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  • Labour’s Tom Watson ‘reversed’ type-2 diabetes through diet and exercise

    Tom Watson Image copyright PA

    Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has revealed he was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes but has “reversed” the condition through diet and exercise.

    He has now come off medication after losing seven stone (44.5kg) since last summer.

    He cut out junk food, starchy carbohydrates and refined sugar and took up cycling and running.

    The MP has vowed to launch a crusade against diabetes if Labour wins power at the next election.

    “I feel great. I feel absolutely fantastic. Chilled out, I feel like my IQ has gone up. I feel younger. It’s a great feeling,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

    Image caption Mr Watson says he reached 22 stone before he began his diet

    After researching the subject, he started a diet by “giving up sugar” and cut out beer and curry. He then began to exercise, starting with walking then cycling, running, boxing and weight-training.

    About four million people in the UK have diabetes, with the condition accounting for 10% of all NHS spending.

    Poor diet and a lack of exercise mean it’s possible a million more people in this country could be diagnosed with diabetes over the next 20 years, according to a report by Public Health England.

    What is type-2 diabetes?

    Type-2 diabetes is a chronic condition associated with obesity and family history and is more likely to be diagnosed in older people. It’s more common than type-1 diabetes.

    It is caused by problems with controlling blood sugar levels – either because the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or if a body’s cells do not react to insulin as they should.

    The condition is treated by medication or controlling a person’s diet.

    Diabetes UK offers advice on preventing and coping with type-2 diabetes.

    The changes that could prevent diabetes

    Mr Watson has vowed to set up an independent, cross-party commission to investigate ways of preventing the condition if Labour wins power, with the aim of eliminating the estimated rise in cases within five years.

    “I think a lot of people feel shame when they are diagnosed with it because you kind of know, you get warning signs,” he told Today.

    “But for many millions of people, it’s an entirely preventable and reversible condition” with “the right nutrition and exercise”.

    “It is a public health scandal that so many millions of people are having to suffer this condition when they don’t have to,” he added.

    One of the most important risk factors for type-2 diabetes is being overweight or obese.

    According to a World Health Organization report, the UK is the third fattest among 53 countries in Europe, with heavy drinking a key cause.

    The United Nations body found 27.8% of adults in the UK are obese compared with 32.1% of people in Turkey and 28.9% in Malta.

    Those whose body mass index is at least 30 are deemed to be obese.

  • UKIP AM Caroline Jones quits party over ‘far-right move’

    Caroline Jones Image caption Caroline Jones lost a leadership election to Gareth Bennett in the summer

    The former leader of the UKIP group in the Welsh Assembly has resigned from the party.

    Caroline Jones claimed UKIP leader Gerard Batten was alienating his members by moving the party to the far-right.

    The AM for South Wales West, who will now sit as an independent, said UKIP was taking “a direction that I’m not comfortable with”.

    But Mr Batten said her statement was “politically correct twaddle”.

    The resignation means the UKIP group has four AMs left from the seven which entered the Senedd in 2016.

    Image caption Gerard Batten has taken the party in “a direction I’m not comfortable with”, Caroline Jones said

    She told BBC Wales: “The party has taken a direction that I’m not comfortable with.”

    Mrs Jones said Mr Batten was changing the party “to a more far-right position, which a lot of the long-standing members are finding quite unfavourable, including myself”.

    “I never joined the party to be part of a far-right organisation. I joined the party because I wanted to come out of the European Union. I still do.”

    “Gerard Batten should listen to all sides and try to mediate and bring people together, as opposed to alienating them”, she added.

    ‘Politically ineffective’

    Mr Batten was appointed leader earlier this year, after former UKIP leader Henry Bolton was sacked.

    He is the fourth person to lead UKIP following the EU referendum.

    Caroline Jones took over the UKIP group in May after she was backed by David Rowlands and Michelle Brown in a vote.

    However, Welsh UKIP members voted over the summer for Gareth Bennett to succeed her and lead the assembly group.

    Mr Batten said: “I have brought the party back from financial meltdown, raised funds, raised membership numbers, and raised UKIP in the polls. Ms Jones has contributed nothing that I am aware of.”

    He added: “Her statement is politically correct twaddle to disguise the fact that Mrs Jones is politically ineffective. I wish her well languishing in the outer realms of irrelevance.”

  • Arlene Foster to meet prime minister in London

    Arlene Foster Image copyright PA Image caption DUP leader Arlene Foster had given a cautious welcome to plans to cut MLA pay and give civil servants more power

    DUP leader Arlene Foster is expected to meet the prime minister and secretary of state in London on Wednesday to discuss the government’s latest proposals over the Stormont deadlock.

