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“But, you know, if anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it.”

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee at the Republican presidential debate last night.

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Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council

Today’s Telegraph splash could have been designed in a laboratory to trigger Tory tempers. After months of deliberation, the paper reports that Angela Rayner’s department now plans to create a council on Islamophobia. This will draw up an official government definition for anti-Muslim discrimination and provide advice to ministers on how best to tackle it.

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