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PAY ATTENTION
The business secretary has named and shamed 389 employers for underpaying workers – and three of the top ten were leading outsourcers.

CIVIL SOCIETY
Cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo's hospitality records show how keen the UK's new top civil servant is to schmooze with corporate types.

HOT AIR SPECIAL
James Cleverly talked up his green credentials when running for Tory leader, but now as a member of Kemi Badenoch's top team he's changed his tune.

GAS GIANT
Tory peer Lord Moynihan has called for the government to drill in the North Sea – which is no surprise, given his other roles and investments.

FRENCH LESSON
Shadow minister Louie French has had to apologise after the standards commissioner found he had broken parliamentary rules, as the Eye had reported.

CALLED TO ORDURE
Jeremy Pocklington, new permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence, showed signs of severe stress before a Commons select committee.

MUFFLED SPEAKER
Press regulator Ipso has dismissed an apparently pointless complaint by Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle over a Daily Mail report last year.

COURT CIRCULAR
Keir Starmer may not have realised that appointing Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington was a bad idea, but His Majesty certainly did.

AMBASSADOR'S DECEPTION?
The nominee for Israeli ambassador to the UK is being held back because he's under investigation in Israel over a plot to leak misleading military intelligence.

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