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🚨 NEW: The Government is set to ban under-16s from eBay, Vinted and Depop over fears their messaging features allow adults to groom children
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is considering scrapping the DVLA and merging it with the DVSA to cut Government bureaucracy
Burnham will use his "10-year plan for Britain" speech in December or January to target unaccountable or poorly performing quangos
Story: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage lays a wreath at the Cenotaph for the first time after Reform UK reached enough MPs
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham, Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey and Nigel Farage line up at the Remembrance Sunday service
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says he expects Donald Trump to dramatically increase military action in Iran
"I can see it. I can feel it. I'm looking at the staff changes that have taken place just in the last 48 hours"
Lisa Nandy will extend the UK's social media ban for under-16s to online marketplaces including eBay, Vinted, Depop and Facebook Marketplace
It comes after warnings that under-16s are being asked for "indecent photos in exchange for money"
Story: thetimes.com/uk/technology-u…
🚨 NEW: One of Britain's biggest unions emailed thousands of CEOs demanding to “recruit” workers just 3 minutes after the new workers' rights laws took effect
The law allows unions to request workplace access and contact all workers, whether they're union members or not
The CEOs were also reminded by GMB union of its right to invite all staff to online meetings conducted during working hours, and for which workers will be paid while attending
The email said they must distribute the union’s correspondence to their staff “within two working days of receiving it, in full and unedited, as a standalone item and not bundled into other updates”
Story: thetimes.com/business/compan…
UPDATE: Andy Burnham responds: "I’m shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting in Kraków today. My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost their lives, everyone injured and all those affected by this senseless violence. The United Kingdom stands in solidarity with the people of Poland"
🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
🚨 NEW: The Church of England has warned that the Government’s proposed ban on conversion therapy could "criminalise prayer"
Under the proposed law, people could face up to 5 years in prison for attempting to change or suppress someone's sexual orientation or gender identity
The Government insists that the Bill to ban conversion therapy is aimed at abusive practices, not ordinary religious expression, but Church leaders say the distinction needs to be made crystal clear in the legislation itself
Story: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
