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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : SW1 EVENTS: UK in a Changing Europe has a lunch hour discussing the U.K.-EU summit, one year on, with speakers including the Sunday Times' Lara Spirit (1 p.m.).
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52% : The escalation came hours after the Israel Defense Forces began a new wave of strikes in Lebanon ending a ceasefire between the two countries, as the BBC reports.
51% : World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned the Ebola outbreak around the Democratic Republic of the Congo is "outpacing us" despite heavy response efforts.
48% : The former health secretary told the Guardian social media is "extremely addictive, bad for our health," and that Big Tech is "borrowing the big tobacco playbook" in dodging regulation.
48% : RESET THE RESET: U.K.-EU relations are among the topics under discussion at the EU General Affairs Council in Brussels kicking off just after 9 a.m. BST.
48% : The EU is planning to hit Google's parent company Alphabet with a high triple-digit-million euro fine as part of an antitrust probe, Handelsblatt is reporting, citing Commission sources.
47% : A spokesperson told the i Paper the comments pre‑date Kenyon's entry into politics, saying he is "perfectly entitled" to his personal views on abortion as a matter of conscience.
45% : Meanwhile, the i Paper's Arj Singh and Sanya Burgess have found comments, once again on a Rugby forum, claiming women get abortions for "vanity purposes" and use them as a "secondary form of contraception" so they can "shag anyone they want.
45% : The FT reported over the weekend that Keir Starmer's aspiration to put Britain at "the heart of Europe" might be just slightly disrupted by the prospect of an even more pro-EU PM succeeding him.

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