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Reform and Tories insist there is no plan for merger before next election

Prominent ex-Tory figures have flocked to Reform.

Evening Standard

Is David Lammy persuaded by his own jury trials proposal? Not sure. But he said it anyway

Investment was not enough to save the courts, said the justice secretary. At least, not the amounts he was prepared to put in

The Guardian - UK

Lammy’s jury trial plans are ‘massive mistake’, say Labour MPs and peers

Only cases such as murder and rape or offences carrying sentence longer than three years would face jury under plans

The Guardian - UK

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BMA chair denies using junior doctors’ strikes to progress political career

Tom Dolphin, who applied to be Labour candidate in 2024, says political career not relevant as he defends strikes

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner to lay amendment to speed up workers’ rights bill

Exclusive: Former deputy PM understood to have accepted compromise on day-one rights, after ‘considerable anger’ over Lords intervention

The Guardian - UK

MPs launch inquiry into Andrew’s lease arrangements at Royal Lodge – as it happened

Justice secretary expected to pull back from plans to reserve jury trials from only the most serious cases

The Guardian - UK

The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in society. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

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Lammy to lay out sweeping reforms for ‘swift justice’ including plans to scrap jury trials in thousands of cases

Judge-only trials could replace juries for less serious crimes as David Lammy unveils ‘bold’ plans for a Canada-inspired justice system

The Independent UK

Lammy lambasts ‘courts emergency’ as he prepares to face MPs over plans to slash jury trials

Justice secretary expected to announce plans to tackle backlog of cases as he says system has been pushed to brink of collapse

The Guardian - UK

Man cleared of harassing Ed Davey and family after turning up at their family home

Inigo Rowland, 58, was found not guilty at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court

Evening Standard

This PM has changed the Labour Party once – he must now do so again

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Steering the party from the nadir of Corbynism to a landslide majority is Keir Starmer’s greatest achievement – but he now faces his stiffest test in tackling its drift back towards old Labour refuseniks who are hampering pro-growth change

The Independent UK

Your Party faces proxy war despite avoiding leadership race, insiders warn

Some members say supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will continue battle over ‘soul of the party’

The Guardian - UK

Your Party’s antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time

Legal spats, public denunciations and an obsession with internal process must be consigned to the past, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Does Labour have a death wish or does it secretly enjoy the agony of self-sabotage?

Keir Starmer may be keen to move on from the budget megashambles, but chaos is hardwired into his party

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Starmer raises pressure on head of OBR by saying budget leak was ‘serious error’

PM says he is ‘very supportive’ of spending watchdog but breach was a ‘massive discourtesy’ to parliament

Evening Standard

Ex-Labour councillor in court over 'Westminster honeytrap plot against Tory MPs'

Ollie Steadman is accused of sending indecent images to a series of Tory politicians

Evening Standard

Did Rachel Reeves lie to justify her £26billion Budget tax raid?

The Chancellor is facing calls to resign over misleading the public and Cabinet minister over the state of Britain’s finances

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner 'tried to dodge council tax surcharge on grace and favour flat'

Questions are mounting for the former deputy prime minister who previously resigned after a row over stamp duty on her Hove home

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Evening Standard

Your Party chaos: Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing movement reject him as official leader

Corbyn previously said he backed the ‘sole leader’ model and would stand for the position

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: OBR chief resigns, saying budget leak was ‘technical but serious’ error – as it happened

Richard Hughes says he is stepping down in order to restore confidence in organisation

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: What did we learn at Your Party’s first conference?

In today’s newsletter: No new name, but a decision to embark on collective leadership means that the factionalism in Your Party is here to stay

Evening Standard

Labour MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison by Bangladeshi court

Ms Siddiq’s lawyers have called the charges baseless and politically motivated.

The Independent UK

A return to Budget purdah would be no bad thing for Labour

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Reeves is no liar, but Labour should never have made that untenable tax pledge in their manifesto

Evening Standard

Starmer signals fresh push on welfare reform in bid to move on from Budget row

The Prime Minister will make the case for a welfare system shake-up after the axing of the two-child cap in the Budget was welcomed by Labour MPs.

Evening Standard

Budget 'lies' storm: Starmer grilled on whether Reeves misled public and Cabinet over nation's finances

The row threatens to overshadow the Prime Minister’s attempts to get people to focus on the ‘substance’ of the Government’s spending and reform plans

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