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Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, told Parliament that Britain reserved the right to supply arms to Ukraine, as ‘We could not allow the Ukrainian armed forces to collapse.’ The Prince of Wales, embarking on a six-day tour of the Middle East, said on Radio 2 that he ‘particularly wanted to show solidarity really, deep concern for what so many of the Eastern Christian churches are going through in the Middle East’. John Longworth, the head of British Chambers of Commerce, called for a referendum on membership of the European Union to be held in 2016, a year earlier than David Cameron, the Prime Minister, has promised, in order to end uncertainty. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said the same. Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP, decided not to stand for election as Mayor of London: ‘I actually think the time is right for us to have a non-white mayor.’ Marks & Spencer put on sale boxes of eggs guaranteed to have double yolks.
Lowell Goddard, a High Court judge from New Zealand was named as the head of an inquiry, with statutory powers and a new panel, into historical child sex abuse in England and Wales.
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