country about the state of the public finances as she clashed with Trevor Phillips on Sky News.Treasury officials repeatedly suggested in the run-up to the Budget that there was a black hole of up to £30bn in the government’s sums.Reeves herself even called an emergency Downing Street press conference at which she painted a gloomy picture of the state of the ec

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