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Firefighters have reacted angrily to a threat to sack them by the chairman of Boris Johnson’s fire authority

Alarmed by the rise of far-right and openly racist parties in a growing number of European Union countries, the Party of European Socialists has called on its counterparts to join them in building a “cordon sanitaire” around the extreme right

David Cameron’s promise to help thousands of traumatised soldiers who can end up in prison after serving their country in Iraq and Afghanistan has resulted in just £150,000 being allocated to help them by the Ministry of Defence

Britain’s biggest banks stand to cut around £19 billion from their tax bills in future because of losses during the economic downturn – despite sharing in an £850 billion bailout from the taxpayer, according to a report for the TUC