Our community was sharply divided on the suspensions. While some defended Keir Starmer’s need for party discipline in government, others felt his approach revealed a weakness
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16-year-olds to be given vote at next election in landmark change
Change will allow an extra 1.5 million teenagers to vote in biggest overhaul to electorate in more than half a century
Britain will lower its voting age to 16 in a bid to strengthen democracy
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Oxford University Press halts publication of China-sponsored journal after years of outrage
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Labour minister Jess Phillips says rebel MPs right to be punished for ‘slagging off own government’
Comes as Keir Starmer’s attempt to impose discipline on party faces fresh challenge from Diane Abbott
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Germany to close loophole to allow police to seize small boats in Starmer migrant deal
It comes a week after the prime minister signed a ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France’s Emmanuel Macron