Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked from shadow cabinet in antisemitism row - as it happened
by Nadeem Badshah (now); Andrew Sparrow and Josh Hall from Science | The Guardian on (#550WH)
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The funeral of Conservative politician Mohammad Asghar, the first ethnic minority Member of the Senedd (MS) elected in 2007, was held today.
Asghar died at the age of 74 last week.
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