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Unions hit back at Starmer's marking boycott concern

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The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he's "very uncomfortable" with the marking boycott at UK universities. We get a response from the head of the union representing lecturers - and hear from students who've been affected.

Where is the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin? At an extraordinary news conference, the leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said he was in Russia, not Belarus. We speak to our Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg - one of only a handful of journalists in the room with Mr Lukashenko.

As Labour puts oracy alongside numeracy and literacy as fundamental skills for schoolchildren - we find out how you teach speaking skills in the classroom with someone who was one of the UK's first "heads of oracy" and a pupil who's been taught it.

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  • Thu 6 Jul 2023 22:00

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