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Nuclear test veterans to be recognised with new medal following campaign

Some 22,000 veterans and civilians are expected to be eligible for the honour.

The Independent UK

Atomic test veterans hoping to learn of medal recognition today

Survivors want 70th anniversary commemoration to be used to grant official honour to those who participated in UK’s nuclear programme

Wales Online

Atomic test veterans to attend 70th anniversary commemoration

Nuclear test veterans and their families are hopeful that the Government will announce a medal recognising their service.

The Independent UK

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Rishi Sunak Cabinet ministers can trouser thousands in payoffs for 49 days out of a job

The hokey-cokey in Cabinet means ministers are set to trouser thousands in 'golden goodbyes' for career changes shorter than the B&Q returns policy. We have a look at who's who...

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak rehires five ministers entitled to redundancy payouts

Dominic Raab, Michael Gove, Steve Barclay, Grant Shapps and Johnny Mercer are entitled to £16,876 each

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Mercer returns as veterans’ minister in Sunak reshuffle

Mr Mercer, who was a vocal critic of the impact Liz Truss’s mini-budget had on the public, was sacked as veterans’ minister by Liz Truss.

The Independent UK

October is for appreciating jazz, and the cultures that have inspired it

Due to ignorance, fear, and the internet, we live in a divisive and isolated world. Cultural appropriation, seen here as a creative act, allows for such borders to be crossed.

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‘Up for it’ Boris Johnson flying back from Caribbean to run for prime minister

Having resigned in disgrace just six weeks ago, Mr Johnson was attempting an extraordinary comeback.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson faces being 'booted out by Christmas' if he returns as Prime Minister

Key Tory figures fear the ex-Prime Minister's return would plunge the Conservative party into 'death spiral' but claim he appears 'up for it', the Mirror reports.

Daily Record

Boris Johnson tells allies he’s ‘up for’ leadership race as he rushes back to UK

Former PM who quit after a series of scandals vows he is ‘up for it’

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson jets back to UK boasting he's 'up for' PM - but could be out by Christmas

Boris Johnson is flying back from the Caribbean to launch his bid for power - after Penny Mordaunt became the first candidate to throw her hat into the ring and Rishi Sunak reached 100 backers

Daily Mirror

Who's backing who for next Prime Minister? Search your MP's Tory leadership nomination

Rishi Sunak stormed ahead in the race to replace Liz Truss as Boris Johnson pulled out. Penny Mordaunt was the first to declare but may struggle to get the numbers

Daily Mirror

OLD Every Tory MP calling for Liz Truss to go as prime minister clings to power

PM fights for political life as senior Tories said to be holding secret talks to replace her

The Independent UK

Liz Truss ‘laughed’ when she sacked Johnny Mercer from cabinet

Former minister says prime minister has abandoned Conservative values

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'Liz Truss laughed as she sacked me' says Johnny Mercer who says it led to depression

Johnny Mercer, who served as veterans minister under Boris Johnson , said Ms Truss has lost authority over the Tory Party as calls mount for her to step aside

Wales Online

'Liz Truss laughed as she sacked me as veterans minister', MP Johnny Mercer says

He said the move was a "gut punch" that sent him into depression

The Independent UK

Johnny Mercer says Liz Truss laughed as she sacked him as veterans minister

The Tory MP described the PM’s move as a ‘gut punch’ that cast him into a bout of depression.

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss playing 'cruel games' with Britain’s nuclear test veterans

The Prime Minister is being urged to announce a medal for heroes of the Cold War

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The Guardian - UK

Ministers back free train travel for military to remembrance services after outcry

Exclusive: former veterans minister Johnny Mercer and others had condemned plans to scrap free travel

The Independent UK

Ex-Tory minister willing to get ‘kicked out’ of party by rebelling on benefit cuts

Johnny Mercer vows to defy whip and claims Liz Truss ‘urinating’ on promises

Daily Mirror

Rebel Tory calls Liz Truss a liar and vows to vote against her benefit cuts

Ex-commando Johnny Mercer said the Tories were making 'some pretty catastrophic errors' and said he would oppose Liz Truss's budget plans if it means real terms cuts to benefits

Daily Mirror

Truss caves to Mirror’s demands to mark ‘Plutonium Jubilee’ with cash for nuclear test vets

The heroes of Britain’s Cold War radiation experiments and their families welcomed the news, but said it did not go far enough to address the tests’ legacy of cancers, early death and birth defects

Daily Mirror

MPs warn Liz Truss over 'betraying' heroes of nuclear tests in 1950s and 1960s

Tory and Labour backbenchers say the PM is reneging on promises to veterans of Cold War radiation experiments

The Guardian - UK

‘No regrets’: sacked minister’s wife defends calling Liz Truss an ‘imbecile’

Felicity Cornelius-Mercer criticised the cabinet system after Johnny Mercer was replaced as veterans minister

Daily Record

5 Tory meltdowns after MPs forced to leave UK Government

Liz Truss has continued a long Tory tradition of sacking Cabinet members who her team views as potentially disloyal.

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