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New public spending category PDEL is a welcome and could have big impact | Heather Stewart <p>The Preventative Departmental Expenditure Limit will be money ringfenced in the budget for preventive policies</p><p>John Healey’s debut budget was far from a blockbuster, but it may come to be remembered for the birth of a plucky new character in the tax and spend universe – little PDEL.</p><p>It may not have the charm of Disney’s Wall-E, but PDEL (pronounced P-Del), Preventative Departmental Expenditure Limit, to give it its full name, marks a welcome, and potentially very consequential, addition.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/01/pdel-preventative-departmental-expenditure-limit-">Continue reading...</a>
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Britain should not issue apology over slave trade, says Kemi Badenoch <p>Tory leader says apology would be ‘navel-gazing distraction’ and would be used as lever for financial compensation</p><p>Kemi Badenoch has said an apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade would be a “navel-gazing distraction”, describing slavery as an evil “in which people from every continent and region participated”.</p><p>Speaking to broadcasters on Sunday, Badenoch also questioned whether it was worth future leaders attending the Commonwealth summit, given that it was now dominated by calls for reparations.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/01/britain-should-not-apologise-slave-trade-kemi-badenoch">Continue reading...</a>
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Portugal police storm housing protest camps in Lisbon, Porto Clashes broke out as officers again dispersed housing protesters from tent camps in Lisbon and Porto. Portuguese police have repeatedly cleared tent camps erected across both cities in recent weeks.
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