    Karen Bradley has proposed a cut to MLA pay and plans to provide greater powers to local civil servants.

    The DUP gave the development a cautious welcome.

    It described it as a small step, but argued that there remains a need for ministerial decision making.

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    The Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for 20 months.

    Separately, pro-Brexit Conservaties are expected to publish a paper later on Wednesday focusing on the border and the backstop policy, which is central to the UK’s current negotiations with the EU.

    Tory Brexiteers have been strongly critical of Theresa May’s decision to sign up to a backstop.

    The launch of their paper is expected to be attended by former Brexit Secretary David Davis, former Northern Ireland Secretaries Owen Paterson and Theresa Villiers, former Northern Ireland First Minister Lord Trimble and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the chairman of the eurosceptic European Research Group.

  • Libya’s Tripoli airport diverts flights after rocket attack

    Mitiga was closed until recently amid militia clashes in Tripoli Image copyright AFP Image caption Mitiga was closed until recently amid militia clashes in Tripoli

    The only working airport in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, has diverted flights after it came under rocket fire.

    There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties at Mitiga International Airport after the attack on Tuesday night.

    The airport had only reopened on Friday following clashes between rival militias.

    A UN-backed government is nominally in power in Tripoli but militias occupy much of the rest of the country.

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    The rocket attack forced a Libyan Airlines flight from Alexandria in Egypt to divert to Misrata, some 200km (120 miles) east of the capital.

    Other flights would also be diverted and a source told Agence France-Presse that plans were under way to move other planes at Tripoli to Misrata.

    Libyan Airlines is the only operator, running internal flights and international ones to a limited number of countries. It is barred from EU airports on security grounds.

  • Catalonia crisis in 300 words

    Image shows supporters of Catalan independence gathering in Barcelona on 2 OctoberImage copyright Getty Images Image caption Supporters of Catalan independence in Barcelona

    The ongoing stand-off between Catalonia and the Spanish government in Madrid is complicated. Let’s break it down.

    What is Catalonia?

    Catalonia is a region in north-east Spain. It has its own language, parliament, flag and anthem. It even has its own police force and controls some of its own public services, such as schools and healthcare.

    It is one of Spain’s wealthiest and most productive regions and has a distinct history dating back almost 1,000 years.

    Why the controversy?

    The Catalan parliament approved an independence referendum which went ahead on 1 October despite being suspended by Spain’s Constitutional Court.

    The Spanish government tried to stop voting and hundreds of people were hurt in scuffles with police at polling stations.

    While Catalan authorities say just under 90% of voters backed independence, turnout was only 43%.

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    What have both sides said?

    Catalan leaders declared an independent republic but immediately suspended its implementation.

    Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said he wanted negotiations on the region’s exit from Spain.

    Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has responded by asking the Catalan government to clarify whether or not it has declared actual independence.

    What happens next?

    Depending on the Catalan government’s answer, the government in Madrid could impose direct rule on the region.

    That would mean suspending Catalonia’s powers to make its own decisions on public services such as education and healthcare.

    Why does the crisis matter?

    There is no suggestion that the crisis could degenerate into an armed conflict but it could damage the region and Spain as a whole economically, bringing new instability to the eurozone.

    It could also set an example for other countries with secessionist movements in Europe.

    Want to know more?

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  • Brexit: Economists say UK has ‘nothing to fear’ from no-deal go out

    Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson Image copyright Reuters Image caption Boris Johnson used to be among a gaggle of Tory Brexiteers to suggest the file at an adventure in London

    The Uk has “nothing to concern” if it exits the eu in March without a industry agreement, a document sponsored by means of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg has stated.

    Economists Without Cost Trade mentioned part the uk’s global industry was under International Industry Enterprise laws and this would practice to the european until a bespoke deal is done.

    A “clean holiday”, it stated, would narrow the cost of meals and clothes imports through 8% and boost tax sales by way of up to £80bn.

    The claims have been branded “Undertaking Fable” via Labour MP Chuka Umunna.

    Mr Umunna, who supports a referendum on the end result of the Brexit negotiations, stated Mr Rees-Mogg and other Brexiteers had been “completely out-of-touch with the lives of normal other folks”.

    Image copyright EPA Image caption The Treasury has warned that a no-deal Brexit may just result in £80bn additional borrowing by 2030

    On The related time, it mentioned British exports to the rest of the arena had grown greater than 3 times faster than to the eu.

