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The Ceuta crisis will strengthen “Fortress Europe”

The EU has realised that, to preserve the Schengen Area, it is essential to harden the continent’s external borders

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Europe’s age of fire

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Bev Craig is ready to shrug off Andy Burnham’s shadow

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The Conservative body is twitching

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How will history remember Keir Starmer?

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