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In London last Saturday, around 700,000 UK and EU nationals took to the streets for the biggest protest march since the eve of the Iraq war. Politicians from all parties joined protesters’ demands for a “people’s vote” on the final terms of the Brexit deal. This came during a week when prime minister Theresa May had returned practically empty-handed from an EU summit that was supposed to reach a deal. In this week’s cover package, Tim Adams speaks to those on the march, Brexit correspondent Lisa O’Carroll asks what the endgame looks like, and Toby Helm analyses the – possibly fatal – position it puts May and her party in.
The Guardian’s Beijing bureau chief Lily Kuo has been reporting over the last few months on “re-education camps” in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang. Last week, the camps were opened up to state media as the ruling Communist party attempted a spot of rebranding. On page 17, Kuo asks if the party regained the narrative around these secretive, de facto prisons for China’s Muslim population by describing them as places offering “free vocational training”.
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