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  British bosses to be forced to meet with employees who request flexible working

  Under new workers’ rights, employers will have to ‘properly consider’ proposed shift changes and explain decisions Company bosses will have to sit down with workers who request flexible working and justify their reasons

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  People from ethnic groups feel racial equality is worsening, UK study shows

  Nearly half of ethnic minority respondents in a poll say they have faced prejudice over the past year Many Britons feel inequality is worsening and that discrimination has become more common, according to a thinktank stu

• Guardian2h ago

  John Healey in talks with Canada about UK joining new global defence bank

  Exclusive: Britain is understood to have been formally invited to become founding member of multilateral lender John Healey is in talks with the Canadian government about joining a new global defence bank intended to hel

• Guardian2h ago

  UK paying £56,000 for each person returned to France under ‘one in one out’ scheme

  Home secretary defends cost, saying it is about the same or cheaper than putting someone up in a hotel for a year The government’s “one in, one out” deal is costing about £56,000 for every person sent back to France, Sha

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  Leader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assault

  Dan Thomas, elected in May, says he does not wish to be a ‘distraction’ on same day Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru The leader of Reform UK in Wales is standing down after he was arrested and bailed on suspicion of assa