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date--v2" data-seconds="1518109767" data-datetime="8 February 2018">8 February 2018</div></li> <li class="mini-info-list__item mini-info-list__item--section"><span class="mini-info-list__section-desc off-screen">From the section </span><a href="/web/20180213021654/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics" class="mini-info-list__section" data-entityid="section-label">UK Politics</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <a href="/web/20180213021654/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42989884" class="faux-block-link__overlay-link" tabindex="-1" aria-hidden="true">Full article Slow progress?</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sparrow-container sparrow-columns"> <div class="sparrow sparrow__3 sparrow__light-3"> <div class="sparrow-item faux-block-link" data-entityid="feature-main#4"> <div class="sparrow-item__image"> <div class="responsive-image responsive-image--16by9"> <div class="js-delayed-image-load" 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