    The workforce of economists stated it was once fallacious to characterise leaving the eu and not using a business agreement in place as “crashing out” and not using a deal, since the UNITED KINGDOM and the eu Commission would have a duty to achieve a chain of person agreements in areas similar to aviation and effort.

    “Switching to an international trade deal below WTO laws is no step within the dark because the united kingdom already conducts about half its industry underneath WTO laws,” the report said.

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    Outside the european, the document argues, the uk could be unfastened to set its personal tariffs on EUROPEAN imports and if these had been eliminated, it might cut back costs for customers by way of as a lot as 8%. with those on low earning reaping benefits the most from less expensive food and clothing.

    On the other hand, it mentioned if the ecu selected to impose import tariffs on standard pieces, its huge industry surplus with the uk may just lead to an annual boost to the uk Exchequer of as a lot as £13bn.

    ‘Project Fable’

    Overall, it mentioned trading with the ecu on WTO regulations may just boost the united kingdom’s public finances by £80bn over the next 15 years, allowing long run governments to lift spending and cut taxes.

    The campaign crew, led via Professor Patrick Minford, is urging the uk to depart the ecu prior to starting talks over a trade deal modelled on the european’s accord with Canada – arguing this will likely provide the uk extra leverage.

    “There can be no time constraints, the ecu may have new, non-politically impressed, negotiating guidelines, and the advantages of a clean Brexit can be coming obvious,” it said.

    Tuesday’s launch of the file used to be attended by prominent Brexiteers, including Mr Johnson and David Davis who give up the cabinet in protest on the PM’s Chequers plan.

    Responding to the record, Labour’s Chuka Umunna, a leading member of the People’s Vote campaign for a referendum on the ultimate deal, said a no-deal Brexit can be a crisis for the uk.

    “the newest Challenge Fable record from advocates of an extremely-arduous Brexit guarantees to take us to a land of milk-and-honey,” he stated.

    “the reality is that, ahead of we’ve got even left, Brexit is forcing up costs within the shops, destabilising our economy and stripping our well being carrier of the medical doctors and nurses that it so badly needs.”

  • requires motion over illegal tourist sites

    caravans illegally camp on private land Image copyright Barcroft Media/Getty

    The Federal Government have to be “putting their heads in shame” over its efforts to take on unlawful gypsy and traveler sites, MPs have warned.

    Ministers are being instructed to switch their coverage and “make planned trespass a legal offence”.

    Tory MP Mark Francois stated this can provide police “an actual deterrent power” to transport visitors from land they do not personal or have permission to be on.

    The Federal Government mentioned the majority of the vacationer community have been regulation-abiding.

    Leading the controversy on Gypsies and Travelers within the Commons on Monday, former Tory minister Andrew Selous mentioned the “time for never-ending, consistent critiques is over”.

    Symbol caption A College sports activities day had to be cancelled after a host of Romany Gypsies parked on a field at Milton Keynes Rugby Membership in advance this yr

    He said present coverage was once failing both visitor and settled communities.

    “Travelers and the households that visitors illegally permit their caravans to on Travelers’ sites often haven’t any proper sewerage, water or heating and there’s no correct mechanism in position to make sure first rate requirements of housing.

    “the entire state of affairs is a complete disgrace within the Uk in 2018, and executive ministers and officers responsible for this coverage house have to be placing their heads in shame,” Mr Selous added.

    The Irish possibility

    Mr Selous and Mr Francois have been among those arguing for the government to emulate Eire, which in 2002 made planned trespass a prison offence.

    The knock-on effect of this alteration has been that more travelers have arrived in England from Ireland, as “we are regarded as something of a comfortable contact”, Mr Francois added.

    A change within the legislation might give police larger energy to move travelers on.

    “if they did not do so, they could be arrested, and their automobiles might be impounded – which, believe you me, could be an overly tough deterrent to the traveling group.”

    In reaction, groups minister Equipment Malthouse advised MPs the communities secretary had lately met the Irish executive to talk about their method.

  • Brexit: TUC issues new EU referendum warning to May

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    Media captionTUC boss Frances O’Grady: Union will back “well-liked vote” on Brexit deal if it fails operating other folks

    The Trades Union Congress has warned Theresa May it is poised to throw its “full weight” in the back of requires a referendum at the ultimate Brexit deal.

    TUC leader Frances O’Grady mentioned that except the government struck “the deal that working other people need” with the european, she would demand a “fashionable vote”.

    “It Is Only proper that people must get a say,” she informed the BBC.

