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MPs quiz minister on taxpayer-funded apprenticeships for £100,000-a-year executives

Conservative MP Robert Halfon faced grilling after pledging crackdown on MBAs for apprentices

The Independent UK

Victory for The Independent as minister vows crackdown on apprenticeships for executives earning £100,000 a year

Exclusive: Ministers vow to investigate scandal that has cost taxpayers £100m in subsidised MBAs for top executives

The Independent UK

Revealed: Taxpayers funding university courses for top executives on £100,000 a year

Exclusive: Industry bosses say scheme introduced by David Cameron in 2017 is failing and urgently needs reform

The Independent UK

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Nissan announces largest ever apprenticeship programme at Sunderland plant

The company hosted a Ministerial visit at the start of Apprenticeship Week

Birmingham Post

UK apprenticeship levy is a £3.5bn mistake, say business leaders

Retailers, hospitality firms, tech industry and recruiters all say policy is holding back investment in training

The Guardian - UK

Universities get extra £15m to help students with cost-of-living pressures

Tuition fees in England will be frozen for the next two years and maximum student loans for living costs will rise, the Government said.

The Independent UK

UK Strikes and Crumbling Health Service Add Headaches for Sunak

British rail workers walked off the job on Tuesday, paralyzing transport for much of this week and adding to the troubles piling up for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government.

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NHS pressure ‘intolerable and unsustainable’, warn medics

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine claimed that somewhere between 300 and 500 people are dying each week due to delays.

The Independent UK

Politicians and experts react to claim up to 500 people could die each week due to crippling NHS delays

"All this is at a level that most of us who’ve worked in emergency medicine have never seen before. It’s dreadful."

Manchester Evening News

‘Overcautious’ schools and employers curtailing teen work experience

Skills courses and apprenticeships need “UCAS-style system”

Evening Standard

Three Tory MPs break ranks to call for PM to go

Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen and Jamie Wallis have all said that that the Tories cannot carry on with Liz Truss as leader.

The Independent UK

Conservatives ‘deserve better’, Tory MPs tell Truss

Rumours abound of plots to remove Liz Truss as Prime Minister after a chaotic start to her premiership.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss told 'the game's up' as first Tory MPs publicly demand embattled PM quits

Veteran backbencher Crispin Blunt broke ranks to openly say he didn't think Prime Minister Liz Truss could survive the current crisis as Tory plotters circle

Daily Mirror

First Tory MP publicly calls for Liz Truss to quit after admitting the 'game is up'

Crispin Blunt, MP for Reigate, said the "game is up" for the Tory party leader after she sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor.

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The Independent UK

Tory former minister: the game is up for Liz Truss as Prime Minister

A senior Conservative MP also said it is ‘very difficult’ to say whether Liz Truss should continue in the top job.

The Independent UK

Question over Truss’s future as PM very difficult, says Tory MP

Senior Conservatives have said they are talking with their party colleagues about how to best address the crisis.

The National (Scotland)

UK Government look like 'libertarian jihadists', says Tory MP

A SENIOR Tory MP has accused the UK Government of looking like “libertarian jihadists” and of “treating the whole country as laboratory…

Manchester Evening News

Tory MP says Liz Truss's Government 'treating the whole country as laboratory mice' over economic policy

He called for a 'dramatic reset' and urged the Government to apologise to the electorate

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Evening Standard

Tory MP accuses the Government of acting like ‘libertarian jihadists’

Tory MP Robert Halfon launched a bold attack on Liz Truss’s Government as he called for a “dramatic reset” in the coming days.

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt says Liz Truss is still in charge, but fails to rule out more U-turns

Chancellor warns of public spending cuts as he tears up PM’s economic agenda and vows to reassure markets

Daily Mirror

Joe Biden brands Liz Truss's tax cut plans a 'mistake' in blistering broadside

The US President said he 'wasn't alone' in thinking Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's plans were going to fail, having previously lashed out at 'trickle-down economics'

Daily Mirror

Top Tory tells Liz Truss to apologise to Brits after public left 'frightened'

Education Committee chairman Robert Halfon accused the Tories of acting like "libertarian jihadists" and treating the country like "laboratory mice" for their hard line policies

The Independent UK

‘Liz Truss must act’: Politicians from all parties back our campaign to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: Figures from across Westminster say the case for widening support is clear and urgent

Evening Standard

MPs unite: Give free school meals to all pupils in poverty

Ex-Minister Michael Gove leads senior Tories calling for a rethink. Adam Forrest reports

The Independent UK

BTec results delay ‘left pupils feeling like second-class citizens’, MP suggests

Chairman of the education committee Robert Halfon was critical of exam boards after thousands did not receive their results on August 18.

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