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Ireland's foreign minister Simon Coveney has arrived in London as part of the international to resolve the Brexit challenges in Northern Ireland.
In the biggest diplomatic push since the first round of Brexit negotiations, he will meet the the foreign secretary Dominic Raab, Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis and the Brexit minister Lord Frost.
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A loophole in the ministers' code of conduct has allowed officials to keep the lobbying of companies like Greensill Capital off of public records, according to an ex-civil servant, who says ministers are not bound to report unofficial calls, texts and emails, my colleague Kalyeena Makortoff writes.
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