    The government has ruled out another EU referendum, pronouncing it’s running to make a hit of Brexit.

    GMB union backs referendum on Brexit deal

    Labour says it’s now not calling for one more public vote, but that a referendum at the terms of Brexit must be “at the desk”.

    A referendum like this is the call for of the People’s Vote campaign, which has backing of a few MPs from the 2 biggest parties.

    Speaking at the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show as the TUC conference gets under way in Manchester, Ms O’Grady urged the federal government to increase the UK’s ECU club to permit longer for negotiations.

    “Time is operating out and a crash out of the ecu would be an absolute crisis for the people we represent,” she stated.

    She stated other people’s livelihoods at firms like BMW, Airbus and Jaguar had been at stake, calling for jobs and workers’ rights to be the government’s priority.

    “i need to serve notice to the prime minister lately that if we do not get the deal that running other folks want, then the TUC might be throwing our complete weight in the back of a campaign for a popular vote so that individuals get a say on whether or not that deal is sweet enough or not,” she said, adding that union leaders all the time consult their members when they negotiate a deal.

    Last week the GMB Union introduced its beef up for the People’s Vote campaign.

    To coincide with the beginning of the TUC convention, People’s Vote has published polling suggesting so much individuals of Unison, Unite and GMB supported the marketing campaign’s demands.

    It stated the YouGov poll of more than 2,700 industry unionists was evidence of the “rising momentum” for its campaign.

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  • John McDonnell brands ‘call off the dogs’ comments ‘grossly offensive’

    John McDonnell Symbol copyright PA

    Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has rejected ideas that MPs vital of Jeremy Corbyn are being driven out of the party.

    It follows claims via Labour MP Chuka Umunna that centre-left MPs are being run out the birthday party, as he advised Mr Corbyn to “call off the canines”.

    Mr McDonnell branded the feedback “grossly offensive”, saying “our party contributors don’t seem to be canines”.

    A Few Labour MPs misplaced no-confidence votes through native birthday celebration members this week.

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    but the shadow chancellor instructed the BBC: “there may be no marketing campaign directed by means of the leadership, or anybody as a ways as i can see, to force MPs out.”

    Image copyright UNITED KINGDOM Parliament Symbol caption Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield North, misplaced a no-trust vote in her constituency earlier this week

    It comes as Mr McDonnell starts a speaking excursion of the united kingdom to highlight Conservative spending cuts.

    He launched the “highway to rebuilding the financial system tour” in Broxtowe, the Nottinghamshire constituency of Conservative MP Anna Soubry, on Saturday.

    Earlier this week, former Top Minister Tony Blair mentioned he used to be “undecided it is possible” for Labour “moderates” to take the party again from Mr Corbyn and the left – and hinted at the advent of a brand new “centre floor” celebration.

    Other Labour MPs who have lost local trust votes include Frank Field, who surrender the parliamentary celebration closing week – citing the managing of the anti-Semitism row and bullying in local constituency parties – and Kate Hoey.

    Graham Stringer gained a trust vote in his constituency.

    These ballots had been organised via activists offended at Mr Box, Ms Hoey and Mr Stringer’s determination to again the federal government in Brexit votes, which they are saying robbed Labour of the chance of forcing a normal election it could have gained.

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  • Chuka Umunna tells Jeremy Corbyn to ‘call off the dogs’

    Chuka Umunna Image copyright PA

    Labour MP Chuka Umunna has accused leader Jeremy Corbyn of driving centre-left MPs like himself out of the party.

    The MP – a number one member of the pass-celebration People’s Vote for a 2d ECU referendum – urged Mr Corbyn to “call off the dogs”.

    In a speech, the MP will say so-called moderates face a “transparent and present risk” of being run out of the birthday celebration by hardline factions.

    A Labour Party supply known as the speech “incoherent and erroneous”.

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    some of Mr Corbyn’s critics have confronted battles with their local events.

    Image copyright UNITED KINGDOM Parliament Symbol caption Joan Ryan, MP for Enfield North, misplaced a no-trust vote in her constituency earlier this week

    Others Labour MPs have misplaced local trust votes include Frank Field, who surrender the parliamentary celebration last week – mentioning the dealing with of the anti-Semitism row and bullying in native constituency events – and Kate Hoey.

    Graham Stringer won a confidence vote in his constituency.

    These ballots were organised through activists indignant at Mr Field, Ms Hoey and Mr Stringer’s decision to back the government in Brexit votes, which they are saying robbed Labour of the chance of forcing a basic election it could have gained.

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